Finally got round to putting this together Chinese 4l case ( joyjom copy) Enhance 600w PSU from Overtek Asus B650E-I motherboard Ryzen 5 7600 with thermalright TR-AXP90 X36 cooler. 32 GB DDR5 5600 Zotac RTX 5060 solid Photo of it next to the Corsair 2000D that donated the motherboard combo
5060 is about as powerful as you can get in single fan I've ordered a B Grade 5060ti twin edge I'm hoping to be able to swap the cooler off the 5060 for a bit more oomph. This itx stuff is silly I've got a 7700x here too but I feel like that might be a bit too big of an ask of the little cooler even in eco mode.
My cunning plan didn't work. Extra caps on the 5060ti If I could get my hands on another 50 series single fan cooler I'd have a go at butchering it but not keen on doing it and potentially being left with a 5060 without a cooler
https://videocardz.com/newz/minisfo...i-max-395-strix-halo-and-128gb-lpddr5x-memory https://videocardz.com/newz/minisfo...-mobile-ryzen-9-9955hx3d-already-preinstalled
I don't know if it's just me but i find videocardz.com visually cluttered and i rarely visit the site because of it.
“Ryzen AI Max+ 395” So aside from being a hodgepodge, cluttered, and awful name for a CPU, that name automatically means that it will be hideously expensive.
I guess on a par with the framework motherboards at least, maybe a little more given the full size PCIE slot, and that is £2,159 for the same chip.
I'm conflicted by this bit of kit... Andy V-T has already offered me his spare one, which I have declined. It's an interesting bit of kit with a few challenges to getting it running, which is a bit of a draw and a lot of the fun of it. Fundamentally I'm not sure what I'd actually do with it once it's up and running. It won't work as a compact LAN night box as I run a number of non Steam games which are Windows based and unless I need more GPU horsepower on Linux, I can use my Asrock DeskMini, which runs Win 11 happily
Any reason you can't run them through WINE or Proton anyway? (You can literally add it as a non-Steam game in Steam and it'll run through Steam's own Proton compatibility layer, same as a native game - or install GloriousEggroll's Proton, or Lutris, or Heroic Launcher, or what have you.)
No idea TBH Gareth! I really ought to spin up a suitable distro and use the varied tools that are now available to do so. I can't say that I would look forward to working through the long sequence of patches that CoD 4 & 5 need at this late date and getting the now defunct independent Halo 3 running, even though it's better than the Steam official version Bazzite is on the list for testing as well, as it supposedly is more streamlined Yes sorry, it's the rationale of 'empty wallet January' to be honest I currently have enough kit and a bit spare to do all the things I need; given the way prices are going, I'm glad of it! Good to hear you're still interested in the small stuff, and not just 3D printing your way to success! I have invested just over £100 in a silly project that I hope will lead to an online article about upcycling lenses from spares/repair compact cameras with decent quality lenses to work on interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras. So far, 4 cameras that are past it have been bought and dissected, and are being test mounted with the help of a selection of inexpensive metal adaptor rings courtesy of the Chinese manufacturing behemoth. It should make an interchangeable fun lens system that inspires a bit of creativity and something physical to do away from screen based stuffs Don't think that means cobbling a GTX1650 to a Deskmini is out of my thoughts yet...
It is disappointing for AM5. My DM is an A300, so accepts v limited range of AM4 APUs without dodgy bios juggling. Even if I fiddled an R5 5600G in for more cores, the GPU is barely better than the R5 3400G I have in it.
Depends on your expectations. I set my MS-A1 up as a Steam box, to try out gaming on the 8700G and it was hitting 50-70 FPS at 1080 Med with FSR quality in most games. It's no Strix Halo but it doesn't cost £2500 for a miniPC either. The 8700G's own value proposition is difficult to justify unless you look at niche uSFF use cases. I can drop a single slot LP RTX 3050 in a 1 litre Tiny/Mini/Micro PC for a similar outlay (used) and run rings around my MS-A1 in game performance but I've been there, believe me when I say I tried - the thermal throttling and noise from those setups is a joke, where the MS-A1 is far more manageable. Also, when I say run rings, it is definitely a faster setup but it's still 1080p just at much higher quality settings - it's not like you're stepping up to 1440p. My trade-off was a slightly larger PC that could accommodate a dual slot SFF workstation card . I spent an age looking before dropping on a cheap Dell 3260 Compact and specced it up to a i7-12700T with 32GB and a 12gb RTX A2000, which became my daily driver. I recently printed a new chassis for my 1 litre P350 Tiny which brings it up to around the same 1.8 litres as my MS-A1, allowing it to accommodate the A2000 and pairs it with an i7-11700T. It performs similarly to the Dell 3260, though the DDR5 and extra threads give the 3260 a decent edge. My next rainy day project is to grab an AM5 ITX board and a RTX 5060 LP and try running the 8700G's iGPU as the frame gen processor for the 5060, even though this will mean a larger chassis; but I can probably print something around the 3/3.5 litre mark that will do the job without needing an external power brick.
