Gigabyte BRIX PC
Simon Brown • August 13, 2020
Teeny-Tiny PC from Gigabyte
I received an offer from https://mini-itx.com, and as a developer can never have enough computers I bought this and added 8 GB RAM. I put Windows 10 professional on.
The Spec
Gigabyte Brix GB-BLCE-4000C fully assembled PC. The Gigabyte Brix GB-BLCE-4000C features a dual core Celeron CPU, ram up to 8GB Ram. It is a total fanless PC.
Base specification (this is configurable using options)
- Intel Celeron N4000 2.6GHz
- 4GB Ram DDR4
- 500Gb Hard Disk
- Gigabit lan (Realtek RTL8111HS)
- Includes Wireless- Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 & Bluetooth
- Intel UHD Graphics 600 onboard, dual display capable with HDMI and VGA outputs.
- Front 1 x Power Button, 1 x USB3.0, 1 x USB3.0 type-C
- 1 x Headphone Jack, 1 x Microphoce Jack
- Rear 1 x HDMI(1.4b), 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x RJ45, 1 x VGA
- Side 1 x Kensington lock slot
- Dimension 56.22 mm x 103 mm x 116.52 mm (2.21″ x 4.06″ x 4.59″)
- Vesa mountable bracket included Supports 75 x 75 and 100 x 100 mm
- 1 year parts and labour warranty
System:
- Don't forget - this is a two core N4000 Celeron chip!
Verdict:
- Hardware build quality is excellent.
- Looks very good.
- I received a 240 GB SSD instead of 120 GB as Gigabyte had run out of 120 GB!
- Plenty of CPU power considering only two cores.
- Runs a NetSDR at 1 MHz bandwidth acceptably, also fine at 2 MHz bandwidth.
- Graphics on a HD monitor is usable but not fantastic.
- Would struggle to run another resource-intensive program such as WSJT.
- Would be fine as a server for one or two SDRs.
Future Use
- This will be used for running the g4eli.sdr-radio.com DX Cluster sometime in 2020.
SDR Television Found and fixed an unused massive memory allocation (up to 10GB), may have caused systems to freeze. Fixed fatal bug in matched filter array allocation. Changed the default transmit bandpass shaping filter roll-off to 0.20 in transmit and receive. Please look at the images below and apply the change. SDR Pluto Now show the AGC gain and RSSI. Added Default link to select the recommended gain - Fast Attack, 0dB visual. Known Problems Add support for tracking transmissions with (?) non-standard PCR data, example is G8GKQ. Using Pluto & variants, sensitivity is not as good as a NIM (hardware tuner). Will compare with SPECTRAN ECO in a week or so.
Unexpected Beta #4 I wasn't planning to release another beta, but there was an error with a download link in the Blog port for Beta #3, also a few worthwhile improvements have been made, so here I go.
Major Change Scroll down to the SDR Radio information. The bandwidths available for SDR Television when using a Pluto / LibreSDR have changed.
BATC Net, May 22nd 2025 Here's a snippet from the British Amateur Television Club net on QO-100. I hope it doesn't scare you.
UI Refresh And More...
After too much grief, I've decided to stop using Wi-Fi to connect the small NUC systems in the computer room to my network: DX Cluster (Ubuntu) SDR Server (Windows) User Forums (Windows) These servers are in constant use, causing the wireless transmitter on my TP-Link AX50 to fail. By switching over to a wired network there's less demand on the wireless transmitter and the whole network has become far more reliable. In future I will only use Wi-fi when there's no alternative. I'm keeping a spare router ready just in case the AX50 fails.
Inside All this equipment is installed in my computer room, next to the office.
SDR Television video from Australia
Sounds Like... And before I start, may I apologise for the delay in finding the cause of the noise.
