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methchild

new device delivered
#Minisforum N5 NAS
install , look for it on network , nope!
look for it on the router , yep.
copy the local IP , paste into browser , nope.
open up network browser , try the IP , nope.
'Browse' the network , nope.
connect keyboard , mouse and monitor to NAS , ok , we have a boot screen , but other than the version and the IP address there isn't anything other than the logo, hmm.

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Multi Purr Puss :verified:

🧵 2/n ...or maybe not?

There's barely 2mm between the upper DIMM and the fan mount.

Also, most of that fan's airflow likely exits straight out the side-vent - it's certainly not cooling the lower DIMM!

I've made some changes to the inadequate RAM cooling design of my #Minisforum UM780 XTX
👀 👉 see ALT text for details

Brad Linder

MINISFORUM G1 Pro is a console-sized desktop PC with Ryzen 9 8945HX and RTX 5060

The MINISFORUM G1 Pro is about the size and shape of a game console, but it’s a full-fledged desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX Dragon Range processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 discrete GPU.

While AMD’s Dragon Range processors are ostensibly mobile chips designed for gaming laptops, the computer’s graphics card is a low-profile desktop GPU configured to run at 120 […]

#desktop #gamingPc #miniPc #minisforum #minisforumG1 #minisforumG1Pro

Read more: liliputing.com/minisforum-g1-p

Brad Linder

MINISFORUM M1 Pro mini PC comes with Intel Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake options

Mini PC makers often offer several different processor options so that customers can decide whether to prioritize price, performance, or some mix of the two. But usually those processor options are all part of the same family.

The MINISFORUM M1 Pro bucks that trend. Customers interested in picking up an entry-level model can pay $383 for a barebones version with an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H […]

#arrowLake #meteorLake #miniPc #minisforum #minisforumM1Pro

Read more: liliputing.com/minisforum-m1-p

Scott Laird

Yow! I've been running #Minisforum MS-A2 #VyOS router performance benchmarks in the background for most of the weekend. I'll make a relatively small config, reboot, re-run the multi-hour NDR sweep with trex, lather, rinse, repeat.

When I set the BIOS to "performance" power mode instead of "balanced" (the default), I notice that it spikes to drawing 185W from the wall and runs like a bat out of hell for 6 seconds before throttling itself back down to 155W.

That's a spicy little mini PC -- I don't know how it expects to cool 185W. I mean, obviously it isn't, but it seems like a weirdly aggressive thing to even attempt.

This is *obviously* optimized for gaming/desktop uses, where a 6s spike in performance followed by slowing back down is a good thing. It benchmarks fairly poorly this way, though. Dropping back to "balanced" seems to give much better numbers overall.

I tried turning on AMD PBO, which will boost clock speeds even more when thermals permit it.

Thermals didn't permit it.

I'm running each test 3x, and with PBO I was seeing giant differences from run to run. Like 5.84/14.83/5.85 Mpps across 3 runs. In "balanced" mode without PBO it consistently got >15 Mpps, so enabling PBO isn't even slightly helpful.

This box feels like it should be faster than it is on routing; it's clearly faster than my previously-measured numbers on this thing's Intel twin, but throughput doesn't seem to be linear with CPU load. At 80% of peak load, it's using something like 50% of its CPU, but increasing past that rapidly swamps the CPU.

I saw similar with the Intel system, but I blamed it on Alder Lake's mix of P and E cores. The AMD model has 16 equal cores, so *that*'s not the problem.

I'm not sure if I'm hitting kernel-tunable issues (I've found at least one so far), hardware-tunable issues (Mellanox *loves* knobs), cache-size issues, or memory-bandwidth issues.

I probably have the tools to figure it out, though, so I'll leave tests running in the background for a day or two and keep making little tweaks to see what helps.

Brad Linder

MINISFORUM N5 Pro now available for pre-order (Feature-packed NAS with AMD Ryzen inside)

The MINISFORUM N5 and N5 Pro are network-attached storage (NAS) devices with the kind of specs that that read like a power user’s wish list. There’s support for up to eight storage devices (5 hard drives and three NVMe SSDs), a PCIe x16 slot, 10 Gigabit and 5 Gigabit LAN ports, and an OCuLink connector.

After unveiling the N5 Pro during CES in January, MINISFORUM offered some more details […]

#hawkPoint #minisforum #minisforumN5 #minisforumN5Pro #nas #strixPoint

Read more: liliputing.com/minisforum-n5-p

Brad Linder

MINISFORUM AI X1 mini PC with AMD Hawk Point and Strix Point processor options

Earlier this year mini PC maker MINISFORUM launched a compact desktop computer called the MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro. With an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor, it combined a 12-core, 24-thread CPU with 16-core graphics and an NPU that delivers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance. But with a $929 starting price, the little computer may be a bit expensive for some potential customers.

Now […]

#hawkPoint #miniPc #minisforum #minisforumAiX1 #minisforumAiX1Pro #strixPoint

Read more: liliputing.com/minisforum-ai-x

Brad Linder

Lilbits: A rack-ready Strix Point mini PC & some Google I/O announcements (Android XR, Real-time voice translations in Google Meet, and Android 16 QPR 1 Beta)

It’s a busy week for tech news – Computex is taking place in Taiwan this week. Google’s annual Google I/O developer conference kicked off today. And Microsoft’s Build developer conference is also underway.

That said, there hasn’t been a lot of mobile and mini PC news. But here are some interesting stories that I found around the web today.

Xreal’s Project Aura will be a set of Android […]

#ai #andoridXr #android16 #computex2025 #googleIo2025 #googleMeet #lilbits #microsoftBuild2025 #minisforum #minisforumMsS1 #pixelFeatureDrop #strixPoint #translation #xreal #xrealProjectAura

Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-a-rack-

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