I have three of them which have all been fine after re-applying the thermal paste however I agree that I would be cautious when ordering and Minisforum seem to have a bit of a lacking attitude when it comes to the units which don't work (Seen some less than pleasing reports regarding the returns process)
Personally I think with the release of the A2 comming soon I would hang fire if you aren't bothered about Thunderbolt based networking as if anything the newer A2 units may be slightly cheaper than the MS-01s
Well, unless the MS-01s have a price drop, if you can pick them up unpopulated for £300ish for the i5 unit I would go for one at that price, I wouldn't buy the i9s as thermally they seem to have some problems.
The other bit is if this is going to be in a 10" rack make sure you have active cooling ready as they do get warm, especially if you are using any add-in cards
Thanks, i5 not really an option for my usage - not hugely CPU heavy but does actually need a lot of cores (one of my usages is running software originally intended to be hosted on multiple systems and doesn't seem to play nice if crammed onto a smaller number of cores even if those are fast cores - one of the reasons I've been considering the 7945hx even though I don't need that performance).
Won't be using add-in cards but cooling shouldn't be an issue.
