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MINISFORUM MS-A2 Mini Workstation: Ryzen 9 9955HX, 64GB DDR5, 1TB SSD $1135.9

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All that power in such a small form factor. By the way my computer case is bigger than yours
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Ozzforester
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I can hear the fan noise just by thinking about buying it.
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I bought one of these to use as a Proxmox server and ended up returning it. It is pretty powerful CPU-wise as you can imagine with the 9955HX, but the power usage was more than I was expecting. When I first set it up, it was idling at like mid 30W. One of the reviews mentioned that a dummy HDMI plug helped and yeah that took it down to around 24W for me. This is completely idling at the command line. As soon as I fire up a few idle VMs the power settled at around 75W doing nothing, and with a full load it was slightly over 200W.
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Quote from SplendidMeerkat920 :
I bought one of these to use as a Proxmox server and ended up returning it. It is pretty powerful CPU-wise as you can imagine with the 9955HX, but the power usage was more than I was expecting. When I first set it up, it was idling at like mid 30W. One of the reviews mentioned that a dummy HDMI plug helped and yeah that took it down to around 24W for me. This is completely idling at the command line. As soon as I fire up a few idle VMs the power settled at around 75W doing nothing, and with a full load it was slightly over 200W.
I was sad to hear this and it makes it an instant no-go for me as a 24/7 proxmox server that would be idle most of the time. From reading seems to be a limitation of any AMD desktop chiplet design, and so you need to go with an APU to get low idle power. But APUs don't get the full AVX-512 like chiplets do. Hopefully Zen 6 will make improvements on both fronts here.
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Quote from Ozzforester :
I can hear the fan noise just by thinking about buying it.
There is no way that MF have adequately cooled this beast of a processor. They have a poor history of cooling in their minis. My friend was going to buy one and I advised him against it. He ended up building a mini itx machine with water cooling. It was more expensive but at least he gets a better machine all round.
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Quote from MadPup :
There is no way that MF have adequately cooled this beast of a processor. They have a poor history of cooling in their minis. My friend was going to buy one and I advised him against it. He ended up building a mini itx machine with water cooling. It was more expensive but at least he gets a better machine all round.

I'm pretty sure the system doesn't provide enough power for that CPU to run at its full capacity. That's probably how they keep it from overheating too, but seems to me like a waste of CPU performance.
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Quote from Ascender :
I'm pretty sure the system doesn't provide enough power for that CPU to run at its full capacity. That's probably how they keep it from overheating too, but seems to me like a waste of CPU performance.
They cripple the CPU in BIOS to get it stable.Even then, the system is prone to overheating and crapping out. This is the Minisforum way.

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Quote from MadPup :
They cripple the CPU in BIOS to get it stable.Even then, the system is prone to overheating and crapping out. This is the Minisforum way.

If they made a standard desktop with the same specs, more available watts, and naturally better cooling I'd be all over it.

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