hey nice video, I have a question I have been thinking about buying this for a long time and I wonder if it will run Minecraft bedrock smoothly with an acceptable fps, I heard many saying it should work perfectly fine but I wonder if u have any ideas or opinion about this? tysm for the video
I recently got an A5 and so far am very happy, it works very well and is inexpensive and even better it takes up very little space, also it Bluetooths my speakers and WAP's my printer so I don't have cables everywhere picking up dust, it's a breakthrough for home computers and runs Sniper Elite very well with great graphics, as good if not better than my old RX 570 and 6350 CPU.
Great review. I think mini-pcs have come a long way, but until we get really high bandwidth memory, be it DDR6 or quad channel memory or both, they will never be quite there in terms of gaming. Otherwise for CPU intensive productivity tasks and even some GPU tasks they are fantastic.
I think these types of products have a market. They are ideal for households that do not need to use computers very often outside work and are not that tech-savvy.
I purchased the Geekom A5 over a week ago and I am very happy with the speeds for encoding Blu-Ray and 4K DVD movies compared to my M1 Mac mini. Encoding a 4K dvd was cut from 8 - 4 hours. The fan noise is definitely loud compared to my Mac mini that is quiet. I guess I can put up with the noise for a faster encode. 😂
I have maybe ancient HP G2 800 MINI i5 6500T which now runs as my home server for OPNSense and other services like Seafile, MySQL etc.. The best possible solution. It only sips power at idle (6 Watts at Windows and 13 Watts at my Mint Mate setup, also under linux the PCH heats too much IMO but it is nothing harmful anyway yet). I'm not going back to to other solutions. The only excuse for me to use full tower etc. for home server would be having the massive storage (but then we are not talking about power efficiency anymore anyway..). For gaming and workstations the newest ones (MINIs) makes more sense, the old ones are not so powerful to justify their use. For the newest games only full blown RTX 9999 with CPU R9 9999 is a way to go, but I'm barely playing games now so I don't care. I feel like those MINI/TINY PCs are a better choice over laptops as of now, but we will see what will happen in the near future, I guess more people will be looking for energy efficient solutions like me. 400-500 Watts under game load is just ridiculous for standard PCs.
Thank you for your detailed feedback! :) I'm also happy I'm not the only one who's concerned about 500+ Watts of gaming load nowadays with decent, powerful GPUs. Things are starting to get out of hand in terms of power efficiency / overall power consumption.
I like these things, however, at these light workloads a (small) desktop PC can function pretty much completely silent, this thing makes a small fan noise, which I think can be irritating. Haven't actually heard this thing of course, but small fans tend to make an irritating noise.
I bought two of these for work. Came loaded with 32gb ram, they are snappy fast for everything spreadsheets, browsing. There is single reason why elected geekom. They are Taiwan, not Chinese. You need force enable secure boot manually...
