GEEKOM A8 Ryzen 9 CPU with Radeon 780M Graphics. Powerful Mini PC.

Thanks to Geekom for sending me this mini PC to test
With no subscriptions, cheaper games and many top tier free games available. I have now cancelled my Xbox subscription and am using this mini PC for gaming
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[@GEEKOMPC]

Thank you for reviewing our product. Your feedback on GEEKOM products is highly valuable to us!

[@Phil995511]

Really great this GEEKOM A8 but it's 2x too expensive... How to get Steam Link working on RPi5 ??

[@PlayingItWrong]

My mind knew you were probably going to stop at 4 displays, but my heart wanted a clown car situation.

[@KrystalAndycine]

What a cool setup, it's incredible to use it with three Wimaxit monitors. Can I repost your video to our social accounts? We will tag you as the original author.

[@leepspvideo]

That’s fine

[@zyghom]

maybe you will one day make a video about how you use all the computers you are testing - not only testing: home lab, home automation, development so far it is only a channel that ... advertises the hardware and software

[@leepspvideo]

I don’t use home automation, development or home lab. I do play games, watch videos, 3d print and use computers for a whole range of other things.

[@bobnelsonfr]

I'm not a gamer, so the 780M isn't all that important for me. Transcoding is about as complex as my activity ever gets. Oin this video, the section about using multiple monitors was excellent and... seductive. I run both Windows and Linux (Neon). Neon is on an internal HD so it is painfully slow. I want a nuc with an Elite X processor and two nvme slots (for dual-boot). Now that we have all these Elite X laptops, the nucs can't be far behind.

[@wadewilson6628]

Curious about how the heat build up is. I've heard performance suffers because it becomes heat soaked and starts throttling.

[@leepspvideo]

I have played Fortnite for a few hours and not been aware of slowdowns. I guess in a hot climate maxed out it could. The fan is often not on or running slow for me

[@erikkarsies4851]

On black Friday an Xbox Series X was going for half of this.

[@leepspvideo]

Not sure if you watched the whole video? This mini PC is much smaller and requires no ongoing subscription plus with PC’s you get free premium games from various different stores. The Xbox series X will play 4K games much better than this mini PC. You will however be locked into the Xbox system and it won’t do thousands of things a PC will. I was sharing my experience and thoughts in the video if you like paying a subscription and play many games on Xbox then the top tier subscription is likely a good fit for you.

[@erikkarsies4851]

Both I wouldnt recommend atm. The Xbox series X future is uncertain and the miniPCs are underpowered for the price. Sorry if I didn't watch the whole thing because I've seen so many of them by now with all the same issue : price. It seems every content creator gets to try them for free and many don't want to be to critical because they need the company's to send them more.

[@moorevfr]

Geez starting from £700! Better off getting a console or even a handheld like Steam Deck etc Cool mini pc tho..

[@leepspvideo]

I’ve cancelled Xbox and have been using this through my TV as mentioned in the video. For me Steam deck is just too small for me to enjoy the games I play most. Great device for travel, I just wouldn’t use it at home and don’t travel much. I also don’t play a wide enough variety of games to make console subscriptions worthwhile for me. It is also a powerful PC for anything else you choose to use it for

[@moorevfr]

I get what you were saying in your video. But still you’re paying more for this than a console but getting less than console quality graphics and resolution when hooking it up to a large monitor/tv. I agree with your argument where you can get cheaper games due to using the different pc stores, this is what I am doing with my steam deck. But overall if you are trying to push this device over a console the £700 starting price in my opinion just isn’t good value for saving in games from other stores and them running at less resolution and FPS etc. I’d even suggest the Xbox series S is better value if you needed a small form factor to meet your needs. However it’s nice to see tiny PCs brining more powerful in their form factors just need them to get better and have prices coming down potentially sooner than later with ARM chips becoming more common in PCs with all the new gen chips coming out this year. Looking forward to see what devices you put through the pace with Snapdragon X and Intels lake range arm chips with Windows.

[@leepspvideo]

@@moorevfr hopefully the Snapdragon Arm CPU’s will turn up in mini PC’s soon. 👍🏻

[@ashtonwoodturnings225]

How does this compare to the M1 apple cpu ?

[@leepspvideo]

The Ryzen is more powerful overall www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-vs-amd_ryzen_9_8945hs

[@corwinwhitehorn7759]

No Oculink?

[@leepspvideo]

I don’t think it’s that common. If I was more into the latest PC games I think I would just buy a gaming PC. I just watched eta’s video. It is a cool option if you want an egpu

[@gamershaven41]

Sorry, but my Game Pass Ultimate subscription is still worth every penny. I love all three of my gaming PCs, but there's still so much value in GPU.

[@leepspvideo]

Fair enough

[@jumpnjack808]

can mint or ubuntu run on that?

[@leepspvideo]

Yes, it’s an X64 PC. Most Linux operating systems will run

[@malmoran8643]

700 notes ?

[@leepspvideo]

More for the R9. It’s very high spec for the size

[@lee99bay]

🙋

[@Kw1161]

Thanks Lee for another wallet deflation device I have to look for….😂! I agree with on the XBOX subscription and I enjoyed the video. Have a great day!

[@KaaNunL]

Well almost 700 euro! I would go with ps5 tho

[@leepspvideo]

If you play a wide enough range of games consoles are still a great option

[@suminshizzles6951]

That is more than my ryzen 5 5500, 16 GB DDR4, samsung eve 970 and MSI 3060. Yeah, cool, its small. That is about it.

[@erikkarsies4851]

For that money you can buy a decent 8700G system with 32Gb DDR5 and 1 Tb SSD if you still have lying a case and power supply somewhere. With microatx casing and decent power supply only a bit more than 750 euro.