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Feb 21, 2025 7:59 PM
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expired Posted by DesertGardener | Staff • Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025 7:59 PM
Prime Members: GMKtec Nucbox K8 PLUS Mini PC: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD
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The newer AMD and Intel miniPC stuff with the 890m and ARC graphics are only marginally faster but usually double the price with the same RAM/storage. The flagship AMD AI series APU do improve graphics performance a LOT... but also only come in $2000+ Asus tablets (the Z13 Flow).
The 8845/790m is a potent combo and will run right along with the full 8000 series AMD desktop APU's but in a much smaller and more efficient package. These are a great buy right now while the madness of the current GPU market is sorting itself out if you want to roll through your back catalog of Steam / Amazon Gaming / Epic / GoG games that have been stacking up. They are also capable for media tasks, video transcoding/editing, etc..
This also has an Oculink port, and for $100 for the Minisforum Oculink dock on Amazon (plus whatever size power supply your card needs) you can connect a standard desktop GPU to this.
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I'm on a tight budget 😁
Memory for multitasking and design programs (Adobe) 😁
Decent graphic card for potential rendering and other heavy-lifting 😁
Plenty of storage, SSD a bonus 😁
The cooling system in theory looks good, but it probably isn't 🙂
The motherboard, I know nothing about. 🤔
I'm on a tight budget 😁
Memory for multitasking and design programs (Adobe) 😁
Decent graphic card for potential rendering and other heavy-lifting 😁
Plenty of storage, SSD a bonus 😁
The cooling system in theory looks good, but it probably isn't 🙂
The motherboard, I know nothing about. 🤔
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The newer AMD and Intel miniPC stuff with the 890m and ARC graphics are only marginally faster but usually double the price with the same RAM/storage. The flagship AMD AI series APU do improve graphics performance a LOT... but also only come in $2000+ Asus tablets (the Z13 Flow).
The 8845/790m is a potent combo and will run right along with the full 8000 series AMD desktop APU's but in a much smaller and more efficient package. These are a great buy right now while the madness of the current GPU market is sorting itself out if you want to roll through your back catalog of Steam / Amazon Gaming / Epic / GoG games that have been stacking up. They are also capable for media tasks, video transcoding/editing, etc..
This also has an Oculink port, and for $100 for the Minisforum Oculink dock on Amazon (plus whatever size power supply your card needs) you can connect a standard desktop GPU to this.
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I'm on a tight budget 😁
Memory for multitasking and design programs (Adobe) 😁
Decent graphic card for potential rendering and other heavy-lifting 😁
Plenty of storage, SSD a bonus 😁
The cooling system in theory looks good, but it probably isn't 🙂
The motherboard, I know nothing about. 🤔
If you don't want an oculink port there are much cheaper mini pc's with similar specs.
The newer AMD and Intel miniPC stuff with the 890m and ARC graphics are only marginally faster but usually double the price with the same RAM/storage. The flagship AMD AI series APU do improve graphics performance a LOT... but also only come in $2000+ Asus tablets (the Z13 Flow).
The 8845/790m is a potent combo and will run right along with the full 8000 series AMD desktop APU's but in a much smaller and more efficient package. These are a great buy right now while the madness of the current GPU market is sorting itself out if you want to roll through your back catalog of Steam / Amazon Gaming / Epic / GoG games that have been stacking up. They are also capable for media tasks, video transcoding/editing, etc..
$290 on AliExpress with coupons going on right now. If you don't need it right away, and you can plug in ram and an NVMe drive.. I'd go the AliExpress route.
Also would work great w nvidia GeForce now at 4k 120hz.
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Hi. I have the GMKtec K8 version. You can easily swap out the Mediatek WiFi card and replace it with the Intel AX210NGW. You can get this card from Aliexpress. Download the drivers from Intel's website. Cheers!
Hi. I have the GMKtec K8 version and installed MX Linux 23.5 on it and it works great. I have swapped out the Mediatek WiFi card with the Intel AX210NGW and it's pretty solid. You can get the Intel WiFi card from Aliexpress. Takes a little bit longer to get from Aliexpress. Better get a move on what you want to get before the tariffs hits and the price will increase on these mini PCs. Cheers!
This is the reason why I went with the GMKtec K8 mini PC. The Mac mini is really expensive once you upgrade the memory and hard drive.
I just got the Ryzen 7 6800H , 24GB, 1TB for $270 from Amazon.
I installed ProxMox VM manager on it and created a 4 core CPU VM with 2GB of RAM. Passmark scores for the VM were 1.5 times faster than a N150 computer with around the same specs. (this does not take in account transcoding if that is your task).
I just use my M4 Mac Mini as a desktop computer, so I don't have any Unix workloads on it to compare.
The computer I got came with Crucial RAM and a Kingston SSD which surprised me. It is listed as "BOSGAME
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