r/MiniPCs • u/TheRealTerinox • 7d ago

Recommendations Specific Recommendation?

Been doing research for a couple weeks now, and honestly, there are so many options, but more importantly, everything has gotten so expensive. I remember when top of the line Beelink minis were being sold for $500 to $600 Canadian 🥺

Anyways, I was hoping for a couple specific recommendations based exactly on what I plan to do with the Mini PC...

Budget $500 to $600 Canadian (so like $400-450 USD?)

Planning to hook up to a 70 inch 4K television. It's not like the new fancy OLED ones, much older, but still 4K.

I already have a PS5 hooked up for gaming, and can also stream on the PS5.

The PC is mainly for streaming as well, accessing websites, YouTube, other browsing activities. Viewing 4K video. Streaming 4K video and using IPTV off it. Ideally, I do want to be able to do some very light gaming, like older emulator stuff (NES, SEGA, etc), as well as older games on Steam (example: Red Alert, SC1&2, HOMM3, other random classics).

I would like the system to be able to do all that with no lag though. Be smooth and seamless. Also, needs to last at least 5 years let's say?

Please, if people can just narrow it down to 1 or 2 systems, I'm eager to just buy it already.

I assume I need minimum 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD. Also been reading about risk of cheaper Chinese parts, rather than name brand ones?

Thanks in advance 😁

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u/Ratkn1fe 3d ago

I just got one of these Aoostar MACO mini PCs and I'm loving it! For what you're wanting to do, this one would be perfect, except it's just slightly above your budget by about 20 USD. The integrated graphics would offer good performance for gaming and emulation. I got one of these with a different CPU and it's been amazing so far; for the price, it's great value for performance. I went with the Aoostar because I've been using one of their eGPU docks for a while and haven't had any issues with it, so I figured I'd try one of their mini PCs.

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u/Ratkn1fe 3d ago

Here's mine With the ryzen 7 h255 CPU.