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This week, I can report great Mini-PC results for radio operations with my new Bosgame P3 Lite. It’s amazing. <\/p>\n

Last week, I told you about my research into a new mini-pc<\/a> for my radios computer. Even more important, I had the courage to lay out my expectations based on that research. Namely, a 4 to 5 times performance improvement over my 13 year old i5-4670 PC.<\/p>\n

Well, my expectations were certainly met. My Bosgame P3 Lite<\/a> arrived from Amazon. It cost $CDN445. After a few hours, Windows 11 Pro was updated and my basic radio software installed. (For my American friends, this machine comes in at under $US350.)<\/p>\n

As you can see above, I expected a performance gain of 4.2X based on CPU benchmarking. The great news is that in each of my five base radio use cases, this expectation was met or exceeded!<\/p>\n

On my old desktop, these use cases produced between 10% to 25% CPU load. On the new mini-pc, with its Ryzen 7 6800H, CPU load drops to between 2-6%, with an average gain of 4.7X.<\/p>\n

I have run these tests multiple times and results were consistent. So, I get performance comparable to a lower-end gaming desktop at one-third the price, what I was hoping for.<\/p>\n

Great Mini-PC Results for Radio Operations – Heavier Loads<\/h2>\n

So far, I have not installed a bunch of radio accessory software. I can’t describe performance yet with programs like WJST-X, FLDIGI and logging all running at once.<\/p>\n

But I can tell you that when running two SDR at once (for example Thetis and SDRuno) total CPU load stays under 10%. And I can do other tasks without any problems.<\/p>\n

Am I happy with my decision? Yes. If you want to run your radios on a Mini-PC like the Bosgame P3 Lite, you should do just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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