MINISFORUMMS-A1 Mini Workstation Barebone Mini PC, HDMI|DP|USB-C Triple 4K Output, 4X PCIe SSD Slot, 2X 2.5G Ethernet Port, 4X USB, Support AMD AMS Socket CPU/Discrete Graphics Cards

this thing is an awesome, well-constructed, small package, needed the Oculink for the minisforum eGPU dock, works great with that.

Very nice small server. I am using this machine as a VMH and it works very well. It is a little loud when you are using a good percentage of the CPU. I would like to see some better cooling solution for this system, but the foot print and the performance is very good!

This machine has been great for me. The form factor is very nicely laid out and it is well built. What sold me is how powerful it is compared to similar offerings.I did contact support one time via email for a minor concern. I got a response right away and they exceeded my expectations. I'm really impressed.I'll be interested to see what they come out with in the future.

I had ordered this to make a small gaming system for someone using a 7800X3d, then it simply didn't work. I assumed it wasn't getting enough power and forgot about it for a while. Later I read some stuff and determined this was meant for lower power chips. Fast forward a few months, the cheap b650 board I had in a 7950X system died dead. No post no nothing. I pull the processor. Then for whatever reason, I decide to try a 170W processor in this little box. Boots up instantly. That blew my mind because I'm used to the 7950X taking an easy 60 seconds to boot on everything. It has a known long boot. I check the bios settings. Very simple, but it has the options I want. Thermals are great. It can see the 96GB of ram from Mushkin. It just works. I did some benchmarks, and it's not really lagging behind the prior asus board. A few percent, but that's to be expected with it running in eco mode, and the slightly slower ram timings. I had never gotten to the oculink dock. That also just worked. Plugged in a 7900XT to the DEG1, connected the cable, powered it on, saw it immediately. Like it was native.I'm not expecting things to work this easy. Turns out the 7800X3D was bad. This is a great little box. I might have to get more of them. The 7950X in eco mode is probably not the best pairing. I'm betting the 65W 9700X is about perfect in this. Great product.

I bought the barebone version and I added 32Gb RAM and two M.2 SSD. Adding these were very easy and problem-free.There are smaller versions of mini PCs out there and this one is among the bigger ones. MinisForum has Ryzen versions with half of this size.Performance is OK but nothing spectacular. Again, some Ryzen models of MinisForum perform better at Geekbench and in gaming. I guess PCs with Intel CPUs are always more expensive even though some are under performing.

Fast performance, powerful, great price. I expanded it to 64 GB RAM, and it barely breaks a sweat no matter what I’m using it for.

This item comes in a box.Inside the box, there are two boxes; one for the cooling accessories and another for the pc unit.For the specifications, be aware that not all NVME slots are PCIe 4.0x4(2 slots go by 4.0x4, one slot goes by 3.0x4 and lastly another slot goes by 4.0x1). Also RAM speed is only supported up to 5200 MT/s MAX. So if you put in 5600 MT/s RAM kit, it will run at 5200 MT/s nonetheless. So iGPU performance will be reduced slightly.Highly suggest to search for the MS A-1 user manual on the minisforum official site for how to assemble the unit. Inside the PC unit box, there is no how-to instructions document.I am using this with RYZEN 5 8600G. The cooling is sufficient out of the box. It is pretty well built and rather heavy when combined with its LARGE external power supply.

I use this PC with 8600G CPU, excellent result. Small formfactor with a desktop grade CPU.