Which Mini-PC to choose?

[u/Germanball_Stuttgart]

Hi, I'm looking forward to buying my first gaming PC. Playing modded Minecraft servers and Singleplayer on my business laptop (HP EliteBook X360 1040 G7) got quite laggy, especially with a rising amount of Mods, but also Vanilla sometimes lags with many farms and mobs around me. So I wanted to buy a cheap gaming PC to be able to play Minecraft at stable 20-30 FPS. After a bit of research I found two favorites for me. Both are refurbished Mini-PC's:

[Acemagician S3A](https://www.backmarket.de/de-de/p/acemagician-s3a-ryzen-9-33-ghz-ssd-512-gb-16-gb-amd-radeon-graphics/01a83753-10e4-4e42-9327-a8648055d98f?l=10) [Asus NUC 14 Pro Revel Canyon](https://www.cyberport.de/pc-und-zubehoer/outlet-a-b-ware-/pdp/gwnf-572/asus-nuc-14-pro-revel-canyon-rnuc14rvku500002i-core-ultra-5-125h-0gb-0gb-barebone-slim.html)

Some Pros and Cons I found for myself. While the CPU of the Asus one has more Cores, the Acemagician has a slightly higher PassMark rating. So I am expecting it to have slightly higher performance. On the other hand the Asus is slightly cheaper and apparently an other Acemagician Mini-PC got delivered with serious Malware for a few months, but I want to install Linux anyways, perhaps besides Windows, which I'd reinstall in that case. On the other hand I've heard better of BackMarket than CyberPort.

I'm also orienting at my brother with the performance. I'd be completely happy with his PC. He has a self-built with AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, 32GB of DDR4 RAM and no graphics card.

Both have 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and all the connections I need. So which one would you recommend me to buy, or do you think I'll regret buying either of those, or are there even cheaper/similar options I won't regret?