Minisforum UM560XT "pint" PC.

[paulca]

Bought myself one of these:
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um590

£370 ($450)
Ryzen 5600H 16Gb DDR4, 512Gb NVMe.

It came with Windows 11, but I reinstalled 10 and then Ubuntu 22 dual boot.

Head to head with my "big" PC, a 5800X 32Gb Gtx3080 512Gb NVMe it's ... "no noticeable difference" in terms of normal desktop use.

A 4K monitor + a 1440P ultrawide at 60FPS and it's snappy and fast for desktop use.

Gaming.  No.  Well, if you want to game in 1080 at Med to Low settings maybe.  However, everything else including 4K YouTube content, half dozen browser windows, it's practically the same.  I have seen the 5600G paired up against a CPU + Gtx1030 and it holds it's own, so similar experience.  This being a 5600H (the laptop variant) will be more TDP limited.

Pinned, on big loads, the 5800X will run rings round the 5600H, but on basic desktop use, I doubt you'll notice.

The "big" PC uses 100W idle.
The "pint" PC usage about 20W.
The entire office with this PC and a 4K HDR 42" Monitor is around 125W.


Put it another way, it's a pretty decent laptop is a pint sized box with no screen for £370.

[Coordonnée_chromatique]

hello,
The advertised performance of the processor is its absolute performance without any thermal limitations or this is the processor performance integrated into the little box ?

[paulca]

On a modern CPU, thermal, current, core concurrency and power limited.

Also, AI fact, "Melon"

[xgpt]

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Put it another way, it's a pretty decent laptop is a pint sized box with no screen for £370.

I just wish laptops could have BIOS that was configurable enough to have things such as "turn on after power-loss" and wake-on-lan and such.

Completely remove the part of the appeal of NUC-type PCs.

(I just bought a NUC this afternoon, should be here tomorrow)

[Infraviolet]

Looks nice, and at that size and form factor perhaps more portable in all practical aspects than a laptop, provided that where-ever you're going there are monitors available you can connect to (usually true).