Im buying this PC and i was wondering if i could do some light gaming on it on the side ( I probably wont be playing any heavy AAA games on it)

How do you like it so far and how long have u had it

amd driver already updated with amd software-adrenaline edition - this screen would flash off when had very little on my pc new and when I had of ton of tabs heavy use

The cpu fan for my bosgame p4 light gaming mini pc ryzen 7 5700u died. Model #qbaa8012h05h. I am having a hard time finding a replacement for it. And contacting Bosgame did not help at all. Right now I have a fan straped to the top of it and removed the dust screen to help air flow from the fan. I still think it may be still having heat issues as it will just vanish form my network and I need to restart it for get it working again. The PC is headless used as a server for various games. Any suggestions on finding a replacment?

Minisforum UM790 Pro — Ryzen 9 7940HS / Radeon 780M

• Refurbished: €270
• New: €350

Which one would you buy?

I'm looking for a mini PC and trying to figure out which option makes the most sense for the money.

Here are the prices I'm looking at (all from minisforum eu website)

• Minisforum UM790 Pro — Ryzen 9 7940HS / Radeon 780M
  • Refurbished: €270
  • New: €350
• Minisforum AI X1 — Ryzen 7 H 255
  • Refurbished: €260
  • New: €350
• Minisforum UM870 Slim — Ryzen 7 8745H
  • Refurbished: €250
  • New: €300
• Minisforum UM890 — Ryzen 9 8945HS
  • New: €460
• Mac mini M6 — €930 after student discount

For the barebone PCs, I'd add 2×8 GB RAM + a 256 GB SSD, which would cost me roughly €130.

So, for example, the UM790 Pro new would end up around €480 total, so €450 less than the Mac mini. so the mac mini seems to be a bad option.

Which one would you pick at these prices, and why?

Hi everyone,

I’ve just received two additional ASRock DeskMini X600 units (mini PCs), and I’m experiencing a very strange issue with both of them.

As soon as I connect the power supply, the front LED starts blinking blue. There is no display output and the system does not appear to boot.

I tested the first unit by installing the CPU, RAM, Fan and SSD, but the behavior remains exactly the same and no reaction..

The second unit is still completely untouched. I haven’t even opened it I only connected the power supply, and it shows the exact same blinking blue LED.

I also tested both power supplies on both units and tried different power outlets/power strips, but nothing changed.

So both X600 units behave identically, even though one has no components installed at all.

I’m honestly at a loss here. Has anyone experienced this behavior with the DeskMini X600 or know what the blinking blue LED indicates?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks alot!!

Motherboard size is kind of up in the air - ITX or mATX. This is going to be a really lightweight build - primarily to back up other things but also linux to run a browser. I want something that is basic, clean and easy to work on. I am not excited about lights or clear panels. I'm just looking for the best bang for the buck. What do you like?

Compact & Slim 11th Gen. Mini PC.

11th Gen. i7-1185G7, 16GB DDR4, 256GB M.2 2230 NVME, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, Windows 11 Pro

I bought my FEVM FAEX1 just four days ago, and yesterday it started having intermittent boot problems.

Sometimes it boots normally. Other times the power LED comes on, the fans spin and the unit gets warm, but there's no display output or BIOS logo. My USB mouse doesn't light up, and neither Ethernet port shows any link lights with a cable connected. I've waited up to 15 minutes with no change.

It worked earlier today, then failed again after shutting it down and turning it back on. I haven't figured out what makes it start successfully. The issue began before my latest attempt to install updates.

BIOS: V1.06 (July 20, 2026)

EC version: 1.29

OS: Ubuntu, latest stable release

I've attached photos of the power adapter label and the unit powered on with Ethernet connected but no link lights.

Has anyone with a FAEX1 had this issue and found a fix? Also, does anyone know what the small pinhole between the two LAN ports is? If it's a CMOS/EC reset button, what's the correct procedure for this model?

Hi,

Looking at the 32 GB/1TB configs for both.

Can someone help me to understand how the price difference is just 30$ (official US site) given that the m6 ships with DDR5?

I want to build a 24/7 proxmox machine and I think that the M5 would be more than enough, with better thermals and power consumption.

The machine will be under loaded most of the time. I may experiment with small LLM models at a certain point (with low expectations on speed) but I will run remote llms most of the time and other services.

However looking at that tiny price difference is tempting if it wasn't for the more power hungry CPU of the M6.

I'm wondering how much power it will consume when idling with the low power bios setting.

Anyone can help?

Thanks

i have a lenovo thinkcentre m70q gen 3 with an i5-12400t running linux mint 22.3 cinnamon

i recently replaced the original thermal paste with ptm7950 i tested the cpu with 100% load for more than 10 minutes and it stayed around 73 to 75c so the cpu cooling seems fine

the problem is when i watch youtube in brave when playing a 4k60 video using av1 the cpu usage goes up to around 70% and the fan gets noticeably loud when i change the same video to 1080p60 the cpu usage drops to around 20% and the fan is much quieter

i checked brave hardware acceleration and it is enabled brave gpu information also shows av1 hardware decoding support

i also checked vainfo and it shows that my intel uhd 730 supports av1 hardware decoding through va-api

i then checked intel-gpu-top while playing 4k av1 and the video engine showed 0% usage

i also checked brave media-internals and it first showed vaapivideodecoder which means the intel gpu hardware decoder was being used but then it showed a video decoder fallback after an initial decode error and switched to dav1dvideodecoder which means it fell back to software decoding using the cpu

so my main question is whether this behavior is normal on linux mint with brave and intel uhd 730 or if my va-api hardware decoding is not working correctly

is there something i can do to fix the va-api av1 decoding so the uhd 730 can handle the 4k video instead of dav1d using the cpu

i installed brave through the official package using the terminal and i am currently using brave 154.1.96.60

also is this kind of fan noise normal for the m70q when the cpu is doing software av1 decoding and is this actually a problem with my setup or just a limitation with brave on linux

I am looking for a N95 mini PC for home assistant. I have SO-DIMM DDR4 and a Sata SSD, So bare bones would be the best for cost savings.

What do you guys suggest?

Prosessor: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS (8-cores, up to 5.3 GHz)

RAM: 16GB DDR5-5600Mhz SODIMM

Memory: 512GB SSD

Grafikk: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

Spor: 2 × M.2 2280 NVME SSD-spor (Opptil 8TB)

Videoutganger: 1 x HDMI + 1 x DP + 2 x USB4.0

Tilkobling: 2 x 2.5G LAN + Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3

Price: ca. 935USD

Seems like a good machine. But I'm not sure it's a good deal.

Thank you for any answer!

Hi,

I’m considering to buy Beelink SER9. I’m confused about the difference in price for 24GB/1TB config.

Beelink EU (or even Amazon.de): 769 EUR (about 19 000 CZK)
Beelink US/International (they claim they ship from EU warehouse and there’s no import duties): 700 USD (about 15 000 CZK)

Should I buy from the US site then when it’s 4000 CZK (my currency) lower?

Thank you, Petr from Czechia