GEEKOM A7 Mini PC: Ryzen 9 7940HS, Radeon 780M, 2TB SSD, 32GB DDR5 RAM

appel

Aug 17, 2024 12:38 PM

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appelAug 17, 2024 12:38 PM

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Very powerful little feller. Here's a video on how to turn this into a Steam machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45hDPOrzFI

Edit: krazybert raises a good point that I should have pointed out but honestly forgot about. In the video the guy mentions fairly early on he had some fairly critical issues with the RAM sticks the unit came with. After switching them out with a different brand from another computer the problem went away.

Last edited by appel August 21, 2024 at 03:30 PM.

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OliveLadybug9466

Aug 19, 2024 12:59 PM

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Quote from appel

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Very powerful little feller. Here's a video on how to turn this into a Steam machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45hDPOrzFI

How does the performance compare to something like a rog ally extreme? I have that and a mini ryzen 5 pc with 16gb ram and it's a little beast for the 250 I paid awhile back. Use ot mostly for emulation but am curious about this ryzen 9 system

ckboy

Aug 19, 2024 01:43 PM

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Quote from Gavica

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Is it barebones? You need to add ram and ssd? Post make it seem like ssd 2tb is included?

For that price I'd assume it is NOT barebones and comes with it.

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mstrblueskys

Aug 19, 2024 02:00 PM

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Quote from OliveLadybug9466

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How does the performance compare to something like a rog ally extreme? I have that and a mini ryzen 5 pc with 16gb ram and it's a little beast for the 250 I paid awhile back. Use ot mostly for emulation but am curious about this ryzen 9 system

It's the same GPU. The CPU will likely be a bit faster assuming it's cooled properly since it's full cores.

In gaming it will likely come down to how well it's cooled and how much and how fast the RAM is.

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OliveLadybug9466

Aug 19, 2024 02:12 PM

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Quote from ckboy

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For that price I'd assume it is NOT barebones and comes with it.

Just click on link ffs, it tells you that it is 32gb ram. The r7 looks like a good deal too. Not much performance difference from what I can see outside of a larger hdd

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OliveLadybug9466

Aug 19, 2024 02:17 PM

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Quote from mstrblueskys

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It's the same GPU. The CPU will likely be a bit faster assuming it's cooled properly since it's full cores.

In gaming it will likely come down to how well it's cooled and how much and how fast the RAM is.

Thanks for the reply, k I nda figured that! Anyone know of a code for the r7 model for 399?

MujaahidM

Aug 19, 2024 09:11 PM

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I'd grab an Ally X seems to have more potential use cases

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bluetrep

Aug 20, 2024 03:38 PM

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GhostRider419

Aug 20, 2024 04:35 PM

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GhostRider419Aug 20, 2024 04:35 PM

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I'm about to build a PC with an ASRock Deskmini X600 and an AMD 8700g. This deal comes close to the same price except this has a Ryzen 9 and looks like the same GPU. Is this a better processor than the 8700g?

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AGA7d

Aug 20, 2024 04:38 PM

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AGA7dAug 20, 2024 04:38 PM

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I always have reservation on these mini pcs with high-powered CPUs - can it run full without being throttled?

SennamonTea

Aug 20, 2024 04:47 PM

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SennamonTeaAug 20, 2024 04:47 PM

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Thanks bought one, wanted to replace my 2020 Nuc, this is no ship no tax.

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dtran0272

Aug 20, 2024 04:55 PM

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dtran0272Aug 20, 2024 04:55 PM

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Can this handle video editing?

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EricJ3237

Aug 20, 2024 05:36 PM

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To this day, I still don't understand why we don't have mini gaming PCs that have same components and capabilities of a gaming laptop (e.g. mobile 4060 used in laptops) but would be cheaper given that there is no screen, keyboard, battery, or track pad. I would imagine that would make a normally $1000 device shave off $200. Or l, in the case where it's a $700 4050 device, it would be as low as $500 without laptop specific hardware. Instead, we only have these mini PCs that stick to iGPUs such as 680m, 780m, which are better than Intel hd graphics, but still far away from modern Nvidia cards used in laptops. I would definitely spend this amount on one of those instead of this even if it was twice as large to accommodate laptop gpu. You'd think there'd be at least one company that would dabble in this. If there's enough of a market to justify the existence of this, there'd be enough of a market to justify what I'm describing. I just hate large tower desktop PCs. Even mini atx or even mini itx form factors are too bulky. Something that has the size of a laptop chassis would be great. Could probably be even smaller because, again, no trackpad, keyboard, no batter, could probably be thicker and less width of some of the parts could go on top of eachother rather than side by side

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PrometheusRising

Aug 20, 2024 05:52 PM

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Quote from EricJ3237

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To this day, I still don't understand why we don't have mini gaming PCs that have same components and capabilities of a gaming laptop (e.g. mobile 4060 used in laptops) but would be cheaper given that there is no screen, keyboard, battery, or track pad. I would imagine that would make a normally $1000 device shave off $200. Or l, in the case where it's a $700 4050 device, it would be as low as $500 without laptop specific hardware. Instead, we only have these mini PCs that stick to iGPUs such as 680m, 780m, which are better than Intel hd graphics, but still far away from modern Nvidia cards used in laptops. I would definitely spend this amount on one of those instead of this even if it was twice as large to accommodate laptop gpu. You'd think there'd be at least one company that would dabble in this. If there's enough of a market to justify the existence of this, there'd be enough of a market to justify what I'm describing. I just hate large tower desktop PCs. Even mini atx or even mini itx form factors are too bulky. Something that has the size of a laptop chassis would be great. Could probably be even smaller because, again, no trackpad, keyboard, no batter, could probably be thicker and less width of some of the parts could go on top of eachother rather than side by side

My hunch is that cost of engineering for water cooling or alternate forms of air cooling that do not sound like a jet engine in this form factor are the limiting problem. If you've ever rigged up small fans, it takes a lot of engineering to keep those fans from making a whine sound. Noise normalized cooling rates are more difficult and there are limited ways to dissipate heat passively.

I'm thinking about sending a note to Gamers Nexus to put this through its paces exactly around this topic.

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