Got mine last week and I couldn't be happier. It's quiet, and stable. Without any tweaking at all, I consistently get over 33000 on cinebench. The temps will creep up to the mid 70's every once and a while. Loving it!
I've been really happy with mine as well as a work machine. No temperature or noise concerns even forcing 75W TDP mode paired with a noctua fan. The 96GBs of 5200Mhz Mushkin Redline ram I chose just worked at full speed but time will tell how Minisforum supports this platform with bios updates.
@@drfuzion6779 $519 on sale currently. Yes, without a doubt (obviously you know your needs on the 3D side (gpu) but as far as raw CPU power you're set). For my work I use the Radeon iGPU to drive two displays and then pass an Nvidia T1000 to a virtual machine for Nvidia work.
@@drfuzion6779 And yes, as long as you've got a GPU capable of whatever 3D work you need as the iGPU is rather weak. I use the iGPU to drive two monitors and pass an Nvidia GPU to a virtual machine for other work.
@@linuxpirate CAMM2 has just been ratified by JEDEC, the RAM standards organisation, so we should see a general shift away from the inferior SO-DIMM standard towards CAMM2. Alternatively, Minisforum should've just stuck to standard UDIMMs instead.
Got mine Today, your build is exactly what I had planned so its great to see that the gpu goes flawless with this as a gaming pc. I even ordered the same ram. My case is a Cougar Dust 2 tho.
Thanks! Can you run some tests like handbrake on a 4k hdr using the x265 CPU slow speed 2 pass ? Just to get an idea how many hours it will be for a pass, I get about 8 hours on a 7950x. I really want to upgrade my pc and the 7950x is power hungry, if this can do just as close, i will abadon everything and go with this and a low SFF case, just for the performance of this generation and GPU
@@Bash_McLane my laptop has this cpu and it runs it great. 4060 laptop handles it well at 1440p medium but i average like 70 fps. id imagine the 4070 ti does a lot better
For what it is, it certainly eat everything that could be thrown at it and impressed me way more than many of the other larger PC's that have been featured.
Perfect for ITX, both this and the Intel version. Both would drop 5-10c in temps w/ liquid metal underneath the cooler since it's essentially direct to die cooling (no IHS).
@@OC.TINYYY Liquid metal dries out fast, gotta replace it like every year. PTM7950 is the way to go, lasts a lot longer and performs almost as well as liquid metal.
Same. I was thinking about buying an xbox series x but i don't like the idea of paying a subscription to play online, and not having access to both Sony exclusive and Microsoft exclusives unlike a PC, and emulation is a huge plus.
4:30 hello，I personally bought a s300 once and also double checked the link for it in the description. Both what I got and the linked item shows pcie 3.0 riser instead of 4.0. could you please double check for this? If there's indeed an option for 89 bucks with 4.0 riser I'd love to got another one.
this set up is just an animal, pretty nice rig overall. you can play any game that you want to at higher res but it must cost a fortune to assemble lol
THANK YOU for noting the height of the board with the Noctua NF-F12 as 57mm. I've been looking for this spec everywhere, and was very concerned about this height when choosing a case.
7:00 You may have covered it and I just mised it, but in the BIOS of this Unit is there a way to disable the iGPU since its hoggin 2 GB of your 32GB RAM :(
I've got one of these boards on order as I am getting fed up with huge PCs never built an MITX before! Be interesting to see how its performance compares to my existing watercooled full tower 5950x rig!!
I've just built mine with the 7940HX and managed to wedge a 7900 XTX into the Coolermaster NR200P Max V2 and am going to try and fit the AiO cooler onto this tiny FL1 socket and see how cool I can run this system!
@@x4er0 fair point that I hadn't thought of, but the temps on all parts of the package were nowhere near as good as the stock cooler even using a very good thermal pad (averaging 80C+ without any load and throttled with any slight pressure) and had the same with Arctic MX-6 paste, so I've reverted to the stock cooler and 120mm Arctic P12 Max and now have a Cooler master AIO going spare😂!
Would you get this one or the one with the intel i9 13900? The intel has 4 m.2 slots as opposed to 2. It also has 24 cores and 32 threads. I ordered the Intel one. Hope I made a good choice...
I would love to see a gaming build with this board and a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 OC Low Profile 8G and HDPlex 250W PSU with an appropriately tiny case. Even better would be the same build but a "workstation" with a Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada just to see what the maximum possible performance from the smallest possible size.
Could you do some in-depth build guides and tutorials on how to build these types of small form factor gaming PCs? There aren't a lot of RUclipsr channels showcasing that.
Got the 7945HX and Formd's T1, it's awesome. Small sleek, good perf, only decent temps tho expected better, it's a mobile chip with a huge heatsink and even at like 80W it runs quite hot.
Any chance MinisForum might come up with an octacore X3D version? I mean I don't edit photos and video for a living, but a 3D cache octacore with 6000mhz RAM sounds like something that will not be a bottleneck for two more GPU upgrades. And probably for even more GPU upgrades so long as 1. You also upgrade your display to higher res, if not wider too 2. Games don't start using way more than 8c/16t, or require clock speed as the main determinant for how much work it can do instead of high IPC at lower clocks.
They could make one with the 7945hx3d which is this same chip with 3d v cache. They might need to make the cooler a little bigger though since that chip could draw more power.
@@owen9273 They're both up to 75w TDP. It was the desktop 2D V-cache chips that pulled higher power over the old chip, specifically the 7800X3D vs 5800X3D. The 5800X3D also used to have OC disabled and I think lower TDP. What the 3D chips need more cooling for over regular chips is for the 3D V-cache, not the cores. Since they're vertically stacked around the chiplet the heat tends to accumulate on the ones on top, then there's the heat from the CPU die. I'm not sure but the height of the die also creates a problem? You can solder the die to the IHS but there's nothing but air between the cache memory and the IHS; same issue on laptop/miniPC cooler coldplates which the MinisForum board uses since there's no IHS on laptop CPUs. 5800X3D dealt with the heat by limiting CPU power draw; on 7000X3D either they have new cache memory chips that take more heat or they just realized it's not that bad. What I was hoping for was that AMD would make an 8-core mobile X3D for a number of reasons. First of which is cooling - if MinisForum can have a custom BIOS power management use a temp sensor on the cache chips there's more guatantee of long term survivability than just "the 16core works on the G17." The other is cost to performance for gaming - if you're not using it for professional content creation anyway might as well have this board at $500 with an octacore 3D cache chip. And then lastly there's something related to cooling - efficiency. If it can run at 45w barely boosting since that's what some laptops do anyway, and for 8cores it won't get significantly faster (clock or FPS) past that, might as well have the board runnibg quieter. Just sad that I haven't started my build and from the looks of it, even the 16core non-3D is out of stock and Phanteks and Sliger seem to have stopped production of the Shift X and Conswole, cases I'm quite sure will be compact and still fit a 25mm (if not 30mm) fan over the heatsink on this board.
Can you swap the cooler out on the board for a tower cooler? From what I have seen the CPU runs a bit hot when under load even with a very nice fan and I wanted to see if you could be a tower cooler on it.
Minisforum better actually add a ton of IO in the 3D verzion of the 16 core varient if not with sata ports as well, cause they're really lightly downgrading their AMD board compared to Intel boards already having 10gb networking. Despite not knowing how already OP AM5 mobile actually is
When the 3000rpm Noctua fan blows violently on the SSD heatsink fan, is there a possibility that the voltage produced in the SSD heatsink fan will go back to the motherboard and cause damage? Sorry for google translate but I think you understand what I mean.
Yes, this video is very informative (I like IT). I've a question about GPU (in video have ASUS DUAL GTX 4070 SUPER - PCIe 4.0), but this motherboard have PCIe 5.0 x16 ( I show the screen and game run normally 🙂). I ask this question, I want use (MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16G GAMING X) to PCIe 4.0, this GPU this should work (thank for answer) 🙂. *Have new BIOS for MSI card GPU.
i stressed a cheap pci express gen 3 nvme without heatsink and reached 60° c. rather quickly, anything faster will need a heatsink for sure, but i think you migth be rigth with the airflow from cpu fan if nvme has heatsink i think it shpuld work but better tun tests and use hw info
I'm very interested in buildding a samll PC with the MINISFORUM BD790i SE ITX Motherboard with pretty mich the same parts expected for the case. Is there another case that I can use for this build? Thanks PS: I would probably need a PCI riser? Anyway, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
I'm really leaning towards getting one of these but it's annoying to me that it lacks sata. There's several sff cases with room for at least one 2.5 ssd. You know put your Steam library on the 2.5 drive. But with this you'd be forced into getting a m.2 drive which tend to cost more than the same capacity 2.5 ssd.
Love your videos. I'm building this exact system in a Terra case. Question about your stats... at 11:30, the CoD stats show render resolution at 1712x960, display resolution at 1440p, but you are stating this was 4k. I'm not super familiar with how DLSS works, but I can't seem to get to 4k regardless of how I think of it. Was the 4k a type-o?
Hmmm, interesting MB for my next build in many ways, except for the USB port speeds from what I can see so far, which means I would probably have to sacrifice / dedicate one of the M.2 slots for expansion, which is a bit of a shame imo. Perhaps minisforum will address this this in a future version. Thankfully some other minisforum (and other) products do currently offer more modern higher speed interfaces. So close...
The concept for this motherboard is cool but the connectivity is lacking I would think it would be better if it had at least the same connectivity as a equivalent mini ITX board but only having four USB ports is pretty rough
well, i personally use like 6 ports, and two have to be usb 2, so i understand your complaint but if your goal is do what it was done here, it should be enough i think, a usb hib sometimes does wonders for some stuff this motherboard has a usb 3 header near the ram slots, so you can have 2 usb 3 on front, 2 usb 3 on the back and two usb 2 on the back, not perfect, but should be enough for keybpard, mouse, mic or headset, camera and one or two things more via a usb hub
@@betag24cn Thanks for your thoughts on workarounds. It is certainly enough for most uses. It's just that I also have MIDI devices. When this is combined with a streaming set-up, it can be quite a bit "cabley" along with the saturation of a USB hub. In this case, it might be good to use the powered kind of USB hub. This is why I went with an AORUS mini ITX mobo on some devces. The things had like 7 or 8 ports.
@@MattStevens9824 if you have lots of devices that require very little speed, the hub migth be a blessing or a curse, you are probably better buying a normal motherboard and connecting the extra usb 2 and 3 headers in the motherboard, this one migth be more problems for you
Love that I can use AMD frame gen with my RTX 3070 and get nearly identical performance as a 4070, only setting that slows me down is path tracing so I can run as high as 1440p Ultra RT
Hey that's cool! Looks like the ultimate motherboard for a powerfull mini server. Slap in a x550-t2 for connectivity and you have a very cool homelab server :)
After switching to the M2 Pro Mac Mini, I want to build another PC. I am looking at a build like this for photo/video editing and lots of chrome tabs (lol)! I really like the SFF. The only question is ... to build or to buy... that is the question.
if you put an AMD radeon gpu you can install hackintosh and slaughter that mac mini without mercy. 96gb ram... nvme gen 5 drives... also you could use PARSEC and work remotely without apparent lag for gaming or video work even. Good stuff
Got mine about a week and a half ago. Its a really good system even for gaming but it sucks they limit the BIOS so much. idky they wouldnt allow us to enable XMP. Really hoping someone makes a modified BIOS at some point. This system could be so amazing if the BIOS was more open for tweaking.
Can you run some tests like handbrake on a 4k hdr using the x265 CPU slow pass? I really want to upgrade my pc and the 7950x is power hungry, if this can do just as close, i will abadon everything and go with this and a low SFF case, just for the performance of this generation and GPU
noticed your case mounted usb c will be redundant as the Miniforum BD790i does not have case usb c connector support, although there is rear motherboard usb c support.
Got mine last week and I couldn't be happier. It's quiet, and stable. Without any tweaking at all, I consistently get over 33000 on cinebench. The temps will creep up to the mid 70's every once and a while. Loving it!
I've been really happy with mine as well as a work machine. No temperature or noise concerns even forcing 75W TDP mode paired with a noctua fan. The 96GBs of 5200Mhz Mushkin Redline ram I chose just worked at full speed but time will tell how Minisforum supports this platform with bios updates.
@@linuxpirate how much are these? Also is this build blunder friendly? Like can this handle video rendering and 3d?
@@drfuzion6779 $519 on sale currently. Yes, without a doubt (obviously you know your needs on the 3D side (gpu) but as far as raw CPU power you're set). For my work I use the Radeon iGPU to drive two displays and then pass an Nvidia T1000 to a virtual machine for Nvidia work.
@@drfuzion6779 And yes, as long as you've got a GPU capable of whatever 3D work you need as the iGPU is rather weak. I use the iGPU to drive two monitors and pass an Nvidia GPU to a virtual machine for other work.
Would the step down R7 version be good for 1080/60 gameplay?
I used the BD790i board but paired with Jonsbo N3 case and 8 SATA drives. Works wonderfully!
@David-zz6dr That's a wonderful idea. What did you use to connect the 8 SATA drives to the board?
The 7945HX is the most efficient and fastest mobile chip on the market rn. Would love to see it with some faster and low latency RAM though.
As far as I understand it you can't currently go faster without soldered LPDDR5, no?
@@linuxpirate CAMM2 has just been ratified by JEDEC, the RAM standards organisation, so we should see a general shift away from the inferior SO-DIMM standard towards CAMM2.
Alternatively, Minisforum should've just stuck to standard UDIMMs instead.
Lower latency memory- And maybe a version with more than just a 610 for igpu. Even 6CUs would suffice. A 760M!
@@fujinshuI'd love to see memory running at 8400 or so. Gives a bit more throughput for iGPU's. Maybe the 16CU newer version will catch a 2060.
@@justinpatterson5291kinda sucks that minisforum has it pretty locked down, I can’t go above 5200 on my 790i no matter how hard I try
Love the build, really looks great. My favorite part is when that npc falls and died randomly in 2077 13:13
gmod be like
Got mine Today, your build is exactly what I had planned so its great to see that the gpu goes flawless with this as a gaming pc. I even ordered the same ram.
My case is a Cougar Dust 2 tho.
Thanks! Can you run some tests like handbrake on a 4k hdr using the x265 CPU slow speed 2 pass ? Just to get an idea how many hours it will be for a pass, I get about 8 hours on a 7950x. I really want to upgrade my pc and the 7950x is power hungry, if this can do just as close, i will abadon everything and go with this and a low SFF case, just for the performance of this generation and GPU
Price overview would always add to the value of the build for the viewer, thanks great video....
I ordered this exact build and I’m genuinely happy with the performance. So far my favorite PC I’ve ever built. Just in time for Helldivers 2.
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Hey! What's the performance like on Helldivers? Definitely looking to upgrade my rig for it.
@@Bash_McLane my laptop has this cpu and it runs it great. 4060 laptop handles it well at 1440p medium but i average like 70 fps. id imagine the 4070 ti does a lot better
@@FiveMissiles Thanks so much!
Definitely gonna be getting this build here soon😮💨 love the small form factor
Wow, I love this BUILD! Really great work ETA!
For what it is, it certainly eat everything that could be thrown at it and impressed me way more than many of the other larger PC's that have been featured.
This little build here... _perfect_ for LAN parties.
Whatever happened at 13:16??? Is this normal on this game or a bug?
I know right, I LOL so loud I woke up my neighbors. 😂
Thanks, I have been waiting for this one to come out ever since they first announced it, but didn't release it with the 770i. Time to go spend money.
Lol, at the ending of cyberpunk gameplay😊 somebody fall down from the building
I thought it was only me who noticed this....
Put a Marshall amp casing theme around it and I am in 100% 🤣🤣🤣
Where are you finding the S300 cases offerred with the PCIE 4 riser? I can only ever find 3.0 riser versions.
I think a decent pci 4.0 riser is around 50, this case I can't find any listing with the 4.0 riser. It could be lazy script from his team.
Perfect for ITX, both this and the Intel version. Both would drop 5-10c in temps w/ liquid metal underneath the cooler since it's essentially direct to die cooling (no IHS).
@@OC.TINYYY Liquid metal dries out fast, gotta replace it like every year. PTM7950 is the way to go, lasts a lot longer and performs almost as well as liquid metal.
Wow, I really love this BUILD! Thank you ETA for this ITX vedio!
Please try the same build but running ChimeraOS. Curious what differences in performance you achieve.
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This is legit my most favourite build
I've been looking to build a small PC to hook up to my TV for gaming but also lots of emulation for my wife and I. This may be the build for me
Same. I was thinking about buying an xbox series x but i don't like the idea of paying a subscription to play online, and not having access to both Sony exclusive and Microsoft exclusives unlike a PC, and emulation is a huge plus.
@@netnomad47 Console players will never understand 😂
Hello, I am looking for the fan you used that covered the entire Motherboard. Is it the Noctua NF-A15 Chroma x? Thanks!
Hi.. How did you disable onboard graphics on BD790i ? could you please explain? Thank you!
4:30 hello，I personally bought a s300 once and also double checked the link for it in the description. Both what I got and the linked item shows pcie 3.0 riser instead of 4.0. could you please double check for this? If there's indeed an option for 89 bucks with 4.0 riser I'd love to got another one.
The only downside is capped at 5200mhz ram.
Desktop variants can go up to 8000mhz
What are you saying?
this set up is just an animal, pretty nice rig overall. you can play any game that you want to at higher res but it must cost a fortune to assemble lol
That one stick of RAM not being in all the way managed to annoy the crap out of me for quite a bit lol
I have really been tempted to sell a kidney for one of these awesome little Minis forum ITX boards. Even the 7745HX is SUPER sweet.
THANK YOU for noting the height of the board with the Noctua NF-F12 as 57mm. I've been looking for this spec everywhere, and was very concerned about this height when choosing a case.
Great insights, that helps me a lot, thank you for the video
3:00 57mm height with 25mm fan, is it correct? it looks pretty cool even for very slim case
With that fan, I wonder if this would fit in a 2u chassis.
7:00 You may have covered it and I just mised it, but in the BIOS of this Unit is there a way to disable the iGPU since its hoggin 2 GB of your 32GB RAM :(
Super cool build!
PS: Your COD benchmark was actually at 1440p, but still really good performance for a mobile cpu
I've got one of these boards on order as I am getting fed up with huge PCs never built an MITX before! Be interesting to see how its performance compares to my existing watercooled full tower 5950x rig!!
I've just built mine with the 7940HX and managed to wedge a 7900 XTX into the Coolermaster NR200P Max V2 and am going to try and fit the AiO cooler onto this tiny FL1 socket and see how cool I can run this system!
@@dougtracey53 How are you going to cool the vrms?
How are you going to cool the VRMs if i may ask?
@@x4er0 fair point that I hadn't thought of, but the temps on all parts of the package were nowhere near as good as the stock cooler even using a very good thermal pad (averaging 80C+ without any load and throttled with any slight pressure) and had the same with Arctic MX-6 paste, so I've reverted to the stock cooler and 120mm Arctic P12 Max and now have a Cooler master AIO going spare😂!
@@dougtracey53 I have the ar900i and use a phanteks T30 and my temps wont go beyond 84 in cinebench R23 so the amd is hotter than the Intel i assume.
@@x4er0 yeah, it's insane with the stock cooler it's staying at 80C max for Cinebench and scoring well over 31,000 multiscore
Dang, I would love to build this with a2000 in a velka 3 - not sure they'd both fit but would be an amazing travel pc!
This build is so amazing, even NPC will -literally- die for it.
this is honestly the coolest build
Would you get this one or the one with the intel i9 13900? The intel has 4 m.2 slots as opposed to 2. It also has 24 cores and 32 threads. I ordered the Intel one. Hope I made a good choice...
What case were you thinking about using?
I would love to see a gaming build with this board and a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 OC Low Profile 8G and HDPlex 250W PSU with an appropriately tiny case. Even better would be the same build but a "workstation" with a Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada just to see what the maximum possible performance from the smallest possible size.
WE got a jumper lol 🤣 , great video mate, impressed by a mobile ryzen chip.
Would appreciate a price breakdown for each build and you take on alternative components which could optimise the price scale, thanks
Just ordered a 7945hx bundle and a Radeon 7800xt and some other stuff
I am planning to do the same in a few months can you do some benchmarks and see how it runs. I want to have a rough idea how it performs.
Could you do some in-depth build guides and tutorials on how to build these types of small form factor gaming PCs? There aren't a lot of RUclipsr channels showcasing that.
The S300 and S400 can really compete with their more expensive counterparts. Their S500 is a good looking case too.
This is really nice, I'm excited for the future.
Nice build! What was the other case you had in mind?
Got the 7945HX and Formd's T1, it's awesome. Small sleek, good perf, only decent temps tho expected better, it's a mobile chip with a huge heatsink and even at like 80W it runs quite hot.
Just ordered one, are you aware if if this supports 2x 48GB sodimm ram sticks?
Yes, it supports it, even though if you check the specifications of the processor in the official AMD page it only says 64GB.
Looking at one of these for my hyte revolt 3 w/psu that I caught on sale for 150 usd.
Any chance MinisForum might come up with an octacore X3D version?
I mean I don't edit photos and video for a living, but a 3D cache octacore with 6000mhz RAM sounds like something that will not be a bottleneck for two more GPU upgrades.
And probably for even more GPU upgrades so long as
1. You also upgrade your display to higher res, if not wider too
2. Games don't start using way more than 8c/16t, or require clock speed as the main determinant for how much work it can do instead of high IPC at lower clocks.
does it exist for laptops? i dont think it exist
They could make one with the 7945hx3d which is this same chip with 3d v cache. They might need to make the cooler a little bigger though since that chip could draw more power.
@@betag24cn There's a 7945HX3D on the Strix G17
@@owen9273 They're both up to 75w TDP. It was the desktop 2D V-cache chips that pulled higher power over the old chip, specifically the 7800X3D vs 5800X3D. The 5800X3D also used to have OC disabled and I think lower TDP.
What the 3D chips need more cooling for over regular chips is for the 3D V-cache, not the cores. Since they're vertically stacked around the chiplet the heat tends to accumulate on the ones on top, then there's the heat from the CPU die. I'm not sure but the height of the die also creates a problem? You can solder the die to the IHS but there's nothing but air between the cache memory and the IHS; same issue on laptop/miniPC cooler coldplates which the MinisForum board uses since there's no IHS on laptop CPUs.
5800X3D dealt with the heat by limiting CPU power draw; on 7000X3D either they have new cache memory chips that take more heat or they just realized it's not that bad.
What I was hoping for was that AMD would make an 8-core mobile X3D for a number of reasons. First of which is cooling - if MinisForum can have a custom BIOS power management use a temp sensor on the cache chips there's more guatantee of long term survivability than just "the 16core works on the G17." The other is cost to performance for gaming - if you're not using it for professional content creation anyway might as well have this board at $500 with an octacore 3D cache chip. And then lastly there's something related to cooling - efficiency. If it can run at 45w barely boosting since that's what some laptops do anyway, and for 8cores it won't get significantly faster (clock or FPS) past that, might as well have the board runnibg quieter.
Just sad that I haven't started my build and from the looks of it, even the 16core non-3D is out of stock and Phanteks and Sliger seem to have stopped production of the Shift X and Conswole, cases I'm quite sure will be compact and still fit a 25mm (if not 30mm) fan over the heatsink on this board.
Can you swap the cooler out on the board for a tower cooler? From what I have seen the CPU runs a bit hot when under load even with a very nice fan and I wanted to see if you could be a tower cooler on it.
Minisforum better actually add a ton of IO in the 3D verzion of the 16 core varient if not with sata ports as well, cause they're really lightly downgrading their AMD board compared to Intel boards already having 10gb networking. Despite not knowing how already OP AM5 mobile actually is
Hate to say it, but doubtful they'll make it since there are already 8000-series mobile cpus out now.
I heard that ASUs dual cards are not good, fans start to noise after some time
When the 3000rpm Noctua fan blows violently on the SSD heatsink fan, is there a possibility that the voltage produced in the SSD heatsink fan will go back to the motherboard and cause damage?
Sorry for google translate but I think you understand what I mean.
I do wish they would have built it with some Sata ports...
Yes, this video is very informative (I like IT). I've a question about GPU (in video have ASUS DUAL GTX 4070 SUPER - PCIe 4.0), but this motherboard have PCIe 5.0 x16 ( I show the screen and game run normally 🙂). I ask this question, I want use (MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16G GAMING X) to PCIe 4.0, this GPU this should work (thank for answer) 🙂. *Have new BIOS for MSI card GPU.
Is there a header for that USB-C front port? I didn't notice one at first glance
Wondering if I can put a SilverStone FHS 120X there instead of the Noctua?
Is this NVME-fan really necessary? The CPU-fan protrudes a bit over the NVME-heatsink, shouldn't there be enough bleed-air to cool it too?
i stressed a cheap pci express gen 3 nvme without heatsink and reached 60° c. rather quickly, anything faster will need a heatsink for sure, but i think you migth be rigth with the airflow from cpu fan if nvme has heatsink i think it shpuld work but better tun tests and use hw info
yep, specailly for gen 5 drives. but it is also good or gen 4 nvmes.
You provided links for almost all the components but the Power Supply. Can you please share a link for what power supply you used for this build?
Is your cpu cooler the noctua nf f12 industrial or just the standarf 1500rpm?
What is the total price? Not sure why he never states it in any recent video
1300 with all his specs
no cinebench?
Do you use the stock CPU-Fan settings?
I'm very interested in buildding a samll PC with the MINISFORUM BD790i SE ITX Motherboard with pretty mich the same parts expected for the case. Is there another case that I can use for this build? Thanks
PS: I would probably need a PCI riser? Anyway, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
How much is the bios costumizable? Are ram and cpu overclockable?
What case and power supply would you recommend if you weren't planning to add a separate GPU?
I'm really leaning towards getting one of these but it's annoying to me that it lacks sata. There's several sff cases with room for at least one 2.5 ssd. You know put your Steam library on the 2.5 drive. But with this you'd be forced into getting a m.2 drive which tend to cost more than the same capacity 2.5 ssd.
What was the idle, gaming, and max power consumption?
Love your videos. I'm building this exact system in a Terra case. Question about your stats... at 11:30, the CoD stats show render resolution at 1712x960, display resolution at 1440p, but you are stating this was 4k. I'm not super familiar with how DLSS works, but I can't seem to get to 4k regardless of how I think of it. Was the 4k a type-o?
I Think It Looks Great! Can It Handle A Flight Sim In VR? Thank You.
I thought Kxror s300 it only come with pci gen3 riser when I build mine
Hmmm, interesting MB for my next build in many ways, except for the USB port speeds from what I can see so far, which means I would probably have to sacrifice / dedicate one of the M.2 slots for expansion, which is a bit of a shame imo. Perhaps minisforum will address this this in a future version. Thankfully some other minisforum (and other) products do currently offer more modern higher speed interfaces. So close...
I recently bought an s400 case. I'll build in it someday. Still need RAM, CPU and PSU.
The concept for this motherboard is cool but the connectivity is lacking I would think it would be better if it had at least the same connectivity as a equivalent mini ITX board but only having four USB ports is pretty rough
I was about to ask the ports. I could barely get by with 6 but 4??? That's rough!
well, i personally use like 6 ports, and two have to be usb 2, so i understand your complaint but if your goal is do what it was done here, it should be enough i think, a usb hib sometimes does wonders for some stuff
this motherboard has a usb 3 header near the ram slots, so you can have 2 usb 3 on front, 2 usb 3 on the back and two usb 2 on the back, not perfect, but should be enough for keybpard, mouse, mic or headset, camera and one or two things more via a usb hub
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Thanks for your thoughts on workarounds. It is certainly enough for most uses. It's just that I also have MIDI devices. When this is combined with a streaming set-up, it can be quite a bit "cabley" along with the saturation of a USB hub. In this case, it might be good to use the powered kind of USB hub.
This is why I went with an AORUS mini ITX mobo on some devces. The things had like 7 or 8 ports.
@@MattStevens9824 if you have lots of devices that require very little speed, the hub migth be a blessing or a curse, you are probably better buying a normal motherboard and connecting the extra usb 2 and 3 headers in the motherboard, this one migth be more problems for you
where in the world are you finding that case that cheap and with a 4.0 riser?
The exhaust port on the backplate is nice
what was build cost?
That's a pcie gen 3 cable your using... And I just bought the S400 but no option for gen 4 on Amazon...
Love that I can use AMD frame gen with my RTX 3070 and get nearly identical performance as a 4070, only setting that slows me down is path tracing so I can run as high as 1440p Ultra RT
Hey that's cool! Looks like the ultimate motherboard for a powerfull mini server. Slap in a x550-t2 for connectivity and you have a very cool homelab server :)
After switching to the M2 Pro Mac Mini, I want to build another PC. I am looking at a build like this for photo/video editing and lots of chrome tabs (lol)! I really like the SFF. The only question is ... to build or to buy... that is the question.
if you put an AMD radeon gpu you can install hackintosh and slaughter that mac mini without mercy. 96gb ram... nvme gen 5 drives... also you could use PARSEC and work remotely without apparent lag for gaming or video work even. Good stuff
Nice review. but what I am most interested in its performance sans extra graphics card
Can you test this spec with chimeraos?
Got mine about a week and a half ago. Its a really good system even for gaming but it sucks they limit the BIOS so much. idky they wouldnt allow us to enable XMP.
Really hoping someone makes a modified BIOS at some point. This system could be so amazing if the BIOS was more open for tweaking.
Thanks for this video. Please could you confirm cpu cooler screw thread? is it M3? M4? Thanks !
Can you run some tests like handbrake on a 4k hdr using the x265 CPU slow pass? I really want to upgrade my pc and the 7950x is power hungry, if this can do just as close, i will abadon everything and go with this and a low SFF case, just for the performance of this generation and GPU
Wow! Fantastic miniPC.
the BD790i is sold out :( where to find alternate?
Not sure when was the last time you checked but they have them back on the site for about a week now.
Like to see Starfield running in this setup
lol, why
noticed your case mounted usb c will be redundant as the Miniforum BD790i does not have case usb c connector support, although there is rear motherboard usb c support.
can you give a rough price of what you have into this?
Whats the consumption in idle and in small usage? I want use it as mini server/nas.
Have that cpu on my laptop. It's a beast!!
Can u make a test with a 7900 XTX please ?