Overclocked mini PC powered by AMD may well be the fastest in its category(techradar.com)
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Overclocked mini PC powered by AMD may well be the fastest in its category
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Back when I was in college, I attempted to make my own DIY mini PC. I got an Antec VESA case, and an all-in-one mini-ITX AMD motherboard. It originally had Windows 7 on it, which I later replaced with a lightweight Linux distro. I could play older games like Dragon Age and Mount & Blade pretty well on it. I had to get rid of it, though, when Windows 10 came out. I have thought about replacing my current tower PC with a mini PC again, but have been hesitant to do so, because of financial reasons. Maybe this is a good time to do this?
>Maybe this is a good time to do this?
Depends on what you want. If you're looking for bang for the buck, mini PCs in NUC footprint, with oomph that can play some games too are terrible at that. They'll cost you nearly as much as a budget gaming laptop from Lenovo using the same APU and that come with a screen, keyboard and touchpad as bonus. For value/money, standard ATX size PCs rule.
Depends on what you want. If you're looking for bang for the buck, mini PCs in NUC footprint, with oomph that can play some games too are terrible at that. They'll cost you nearly as much as a budget gaming laptop from Lenovo using the same APU and that come with a screen, keyboard and touchpad as bonus. For value/money, standard ATX size PCs rule.
That makes sense. I also find it hard to justify getting a mini PC when the Steam Deck exists. I'm sure that if this existed back in 2012 when I was in college, I would have just gotten one of these.
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Minisforum g7 pt with 7945hx was just released and it’s in pre-sale now. Best you can get now in my opinion.
Eventually maybe possibly we'll see some with Coreboot support, which would hopefully help. And hopefully AMD will make good on its word & OpenSIL will become a viable replacement for the binary initialization packages. There's already significant progress getting Framework booting on Coreboot, hopefully this can help set the trend. With hope, this would let users maintain these systems & keep them up to date. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-AMD-Coreboot-WIP https://doc.coreboot.org/soc/amd/family17h.html
I'm crazy excited to see a war for better cooling. USB-PD created such amazing pressure to make chargers better. Ideally we can measure & assess cooling similarly, see market competition for better cooling keep evolving. We need review sites to be measuring thermals & noise closely creating comparison pages to get beyond marketing speak, where we're not really sure what we're getting. Fingers crossed.