Minisforum BD770i/BD790i versus DeskMini X600 / 8700G

softwaresimian · 3 Mar 2024 at 13:23

I was looking at buying a Deskmini X600 with 8700G. However I've just seen the BD770i from Minisforumn which give a system for a similar price (need case & PSU). Or even a DB790i for a small uplift.

Looking at the few benchmarks I can find, the 7745HX seems to be the faster chip for compute ? I'm not too concerned with graphics as I won't be playing games on this system.

So what are the pro's & con's between these two ?

softwaresimian · 3 Mar 2024 at 19:20

Mainly development work. Basically a mix of dev tooling plus Postgres / MongoDB / Kubernetes / RabbitMQ etc. Running a full up cloud application but locally for test & development

Fast storage for the database would be nice and lots or memory, 64GB+

softwaresimian · 7 Mar 2024 at 20:17

If graphics dont concern you, why go for the 8700G? Any of the Ryzen AM5 chips have a basic IGP baked in, that will be enough for windows desktopy stuff.

Hmmm, good idea. I would need an ITX board with two video outputs though ?

softwaresimian · 6 May 2024 at 21:34

I see that the DeskMini X600 has finally been listed on the Asrock site

Linky