minipc

Forum discussion tagged with minipc.
  1. slm-pc

    Question Advice on buying a Mini PC ?

    hi, i want to buy Mini PC because i like its size and i want to play Football Manager 24 but is it possible to play it for many hours, maybe 8 hours daily. Is that practical? I read they overheat. Also Im multitasker I could open 2 browsers, each one with like 20 tabs, and Excel with 10 sheets...
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    Question Minisforum - Intel NUC KVM/libvirt replacement?

    Hello, all. I hope this is the best place to post this question. Here's the deal. I have an old Intel NUC for a home server I have had for a couple of years I am afraid could die at any moment. It currently is running Red Hat 8 with KVM/libvirt hosting a few virtual machines and is also my Plex...
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    Question Opinion about mini PC for designing (Geekom AS6 / Minis Forum NUCX I7 / ?)

    Good afternoon, I want to replace a 7-year-old i7 tower PC. I use it at home and apart from using it for office tasks, surfing the Internet or listening music, I also use it for drawing (Affinity Photo and Designer, CAD), 3D modelling and programming. The latter tasks do not usually involve very...
  4. johnkelly3

    Question MINIPC as a small office server

    I'm looking for a minipc I can use as a small office server in Raid1. We have an IT group that oversees about 6 desk minipcs, but the Server is running 2012 R2 and we need to upgrade the server computer & server software. Since the IT company also does backups I wanted to have the ability for a...
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    Question Home NAS and available options

    I have recently picked up a pre-loved mini pc from HP and upgraded it with few readily available hardware with me. The system is quite solid with i5 12 gen (10 cores and 10 threads) and 32 Gig of RAM. Its come with one NVME slot, multiple USB2 and USB3 ports but lacks SATA ports for me to boost...
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    Question Bqeel mini PC BMP5 PRO 4GB , is it possible to Add a RAM module?

    Hi, here's my Bqeel mini PC BMP5 PRO technical specs:, Cpu=Processore Intel Apollo Lake N3450 (2M Cache, fino a 2,2 GHz) RAM = 4GB DD3 Storage = 64GB eMMC , is it possible to Add a RAM module? Any suggestion where to buy it? Is there a manual of this PC? Thanks Enrico
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    Question Display problem from DP to DVI ?

    I have a mini pc with windows 10 (generic not branded) that have two display outputs- hdmi and displayport i am trying to connect i to an old Samsung monitor (s24d300) that have only dvi input, with no lock this are the method i tried : HDMI to DVI cable DP to DVI cable DP to DVI adapter with...
  8. sacob

    Question Mini PC for Plex Server

    Hello hello! I'm planning to upgrade my RP4 setup to a mini pc for plex server. i'll keep using some sort of linux OS to keep the setup similar to the current one. I want something with a nvme and a 2.5 hdd drives and 2.5gbe eth. i'm the only one using it so it's noe likely to be transcoding...
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    [SOLVED] Can I fit my laptop components in minipc

    I have 10 year old XPS 15 L502X, which is currently not behaving well. Its screen flickers a lot. It sometimes gives three bips which points to memory errors. And sometimes works just well!!! Full configuration can be found here: https://valid.x86.fr/h8irya I am thinking to reuse its...
  10. AtotehZ

    [SOLVED] 4X4-V1000M for media, voice & game servers

    Hello, I've been looking at 4X4-V1000M from ASRock: https://www.asrockind.com/4X4-V1000M Would it be able to run: Torrenting A Teamspeak server A media server Various game servers of new games. I'm also not sure whether I should be going for this instead...