MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro-370 Mini PC AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370(12C/24T) 64GB DDR5 1TB SSD Desktop Computer, HDMI|DP|2xUSB4 Output, 2xRJ45 Port, WiFi7, BT5.4, AMD Radeon 890M Graphics, Copilot Support AI PC

Very neat little computer with an impressive amount of compute power. Not compatible with desktop Linux however.

I built this up from a barebones. You can buy better parts and end up at the same cost as the fully equipped ones, or even cheaper. I went with kingston fury ram cl38, a 1tb t-force drive and the asus 4060 oc.I haven't gotten the 4060 yet, but based on reviews I can see that it's going to overheat in this case and there's no real way around that other than pulling everything out and putting it in a full sized case with case fans. Because the only thing venting that 4060 is the fan on the power supply. I may try putting a slim fan over or in place of the power supply fan that moves more air. I can't see any good spots to add additional cooling fans. A single slot 3050 won't overheat, but the 4060 will hit 90c+ and throttle.My expectation is to game at 1080p,. which should leave the 4060 working at half power. It's either that or do the 3050 blower style single slot and have that run at 100% with the little whizzy fan screaming at you.If that just doesn't work out, it'll go into one of the 15 larger cases I have, and I'll drop the 3080ti that I have into it. Completely different computer at that point, but at the $ I got the barebones and parts for I can deal with it.Probably a better idea to buy the motherboard barebone and put it in a normal SFF case that has case fans, a regular power supply and a full size gpu. It was pretty interesting to note that revws of this were locked out for over a week once the product was listed. Told me that only verified buyers could do one, and I'm a verified buyer but it wouldn't let me. Seemed manipulative. Anyhow I thought I'd mention that it has extra fan headers, and that you could do some stuff with the pcie slot besides boiling a gpu. An occulink card for $20-30 and an external gpu housing or already built e-gpu. A sata/u.2 card to connect to an external NAS. More pcie nvme drives. I saw, but haven't yet verified that the second nvme slot on the mobo goes dead when you add a gpu. Weird, since the cpu should have plenty of pcie lanes, so it must be the mobo chipset they used, if that's actually true. It's also impossible to put two nvme drives with heatsinks side by side. I have two with a basic low profile ps5 style aluminum cooler on them and I need at least another 1/16th inch to slide that in.No wifi/bluetooth capability (even though the listing says it has it) and the 2230 slot you'd put that in is underneath the cpu cooler, and you'll have to remove the motherboard to mount the little bracket with wifi antennas that they DID include. C'mon man. Put a cheap realtek wifi/bluetooth card in it and mount the bracket before putting the mobo in.I'm wired, so didn't need wifi, and a $5 bluetooth 5.3 dongle actually worked great. I also added a usb-c to 4x usb-a "laptop port expander" on the front (one of those $3.xx ones) to put my bluetooth dongle, wireless keyboard/mouse logitech dongle and security key on the front, and put the same into the usb-c port on the back for all of my other stuff, like microphone and webcam. That solves the low # of ports for $8 and leaves me 4x usb-a ports on the back and 5x usb-a ports on the front, with 2 free on the rear and two free on the front.Nice way to go if you want 16 cores and 32gb on the cheap and don't feel like laying out a bazillion $ for the 9000 series. Those are about the same real world performance, at a power cost savings of about 30 watts when running full blast.

It's MinisForum, what more needs to be said. Easy to upgrade, very fast, even able to play games on it. Wouldn't try AAA Games at high settings, but it still plays games. Use it mostly for working from home.

This thing has terrible AI performance. I got better numbers off of a 4 year old PC with a 4090 graphics card. Shared memory or not this thing will not run a local LLM model with in real usable numbers. If all you want is a low power usage windows desktop running a mobile processor then may be this is for you.

This unit performs nicely, as advertised. Mine was down level with it's drivers. Couldn't get help on how to get current. Couldn't get help on how to see what drivers I had. Had to google around to find out how to get it updated. So, I'm happy with the unit now that nice people have posted how they got theirs updated.

This mini PC is working very well. Enough spec and ports for me.You may feel warm breeze from the exhaust vents, which means that the heat is being successfully exhausted.