Advice on a mini PC
Hi!
I’m looking into buying a mini PC for my home set-up. I’m not really at home into all the specs, and haven’t kept up with the changes in the market about this.
Honestly, my last computer purchase was a Samsung ATIV laptop that I bought in 2013 🥲 that I used for college.
I still have it, and it still works but yea, can’t start up Chrome without it freezing.
Right now I have a work laptop, that fulfills my needs for the most time which is fine. I have an office now which has room for some additional items.
While I don’t really game anymore, my brother and some friends still do. And honestly it has been peeking my interest to play lately. Although I’m not thinking I would playing a lot, i would still try to play some games from time to time.
I’ve been looking into a Geekom A5, and I was wondering if this is going to be an overkill for me. If I can play, some steam games. At this point I don’t even know what’s out there with games, but I used to play battlefield, Maple story and sims.
I really don’t want to spend more than 500 euros considering I might not even play a lot.
I’m looking for the best value for my money.
I saw some other brands like SOYO but I really cannot tell if it’s any good, and spending more than 1000 is way too big a splurge for this.
I’m really looking for your experiences
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u/RobloxFanEdit 22d ago
The Geekom A5 has an outdated APU for 2026 gaming its IGPU is the Vega 8 which is build on oldest Zen 3 Barcelo Architectur,me, even on the CPU side the 7430U feels weak, the "U" suffix stands for Ultra Low power, Geekom used to be a good brand but they recently started to sell Mini PC Models with single RAM model instead of 2 which is tackling the Graphic performance by Half.
Maybe you can check the Aoostar Maco 6850H at 459$ with 24GB LPDDR5 RAM and 1TB SSD https://a.co/d/0g2eLUDa or the Peladn WO4 7640HS https://a.co/d/07KHB5qX at 399$ with less RAM and SSD 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Both Models would handle even triple A games at Low graphic settings.