I bought the extreme edition in January this year and this is an outstanding and very stable machine. Very acceptable price (still) with the ridiculous current hw prices. When I started running local LLMs I noticed specifically RAM was getting warmer than I liked, sometimes going well over 60 celcius (but still way below thermal threshold). Solution? A big ass 140 mm fan on top, with a USB voltage regulator, blowing down with 600 dead silent rpm, ridding the chassis' massive cooling fans from heat build up. Result? 2 hours of local LLM carnage and the RAM temperature stays well below 50 celcius with an occasional peak of 51, 52 degrees. Soc: between 25 and 30 degrees under normal load. Network chip: before minimum 52 always, after 38 max. SSDs, from 55 to 40.

Overall the fan improves the heat profile massively, dropping components temperatures between say 15 to 25 degrees. Fan and controller? 22 euros!

Specs:
PC: Cirrus7 Incus Passive Extreme Cooling Edition
Added active cooling NF-A12x25 5V PWM 5V USB
Board: ASRock X600M-STX R2.0/USB4
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (8C/16T, up to 5.1GHz)
GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (Integrated)
TDP of 65 watts, PPT limit of 88 watts
RAM: 2x 32GB 5600MHz Kingston ValueRAM of which 16GB (=max) BIOS assigned VRAM.
SSD: 2x Samsung SSD 990 Pro 2TB NVMe M.2
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 

one is for me and the other one is a gift for my girlfriend. I already own the AM06Pro and the beelink arrives in two weeks.

AM06Pro has more ram and the beelink seems to have a better processor and a bigger SSD

I'm gonna install batocera on both of them, She is gonna play up to GameCube and ps2 and I plan to install steam games also (I'm gonna try to push the pc more). Which one do you think is better?

I bought this barebones. Do I need to be careful when buying a nvme drive or memory regarding physical size? Do I need to buy anything else like fans or anything before loading an OS? Thank you for the help.

The Intel Core 5 226V is essentially the weaker sibling of the Intel Core 7 256V. Lower clocks on both the CPU and GPU and also the 130V has 7 cores vs the 8 cores of the ARC 140V.

All tested on the GMKTEC K17 Mini PC

USA

I am looking for a machine that will allow me to connect a microphone, speaker and webcam (all USB) for live online schooling.

It would also be used for occasional Minecraft (java, vanilla) and Roblox with my kids.

Budget: below $500

Thanks!

Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS) shipped with 1×16GB DDR5.

I added a second 16GB stick (same brand and type as the original (crucial 5600 16 gb)). The machine initially booted fine (I was using my monitor's PD (90W) at the time). I launched a heavy game, which caused my OS to crash (it has happened before, with the same game, in retrospect I guess it failed because there was not enough power?). This time I couldn't boot the machine again

Current symptoms: * Power LED on * Fan starts slow, ramps up, then settles to a constant speed * No video on HDMI or USB4 * Keyboard Caps Lock LED does not toggle

Tested with the stock 120W adapter and HDMI, but no luck. I tried to go back to a single ram stick, tested each stick, in each of the two slots, every time doing power drainage and CMOS reset, with the nvme SSD disconnect NVMe SSD disconnected

The machine is brand new, I didn't notice anything burnt or faulty, the ram pins seem fine, all seems clean, so I'm left perplexed. What could the issue be? Could the machine be fully bricked? Is it a bios issue? Something got short circuited?

Hi, I want—or rather, need—to get started with a Home Assistant project. I’m getting an electric car and want to manage the wallbox and PV system feed-in via Home Assistant. I’m currently looking for a suitable mini PC—ideally under 300 euros, and a used unit would be fine too. Does anyone have any advice or a specific model recommendation that fits within that budget? Thanks for your help.

I just graduated college and I wanted to build a pc, but Ram is so expensive I just can’t afford it. I’m thinking of getting a mini pc to play sims. It has to be able to run the game with all of the expansion packs and mods. I’m thinking 32 GB ram and 1Tb of storage. What’s the most efficient and affordable option? I’ve been looking on Facebook marketplace and I’ve found nothing :(

I have a minisforum um790 pro with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor, AMD Radeon 780M, 32gb DDR5 ram. It is running windows 11 pro. I was planning with experimenting on some Local LLMs using LM studio. So I went to BIOS to allocate the 780m gpu 16gb of RAM. It had been allocated 2gb. When I did that, the machine froze. And even the bios reset button wouldn't work. I had to open it, disconnect the battery, leave it like that for half an hour and reconnect for it to even get back on.

After that happened and I got it to start booting, I get a secure boot error. I had to disable secure boot altogether and put in my bitlocker key to get back into windows.

So I have two questions.

1) How do I allocate 16gb of RAM to the gpu? I haven't tried 8GB or something smaller. I will try that today.

2) How do I get secure boot working again. I tried resetting it, no luck.

Hi, looking to buy the Minisforum X1 Lite, I already have 2 4TB SSDs. It can take 128GB of RAM and 2 x 4TB SSD. It has a Ryzen 7 255. Planned usage is for LLM. I was going over specs and comparing to other Mini PCs and noticed a Ryzen H 255. Any real world difference between the two? It looks like lower watts for the 255, not much else. Any thoughts or experience using it for LLM or other uses would be appreciated. I'll be starting with 32GB RAM. Thx!

Hola me gustaría pedir una opinión, actualmente tengo una laptop con un procesador ryzen 5 5500u y con 16 de ram a 3200hz que no permite ampliar más de allí, me gustaría comprar una mini pc ya que tengo 2x16gb a 3200hz y un presupuesto de 300 dólares y no se que podría comprar ya que me gustaría algo mejor que mi pc actual porque está presentando ya problemas

Yeah, I know. My budget is just $100. But I think there is something good for a 24/7 working server. I'm good with Celeron and 8GB of RAM. I was looking at DELL OptiPlex 3020 mini PC, but on Amazon is more than my $100. So, is enyone using as a server a mini PC under $100? Or for office? My site doesn't have a lot of animations or something, is a place for my APIs. If you know something worth under $100, I need your help! Thanks!

The type: DDR5 SO-DIMM
The speed: 4800MHz
(And I have 16 gb (two 8gb) installed and can only fit two sticks of ram and I used the Amazon ai helper thingy because I’m too lazy to look through all the details