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I'm enjoying my new mini-pc. can barely hear it and it's desktop height and about 2 feet away.
I got the minisforum Em680
6800U/32GB LPDDR5 @6400Mhz/512GB NVME/2x USB 4 - only downside so far is having to use one of the USB 4 ports for PD power... but had a USB C dock/switch/adaptor spare, so using the passthrough on that, got mouse/keyb plugged into that too. I upgraded the network on it to a 2.5Ghz USB 3.0, all working fine. It's plenty fast enough for most of my day to day tasks, in fact feels a bit snappier than my desktop, whilst using about 1/4 the power. It only cost £399, so pretty good. I haven't given it a comprehensive test of all the abilities, but ran a few stress tests and benchmarks etc to confirm all is working well. I honestly am so happy with it, especially the very small footprint, the low power and noise, 16 threads and fast lpddr5 ram. I still have a bit of arranging to do with my desk area now, but looking OK so far.
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Getting some of that sweeeeet 2.5g networking now it's much cheaper... party like it's 2018
It's mainly for backing up my NAS, or when I need to Dl files for my bro. Hoping I don't have probs on OMV with the intel i225 card, quite pleased it's capable at even pcie x1, which will be handy for my older system that's b250 with only 1 slot 16x.
At least this will solve the misery of getting only 113MB/s from NAS to SSD on my main system which already has i225v on mobo. I don't use it that often, but when I do it's a real PITA having to wait for transfers to finish when my bro wants to borrow some movies from me. He's a little bit of a luddite unfortunately and doesn't want to bother getting better equipment... and also can't use him on my plex server as my upload speeds are trash. My area should finally get full fibre by 2025 IIRC, so looking at either 300/1000Mb when that happens... hopefully soon, then I can just network my bro in for sharing all my base.