r/minipc

I'm looking to buy either a Geekom a5 pro or a a6 and I'm wondering if its worth the price.

I don't play any super demanding games. Mostly just roblox , minecraft, sims 4 with mods and valorant. Would it be able to run that?

also, I would appreciate if anyone could give me some more recommendations for £400 or less, I don't really know a lot about PCs.

Setting up a cheap computer to run offline. Its only use is to stream downloaded movies/tv shows from daisy chained hard drives to a single 80” HDTV. No WiFi required. It’s for when I go out to sea on a boat for weeks at a time (not worried about water damage).

Just not sure of the capabilities of integrated graphics/ram these days.

Heya, I have a Windows machine that I built in 2019 and have since decommissioned in favor of a Mac for work, but I realized I might be able to take a good chunk of those parts and put it into a mini pc case to work as a living room gaming console. What I have in there is as follows

• Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
• be quiet! Dark Rock 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler
• Asus Prime Z370-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory
• Samsung 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
• GIGABYTE Gaming OC GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6
  • I also have a Asus Turbo GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB that I could use instead but id prefer the nicer one if possible.
• EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
• NZXT H500 – Compact ATX Mid-Tower Case

My priorities are

• Reuse as many parts as possible, especially the expensive bits like ram and gpu
• Small form factor, Id love to use Fractal Design's mini-ITX small case, but I'm open to suggestions.
• Low cost. I know I'll have to spend some money on a new motherboard and probably a power supply but budget is the name of the game. Ideally would like to keep this a sub $300 endeavor.
• 1080p 60fps is totally fine, I dont play a lot of games that require precision fps. Indie titles and legacy games will be primarily what this machine runs.

Any ideas on how ya'll would rebuild this would be super appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I’m thinking about buying GEEKOM A8 Max Mini PC:

Configuration:

• Ryzen 9 8945HS
• 32 GB RAM
• 1 TB SSD
• Radeon 780M
• Dual 2.5G Ethernet

I want to use it for work, Python/SQL, Docker, Linux learning, and maybe as a small home server or NAS.

Is it a good choice for this use case? Any concerns about noise, thermals, reliability, or running it 24/7?

Would you recommend this model, or should I look for something else?

I was wondering if anyone could help me find a mini pc for my needs i never really owned a mini pc or a pc in general. I truly only want it to do college work and do some light gaming, like playing FIFA, Forza, or even cod it doesn't have to have the best graphics in the world. Just enough to run those games comfortably and be able to handle college work like a champ. my budget would be around 400-600, but i understand if some of the ones you guys recommend are more expensive, which I wouldn't mind. Thank you for understanding my situation and helping me.

Let me start off by mentioning what I have, and I'd love it if you have comments on this part. Herk Pulsar (weak ryzen, but was sent it for review), Intel NUC i5 (weak but makes a great home server), for now I have a Kamrui but its pretty iffy, intel compute stick m3 (really amazing backup or travel pc, and then the lenovo legion go.

I do have an egpu that was also sent to me which I am considering into this factor of what I should get. Ideally with something with oculink probably.

Not long ago I posted here about my main mini pc I had, the herk orion mega, which was fully decked out with 2tb + 1tb ssds, 64gb of ram, but alas I had to send it back for RMA.

>I was one of the early adopters of the herk Orion mega, and I had a lot of issues with it. From the fans going FULL BLAST upon startup, let alone doing barely anything, to the USB c 4 ports dying out anytime you tried to use both at the same time.

Literally the drivers would hard stop and I even had to reinstall Windows. Speaking of which a windows update nearly bricked my Orion. 

I sent it back for RMA, either a repair or replace ideally cause it was getting bad. They had sent a herk pulsar prior so I used that in the meantime, it has now been ELEVEN MONTHS with no reply. https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/herkorion/orion-world-s-smallest-fastest-ryzen-9-mini-pc

Thus I am actually looking for another 780m mini pc because the legion go can handle anything I ask of it, which is almost equal specs to the herk orion mega (minus the ram/ssd).

This particular gmktech is interesting deal https://www.gmktec.com/products/gmktec-k12-amd-ryzen™-7-h-255-mini-pc?variant=46826063921306

3 ssd slots, oculink port, and basically has everything else for a low price (I can add a harddrive, and I'll wait for a deal for ram).

I would love minisforum but some of the feature to price ratios are insane.

Not opposed to the MF v3 or the rog flow z13 amd system tablets too, but those are pricey.

Can't say how much I can spend, as I don't really have a budget right now for it. However I am trying to find the best deal to save up for it.

Geekom sometimes has some working options, but like MF its hard to find the right balance.

Some of the ryzen 395 or even ai 470 mini pcs are really enticing but spending 3k on a pc is brutal. The reason I went with the herk in the first place is that I spent like $850 on all of it because of indiegogo.

I'd love a 395 pc, and really I've compared all of them. I'd be happy with any of course.

What are your all's thoughts? Figured I'm not the only one in this type of situation, so discussion would be really fun to see your ideas.

Use cases: gaming, content creation, homelab (for side mini pc upgrade), and probably local LLM if I can get a good enough system.

Hey guys so i have a Ace magic Am06 pro ryzen 5800U mini pc and i have a problem, the internet stopped working out of the blue and i have no idea how to fix it i tried troubleshooting for 3 hours now tried updating drivers from the official Ace Magician site and that didn't work tried flushing dns and nothing works i even installed an intel Ethernet driver that didn't work, any fixes?

Hi all! I'm trying to build a DIY steam deck, and am looking for the smallest x86 motherboard I can realistically get to achieve this. I've been looking, but i'm struggling to find a modern, small motherboard.

Thanks!

Budget: Any

Use-case: Steam Deck