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popular Posted by Dr.Wajahat • Yesterday
May 1, 2025 2:55 PM
GMKtec M6 Gaming Mini PC: Ryzen 5 6600H, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD $289.99
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A Refurb $300 desktop near me from Microcenter would give me an 8th - 9th gen i5 with Intel UHD Graphics 630 and DDR4 RAM. An i5-9500 means you're getting a chip from 2019 with iGPU graphics capabilities from 2019. Graphics capabilities with AMD's 660M on DDR5 is much, much more advanced compared to Intel's older UHD 630.
The trade off may be repair/customer support capabilities. I use a bunch of these mini PCs at the office, but not with anything that's "mission critical".
Adding to what was already said, they are TINY. Like 5-6 inches per side and 2-3 tall tiny. Can be nice for space reasons.
I'm struggling with a similar decision. I have an XPS 8700, upgraded w/ a SSD, 24GB of memory (probably excessive, but 8GB sticks were $8 when i upgraded), and a Nvidia 1660 6GB GPU. Despite the fact that it's 12 years old, it totally keeps up with these mini PCs in normal tasks, and outperforms for Adobe and gaming applications (even this one which is designed for gaming). But my XPS can't update to Windows 11 safely, so it's going bye-bye once Microsoft support for 10 ends in October. At most, it'll become a Linux box for some purpose. I'd really like to grab one of these little guys to replace, but they really aren't an upgrade outside of power savings and ongoing Windows support (especially with GPU capabilities). Given your XPS is a generation newer, it may be even less attractive, especially if you've upgraded yours like I have.
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I'm struggling with a similar decision. I have an XPS 8700, upgraded w/ a SSD, 24GB of memory (probably excessive, but 8GB sticks were $8 when i upgraded), and a Nvidia 1660 6GB GPU. Despite the fact that it's 12 years old, it totally keeps up with these mini PCs in normal tasks, and outperforms for Adobe and gaming applications (even this one which is designed for gaming). But my XPS can't update to Windows 11 safely, so it's going bye-bye once Microsoft support for 10 ends in October. At most, it'll become a Linux box for some purpose. I'd really like to grab one of these little guys to replace, but they really aren't an upgrade outside of power savings and ongoing Windows support (especially with GPU capabilities). Given your XPS is a generation newer, it may be even less attractive, especially if you've upgraded yours like I have.
Have you looked into Tiny11? It's a stripped down win11 load that doesn't have the hardware requirements/check. I've used it on an older computer and whatever they stripped out of it I don't miss! I do gaming and audio/video/image editing on it
I think the best option (for me) is a M4 Mac Mini, especially if I can get decent cash for the XPS and GPU. Even mid/higher end mini PCs like this won't keep up with the entry level M4 Mini in graphical tasks without a eGPU, which would make it an expensive and clunky setup that is no longer power efficient. The only thing I'd lose is a bit of gaming capability, but not much, and it's a low priority for me. I keep looking, but these mini PCs seemed a lot more interesting before the M4 Mini came out...
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Where does it say that? When I look at this, it says free 30-day returns.
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But from what I am reading on reddit, no one is being charged the restocking fee; you just need to give a reason like the fan is too loud or the wifi doesnt reach far enough.
Obviously, dont destroy the packaging or dent the machine.
For this reason, I actually purchased one from Walmart first (the K8 Plus). Watch the reviews online from ETA Prime or Lon Seidman to get a more accurate perspective of its size.
It seems across the map, that these are quite powerful and quiet. The main issues are the amount of outputs for monitors (some can do only two, others can do as many as four), the placement of ports (some have only USB-A on the back), and situations with setting the amount of memory shared for video.
Look for an oculink port (for most brands) or for the EX connector (beelink) if youre looking to add external graphics. Also be aware that most of the AMD APUs being used for these machines are not that different between the 7 and 8 series, so save a few bucks and get a 7 series, so long as the chassis is up to date.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/...vs_8945hs/