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$157.98*: GMKtec Mini PC: N150, 16GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe M.2 SSD at Amazon

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GMKtec-US via Amazon [amazon.com] has GMKtec Mini PC: N150, 16GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe M.2 SSD for $157.98.
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GMKtec-US via Amazon [amazon.com] has GMKtec Mini PC: N150, 16GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe M.2 SSD for $157.98.
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$52.01 lower (25% savings) than the list price of $209.99

*Previous 🔥Frontpage Deal at $158 with 56 Deal Score and 122 comments.

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6d ago
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LeYang
6d ago
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Both are single 2.5GbE NIC
6d ago
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swechsler
6d ago
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank swechsler

FWIW, I bought a very similar N150 mini PC a couple of days ago, same specs. It's very slow, CPU frequently hits 100% just when running Chrome with a few plugins and 1 or 2 windows open. Seems much slower than an old Dell Optiplex I have with an i5-4590 running the same thing.
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WisePear6188
6d ago
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Quote from swechsler :
FWIW, I bought a very similar N150 mini PC a couple of days ago, same specs. It's very slow, CPU frequently hits 100% just when running Chrome with a few plugins and 1 or 2 windows open. Seems much slower than an old Dell Optiplex I have with an i5-4590 running the same thing.
The N150 is roughly equivalent to the i5-6500, but at 1/5th the power usage. I wouldn't want to run it as a desktop PC, but it works great for running a home automation, NAS, plex, living room media pc, kiosk, etc.
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swechsler
6d ago
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Quote from WisePear6188 :
The N150 is roughly equivalent to the i5-6500, but at 1/5th the power usage. I wouldn't want to run it as a desktop PC, but it works great for running a home automation, NAS, plex, living room media pc, kiosk, etc.
Sure, but this is marketed as a desktop.
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IndigoSnow3683
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Quote from swechsler :
FWIW, I bought a very similar N150 mini PC a couple of days ago, same specs. It's very slow, CPU frequently hits 100% just when running Chrome with a few plugins and 1 or 2 windows open. Seems much slower than an old Dell Optiplex I have with an i5-4590 running the same thing.
Edge works a lot better than Chrome on this device. I use one as a Plex server. Works great, but Windows updates take time on it.
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WisePear6188
6d ago
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Quote from swechsler :
Sure, but this is marketed as a desktop.
That's a fair criticism of this device. I'm just pointing out the CPU has some other use-cases it's well suited for.
TBH, at $158 this is a really inexpensive way to start a home lab. I have a similar mini PC running docker. Quite the learning experience.
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dcengineer
6d ago
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I use this as a print server. Got 3x USB label printers hooked up to it right now. I'm sure I can use it for other stuff later.

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Deadpoole
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I mistakenly bought one of these...the 8gb/256 model as after looking at dozens of them, there was always something skimped on. Usually noname random ram and ssds that end up being why the machine breaks down. So I figured to be tossing out the ram and "ssd" and replacing them, gave up on the $200+ boxes and went as cheap as possible.

The "m.2 ssd" notably lacked the "nvme" or "pcie", and it is in fact a sata drive with read speeds just over 100Mb/s. Or as slow as a lot of EMMC.

Tried two actual nvme drives in it, 1tb and 4tb, western digital blue, not recognized. Specs say gen 3 nvme. Boolsheeit.

Picky as hell about ram as well. Used a 16gb/3200 stick from another pc and I guess it doesn't support xmp or doesn't support it correctly, because it wanted it to run at 2133.

Another chinabox with fake specs and things that'll be a lot of problems to fix. But keep deleting the product listing, and deleting bad reviews and you might buy and return it. I had an experience with kamrui a while ago where they wanted me to delete a one star review or they wouldn't accept the return. Joke was on them, amazon took the return and they had no say over it. They then disabled me from reviewing their products on amazon. "Reviews for these products from this account is prohibited".

That should have scared me off of this, but then again that woman at the UPS store IS kinda cute.
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dlambl
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Specs:
  • Intel Twin Lake N150 4-cores, 4-threads (3.6GHz) Processor
  • 8GB DDR4 3200 MHz Memory (32GB max)
  • 256GB PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280 NVMe Solid State Drive
  • 2TB max M.2 2242 SATA (Not Included)
  • Intel UHD 1000MHz Graphics
  • WiFi 6 802.11ax +Bluetooth 5.2
  • Windows 11 Pro
  • Ports:
    • 4x USB 3.2 up to 5Gbps/S
    • 2x HDMI 2.0 (4K@60Hz)
    • 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH81C...gToDp&th=1
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xlaxplaya
2d ago
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Nobody should buy these little N97 or N150 boxes to run Windows. They're great for Linux and home server stuff.
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Bitgod
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I picked one of these up a month or so ago, pretty happy with it. I'm not asking it to do anything super hard, it's mainly just a HTPC that I use at times. Nuked the SSD, installed a fresh copy of win11 ltsc iot, downloaded the device drivers from gmktec's site (probably save that to usb beforehand if you don't have another computer handy).

I use a remote mouse app on my iPad for input, having the system sleep and then wake on LAN. You'll still want a wired or BT kb handy for logging in on boot, since the mouse server isn't running at that point. No problems streaming videos or playing back video files. It can run hot, but it's a headless laptop essentially, they aren't known for the best thermals. Also if you're really wanting the best performance from it, go look around for some reviews on YT, you'll see that the system isn't set for the best performance settings out of the box, but at a more middle ground for thermal reasons. But it's fine for my needs, didn't change anything.

SSD speeds were fine-ish. Definitely above SATA speeds. Different boxes have different specs. When I was looking at the smaller G5?, with the N97, I noticed that one was a SATA M.2 in it. I don't recall the speed test numbers offhand on the G3 plus, I think it was lower than the Gen3 in my full sized system but easily faster than SATA. System also passed memtest. Don't forget, these low end systems are only single memory channel systems.

Also note the unit linked to this deal is "lush green" in color, go searching around if you want to see pics of the color. If you want the black colored unit, which I did, search for the G3 plus on Amazon and you'll find it from another seller and for a similar price (at least I did when I bought mine)
Last edited by Bitgod June 13, 2025 at 05:12 PM.
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justye
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Quote from swechsler :
FWIW, I bought a very similar N150 mini PC a couple of days ago, same specs. It's very slow, CPU frequently hits 100% just when running Chrome with a few plugins and 1 or 2 windows open. Seems much slower than an old Dell Optiplex I have with an i5-4590 running the same thing.
I have a feeling this has more to do with other reasons than the CPU if you mind it slower than the i5-4590. Poor quality RAM and SSD or (if you haven't reinstalled Windows), garbage bloatware on the PC. My guess is the non CPU hardware being the culprit because I find it hard to believe these Chinese boxes aren't using some kind of crappy Chinese no-name components for SSDs and RAM and still keep prices under $200.
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