An Incredibly Powerful Ryzen 9 5900HX Mini PC💪 Hands-On With The All-New GR9!

[@MrSteve-hy9yo]

Found a good deal and ended getting one of these. I upgraded the M.2 SSD drive and added a SATA SSD 2TB (for VM's, containers and some small data learning scale sets) and I have to say, I am impressed for this little beast. Please note that my gaming consists of old ROMS running off a SNES/Sega emulator so don't ask about gaming. But I do some image/video editing, streaming items, mainly physics, development (python and .NET core) and some machine learning (light deep learning items). Main OS is linux mint (latest stable version) and some VM's (virtualbox) which consists of Win11, Win2019 Server and MacOS Monterey. Performance is good but I will say to get linux to run as well as Win11 as a VM took a bit of googling and some Linux trickery to get everything to work. I only see load issues when watching a movie while compiling programs while running 2 of the VM's. For the price I paid, I feel it was a good investment. I don't need anything too powerful otherwise I spin it up in the Cloud. I feel it's worth it if you upgrade some of the components. Some caveats are getting Linux to work out of the box on these machines. You have to use, at a minimum, kernel version 5.11 and higher to get some of the internal components to be supported driver wise. Another issue I saw that was not clear cut is that although there is a M.2 NVME SSD slot, there is only 1 as the other slot is a M.2 Sata SSD which has speeds comparable to standard SATA3 SSD 2.5 inch HD's. Shame really as I wanted to get 2 x 2TB M.2 NVME SSD drives. Another caveat that I saw is that it does not support the Gen4 M.2 NVME SSD drives out (which offer more iOPs). So I skipped getting the M.2 Sata SSD and got a 2 TB SATA3 SSD 2.5 inch drive. Since it has a some USB-C connectors I just got a USB-C dongle that adds extra USB-C and USB3 slots so I can add additional components. I also have 2 4k monitors and it seems to be running smooth. I feel it was definitely worth getting and also I have more space around my workstation area. It's pretty silent most of the time so I cannot complain.

[@Fredson78]

So you can use 2.5 SSD instead of HDD, correct?

[@MrSteve-hy9yo]

@@Fredson78 Correct. Actually, only NVME and 2.5 inch drives fit in this machine. HDD is typically 3.5 inch so that will not fit in unless you use usb external drive.

[@mohammadnsr2821]

Sounds great! So, how is it running so far? Any issues or complains?

[@MrSteve-hy9yo]

@@mohammadnsr2821 No issues so far. My only complaint is that the GPU is not Nvidia meaning I cannot use the TensorFlow stack (Neural Network processing) which seems to favor Nvidia more so than the built-in GPU by AMD. However outside of that, I am able to run containers and VM's on additional SSD drive with no issues. I should be upgrading the RAM to the full 64 GB (max for this little beast) so that I can run more VM's. I would definitely recommend for those who want to do some Dev work or image/video editing (small scale). I will be running some physics software soon so I will more of an idea then after the 64 GB RAM upgrade.

[@mohammadnsr2821]

@@MrSteve-hy9yo Yeah the dedicated iGPU is its weak point. I have read a lot of comment sof people having BSOD and hard time tweaking the drivers and peripherals, any thoughts about this? Have you needed any Beelink online support?

[@TheGrizz485]

these results are great. hard to believe that the AMD 6000 is being released soon and is supposedly doubling these scores with its RDNA2/ddr5 combo

[@nosirrahx]

CPUs, GPUs and RAM all making a leap at the same time is going to make mini-PCs insanely legit. Just hope we can buy the stuff.

[@MidWitPride]

Maybe finally 1080p medium/low ~60fps on basically every game will be doable with iGPUs. I am so sick of Vega at this point, lol. Vega is great for what it is, but iGPUs could be so much more by now, than that 5 year old dinosaur architecture. We kinda skipped a generation with RDNA1 when it came to iGPUs, and AMD took its sweet time with RDNA2 iGPUs as well.

[@nosirrahx]

@@MidWitPride Vega is my mini PC for media and emulation and is pretty cool but I would not pretend that it is a serious competitor to my actual PC. That distinction (keeping prices reasonable obviously) is about to shrink, can't wait.

[@ETAPRIME]

I can’t wait! A PC like this with a 6900HX or what ever they call it is gonna be a monster.

[@Sup_D]

@@ETAPRIME Ryzen 9 6980HX & Ryzen 9 6900HX are the high-end ones with Zen 3+ & RDNA2

[@krazycharlie]

As usual, Beelink makes my favorite mini PCs. I'd really love to have one of these as a replacement for my 2 year old laptop. Then again, I can also wait for RDNA2 to become available to the general public and see a vast improvement over Vega/Radeon. Edit: Emulation video, please!

[@hemanthkumarHere]

Wont last very long, i had hands of few intel NUC and a beelink, the beelink one stopped boot after a day.

[@mohammadnsr2821]

@@hemanthkumarHere which model exactly was that? what you did for it?

[@TyphonLeTitan]

2 years old laptop and you want to replace it ? What a waste.

[@Maxxarcade]

When the Ryzen mobile CPU's first came out, I had hopes that systems like this would be created. And now they keep getting better. I hope AMD finds a way to utilize this market to the fullest, even if it's a bit of a niche.

[@joefish6091]

The high prices will tank mass market sales, theres a very limited niche for these boxes, POS systems and maybe call centers. price is critical, cheap copies generally prevail. The general public will not pay desktop prices for mini PCs with limited performance. Wet dream tech details excite geeks but bore consumers.

[@WeirdSmellyMan]

@@joefish6091 it's great for emulation.

[@themcfaceman]

@@joefish6091 thinking my next gaming pc will be something small & low power like this except with a real gpu

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

@@joefish6091 I think they will become more popular in Latin America, at least many of the mini PCs reviews were made by Brazilians.

[@haziqsembilanlima]

fully unlocked BIOS menu is a must for Ryzen Mobile based mini PC. Not for overclocking but for changing power limit

[@mike_t_007]

THAT Part! Need one for the 5600H BeeLink as well👍🏾

[@andresvaldevit3692]

I think the thing I was more impressed from was the finger print sensor on the case. Hey ETA, for once could you try some video editing performance on these APUs please? I'd really want to see how well this little thing can perform.

[@st33ldi9ital]

This is amazing! Performance aside the fingerprint sensor and stereo mic are killer features. The dual nic is awesome. And it looks sharp!

[@_RobertOnline_]

Yes, definitely do a full on emulation test. That's always what I'm most curious about with these little systems.

[@_RobertOnline_]

@Donald yeah, it's like the ideal form factor for connecting to a TV

[@vulcan4d]

Now imagine RDNA2 and DDR5 + VRAM cache. That will be the dream.

[@DyesubDave]

Looks like an AWESOME little mini-pc. I keep waiting for them to hit the med-high settings at 1080p. Maybe with the upcoming AMD APUs.

[@Lennox032]

I want the APU that there using in the consoles, Not sure if they will ever release those to the public, apart from the steam deck unfortunately ?

[@mdfardhoushasanzieon7057]

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[@mdfardhoushasanzieon7057]

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[@Yosuf06]

What the upcoming AMD APU!? What it called??

[@michaelkeudel8770]

@@Yosuf06 6000 series, renoir apus. They should be on the shelf in a few weeks.

[@ravewonder]

I can imagine this setup with the new AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, with double the graphics would be a nice little unit.

[@pweddy1]

I do love how you always demonstrate that these APUs are adequate for PC gaming and more than you need for emulation. I can think of some very popular PC gaming KZbinrs who have consistently said they weren't good enough for gaming, but they only test them on Max settings.

[@john-paulhunt451]

RSR in the apu AMD drivers graphics settings and rdna2 with ddr5 at 64-128gb ram with lower cl and higher oc setting on the ram and iGPU and cpu settings undervolted and overlcoked will be where it can really shine here until you can get an amd 6900xt for 4k at 120hz for gaming native here for your lg c1 tv set as intel does not have this yet for it's iGPU on the 12900k to test out here for 1080p 30/60hz on max grahpical settings here to compete with the consoles from the last generation i.e xbox one x and ps4 pro here for 500-700 dollars here with a year of xbox ultimaite game pass and movies/music from ms included here to move these mini pc units.

[@allenanalla2549]

Yeah. Everything is always tested at Max settings. My pc can easily play AAA titles on max but always drop everything to medium or low just for more frames. I don't really care about graphic settings

[@kylehill3643]

@@allenanalla2549 Except its actually a Ryzen 7 the title is misleading. Whoops! click bait?

[@allenanalla2549]

@@kylehill3643 oooooh ok. Ty for that info.

[@Rhino4272]

@@kylehill3643 At 4:53 it show it's a Ryzen 9

[@skitterlad]

You can lower the idle watt usage by setting cpu to 99% in windows power settings. So when not gaming, you can lower power usage without changing the bios settings. This works on the minisforum 5900hx.

[@sawtooth808]

This would also make a very very cool PC for music production.

[@kudzy11]

@@sawtooth808 this is what I'm looking to purchase one for.. either this or the minisforum hx90

[@bazwillrun]

@@sawtooth808 unfortunately he doesnt mention the noise the fans make under load....in other vids you can hear the noise clearly

[@sawtooth808]

@@bazwillrun Oof 😖 if the fan is _that_ loud, deal breaker

[@hardlytech9072]

I really like the idea of these Mini PC's, they offer a lot of value and they take up hardly any space. I'm really looking forward to the 6000 series APU's and your reviews of them.

[@jaysunkreuze1466]

The 6000 series will be taking the market share away from Intel.

[@hardlytech9072]

@@jaysunkreuze1466 I think you're right. With how much more capable Navi is than Vega, hopefully the 6000 series APU's will be able to give decent 1080p gaming without the 'need' for a dedicated GPU.

[@ibot-u3s]

w8 for nvidia , they prolly make own cpu so its more then possible that you get pocket pc from them :D

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Considering that this is the final version for vega graphics in effect, with rdna2 to take over on mobile devices and presumably igpu later this year ,this is rather impressive Considering how old a graphics architecture vega actually is now. Gaming with igpus is potentially going to be taking a big leap forward. Amd really has a clear lead here currently as intels offerings are not really up to much until alder lake came along and we've yet to see what their mobile chips will offer, especially when put against rdna2 paired with zen3+ (6000 series) and presumably later zen4 based apus next year.

[@sushimshah2896]

Still bummed that no laptop got the top-of-the-line 5980HX last year. This PC with the recently launched 6980HX would be absolutely killer with it's much improved GPU!! Just the DDR5 RAM would bump up the cost significantly.

[@nakam0t0]

I have the Morefine S500+ 5900HX AMD Ryzen 9 Mini PC (with 32Gb Ram & 1Tb NVMe), that is basically the same as this Beelink and I can play emulated Nintendo Switch games like a charm! this minipcs are awesome! Im very happy with mine 💪🏽

[@mohammadnsr2821]

Which one is better? This Beelink GR9 or the Morefine s500+?

[@qwertyx7ts]

Thumbs up for that saab 900 wallpaper ;)

[@Fredson78]

So far I’m enjoying this little machine. Gears of War Ultimate Edition ran at about 45fps on average. Battletoads 2020 and Tunic ran between 55-60fps consistently. I ran OBS to record some game play of Megaman Maker. Not long videos, maybe 30sec with no issues. No crashes or freezes during the recording or game play. Still trying to make RetroArch and Launch Box play nice with me. OpenEmu has spoiled me. My ONE complaint: my 8bitdo controller never functioned properly. Works great on my Switch and my Mac but on the pc it’s hit/miss. (I’m doing something wrong, I’m sure)I bought an Xbox controller and it runs like a dream. This is my first PC since 2007 and I couldn’t be more pleased with the performance. Windows has improved quite a bit since then. Still love my Mac for everything else but the PC (and Switch)is for gaming. Thank you ETAPrime for your tutorials.

[@EdwinPohan]

Hyped for the Ryzen 6000. Hopefully there will be decent performance on PC games with just the integrated GPU.

[@godslayer1415]

Compared to Alder Lake - LOL no.

[@clickbaitpro]

They said the integrated graphic perform up to 2x faster which will we dope if they are true

[@jdkingsley6543]

Beelink is in our offices, one of the best buys ever.

[@atmadsen]

The link directs you to every single beelink out there…except the one you reviewed.

[@nathanlamaire]

6:56 You're absolute madman because I wasn't even able to shoot helicopters with that gun.

[@bearxor]

At this point I'd definitely be waiting for the Ryzen 6000 series with the RDNA2 cores.

[@HiltonT69]

Awesome little home lab server...

[@oguzhan9424]

Omg, i want it. I knew mini PC’s but didnt knew this product. It looks to be an absolute beest! And that at this format!

[@turboimport95]

Pcs like this is going to be the future, once Gpu's get so powerfully fast that at lower watts they can run games at maxed settings it will make desktops obsolete for majority of people unfortunately. If they modified this with a pci express slot open at the top somehow or with a adapter so you could use a regular gpu it would be excellent pc. Older Gpus are going obsolete very fast. I got a older r9 390x 8gb that still can play games at maxed settings, but I went to update driver and amd says its legacy and wont make new drivers for it... which is absurd... I can look at benchmark charts and see cards that have more then double performance then this 1 and its crazy how fast technology is blazing along. I haven't upgraded because I can still play games pretty much maxed out... rust / cyberpunk 2077/ fallout etc. I haven't played a game yet I was unable to play.. but with prices and chip shortages idk what to do about upgrading, I actually thought of just using another 390x in crossfire mode or something.

[@audiocalls2822]

It will get super expensive. In order to pack that much power, on tiny components, and have low wattage is to have near 99.9999% efficiency, or invent a new super material.

[@ReasonablleDoubt]

Perfect pfsense box

[@WildBikerBill]

Seems like a great compact pc...it would help mightily if either Amazon or the manufacturer listed the model on their websites...until then I expect sales to be slim.

[@slighter]

Yeah, until there is a place that actually sells this thing it will not be a sales record breaker...

[@DeepteshLovesTECH]

Vega iGPU is done to death. Time for RDNA2 equipped APU mini PCs. Plus I hope OEMs incorporate Thunderbolt 3 into USB 4.

[@jaysunkreuze1466]

Ryzen 6000 will accommodate when it gets released.

[@devo076]

I bought one of these, and it's performed a little better than my tower I bought 2-3 years ago. Gonna use this for a while!

[@dimitriid]

I actually would love something like this to basically become a proxmox and nas server. One 2.5 drive wouldn't cut it but since it ends up as sata it could be possible to break out something like an e-sata connector to a sata enclosure and use on-board m.2 for both image storage (works better if it's rather fast) and cache for the "slow" sata ZFS pool. 5900hx might even be a tad overkill unless you need to run a ton of VMs and containers but I'm assuming beelink will make models of these with maybe a 6 core laptop chip instead to save some cash on the pricetag.

[@conradical5941]

Tad overkill? 5900hx for a nas server? Its just not even the right parts for that, you dont need an enthusiast mobile cpu for that

[@rickylovesyou]

"A tad overkill" ....yeah just a tad LOL. Especially for the usage you're describing.

[@TheProjectOverload]

AMD 6000 with RDNA 2 looks like the sweet spot for IGPU small form factor PC...Can't wait for that!!

[@smolderingmess9]

Thanks for making this video! I ordered this exact unit with 64gigs of ram two weeks ago. Can't wait to get it up and running! Really appreciate the work you're doing on your channel!!

[@jamesninobito-on7859]

Can you give a link were did you buy this?

[@smolderingmess9]

@@jamesninobito-on7859 I got it direct from BeeLink and finally got a shipping update that it'll be at my door on Tuesday a week from today. Oddly, when I went to go grab you the link, they've taken the Ryzen 9 off the website and I can only see the 5 and 7. They must be out of supplies at the moment.

[@jamesninobito-on7859]

@@smolderingmess9 Hopefully i can get one of this

[@smolderingmess9]

@@jamesninobito-on7859 well unfortunately it's not all I originally believed it to be. The thing completely turns off without warning if I try to edit photos. I'm a professional photographer and my 10 year old HP ran this program without issue. I've contacted Bee-Link and received no response, so I opened up an inquiry with PayPal. It's really unfortunate. Wanted this to be a solution. Dealing with China is always a pain. They still don't grasp the concept of customer service. If you buy one of these, make sure you do it through Amazon. That way you can return, no questions asked.

[@mohammadnsr2821]

@@smolderingmess9 What is your feedback so far? Any issues or complaints?

[@NeoNoggie]

This looks like a great HTPC for streaming games from my desktop over steam link and watching 4k video. Definitely adding to my short list of potential HTPCs!

[@Doc_Valparaiso]

Desktop class apu performance in a mobile package👌

[@kevinlyon7303]

Wow that is incredible! You gotta make a emulation video on this unit! RPCS3 would definitely perform way better with those threads

[@SinisterTarheel]

Great gameplay from this little machine. Definitely wanna see more emulation from this like Saturn, Atomiswave, etc.

[@jaysunkreuze1466]

The garbage ram in the minisforum is what holds it back. The price of that machine is way too high for it's performance, but then again good luck getting hold of the beelink version. Can't find it anywhere.

[@SinisterTarheel]

@@jaysunkreuze1466 good looking out

[@kevinkev1530]

Thanks for listening an showing off my pc games, if it powerful enough to run pc or Xbox game pass we no it can emulate, those are great vids as well, 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@charlesburris6314]

I'd love to see how it is performs with a real GPU. Ay least the 6k series are coming. Have a great day!

[@chaoticshdwmonk]

0:50 say's lets play? time for new glasses!

[@acwbit2368]

lets start actually

[@chaoticshdwmonk]

@@acwbit2368 I know, but he read it as Lets Play. I was just messing with him :)

[@paulmendes9315]

I really like those rainy gif wallpapers.

[@huyo1092]

Waiting Ryzen 6900HX on this format

[@winstonsmith478]

Your Amazon link leads to nothing sufficiently specific. Beelink and those who sell them on Amazon need to get their naming conventions consistent.

[@LaurentValette1234]

With a 4 TB classic drive (+100€) a second SSD of 1 TB for games, big files or software, a speed SSD for C:/ of 500 GB. perfect ! I think that coul'd be my next PC. Cool !

[@Fourthaboveall]

I truly want your intro screen as my live wallpaper on my pc

[@DanafoxyVixen]

Kinda wish you would show the stock benchmark results along side the higher wattage results.. not everyone wants to hear a hairdrier everytime they play.. or even just want to run it normally to ensure a longer device life

[@ForceGMs]

😮 this APU are getting better and better

[@paulmendes9315]

The new RDNA 2 intergrated graphics in the ryzen 6000 chips are going to blow this out of the water.

[@lazyshinobi2861]

Feel like this would be the perfect device to leave hooked up to a living room tv so after you've binge a series you could jump in for some light gaming and just relax. Ofcourse u could hook it up to a monitor an go hard but the size of this is so cool for putting it places you normally wouldn't expect pc integration.

[@RobotPorter]

Yup, this is one of the best ways to uses for mini PCs. Also, if you have some productivity tasks, but don't feel like running upstairs to grab your ultrabook.

[@DS-pk4eh]

5:40 Great review. Though, it would be great to show some results from competing products, just for a reference.

[@ravipeiris4388]

I didn't realize that something like this even existed. Wow👍

[@Mr.BobsDog]

Thanks dude

[@FernandoDCDuarte]

Awesome review! Got that mini PC myself (the 64GB/1TB version) and added an additional 2TB SSD where I run ProxMox for tier 1 virtualization (and kept the original 1TB drive for PC gaming/emulation) and it really performs great!

[@Mercutius1]

Are the fan noise silent or annoying loud?

[@mohammadnsr2821]

How is it so far running? Any issues?

[@RaikoH6644]

Damn the old games were amazing, so much diversity and talent building thoses games, now it's all about making money with line of codes.

[@The_Chewmiester]

Please do a emulation test on this. I am interested in this mini PC for emulation.

[@Mr.BobsDog]

The AMD Logo says “Let’s Start”, not “Let’s Play” 😂 All good dude 👌

[@antonizieba]

Hi, I'm in Poland, and I'm not sure if this geofencing issue but links that you have shared with us in the descriptions are not working. I cannot find the product that you have presented in the video.

[@CFG-qv7hy]

FYI, there's no trace of this device in your Amazon link.

[@TheWarmotor]

I disagree

[@deus9699]

Fyi it's the second one for like $900

[@amarecarter8633]

Fyi, it's pretty easy to find 🙄

[@jordantherubio]

Would like to see more emulators but with those games it looks like a perfect emulator running games at 60 maybe running higher res.

[@BAdventures]

These AMD APU's keep getting better. Great review 👍

[@dennyyohanes8677]

Ryzen 9 5900HX user here! Pretty impressive to use it for editing and gaming alongside with my Omen 16" By HP

[@teddym2808]

Of course... full emulation test pls!

[@georgetentean243]

I'm planning to buy this model by the end of next month to replace my SER3 Mini PC. It's so much more powerful.

[@paddfootsam]

Would love to see an emulation video. They're my favorite. Especially to see with a mini pc.

[@johnanthonyalberola2341]

your testing helped in my acquistion of my gr5

[@FelipeUgarte]

Good content as always

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

Can't wait for this with Radeon Graphics !

[@sega1665]

Super informative review! I purchased this PC and your walk-through on how to get the TDP to 45W was super helpful! Thanks 😃

[@alexisrivera200xable]

Seems there are problems with their website. The link to that mini pc is not working and the Amazon link doesn't show this model at all.

[@Travist120]

I can't wait until Zen 4 comes out

[@ETAPRIME]

It’s gonna be amazing!

[@Sup_D]

Zen 3+ on Ryzen 6000 Mobile APU should also be enough, as like Zen 4, Zen 3+ also uses RDNA2 GPU cores. So, Ryzen 9 6980HX or Ryzen 9 6900HX should be more than enough for anyone until AMD also moves to Big.Little design, which I think is planned(?) for Ryzen 8000 Series.

[@MiniRockerz4ever]

@@Sup_D Is there gonna be a desktop APU with RDNA2? Or only mobile? I don't want to spend all that money on low power RAM, I bet iGPU paired with proper RAM will make GPUs obsolete.

[@chevelle427770]

@@ETAPRIME OMG please tell us what keyboard that is

[@gamecat2013]

So, funny story, I got a pc from someone and it had those exact specs (but with a gpu) and I had a crappy pc, so that was the first time I had a good pc. And then I watched his vid, and I got so excited bc all I do on pcs is just emulate, and when I saw ps3 run at 60 fps, I just freaked out

[@patrickstar9887]

Hope you guys have a good day 🌟

[@chromerims]

This channel is massive and total 🔥. Yet another great video.

[@ubacow7109]

I cant wait for 12th gen and AMD RDNA2 tiny pcs

[@isaywatup]

I want to play ps2 games at 1080p using PCSX2, my Budget is 200-300$ What do you recommend?

[@friedrice5292]

Hi... Thank you for this great mini pc review. Learned alot from it. May I ask what make and model of your keyboard? It looks real cool. I would like to get one. Thanks in advance. :)

[@johnniephan]

Keyboard is Nuphy Air 75

[@goldenbrisket3555]

Thanks for reviewing this one. @ 3:06 What kind of keyboard is that? I like it!

[@mad2alien]

NuPh Air75 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard

[@goldenbrisket3555]

@@mad2alien Thank you!

[@rudypieplenbosch6752]

Impressive nimble little PC, very good review, thanks.

[@BookofJob3XVII]

As much as I like mini PCs, they costs as much as a full size PC.

[@pinroshan020]

True! Mini PCs aren’t future proof anyway. Just stick with the traditional desktop or laptops these days.

[@spawnkiller9779]

Let's start

[@pb12telecom]

How does it compare with mac mini

[@NatesRandomVideo]

That's a sweet little box at a good price.

[@nayt33z]

wow! my desktop i7 6700k Overclocked to 4.6Ghz on geekbench 5 is getting 1285 Single Core and 5098 Multicore Score vs this 5900HX LAPTOP PROCESSOR APU getting 1524 Single Core and 8443 Multicore.... That's actually amazing, especially when you consider Wattage (Mine probably pulls over 125 watts from the wall overclocked). I CAN"T WAIT for the Ryzen 6000 series APU's with RDNA2. They're gonna be so sick!

[@fooball24H]

6th gen i7 is junk piece of sh””t processor lmao. 10 years old crap. Sell that shi..t ASAP.

[@iamstartower]

As much as i like these mini pcs... igpu is still not powerful enough... when they reach rx580 level of performance these little machines will be amazing.

[@samgoff5289]

I mean, by the time they do games will be far harder to run and you would still be limited to playing 10+ year old games so...

[@themcfaceman]

crazy how great Doom Eternal & GoW look on low settings 720p

[@Chexsum]

looks better than my main pc

[@jackjoe646]

wow could just be a perfect mini home server

[@KiraSlith]

I wouldn't wanna use it as a gaming machine like you describe, but as a budget micro server the 32gb model is really all I could ask for.

[@anounymoose6660]

pretty impressive for such a small package, (that's what she said )

[@markdavenportjr5129]

Very cool I plan on getting one to be used as a steam server host. :)

[@shobot6208]

WOOOOOO!!

[@dividion8102]

That seems to beat the Minisforum HX90 pretty soundly (by about 15% using the same processor and 3200Mhz memory). But can you boost the video memory at all? It looks like it's using the default 512MB allocation (same as the 5700G). Increasing that to 4GB in the BIOS definitely helps the 5700G (especially with faster RAM), but I don't know if you can increase it on that device.

[@robertstan298]

I think the iGPU subsystem allocates past what you specify in the BIOS (be it 512MB or 4GB) depending on it's immediate need. Which is good, but setting it too low means you MAY get conflicting memory allocation/errors IF the rest of the system suddenly fills up the system RAM with non VRAM data requests and the VRAM allocation requests hit a wall. This system has 32GB of RAM so I doubt that will ever be a problem tho.

[@dividion8102]

@@robertstan298 Yeah, I've heard it said that it can go beyond that, but if you watch the game videos they all show VRAM usage below 500MB, so it makes me think there's an overhead involved in treating the "overflow memory" like a page file (all in RAM though) and maybe it has to copy the stuff it needs into the 512MB before the iGPU actually uses it. I'm not entirely sure. But if you pre-allocate the space in the BIOS then it shouldn't need to do anything like that. And with 32GB of RAM you could even allocate 8 or 16GB to the iGPU. That'd be kind of crazy. Still, I'm not sure if the GR9 even allows it.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Rumours suggest that this will become moot in the near future as amd has plans to unify the memory rather than splitting it, closer to what consoles do. This could bring a big performance boost, though it will likely not come out until we get the 7000 series mobile chips next year at the earliest.

[@Loftisjames]

What is that keyboard you have and where can I get one? it's sick

[@michaelernst3731]

Cant wait for the 6000 series APU's with RDNA3 graphics.

[@c1979h]

Nice PC, might as well wait on the 6000 mobile series with RDNA2 graphics, they should start popping up by the end of this month or in March. I cant wait to see the performance of RDNA2 on every desktop CPUs as well.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

That is just mobile currently. We'll probably have to wait a while longer for the new desktop apus on am5, probably next year.

[@TheWarmotor]

wholly poop my dude! $1000! It's super cool how tiny it is but I could easily build two of these in miniATX. Maybe even one of these with a half decent GPU... maybe a 980ti?

[@RazrNet]

What is the brand name of the keyboard in your video?

[@mystery2plays629]

ETA prime, I like your dialect. Are you from the NYC area?

[@yeeminyamin5515]

That looks amazing. Great video.