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MINISFORUM BD790i X3D MoDT Barebones: Ryzen 9 7945HX, 2x DDR5 SODIMM

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$469

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MINISFORUM has MINISFORUM BD790i X3D MoDT Barebones on sale for $519 - $50 with discount code HALLOWEEN-50 at checkout = $469. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for sharing this deal.
  • Note: This is a Barebones Kit so you will need to provide your own parts (Memory, Storage, OS, Power Supply) for it to function.
Specs:
  • Mini-ITX Form Factor
  • Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 16-Core 2.3GHz Processor (128M Cache, 5.4 GHz Boost)
  • Radeon 610M Integrated Graphics
  • 2x DDR5 Dual Channel SODIMM Slots (up to 5200 MT/s, 96GB Max)
  • 2xM.2 2280 NVME SSD Slot (up to 4 TB,PCIe5.0 x4)
  • WiFi 6e+BT5.3
  • 1x PCIe 5.0 x16 Slot for GPU
  • Ports:
    • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (Alt DisplayPort 1.4)
    • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
    • 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
    • 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
    • 1x DisplayPort 1.4
    • 1x RJ-45 2.5G Ethernet
    • 1x Line Out
  • FAN/Audio/USB headers
    • 1x 4-pin CPU Fan header
    • 2x 4-pin System Fan header
    • 1x 4-pin SSD Fan header
    • 1x Front Panel Audio Header
    • 1x System Panel Headers
    • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Header

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  • Offer valid for a limited time only / while supplies last.
Please see the original post for additional details & refer to the comments below for discussion.

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Written by Suryasis
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MINISFORUM has MINISFORUM BD790i X3D MoDT Barebones on sale for $519 - $50 with discount code HALLOWEEN-50 at checkout = $469. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for sharing this deal.
  • Note: This is a Barebones Kit so you will need to provide your own parts (Memory, Storage, OS, Power Supply) for it to function.
Specs:
  • Mini-ITX Form Factor
  • Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 16-Core 2.3GHz Processor (128M Cache, 5.4 GHz Boost)
  • Radeon 610M Integrated Graphics
  • 2x DDR5 Dual Channel SODIMM Slots (up to 5200 MT/s, 96GB Max)
  • 2xM.2 2280 NVME SSD Slot (up to 4 TB,PCIe5.0 x4)
  • WiFi 6e+BT5.3
  • 1x PCIe 5.0 x16 Slot for GPU
  • Ports:
    • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (Alt DisplayPort 1.4)
    • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
    • 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
    • 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
    • 1x DisplayPort 1.4
    • 1x RJ-45 2.5G Ethernet
    • 1x Line Out
  • FAN/Audio/USB headers
    • 1x 4-pin CPU Fan header
    • 2x 4-pin System Fan header
    • 1x 4-pin SSD Fan header
    • 1x Front Panel Audio Header
    • 1x System Panel Headers
    • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Header

Editor's Notes

Written by SaltyOne | Staff
  • Offer valid for a limited time only / while supplies last.
Please see the original post for additional details & refer to the comments below for discussion.

Original Post

Written by Suryasis

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kirbyrj
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Support can be a little iffy. Most AMD motherboards will get bios updates with newer AGESA. I would be surprised if there is more than 2 or 3 bios available for this board. I've had several minisforum/Beelink, etc. mini PCs and they rarely get 1 update let alone updates like a regular motherboard.
Bup0108
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I don't have this product, but have been looking at it for a while since it peek my interest. Based on what I read at various sites, it seems this board have quite a few perks. Since it have 16 cores, I guess the intended audience would be interested in a heavy workload. According to CPU-monkey, the 7945hx3D scored a 33450 vs 38640 from a 7950x, it has 86% multicore performance of a 7950x while having a TDP of 77w, vs 175W from 7950x. Similar story to the single core performance, 1956 vs 2205, almost 90% of 7950x. The efficiency makes it very compelling for whoever prefer a smaller setup. They can get top tier performance while keeping heat manageable. The downside is the CPU is soldered in, which won't allow future CPU-swap for upgrade, it also use laptop rams, which limit your DRAM selection.

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real_cheepYesterday 04:21 PM
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Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
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Bup0108Yesterday 04:42 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
I don't have this product, but have been looking at it for a while since it peek my interest. Based on what I read at various sites, it seems this board have quite a few perks. Since it have 16 cores, I guess the intended audience would be interested in a heavy workload. According to CPU-monkey, the 7945hx3D scored a 33450 vs 38640 from a 7950x, it has 86% multicore performance of a 7950x while having a TDP of 77w, vs 175W from 7950x. Similar story to the single core performance, 1956 vs 2205, almost 90% of 7950x. The efficiency makes it very compelling for whoever prefer a smaller setup. They can get top tier performance while keeping heat manageable. The downside is the CPU is soldered in, which won't allow future CPU-swap for upgrade, it also use laptop rams, which limit your DRAM selection.
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Yesterday 04:45 PM
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dacityYesterday 04:45 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
It's all about the price/performance value, especially for gamers. Power consumption won't be that different than a full fat desktop processor, unless it's fitting at 100% use all day.This is a -very- powerful mobile CPU - putting together a same generation desktop CPU+ITX motherboard with 16 cores / 32 threads would almost certainly be more expensive. Add in the X3D cache, and this is just a very good processor for gamers.That said, I'd wait for the refurb deals and save $100-$150.
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LivelyManatee460Yesterday 05:19 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
Cost, its a lot cheaper and might even outperform the desktop variant spec to spec.
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spl51285Yesterday 06:01 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
1) Want to make a small pc build that is powerful and games well. mobile cpu reduces heat output.
2) x3d mobile part of basically the 7950x3d, but reduced performance.
3) Bang for Buck.. you get motherboard and cpu for less than the price of the 7950x3d
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kirbyrjYesterday 06:11 PM
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Support can be a little iffy. Most AMD motherboards will get bios updates with newer AGESA. I would be surprised if there is more than 2 or 3 bios available for this board. I've had several minisforum/Beelink, etc. mini PCs and they rarely get 1 update let alone updates like a regular motherboard.
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steven.merrillYesterday 06:37 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
I got my hands on a 5090FE from Nvidia's program and built this exact setup, but with the black color of the case. Super-small form factor with a huge wind tunnel up top to push air through the 5090: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgOdUmcOOVE .

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BrianO5815Yesterday 07:29 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
You can easily 3d print a mini rack system that works great with mini itx. 2u for atx power supply+a couple 2.5" drives, 3u for the board with full height GPU.
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Sulla52Yesterday 07:35 PM
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I put this in K49BL case with 48 GB of ram and a 9070 (non xt) as my bazzite console gaming pc in my living room. It rips and produces very little heat due to the laptop variant of the cpu and the 9070 also being very cooling efficient (plus an undervolt applied). If you look at SFFPC reddit there are a lot of people using this board for the same purpose. It's great. Also, they just used it today in the most recent LTT video where they set up their new 16-player gaming setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yanqmc01ck
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ErnestoSimonYesterday 08:27 PM
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Too bad the price of RAM, and to some point storage, has almost doubled in the past month. Otherwise would be thinking about replacing my current DDR4-based ssf.
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Evenstar979Yesterday 08:36 PM
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
Basically for people who like SFF or want a case like Fractal Terra, this ITX with laptop CPU would be better thermally than maybe like a 9700x undervolted and much faster. I am one of those people, SFF that is. Also I showed this to a friend, not this x3D one but the normal one and he was really liking it for home server and thinking of getting one.
Last edited by Evenstar979 October 29, 2025 at 01:38 PM.
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
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FeistyNose3055Today 12:39 AM
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These make good gaming PCs without need for BIG PSUs (650w Seasonic in pic)


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Quote from real_cheep :
Can someone explain the typical use-case for this? I guess you'd need a mini-ITX case if you were going to attach a PCIe GPU, so what would be the advantage of using a mobile CPU? If you were concerned about power consumption, you wouldn't want to use a desktop GPU, and if you didn't want a desktop GPU, why not just buy a mini PC? I recently bought a Minisforum mini-PC that I'm running with an external dock via Oculink and to be honest I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and how well it works, so that kind of setup makes sense to me but I'm having a harder time figuring out why you'd want something like this. Not trying to be critical of this particular product, just want to understand better.
My wife plays mobile games... she does not want to spend money but still want to remain competitive... so she needs to run a lot of feeder accounts. She plays 6 accounts simultaneously using Android VMs. Those requires 2 CPU cores each with 4 left over for main PC. Using those MoD CPUs is a no brainer as they run much more efficiently
She's using a 3090 too as 6 VMs running games can suck up over 20GBs of VRAM

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