Mini pc to sit under the TV for 360 era gaming

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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Hi everyone

I have a Minisforum 680M which is a few years old now. It struggles with 360 era games at 1080p and if it is realistic I would be looking for 1440p (it is a 4k TV).

I am considering getting some sff dell with a i5 7500 or whatever in it and slotting in a low profile Nvidia 1030?

Or is and AMD 890pro going to be faster these days? If not a lot more expensive

I have an IKEA kalax shelf cube hole thing to fill
 
I recently bought a Intel N100 based mini pc from aliexpress which worked out at about £76 or £70 if topcashback pays out. It's 12GB DDR5, 512GB storage and I've managed to run up to wii u and Switch via emulation with some success at full speed but can struggle. The GPU is only about 300 Gflops but it has full Vulkan 1.4 support and is working surprisingly well however the sensible advice I guess is to pay more and a get Ryzen based mini pc of decent spec, some of those have up to 2 Teraflops of graphic performance and are much faster than the N100 but cost I guess twice as much on average with memory and storage. I've seen them for about £120 but you do need to buy your own memory and storage. However those should take you up to full speed Switch emulation with the possibility of 1440p graphics. So anything below should be fine. I have just received a Ryzen mini pc I ordered from Aliexpress yesterday but unlike the N100 mini pc it has come with the bios completely unoptimised and only single channel memory (1x16GB sodimm rather than 2x8GB sodimm) so I'm collecting a 16GB sodimm today to get it into a dual channel mode. It was a MLLSE model (or something like that) so I probably wouldn't recommend that brand because they haven't set it up very well. They have it running as safely and slowly as possible. So I now have to learn how to adjust the bios for better results. The N100 mini pc came brilliantly optimised for maximum performance. So currently is emulating Switch as fast as my Ryzen mini pc for example. However that will change. My previous mini pc was a Celeron which now that I've impulsed bought the Ryzen I will sell as only need two mini pcs, one upstairs and one downstairs.
 
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