I'd have to agree. Even though I have the phantom canyon nuc with the rtx 2060 mobile gpu, and I'm happy with the gaming/gpu performance, intel for some reason kept the cpu neutered at a 4c/8t variety, which the HX99 soundly stomps. I haven't seen any successor nuc models in the same form factor coming out in the future they're all now basically normal ATX PC size, which seems pointless imo.
Intel made a new nuc after phantom canyon/2060 - but it’s got an intel gpu which just is a pita. (I have a phantom canyon but looking for upgrade) this looks like what intel should have done.
I would love to see a dedicated video seeing how far we can go with emulation on this little machine. Ever since your video of the last one, I've been eagerly waiting for the Ryzen 6000 version to come out. And with DDR5 memory! So many of these small form factor PCs have still been using DDR4, so it's nice to see. This is going to be the PC that replaces my dying desktop.
These mini pcs are amazing! If this mini pc can emulate 4K Ps3 games without problems, that, it would be fantastic! I look forward for a new emulation video ! 👍 I was looking for a new laptop, but these new kind of portable pcs are the New Age 🔥
Imagine what a 6850M can do in this combo. This is what I was looking for, for years, laptop components without the screen or keyboard etc, but I just bit the bullet last year and got a gaming laptop. Looking forward for these powerful mini pc to pick up in future.
I’m looking to buy this PC by the weekend on aliexpress and I saw “DEDICATED CARD” on the photo description. I don’t know much about PCs it’s my first. So I wanted to ask if there’s any different between that or what it means. Will it get hotter or cooler? I’m so confused
@@elijnr can't answer any questions other than that it means that the graphics card is separate from the CPU which, in most cases, means better performance and more heat/power draw.
My friend got a mini and I said "What's that?" This is just mind blowing! I got a PC custom built 9 years ago and it's served me well (only changed the GPU in 2018) but it's wild how these exist plus how good some laptops are.
Definitely interested in an emulation video. Been looking for a mini-pc ever since the Steam Deck, and specifically SteamOS, made the idea of adding a small form factor PC for some light couch gaming much more viable. My current setup involves running 80 feet of overpriced fiber HDMI and USB cables from my office to my living room. It works well, and running on a 3080, but would be much less hassle with the PC actually living in the same space as my controllers and mouse and keyboard. Emulation is definitely the big requirement for me here though. EmuDeck now goes onto every device I can run SteamOS or Big Picture Mode on.
@@andegallagher6645 yeah... i know. im saying when you get this mini computer get the barebones unit with your OWN ssd and ram. Its stupid as hell to have 32 gb and 1tb instead of 16gb and 2tb
Damn thats impressive, I mean... Gaming at 4k with such a little pc, which is pulling just 170 watts its amazing... AMD shows it true potential with these systems... and not gonna lie, im tempted to get one of these
I definitely want to see the Linux test as that's my primary OS. Emulation test would be nice too. Basically, the more you can do with this high-end mini PC, the better! I will watch them all.
We're getting to the point where for entry level gaming, these are going to become the standard I feel. Which is good, because these becoming more mainstream is good to get the cost down. A similar desktop is around 700 right now, so you are essentially paying for convenience. That is fine though, for someone who just needs a basic computer that can play games decently as well, this a great piece of tech going forward. I cant wait to see what 2d transistors allow in terms of performance and power usage.
@@josephdias5859 I’m looking to buy this PC by the weekend on aliexpress and I saw “DEDICATED CARD” on the photo description. I don’t know much about PCs it’s my first. So I wanted to ask if there’s any different between that or what it means. Will it get hotter or cooler? I’m so confused
@@elijnr and as far heat the system ambient temp will go up so the cpu will be a little warmer but it won't matter too much these lower power solution dedicated gpus don't make alot of heat to begin with
4:25 In the future there should be 64GB DDR5 SODIMM modules so as long as this device supports that much memory on the controller, you may be able to install up to 128GB of DDR5 SODIMM(or 256GB if it had 4 slots)
Great Video as normal, I was wondering what would this thing do with your new DDR5 Fast memory running at 6000Mhz and how that would affect the benchmarks.
I have a 12900k and 3080ti. I have not been playing many games that really been pushing the limits of it as I have only been playing SSBM on slippi. With the cost of power going up and my lack of needing a machine like I have now I might sell mine to purchase one of these. The older I get, the less I care about the newer games. Maybe if I ever get a better paying job and a house I will not care so much then. But for now with a limited amount of space, this just makes sense.
Thanks for another great video. Looking at the spec on their website it says the HDMI and USB-C are limited to 60HZ even in 4k. If this is true, then this machine has a substantial caveat.
🤪💪😀 Amazing! I like the design and technical specification! You can play here everything! From the oldest 8-bit games to the newest games with great graphics and music! Only the cost...
I'm now in the possession of one of them and it seems to be running well. Have to update it of course and get some games on here but I have a good feeling thus far.
I have the HX90G and since it uses AMD drivers and Crossfire at least for the Open GL 3D I would like to see the results with faster and/or overclocked RAM. My gb5 scores are 1563/9758, not sure what is up there unless you need in bios to get the fan curve up a bit, I have mine set to 70% instead of 20%.
Love your content. Watching this on an HX90G with an external rx 6800xt over m.2 and just ordered an HX99G I'm going to pair with an rx 7900xt in a good enclosure.
Hey there. Did you ever attempt to run an RX 7900xt on this HX99G over Oculink in the 2nd M.2 port ? If so, how did it work out for you ? Where you able to get some decent 4K gaming in ? Did the CPU cause any bottleneck ? Or just the M.2 port only ? Just wondering, Thanks
@@duck6966 Much more expensive and harder to get. Sure, you can make something like a K39 build thats comparable in size to this but it will break the bank with an ITX mobo, flex PSU, and harder to find ITX gpu. It's one of the reasons I'm buying one of these units. The PC market is already kind of in a shitstorm, the ITX market doubly so.
It is folks like Steve who's like: "Hmm nice PC but I'll wait for the pie in the sky version that'll probably never happen. It's a mini PC. You're ain't gonna get anything that outperform a high tower PC. Smfh!
@@symbiotricks well, my country's pricing is good so... B550i 100$ Used Ryzen 5 5600x 110$ 16gb 8x2 ddr4 ram 40$ 500W Flex psu 50$ used RX 6700XT 200$ Riser cable+ k39 form case 50$ Ez, idk your country's pricing but the pc market has gone down a whole lot compared to 2020
I purchased the Frankenstein RX 6600M from AliExpress last year and I'm thoroughly impressed. Despite its 100W TDP limit, it performs almost just as well as a standard RX 6600, like one or two fps lower. Seeing it in such a small PC is just awesome!
@@flintfrommother3gaming its 130w, but in the end It represents about 100mhz clock boost wich is not much, and in 1080p online games most of the time It gets cpu bound
Trying to remember how much I spent on mini-pcs back in the mid 00's. US$840 for a barebones is quite a lot but it might not be that much compared to what I was building back then. Can't argue with the specs though. Wasn't doing a lot of Triple-A gaming on an Intel J2900.
NGL i have a 4070TI with a 13600K. and this little beast impressed me. If i knew about them sooner would have purchased one. Alas, maybe in 5-6 years i will own such a unit.
My concern with these small(?) Chinese companies is will there be proper support here in the US if there are problems with the machine during the warranty period. I would hate to have to ship it crack to China for repairs or replacement. That is why the ASUS PN53 looks so appealing….local support.
Interesting... I've been debating whether to get one of the new M2 mac minis or a small form factor windows PC. Getting tired of the expensive level of steps apple entices to get a decent system in cpu, ram and ssd size. This looks like a good alternative, I'm going to hold off on my purchase and see how reviews go on this.
@@0mdf Provided graphics card not sufficient? How would this little unti compare to the regular gaming towers? It's been awhile since I've built gaming rigs. Been on high end laptops for the past 12 years or so.
I would certainly be interested seeing Fedora 37 and Steam on this system. I would like to ask would their be any performance benefit adding faster DDR5 memory to this system? Thanks for another informative video. Continued success to you and your channel.
Oh my, I would love to see this form factor with the upcoming Ryzen 5 7645HX (we really don't need 8 cores for gaming anyways) and Radeon 7600M XT. I really think that's going to be the perfect specs for medium productivity and decent 1440p gaming. MinisForum, if you are reading this, you know the drill! I would immediately buy the barebones version!
I've been hovering over the add to cart button on this one for a couple of days. This video made me click. Can't wait till early March! Thanks for the video.
Great to see MinisForum finally adding the 6000 series CPU's to the RX6600M HX Series of their system. However, I do want to see them adding higher tier mobile RX6000 series GPU`s to this system as other ODM `s and OEM`s are doing this in smaller and same size laptops with smaller or same size heatsinks. I.E - R7 6800H + RX 6650M XT, R9 6900HX + RX 6700M. Preferably, an R9 6980HX + RX 6850M XT - Then we`ll truly have a 4K 60-120Hz Gaming Mini PC. 😎
Love your videos we are rapidly approaching exactly what I am looking for. Really would love to see you put steamOS on this machine and see how she compares to windows. This is excellent.
Was waiting for this one because of the USB4 support, but two things I miss here: 1. They should have upgraded to a slightly stronger GPU. Both the 6700M and 6800M don't use that much more power and slightly better cooling was probably possible. 2. They should have gone with one of the much more common ones, for example the 330w one that has been in use by many big brands for several years.
I think the issue with going to a 6700M and 6800M is cost and or availability of these chips. We've seen 6600M desktop GPUs on ali but not 6700Ms or 6800Ms and there's probably a reason for that, either excessive supply of 6600M's or low availability of 6700/6800M's.
@@kajurn791 Yeah, I noticed that AMD failed to properly supply even notebook producers with those chips and it was even worse for for the SFF market. On the other hand I expected this to have been resolved by now, but who knows. Lets hope AMD can offer better supply with the upcoming RX7000 line, though we have to see how many will turn out to be RDNA3 and not just rebranded RDNA1 and 2.
Now THIS is a mini pc worth getting. Playing Cyberpunk on high settings is a mimimum. Sounds like you might even be able to bump up to ultra settings with FSR on and at a very very attractive price range. I just wish there was an NVIDIA version since NVIDIA handles raytracing better.
@@winteronice I meant a miniPC with dedicated GPU like this one. iGPU are just pointless wastes of money right now unless you are only playing older games or emulators.
I wonder how well this would run PS3 emulation? I'd love to find a good compact PS3 emulation machine that could preferably upscale everything to 1080p.
you could go a much cheaper route and get the minisforum ryzen pc which would allow you to put a desktop 5600g in it(ETA has a video on one of these mini pc's he made) its actually close to the same size as this and it emulated ps3 in 4k just fine
I'd love to see a comparison video of all the mini PC's with discreate graphics. Which one's can do 4k or 1440p. Which ones can run ddr5. Which ones have extra drive space, be it m.2 or 2.5 sata. Which ones have USB4/Thunderbolt allowing you to use a EGPU. Just a thought.
I'm very interested in Linux performance on this thing. Also wondering if you can do some emulation on Steam OS? I would love to see that in action... Only more good things to come in this form factor with the launch of the 7000HX series of CPUs... 16 cores in this form factor would be epic!
Yes high end emulation Prime!! Would be good to see you present the exact same consoles and games for this as a direct comparison to your Mac mini recent!
@@nonijay9568 Depends on the generation. I LOVE the Beelink GTR5 5900HX because it has dual 2.5 GbE NICs built-in. Yes, I know that there are newer systems that has this as well, but that was one of the first (if not the only) system at the time that had it. Unfortunately, the Beelink GTR6 6900HX does NOT have dual 2.5 GbE NICs anymore, so that's a bummer. I can't remember if there was a mini PC that sports the 6900HX processor AND dual 2.5 GbE NICs. I think that there was one, but I can't remember what it was called, but I do vaguely recall it being more expensive though. (Whereas, I think that the Beelink GTR5 5900HX that I bought at the time, might have only been something like $649. I forget.) And I only bought the Beelink system because I actually originally bought a Minisforum HX90 system, and installed my own RAM and NVMe SSD in it, and it started having severe stability issues after about a month or so (maybe not even that), so that got RMA'd back to Minisforum. (Plus, I also found that the Minisforum I think ran hotter, took more power, and got lower performance vs. the Beelink GTR5 5900HX when I was running Cinebench R15. (older, I know, but since I'm just trying to stress the CPU, its age isn't super relevant).) So yeah... If I were to try and buy a new mini PC right now, I would still be trying to look for one that sports dual 2.5 GbE NICs, but that's just me and how I am using my systems.
Been wondering when you were gonna publish a video on this version of this. Glad to see it here, hoping the video has comparisons to the previous H series as well as the NUCXI7.
Have you used a MinisForum miniPC long term? Have you ever had any quality issues? Example of quality issues, liquid metal between the heatsink and cpu leaking, PC stops running, etc...?
Uses liquid metal? How often should it be reapplied? Pump out effect is real. Minisforum has had quality control issues in the past too... Gamers Nexus breaks that down.
I'm mind blown with this new technology. I'm 41 and as I started watching this video it felt like the first time I unboxed my Sega genesis when it first came out. I feel like this is the Sega genesis of 2023. 😅😂🤣 Awesome video. Thanks man. I'm using my Samsung Galaxy s22 ultra as DEX but now I might move to this setup.
My rig is as follows : B450M Asrock Steel Legend motherboard 16 GB of dual channel DDR4 3000 ram About 1.4 TB of storage across multiple NVME and SSD drives An old GTX 1060 3GB Cheap but big aerocool A500 case With that in mind, if i had the money, i'd swap my current pc with the one you reviewed in no time, i've always been a fan of these small yet powerful computers that in this case, not only is powerful, but cool too! Checked the pricing on their website, they're below 1000$ price tag which i don't find exactly expensive for what it is, especially when considering price tags these days! I also cringe when i think that you can basically have this with you anywhere you go, i have a 300 watt inverter in my car that would probably allow me to hook it up to a small 10 inch screen and have a blast in the car too! Amazing toy to have IMHO.
Got a Steam OS video planned for this one but what else do you want to see tested?
Considering how new this setup is, are linux drivers available/stable for cpu/igpu/gpu to all work together on a debian based system?
EMULATIONS TEST!!!
I would like to emulation on pcsx2 and yuzu and retroid
Can't wait for that with steam OS being so much lighter than windows!
Please show us what it looks like when streaming the gameplay from Steam OS to an Android phone/tablet using Steam Link.
These mini PCs are getting much stronger and extremely well performing for the price, you love to see it
This is what the Intel NUC used to be. Fantastic little device.
I'd have to agree. Even though I have the phantom canyon nuc with the rtx 2060 mobile gpu, and I'm happy with the gaming/gpu performance, intel for some reason kept the cpu neutered at a 4c/8t variety, which the HX99 soundly stomps. I haven't seen any successor nuc models in the same form factor coming out in the future they're all now basically normal ATX PC size, which seems pointless imo.
Intel made a new nuc after phantom canyon/2060 - but it’s got an intel gpu which just is a pita. (I have a phantom canyon but looking for upgrade) this looks like what intel should have done.
I would love to see a dedicated video seeing how far we can go with emulation on this little machine.
Ever since your video of the last one, I've been eagerly waiting for the Ryzen 6000 version to come out. And with DDR5 memory! So many of these small form factor PCs have still been using DDR4, so it's nice to see.
This is going to be the PC that replaces my dying desktop.
These mini pcs are amazing!
If this mini pc can emulate 4K Ps3 games without problems, that, it would be fantastic! I look forward for a new emulation video ! 👍
I was looking for a new laptop, but these new kind of portable pcs are the New Age 🔥
Would love to see if it can handle 4k switch or xbox 360 with 30-60 fps
Yh my 3950x....
Does the PC come with an integrated card or dedicated ? I see he mentioned the one he used has a dedicated card. So I’m confused on which one to buy
of corz you can push 4k emulation with this mini pc paired with the 6600M.....
This little PC does much better at 1440p than my PC with a 1060 does... This hurts
The rx 6600m is stronger than a 1060
Same here but no problem, my screen is 1080p
6600m might be a midrange laptop chip, but it's two whole generations newer. it's closer to a 1080 than a 1060.
Yeahhh same - this is why I am holding off on upgrading my PC for a bit.
Well, your gpu was the same class 6 years ago so it makes sense
Imagine what a 6850M can do in this combo. This is what I was looking for, for years, laptop components without the screen or keyboard etc, but I just bit the bullet last year and got a gaming laptop. Looking forward for these powerful mini pc to pick up in future.
Same. I don't know why it isn't a thing already.
Same here, I want a machine like that.
If there was an option with RX6850m I'd purchase it with my eyes closed.
I’m looking to buy this PC by the weekend on aliexpress and I saw “DEDICATED CARD” on the photo description. I don’t know much about PCs it’s my first. So I wanted to ask if there’s any different between that or what it means. Will it get hotter or cooler? I’m so confused
@@elijnr can't answer any questions other than that it means that the graphics card is separate from the CPU which, in most cases, means better performance and more heat/power draw.
This might be the best model of the entire lineup.
I was literally just looking at this on their website thinking about grabbing it and wondered, "Has ETA made a video yet?" Sir, you never disappoint.
My friend got a mini and I said "What's that?" This is just mind blowing! I got a PC custom built 9 years ago and it's served me well (only changed the GPU in 2018) but it's wild how these exist plus how good some laptops are.
Definitely interested in an emulation video. Been looking for a mini-pc ever since the Steam Deck, and specifically SteamOS, made the idea of adding a small form factor PC for some light couch gaming much more viable. My current setup involves running 80 feet of overpriced fiber HDMI and USB cables from my office to my living room. It works well, and running on a 3080, but would be much less hassle with the PC actually living in the same space as my controllers and mouse and keyboard. Emulation is definitely the big requirement for me here though. EmuDeck now goes onto every device I can run SteamOS or Big Picture Mode on.
THIS MINI PC IS AN EMULATION PARADISE!!!!4K
When this hits USD 799 with 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD it will be the "sweet spot" and a must buy for sure!
Not gonna happen, the previous hx90g never got that cheap and just sold out.
Just order a hx99g with 64gb ram and 1tb ssd. It costs me 1199$ without counting tax and others.
Or buy your own ram and ssd? you only need 16gb of ram and 2 terabytes of storage space is the minimum now. its not like its hard to install.
@Wonderland War it's 240 usd more with 32 gb ddr5 ram and a 1tb ssd.
@@andegallagher6645 yeah... i know. im saying when you get this mini computer get the barebones unit with your OWN ssd and ram. Its stupid as hell to have 32 gb and 1tb instead of 16gb and 2tb
Mini powerhouse! Better cooling than a laptop, and more compact than OEM tower PC. Been waiting for this model. Good review. 👍
Bro, i am sold. I really love this form factor of mini gaming PC and how games run over 60 FPS that you showed on here.
Damn thats impressive, I mean... Gaming at 4k with such a little pc, which is pulling just 170 watts its amazing... AMD shows it true potential with these systems... and not gonna lie, im tempted to get one of these
Such a tiny beast and what an amazing review! Will it possible to demonstrate the HX99G with an external GPU?
I've been on the fence of picking up the HX90G and now this comes out for roughly the same price. I guess now is the time!
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Gonna buy this to replace my tower sometime. This is the kind of upgrade I need for my setup.
Dang. In synthetics, it matches or beats my hi-midrange PC from 5 years ago. Very impressive.
This is insane 💥 got to get one of these! Thank you
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I definitely want to see the Linux test as that's my primary OS. Emulation test would be nice too. Basically, the more you can do with this high-end mini PC, the better! I will watch them all.
We're getting to the point where for entry level gaming, these are going to become the standard I feel. Which is good, because these becoming more mainstream is good to get the cost down. A similar desktop is around 700 right now, so you are essentially paying for convenience. That is fine though, for someone who just needs a basic computer that can play games decently as well, this a great piece of tech going forward. I cant wait to see what 2d transistors allow in terms of performance and power usage.
Seems like these mini PCs ate increasing in quality at a rapid pace. Gonna be a year or two before I get one, excited to see where they're at by then.
these mini pcs are evolve like once a week its crazy
@@josephdias5859 I’m looking to buy this PC by the weekend on aliexpress and I saw “DEDICATED CARD” on the photo description. I don’t know much about PCs it’s my first. So I wanted to ask if there’s any different between that or what it means. Will it get hotter or cooler? I’m so confused
@@elijnr a dedicated card is good performance leap over integrated graphics
@@elijnr and as far heat the system ambient temp will go up so the cpu will be a little warmer but it won't matter too much these lower power solution dedicated gpus don't make alot of heat to begin with
@@josephdias5859 thank yiu
4:25 In the future there should be 64GB DDR5 SODIMM modules so as long as this device supports that much memory on the controller, you may be able to install up to 128GB of DDR5 SODIMM(or 256GB if it had 4 slots)
Great Video as normal, I was wondering what would this thing do with your new DDR5 Fast memory running at 6000Mhz and how that would affect the benchmarks.
I have a 12900k and 3080ti. I have not been playing many games that really been pushing the limits of it as I have only been playing SSBM on slippi. With the cost of power going up and my lack of needing a machine like I have now I might sell mine to purchase one of these. The older I get, the less I care about the newer games. Maybe if I ever get a better paying job and a house I will not care so much then. But for now with a limited amount of space, this just makes sense.
ETA putting out gold. Every. Day.
Finally a mini pc that can run cyberpunk at 1080p medium 60fps without dlss or fsr. But 1440p high 70fps is indeed a blessing
Thanks for another great video.
Looking at the spec on their website it says the HDMI and USB-C are limited to 60HZ even in 4k.
If this is true, then this machine has a substantial caveat.
May I ask if this supports Thunderbolt 4? Thank you 😊
🤪💪😀 Amazing! I like the design and technical specification! You can play here everything! From the oldest 8-bit games to the newest games with great graphics and music! Only the cost...
This is what mini pcs need to be... full laptops without a keyboard and a screen.
I’ve had mine for over a month now. Fingers crossed. It rocks.
How is it now?
@@kristofpambid8959 No regrets. Perfect.
I'm now in the possession of one of them and it seems to be running well. Have to update it of course and get some games on here but I have a good feeling thus far.
How is it now?
I have the HX90G and since it uses AMD drivers and Crossfire at least for the Open GL 3D I would like to see the results with faster and/or overclocked RAM. My gb5 scores are 1563/9758, not sure what is up there unless you need in bios to get the fan curve up a bit, I have mine set to 70% instead of 20%.
They're so close to the perfect PC with this thing. Can you do a video on 4k gaming on this?
This channel alone has converted me to a small form factor guy. And now I just want a small little PC and GFN and I think I’m good
Incredible.. this thing shredds Warzone2 👍you tryed this thing with competitive settings?
Love your content. Watching this on an HX90G with an external rx 6800xt over m.2 and just ordered an HX99G I'm going to pair with an rx 7900xt in a good enclosure.
Hey there. Did you ever attempt to run an RX 7900xt on this HX99G over Oculink in the 2nd M.2 port ?
If so, how did it work out for you ? Where you able to get some decent 4K gaming in ?
Did the CPU cause any bottleneck ? Or just the M.2 port only ?
Just wondering, Thanks
Looks a beast for the size. Looking forward to more videos on this.
After a long time, I liked one of your video. That's because, in this video, you avoided using FSR.
I wish there were more discrete gpu mini PCs on the market. I want this thing. But want to see more options in this space.
Mini itx
@@duck6966 Much more expensive and harder to get. Sure, you can make something like a K39 build thats comparable in size to this but it will break the bank with an ITX mobo, flex PSU, and harder to find ITX gpu. It's one of the reasons I'm buying one of these units. The PC market is already kind of in a shitstorm, the ITX market doubly so.
Check out the zotac en mini series,comes with upto an RTX 3080 laptop gpu in a form factor of just 2.8L
It is folks like Steve who's like: "Hmm nice PC but I'll wait for the pie in the sky version that'll probably never happen. It's a mini PC. You're ain't gonna get anything that outperform a high tower PC. Smfh!
@@symbiotricks well, my country's pricing is good so...
B550i 100$
Used Ryzen 5 5600x 110$
16gb 8x2 ddr4 ram 40$
500W Flex psu 50$
used RX 6700XT 200$
Riser cable+ k39 form case 50$
Ez, idk your country's pricing but the pc market has gone down a whole lot compared to 2020
I purchased the Frankenstein RX 6600M from AliExpress last year and I'm thoroughly impressed.
Despite its 100W TDP limit, it performs almost just as well as a standard RX 6600, like one or two fps lower.
Seeing it in such a small PC is just awesome!
Isn't the normal 6600 also 100 Watts TDP
@@flintfrommother3gaming its 130w, but in the end It represents about 100mhz clock boost wich is not much, and in 1080p online games most of the time It gets cpu bound
Trying to remember how much I spent on mini-pcs back in the mid 00's. US$840 for a barebones is quite a lot but it might not be that much compared to what I was building back then. Can't argue with the specs though. Wasn't doing a lot of Triple-A gaming on an Intel J2900.
NGL i have a 4070TI with a 13600K. and this little beast impressed me. If i knew about them sooner would have purchased one. Alas, maybe in 5-6 years i will own such a unit.
Thanks a lot. I almost have my u690 set up and you bring a newer model out.
I love this thing, but the shipping would kill me 😂💸
My concern with these small(?) Chinese companies is will there be proper support here in the US if there are problems with the machine during the warranty period. I would hate to have to ship it crack to China for repairs or replacement. That is why the ASUS PN53 looks so appealing….local support.
Interesting... I've been debating whether to get one of the new M2 mac minis or a small form factor windows PC. Getting tired of the expensive level of steps apple entices to get a decent system in cpu, ram and ssd size. This looks like a good alternative, I'm going to hold off on my purchase and see how reviews go on this.
dont wast your money on apple lmao
Get ser 6 pro and eGpu dock.
@@0mdf Provided graphics card not sufficient? How would this little unti compare to the regular gaming towers? It's been awhile since I've built gaming rigs. Been on high end laptops for the past 12 years or so.
@@ricardosastre1478 I hear ya, they are a bit limting.
@@MrSpike77777 graphic card is ok, but for 400$ you can get more powerful eGpu.
If only this was available in Europe. Neither this nor the HX90 have been available from the Germany warehouse for a while now.
I would certainly be interested seeing Fedora 37 and Steam on this system. I would like to ask would their be any performance benefit adding faster DDR5 memory to this system? Thanks for another informative video. Continued success to you and your channel.
Oh my, I would love to see this form factor with the upcoming Ryzen 5 7645HX (we really don't need 8 cores for gaming anyways) and Radeon 7600M XT. I really think that's going to be the perfect specs for medium productivity and decent 1440p gaming. MinisForum, if you are reading this, you know the drill! I would immediately buy the barebones version!
Nice review, performance are very similar to my HX90G. Nice computer for gamers that don't care to play AAA games in HD 1920x1080 or at 1440.
But it's overheating during playing games this is a big problem
@@Tarek_Issa77 I don't have this issue with my HX90G. You should report this issue to minisforum support.
@@RomainSACCO watch his video again you can see temperature is higher 85 C° 🔥
Nice! And thanks for pointing out the construction materials used in the case.
I just bought one! I ordered the 64, 1Tb one. I can hardly wait! I'm totally stoked!
How is it now?
Would be great if you can test the cheaper model HX80G that has Ryzen 7
I've been hovering over the add to cart button on this one for a couple of days. This video made me click. Can't wait till early March! Thanks for the video.
Blown away omg that amount of power with such a small compact size wow 😲
I think perforated aluminum side panels are preferable as it helps cooling, carbon fiber doesn't do much good other than aesthetics
Yep. They really ought to think of the case as a big heatsink.
Great to see MinisForum finally adding the 6000 series CPU's to the RX6600M HX Series of their system.
However, I do want to see them adding higher tier mobile RX6000 series GPU`s to this system as other ODM `s and OEM`s are doing this in smaller and same size laptops with smaller or same size heatsinks.
I.E - R7 6800H + RX 6650M XT, R9 6900HX + RX 6700M. Preferably, an R9 6980HX + RX 6850M XT - Then we`ll truly have a 4K 60-120Hz Gaming Mini PC.
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Congrats in getting to 1M subs well deserved and a great channel one if my top 5
Love your videos we are rapidly approaching exactly what I am looking for. Really would love to see you put steamOS on this machine and see how she compares to windows. This is excellent.
I hope they go all out and create a version with 6800/6850M, even if it means making it a little bigger for better cooling.
Me: *Buys a HX90G two months ago*
Minisforum: You dun fucked up, boy!
After I order this PC ...I will not watch this channel again for 1 year. LOL, to preserve my upgrade thirst. Because this Channel is just too good.
Thanks for the great review, just ordered mine.
Sweet video. I just bought this PC and am waiting for delivery. :D
Love the content, you also provide the best
Thank you so much
@@ETAPRIME you welcome
Was waiting for this one because of the USB4 support, but two things I miss here:
1. They should have upgraded to a slightly stronger GPU. Both the 6700M and 6800M don't use that much more power and slightly better cooling was probably possible.
2. They should have gone with one of the much more common ones, for example the 330w one that has been in use by many big brands for several years.
I think the issue with going to a 6700M and 6800M is cost and or availability of these chips. We've seen 6600M desktop GPUs on ali but not 6700Ms or 6800Ms and there's probably a reason for that, either excessive supply of 6600M's or low availability of 6700/6800M's.
@@kajurn791 Yeah, I noticed that AMD failed to properly supply even notebook producers with those chips and it was even worse for for the SFF market. On the other hand I expected this to have been resolved by now, but who knows.
Lets hope AMD can offer better supply with the upcoming RX7000 line, though we have to see how many will turn out to be RDNA3 and not just rebranded RDNA1 and 2.
Now THIS is a mini pc worth getting. Playing Cyberpunk on high settings is a mimimum. Sounds like you might even be able to bump up to ultra settings with FSR on and at a very very attractive price range. I just wish there was an NVIDIA version since NVIDIA handles raytracing better.
Ray Tracing on a iGPU, even Nvidia can't do that.
@@winteronice I meant a miniPC with dedicated GPU like this one. iGPU are just pointless wastes of money right now unless you are only playing older games or emulators.
I just ordered this pC. Do you know how I can use the dedicated GPU instead of the iGPU?
Imagine if this computer could somehow combine the iGPU and the dGPU. That would put it at the same shader count as the 6750XT
Match the speed of the slower chip and only use the smaller of the two memory pools also speed matched with the slower of the two?
It would perform worse if you combine the two
@@oozly9291 If the silicon was initially designed to combine the shaders of the dGPU and the iGPU, then it might actually be feasible.
this thing is actually faster then my full size desktop pc, that I spent pretty much all my money on rofl. That thing is a linux gamers dream.
I wonder how well this would run PS3 emulation? I'd love to find a good compact PS3 emulation machine that could preferably upscale everything to 1080p.
you could go a much cheaper route and get the minisforum ryzen pc which would allow you to put a desktop 5600g in it(ETA has a video on one of these mini pc's he made) its actually close to the same size as this and it emulated ps3 in 4k just fine
@@kyles8524 this PC is better than 5600g
@@Tarek_Issa77 at 3x the price....make you choice
Great video as usual, thanks!
I'd love to see a comparison video of all the mini PC's with discreate graphics. Which one's can do 4k or 1440p. Which ones can run ddr5. Which ones have extra drive space, be it m.2 or 2.5 sata. Which ones have USB4/Thunderbolt allowing you to use a EGPU.
Just a thought.
I'm very interested in Linux performance on this thing. Also wondering if you can do some emulation on Steam OS? I would love to see that in action...
Only more good things to come in this form factor with the launch of the 7000HX series of CPUs... 16 cores in this form factor would be epic!
Yes high end emulation Prime!!
Would be good to see you present the exact same consoles and games for this as a direct comparison to your Mac mini recent!
Good video. Love the way mini pcs are going. I look forward to using a Ryzen 9 based system.
I'm definitely buying this as my first gaming PC 🎉
Amazing performance for this small machine 🔥
Love what Minisforum and Beelink are doing with mini PCs.
Which one is your top pick between the two?
@@nonijay9568
Depends on the generation.
I LOVE the Beelink GTR5 5900HX because it has dual 2.5 GbE NICs built-in.
Yes, I know that there are newer systems that has this as well, but that was one of the first (if not the only) system at the time that had it.
Unfortunately, the Beelink GTR6 6900HX does NOT have dual 2.5 GbE NICs anymore, so that's a bummer.
I can't remember if there was a mini PC that sports the 6900HX processor AND dual 2.5 GbE NICs. I think that there was one, but I can't remember what it was called, but I do vaguely recall it being more expensive though.
(Whereas, I think that the Beelink GTR5 5900HX that I bought at the time, might have only been something like $649. I forget.)
And I only bought the Beelink system because I actually originally bought a Minisforum HX90 system, and installed my own RAM and NVMe SSD in it, and it started having severe stability issues after about a month or so (maybe not even that), so that got RMA'd back to Minisforum.
(Plus, I also found that the Minisforum I think ran hotter, took more power, and got lower performance vs. the Beelink GTR5 5900HX when I was running Cinebench R15. (older, I know, but since I'm just trying to stress the CPU, its age isn't super relevant).)
So yeah...
If I were to try and buy a new mini PC right now, I would still be trying to look for one that sports dual 2.5 GbE NICs, but that's just me and how I am using my systems.
Omgggg thanks for the review. I recently bought the hx90g...I should have wait😅. Please do that emulation test
Hi ETA Prime! I hope you see my comment, I'd like to ask if you'd recommend this or the NUCXI7 which you made a video of about 6 months ago
a year old, its till the king of mini pc's
Been wondering when you were gonna publish a video on this version of this. Glad to see it here, hoping the video has comparisons to the previous H series as well as the NUCXI7.
I ordered a one on Alibaba and waiting for it to arrive. From Vietnam =))
Have you used a MinisForum miniPC long term? Have you ever had any quality issues? Example of quality issues, liquid metal between the heatsink and cpu leaking, PC stops running, etc...?
Uses liquid metal? How often should it be reapplied? Pump out effect is real. Minisforum has had quality control issues in the past too... Gamers Nexus breaks that down.
It would be cool to install a second ssd and dual boot windows and steam os
I've been wondering how this compares to the 5900-version.
... I think I found my next gaming PC!
In need of your wallpaper from 10:16 :)
I’d love to see a dedicated emulation video on this! I’ve been holding off for a next gen ryzen mini pc. I think this might be the one.
Connect an external GPU please! 🙏
Loving your voice man...
Great review
I should have waited a few more months to get this one instead of the HX90.
Great video! When SteamOS is officially launched, this would 100% be my livingroom console PC.
Nice performance ; thanks for this good review.
I'm mind blown with this new technology. I'm 41 and as I started watching this video it felt like the first time I unboxed my Sega genesis when it first came out. I feel like this is the Sega genesis of 2023. 😅😂🤣 Awesome video. Thanks man. I'm using my Samsung Galaxy s22 ultra as DEX but now I might move to this setup.
Buy a real PC instead
Small form factor PCs are getting ridiculous, absolutely crazy
My rig is as follows :
B450M Asrock Steel Legend motherboard
16 GB of dual channel DDR4 3000 ram
About 1.4 TB of storage across multiple NVME and SSD drives
An old GTX 1060 3GB
Cheap but big aerocool A500 case
With that in mind, if i had the money, i'd swap my current pc with the one you reviewed in no time, i've always been a fan of these small yet powerful computers that in this case, not only is powerful, but cool too!
Checked the pricing on their website, they're below 1000$ price tag which i don't find exactly expensive for what it is, especially when considering price tags these days!
I also cringe when i think that you can basically have this with you anywhere you go, i have a 300 watt inverter in my car that would probably allow me to hook it up to a small 10 inch screen and have a blast in the car too!
Amazing toy to have IMHO.
Niiiiceeee!! Gonna get one! Good worj!