Dockyr
Try running 3DMark Time Spy with enabled NICs it’s even worse, it starts to stutter and then the whole System freezes, crash and reboots.
But as soon NICs are completely disabled it runs through without any issues.
That’s why I assume a physical design flaws in the motherboard’s layout, trace integrity, or power delivery components (VRMs, capacitors) and the blinking NIC Link LED during Unigine Superposition indicates a physical-layer disruption (PCIe bandwidth, physical power delivery lines, or system interrupts).
It is highly unlikely that a simple new Firmware or BIOS update will be able to fully mitigate the conflict. It is more likely that a revised new board will be required and a recall and replacement will have to be made.
But hey, December isn’t over yet, who knows, miracles might happen, but if nothing comes by the end of December and they keep promising software solutions, it will end rather badly. Especially in view of the review manipulation (My 2-Star review were not published, etc.), which could then also be interpreted as a buyer’s deception. In such cases, it is always better to communicate openly and honestly immediately instead of obfuscating, but well, even Intel had to learn that the hard way first in the past.
I also still have the feeling that they are misinterpreting the situation, they still think the NICs are crashing because of the firmware or bad drivers, instead they are crashing because the CPU and iGPU are eating up all the resources of the NICs when they change the power state too quickly. The NICs simply require a stable dedicated PCIe 4.0 ×4 connection, which they probably don’t have due to poor hardware design. It might have been better to use something like a Marvel AQC113/AQC114/AQC114CS/AQC115C or something similar that also works with PCIe 4.0 ×1, even with two ports only PCIe 4.0 ×2 would then have been necessary.
But overall I would prefer one stable 10Gbe port instead of having two useless 10Gbe ports (Loss: US$ 241.00 to US$ 251.00) and wasting a USB4 port on a single Port TB4 10Gbe NIC (Additional costs: US$ 292.00 to US$ 359.00).
I offered Beelink to refund me 30% of the purchase price (US$ 2059.-) for the loss of the two ports, the additional financial expenses for the TB4 single Port NIC and all the hassle, but they refused and instead offered me a useless 3 year warranty extension. That’s why I now expect a 100% fix, an exchange or, if not possible, a complete refund. Somehow I now have the feeling that refunding the 30% and me keeping the Device would have been cheaper, but it wasn’t my decision and there are still 13 days left until December is over… xD
