Topton M6 Internal Hardware Overview
Popping off the bottom cover we can see the rubber feet remain fixed even when this is done. Underneath, there are actually two drive slots. There is a M.2 2242 SATA SSD slot and a M.2 2280 NVMe drive slot. We will discuss how bad this 512GB NVMe SSD is in our performance section.
One fun item is that our unit had a distinctive bulge under this cover. This just looked strange, but on this low cost of a unit, perhaps it is normal.
There are four screws and then one can flip the unit over and get to the other side of the motherboard. Here we can see a cooling solution for the Intel N5105 CPU, then a battery. There is also an Intel AX201 WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 solution onboard. Between the battery and the tape, there is the Intel i225-V B3 NIC. We can also see the soldered 16GB of memory under the fan.
This fan was highly unimpressive. Many listings for the Topton M6 talk about a copper heatsink. While it is copper, so little of the material is used in conjunction with the small fan that cooling works, but it is noisy.
We have the unit running in the video so you can hear just how loud the system is and how high the pitch is.
A better cooling solution would have greatly improved this unit. Something we also show briefly, but it is worth mentioning is that with the Jasper Lake N5105 CPU generation, we also can have a TPM functionality that is compatible with Windows 11 so we were able to use Windows 11 Pro with this system.
Next, let us get to the performance.
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thank you for your honest review. it’s useful to have someone also point out negatives
In the 7Zip compression charts, the Pentium is mislabeled as a Celeron.
Thanks for the review! Why doesn’t this device fit into Project TinyMiniMicro?
N3350 hits on W10 7zip 9.20 3000 MIPS
4core Elkhart Lake J6412 hits 10000 MIPS
7zip 21.07
N3350 4.653 GIPS
J6412 13.291 GIPS
QuickSync Encode/Decodeon Elkhart IMHO is on par with E-2100/2200 xeon lineup for lowres files
Bad news for us waiting for the Topton or Kingnowy N6005 with 4 x i225 … see answer bellow from Topton :-( seems this could last MONTHs….
“Sorry dear, I asked our warehouse for you, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China, N6005 CPU cannot be sent to our factory temporarily, so N6005 model cannot be shipped normally.
We have three solutions for you now
1. Can you change the CPU to N5105? We will upgrade a 8GB RAM for you for free, and we will give you a VESA mount as a gift
2. If you cannot accept the replacement, can you apply to cancel your order?
3. Continue to wait for N6005
Looking forward to your quick reply, thank you very much!”
Anon –
Tiny = Lenovo
Mini = HP
Micro = Dell
For 1L PCs. We are calling this the STH Mini PC series and STHMPC will be a sister series to Project TMM.
I wouldn’t call the SSD “abysmal”. The most important thing when judging a cheap SSD is random read Q1/T1 numbers and it’s comparable with many other drives, so the basic is up to par.
If you call 1GB/s abysmal, what do you say with 300MB SATAII SSDs? I also have an SATAIII SSD that gets 500MB/s in sequentials but is noticeably slow just a weak, something that’s seldomly experienced with my SATAII X25-M that only gets 70MB/s sequential write or so.
There’s also the saying “there are no bad products, only bad pricing”. If it’s an SSD with a DRAM cache and not QLC that’s absolutely fantastic.
@Patrick, if you ever consider doing the Acer Veriton N series (which are also 1L corporate desktops), would that belong to TMM (or TMMN if a name change is desired) or STH Mini?
Hello. Owners help, please with answers.
1. Can I supply power and get an image over 1 usb-c wire?
(M6—-monitor—-220v)
2. Is it possible to connect an external video card?
3. Is the Thunderbolt standard supported?
Hi, in the video you say you did a clean install of Win 11. When i tried this on a “spare” NVMe drive i hit driver problems as shown in Control Panel\Device Manager. Didi you have the same issue or where did you get the drivers from.