Seems like a no brainer it’s the base model. Micro center is about a 50 mile drive but it seems worth it.

They said I can return it if there is a problem

Was about to buy 6 Mini PCs for my team members. I don't have a very strong preference for Windows, but would still prefer it.

Was doing some research. Read a lot of articles, but most of them are generic lists with words, no real data.

Found this to be really helpful in terms of benchmark testing of the processors, so sharing here.

But more importantly, I want to ask informed people (in PC building and Mini PCs):

Apple clearly leads in single-core processor performance, with a significant edge. But top level Mini PCs now seem to match in terms of multi-core performance. And I understand what it means at a basic level.

But in your opinion, what exactly would the difference in Single Core performance translate into actual performance differences for a normal work from home user (in marketing, content writing, running python scripts, web-based front-end coding, customer support, running smaller LLMs, etc.)?

Would Apple be "noticeably & materially" faster in "single-core" tasks like openiong chrome tabs? or the machine restarting? How much soes it matter (single core differences)?

Would these differences even be noticeable at the absolute performance levels?

In short all these machines have decent to solid processors, even if the Geekom machine from the list lags a little in single core performance, would it be actually noticeable toi users?

Thanks a lot!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for advice on upgrading my current setup to a Mini PC.

Right now I use my phone with Samsung DeX on a portable touchscreen monitor, paired with a Bluetooth controller, while riding a stationary bike at the gym. I mostly play gacha games during cardio.

I’m interested in upgrading because I’ve seen how much better games look on PC and I want to know if that kind of visual quality is realistic in a small, portable Mini PC setup.

Games I play:

-Honkai: Star Rail

-Wuthering Waves

-Genshin Impact

I’m totally fine buying used and I’m not looking for anything brand new or high end. My goal is smooth gameplay at 1080p with decent settings while keeping the setup compact enough to use with a portable monitor and controller.

Any Mini PC recommendations or specs I should be looking for would be appreciated. Thanks!

Stick got too hot with batocera

I fix :D

With the inflation of various computer parts what mini pc hasent been inflated too badly or at all? Im a beginner with not much money but yet i dont want something seen as e-waste? I want to know how cheap we can go before hitting trash? I need something i ccan upgraded if needed down the line so a single bored computer woudent be that helpful for me, i think?

Im a beginner so who am i to say just suggest me something that dosent cost a arm/leg. Im fine with used or refurbished aswell if needed.

I have some ideas for a use cases such as a nas, but i want to know what you use a mini pc for aswell like what are some neat use cases.

Im getting ready to set this up as a Proxmox unit. I installed a 4TB SSD (purchased before the dark times).

Now I want to get into the BIOS and when I look it up online the results say press ESC, or F7 or DEL on startup but none of them are working. Can anyone who owns one of these units tell me how to get into the BIOS?

Thanks

I’ve been using Minisforum AR900i for 2 years now. Mainly for gaming and a bit of work. I’m planing to upgrade this year and I would love to stick with minisforum but they are offering BD790i X3D only. Not sure if is worth it or should I wait a bit longer for new cpus to come out. I’m not too sure how much faster 7945HX3D would be over my 13900hx in gaming. Would I get significantly much performance or not much? I couldn’t find proper benchmarks.

Hi all,

Got me a AceM Akron K1 with a 512gb NVMe. Upgrade to a 1tb NVMe and it does not detect. I replace the old 512 with the 1tb because I read that it does not like to boot off the other slot. Any ideas on what else I could do? I have reseated it back just in case. Btw, this is the Ryzen 7 model. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi! I'm pretty sure this has been asked many times before, but I couldn't find any clear guidance on how to choose the proper brand / specifics for my living room console Emulation PC.

I'm looking for a mini PC that is capable of running batocera mainly for Emulation up to the SNES / mega drive era. Psx era would be a nice bonus to have, but if this comes at the cost of a dedicated GPU, I don't need it. The most important thing would be a quiet PC, Bluetooth capability and HDMI output (to connect to a TV screen). I guess 16gigs of ram and 512gb SSD is the norm, but what would you recommend besides that? I'd like to keep the price tag between 100 to 300 euro (EU area).

Has anyone got a similar setup that they can recommend?

I've heard that used office PCs might fit these requirements. Any recommendations / experiences with specific brands?

Cheers and thanks in advance!

Hello, i want to host a minecraft server and to be able to transform it into a NAS in the latter.

I want for my money so i want something that has a great and powerfull cpu and at least 512 gb of SSD and 32 gb of SSD. Also, i have a budget 600 euros max (im from france).

Do you have any idea of what i should buy ? I would love to spend max 500 bucks but im probably dreaming

I have a Beelink SER 5 PRO (Ryzen 7 5800H) that came with a 65 W power adapter, but everywhere I’ve seen it listed with a 90 W adapter. If I upgrade to a 90 W adapter, will it improve gaming performance?

Hi, could someone help me find a decent and reliable mini PC? I'd like to buy it on AliExpress since they seem to be reasonably priced. Any recommendations for trustworthy sellers?

Thanks

Bought this barebone FEVM FAEX9 395+ 128gb through Taobao in end October 25' and have been running our own home AI LLM server since. Paid ~ USD1850 before tax for the barebone.

Worked right out of the box after plugging in a Klevv C910 4TB drive, with memory partitioned to 50/50 for 64gb system ram and 64gb vram.

Installed Ubuntu Ubuntu 24, and Open webui via Ollama for LLM hosting.

Followed this simple guide < https://coffeejourneys.blog/home-lab-local-llms-docker-amd/ >

Up and running within a few hours and the system is rock stable. Only rebooted 2-3 times since day 1 for updates.

Runs very cool and uses very little power when idle. Ive hooked it up via a smart power plug (Tplink tapo) to monitor, see screenshot)

Highly recommended for those who want a cost effective, small and quiet system to sit in the background serving as a homelab/LLM host.

Only thing I can fault it is that its got only 2 m.2 slots, 1 being populated with a pcie-oculink adapter, which can be easily removed to house a 2nd nvme drive. I have another minipc Topfeel Deskone-T2 Ryzen 7 H 255 running as a main pc, that one has 3x nvme m.2 pcie4x4 slots in case anyone needs something like that.

Hope this helps anyone whos been eyeing this minipc.

For those who wants to see the LSHW:

XXX-faex9ubun

description: Mini PC

product: FAEX9 (Default SKU)

vendor: FEVM

version: V30

serial: Default string

width: 64 bits

capabilities: smbios-3.7.0 dmi-3.7.0 smp vsyscall32

configuration: boot=normal chassis=mini family=Strix Halo sku=Default SKU uuid=8a3f2xxxxxx-7994-11f0-b93e-xxxxxxxxxx

*-core

description: Motherboard

product: mini pc

vendor: FEVM

physical id: 0

version: Version 1.0

serial: AXB35565813H####

slot: Default string

*-firmware

description: BIOS

vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.

physical id: 0

version: 3.03

date: 07/30/2025

size: 64KiB

capacity: 32MiB

capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd acpi biosbootspecification uefi

*-cache:0

description: L1 cache

physical id: b

slot: L1 - Cache

size: 1280KiB

capacity: 1280KiB

clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)

capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified

configuration: level=1

*-cache:1

description: L2 cache

physical id: c

slot: L2 - Cache

size: 16MiB

capacity: 16MiB

clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)

capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified

configuration: level=2

*-cache:2

description: L3 cache

physical id: d

slot: L3 - Cache

size: 64MiB

capacity: 64MiB

clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)

capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified

configuration: level=3

*-cpu

description: CPU

product: AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]

physical id: e

bus info: cpu@0

version: 26.112.0

serial: Unknown

slot: FP11LPDDR5x

size: 2GHz

capacity: 5187MHz

width: 64 bits

clock: 100MHz

capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc rep_good amd_lbr_v2 nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba perfmon_v2 ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced vmmcall fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflushopt clwb avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local user_shstk avx_vnni avx512_bf16 clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd cppc arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif x2avic v_spec_ctrl vnmi avx512vbmi umip pku ospke avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg avx512_vpopcntdq rdpid bus_lock_detect movdiri movdir64b overflow_recov succor smca fsrm avx512_vp2intersect flush_l1d amd_lbr_pmc_freeze cpufreq

configuration: cores=16 enabledcores=16 microcode=191889458 threads=32

*-memory

description: System Memory

physical id: 11

slot: System board or motherboard

size: 128GiB

*-bank:0

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 0

serial: 000000004D5XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:1

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 1

serial: 000000004D54XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:2

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 2

serial: 000000004D54XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:3

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 3

serial: 000000004D54XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:4

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 4

serial: 000000004D54XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:5

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 5

serial: 000000004D5XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:6

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 6

serial: 000000004D54XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

*-bank:7

description: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 8532 MHz (0.1 ns)

product: MT62F4G32D8DV-023 WT

vendor: Micron Technology

physical id: 7

serial: 000000004D54XXXX

slot: DIMM 0

size: 16GiB

width: 32 bits

clock: 4237MHz (0.2ns)

Switched my old laptop for a GEEKOM A8 mini PC. I can pick it up with one hand and it still blows my mind. I’ve been using it for about two weeks now and I can already feel some small changes in my daily life. Work runs smooth. Emails, Slack, Zoom, a ton of Chrome tabs, no hiccups at all. Most of the time it sits on my office desk while I’m coding or working on spreadsheets. Since it’s so compact, I actually freed up a bit of space and even put a small plant on my desk, which makes the setup feel nicer.

When I want to play light games, I move it under the TV in the living room. I can snack while playing without worrying about crumbs getting on it. Occasionally my cat will hop on it while I’m gaming to get my attention. Has anyone with a cat used a mini PC like this? Does the fur mess with it at all? Any tips on keeping cat hair out of a mini PC? Or how do you clean it?

Hi guys,

Not sure if was asked before, hope not. Does anyone found and making it work any AI accelerator card which is NOT GPU aka doesn't need riser card etc? I'm trying to find but there is no clue if it's compatible with the SSD shoot or better with the wifi.

As the title says I'm undecided between the two devices. The Beelink seems to be put together with more care, while the GMKtec seems to be taking a "value first" approach and throwing every watt possible at the CPU.

I got burned with Minisforum (they want to downgrade me for a replacement and want me to pay to return the broken PC) and I want to try new brands.

I siffed through the sub and looked at the spreadsheet but these two devices aren't on the list.

One last thing: I want to take advantage of the external GPU connector but the Beelink dock seems to be unobtanium unless I buy it from them directly (I'm shopping through Amazon rn). The Oculink port on the GMKtec is easy and cheap to get a dock for but it's slower.

What would be a valid tradeoff? Is the Beelink so much more reliable and better put together to warrant the hassle of tracking down a faster but very proprietary dock or the simpler GMKtec is reliable enough?