Which Mini PC?

transmaster · Dec 24, 2023

BobOmb said:
These look cool

MINISFORUM BD770i

I could use the 1200 Watt Corsair Platinum PS out of the defunct PC, It's cooling fan would never come on,

BobOmb · Dec 24, 2023

transmaster said:
I could use the 1200 Watt Corsair Platinum PS out of the defunct PC, It's cooling fan would never come on,

Unless you attach a 4090

transmaster · Dec 24, 2023

KYHI said:
Amazon.com : KAMRUI [Gaming PC] Mini PC

This is exactly what I was looking for. I very much like the form factor and the ease of getting at the RAM and being able to add a 2.5" SSD.

transmaster · Dec 24, 2023

BobOmb said:
Unless you attach a 4090

This Corsair HXi HX1200i supply was ridiculously expensive during one of the bitcoin mining surges. But I purchased it during a gigantic crash and these PS were less than $200 bucks.

WAI · Dec 24, 2023

transmaster said:
I didn't know about changing out the WiFi card. I am using a eero router that has 6E available. WiFi 7 is just out so not having 6E is not a deal killer.

Well not knowing the Wi-Fi card (Being a msata, B+M or just M but most likely it's just M or msata which was replaced by Type (not knowing/seeing the pcie type is hard knowing)

transmaster · Dec 24, 2023

Courius

WAI said:
Well not knowing the Wi-Fi card (Being a msata, B+M or just M but most likely it's just M or msata which was replaced by Type (not knowing/seeing the pcie type is hard knowing)

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Honestly I don't have anything that uses 6E, just 6 and it is plenty fast enough. The ASUS Expert Center does have 6E however the ease of upgrading this Kamuri is a deal maker.

WAI · Dec 24, 2023

transmaster said:
Courius

Honestly I don't have anything that uses 6E, just 6 and it is plenty fast enough. The ASUS Expert Center does have 6E however the ease of upgrading this Kamuri is a deal maker.

That's not what I mean, I mean by the Pcie type on the motherboard which by my search it's either as said msata or type M. I'm a hardware guy

The Pool Man · Dec 24, 2023

hsehestedt said:
I'm up to 5 mini PCs now, all of them from Ace Magician and Kamrui. They all have varying capabilities. My favorite is probably the Kamrui CK10 because it has great performance with a 12th gen i5

I have a Beelink Sei12 with the same processor and it's the first Mini PC I've had that has strong performance with a nearly silent fan. I connect my Minis to TVs instead of streaming boxes like Roku or Apple TV. It was the first one that could handle anything YouTube throws at it (4K at 60fps) without dropping a frame. On Amazon Black Friday it spent a day at $309, I got it a week or so earlier for $339, but now it's higher than that. Maybe after Xmas they'll be some sales there or at AliExpress, even though for a some time Amazon has been beating Ali on Beelink pricing.

Winuser · Dec 24, 2023

The Pool Man said:
I have a Beelink Sei12 with the same processor and it's the first Mini PC I've had that has strong performance with a nearly silent fan. I connect my Minis to TVs instead of streaming boxes like Roku or Apple TV. It was the first one that could handle anything YouTube throws at it (4K at 60fps) without dropping a frame. On Amazon Black Friday it spent a day at $309, I got it a week or so earlier for $339, but now it's higher than that. Maybe after Xmas they'll be some sales there or at AliExpress, even though for a some time Amazon has been beating Ali on Beelink pricing.

I have one of My Beelink computers setup to use Mezzmo to stream all of my media content to my other TVs. IMHO it's the best thing I ever did to stream all of my content to all of my TVs. I have a Roku box connected to my main TV and a Roku TV. Both are running the Mezzmo app to recieve my content. My son has a Roku Sound Bar running the Mezzmo App and the Beelink is not having any problem even if all the devices are being used. Because I use my main TV as the monitor for the Beelink I have to use the Wi-Fi network to upload any new content to the HDD on the Beelink or face the wrath of my wife for interferring with her TV shows. Because the location of my router is on another floor my upload speeds are in the 20 MB/s range. Slow but fast enough for me.

hsehestedt · Dec 24, 2023

Yeah, I've become a big fan of those mini PCs lately. I find then to be great for certain tasks, but sometimes they actually surprise me and end up being even more useful than I had anticipated.

As an example, one of my mini PCs uses a 12th gen mobile i5 CPU. I do a lot of video, compressing video to H.265. The Intel CPU has has the built-in hardware encoding and decoding (Intel Quick Sync Video). Because it is dedicated hardware it's insanely fast. That little 12th Gen mini PC is actually as fast at compressing video as my 11th Gen Intel i7 desktop CPU system with 128GB RAM in it.

I've switched over my video compression tasks to the mini PC because I can queue up a bunch of videos without it keeping me awake at night. My main desktop is lit up like a Christmas tree and generates a fair amount of heat so it's not great at night in the bedroom.

That same mini PC has room for 3 drives (2 x NVMe and one SATA 2.5" drive) so I also use it as a small backup server.

Throw in Wake on LAN and I can just power on and off remotely whenever I need it.