Joshua Hinton
Great livingroom mini-pc for lightweight gaming
I bought this Mini-PC so that I could put it in my living room to play video games with my family. Normally I am pretty particular about other people touching my stuff, so I didn't want to bring my Steam Deck to the living room. This Mini-PC solves that problem for me.I placed this in the living room knowing that the small form factor would keep it protected from most forms of damage (it will fit in an average hand). So far, this has been the case and has worked out well (it should be noted that this PC comes with the hardware to attach to the back of a TV via the VESA mount).This Mini-PC comes with Windows 11 Pro. I am not a big fan of Windows for most tasks and the gaming scene on Linux has come a very very long way in the last few years, so I immediately put Bazzite OS on it (my favorite Linux gaming distro outside of SteamOS. It mimics a lot of SteamOS features and feel). The installation was flawless and all the hardware worked great from the start. Since this is AMD based GameScope works great as well, which brings a nice console like experience.For day to day tasks, performance on this PC is fantastic. I can't say much about it, other than it runs smooth and will tear through any regular tasks.For gaming performance, you need to both keep your expectations in check (it will not be anywhere near as powerful as a PC running a 300W modern day GPU), and be ready to be impressed at the same time. Total system TDP is around 45-55 Watts when under load. My TV is 720p so that is what I play all my games at downstairs.Indie games are generally going to have no problem running 60FPS+ on this system, even at 1080p most likely. I personally have been playing Little Nightmares 2, which gets 60FPS at 720p. I've also been playing the Kingdom Hearts Remasters on Steam which also runs flawlessly at 60FPS.The game I play the most when the family is busy is Final Fantasy XIV. I had to lower the graphics down quite a bit to hit good performance numbers, but it runs pretty well. The situations in FFXIV are going to have quite a bit of variance. Most dungeons/instances I easily get 60FPS. Busy towns will drop the FPS to around 40. Some of the more detailed areas will also drop a lot of frames. For dungeons, fates, and crafting though, this thing plays the game good enough for me!This Mini-PC is very powerful for its form factor. If this is the form factor you are looking for and you want to do light gaming (but heavier than most Mini-PCs), this is definitely the system to buy.Ver másVer menos
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