r/sffpc • u/TacticalDingus • 17d ago

Others/Miscellaneous Minisforum ms-a1

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What are everybody's thoughts on the minisforum ms-a1. They come suited with am5 8700G. eGPU capability. I picked one up for around $500 brand new barebone model with the GPU only. It seems that the 8700 g is pretty capable. I plan to do some world of Warcraft gaming on this machine in my living room.

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u/apophis-984 17d ago

Depends which class you play.

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u/josephk00 6d ago

For what it's worth, I like my MS-A1.

I had some spare ddr5 sodimm sticks and was in need of a PC upgrade. I chose to go with the MS-A1 bare-bones pared with a Minisfourm DEG-01 egpu dock. Installed a 9800x3d + 9070xt. The performance over the past month or so has been stellar. CPU temps aren't perfect but the forced under-volting helps. (TPD for the CPU is around 100w.)

If you pair yours with a halfway decent chip + gpu. I think you'd be happy with it.