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System home builders in the little kind element (SFF) specific niche definitely like stuffing the most effective parts into the tiniest case possible, and making it look great at the same time. Desktop producers appear to have a lower limitation on these styles.
One shop home builder appears to have actually busted through it. The MegaMini G1 is … well, it's simply the prettiest lil guy.
We've seen initial styles for the MegaMini G1 a couple of times this year, consisting of at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress. Now the makers– small PC professional Geekom and basic electronic devices brand name Tecno– are prepared to begin offering.
Well, practically. It's up on Kickstarter now with an early riser rate of $1,500 and a shipping date set for November 2024.
The tiny, teeny-weeny, Intel-powered tiny PC loads a 13th-gen Intel Core i7 processor and a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 discrete graphics card into a case that's simply 255mm high and 150mm square at the base. That's a volume under 6 liters. (For contrast, the present go-to preferred MiniITX case, Fractal Design's Terra, is 10.4 liters.)
This thing isn't simply small. It's a masterpiece! The MegaMini G1's case is a streamlined vertical affair with windows on 3 sides, flaunting the customized heat exchanger and 4 transparent pipelines going to an L-shaped radiator on the back. Geekom states the bundle is under 36 decibels for sound, compared to 45 to 60 for a basic PC. Keep in mind the internal RGB lighting and little LCD screen on the leading to display status messages.
I'm satisfied by the port choice. You get 4 USB-A ports and an earphone jack on the front, and around the back you get 2 more USB-A ports, double USB-C, double HDMI, DisplayPort, and a complete Ethernet jack. Okay at all for a tiny PC.
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Naturally, there are going to be some compromises. The CPU and GPU are both laptop computer parts, so this is basically a video gaming laptop computer with the screen and keyboard changed with a huge cooling system. (That's how they've packed all those ports down into the bottom.) You'll likewise need to use laptop computer SO-DIMM RAM (32GB on the base design). Both 1TB and 2TB SSDs are used, presumably with double M. 2 slots.
If you can change the RAM or storage, the project isn't stating so. Yeah, this is a relatively one-off style with extremely minimal upgrade choices, no matter what the video states about AI TOPS and how it “carries out simply as well as any superior workstation.” Possibly a first-class workstation from 5 or 6 years earlier.
For the cost, you can develop an SFF PC– and even purchase another tiny PC based upon laptop computer parts, like the Asus ROG NUC– that's going to stomp it in regards to number-crunching power.
