Opinions on Gigabyte Brix GB-BXA8G-8890?

InfiniteNoise · 5 Dec 2015 at 13:08

In case anyone wondering what it is, it's a mini PC (Intel NUC style) with A8-5557M and R9 M275X.

I'm looking for people's opinion on this, especially/preferably those who have/had it, how does it perform? Are you happy with it? Yeah, questions like these.

I can get one with 8GB RAM for around £200, barely over £240 if I add 120GB SSD mSATA but I have a 750GB hybrid hard drive lying around, so I'll use that instead.

I'll be gaming on it, but not heavily or often, all I play is WoW and some Diablo III, so I'm interested to see how these games perform on it, couldn't find much information on this (well, I can only find the information on the same GPU paired with Intel's Haswell/Boardwell CPUs.) Not expecting it to run everything at max settings at 60fps on my 1920x1200 monitor, but if I can get 60fps with everything on mid-high, I'm happy.

I know the CPU is terrible, but the GPU isn't too bad, that performance in a tiny form factor at a decent price point is nice.

InfiniteNoise · 6 Dec 2015 at 03:23

Fan noise isn't a problem.

Price/performance ratio isn't bad, guess I'll be going for it then.

InfiniteNoise · 8 Jan 2016 at 01:21

Just an update - don't buy this if noise is something that (really) bothers you, though for around £200 with 8GB of RAM and 750GB hybrid hard drive, I can't complain about the price/performance ratio.

Being deaf I didn't think it would bother me, but damn it's so bad, even if I don't hear the fan noise, the vibration is noticeable and at times irritating, especially when the machine's under heavy load, which is pretty much all the time.

On the plus side, I'll have a spare machine to install Linux on (looks like it's going to be a nightmare though, Linux support doesn't seem to be any good on this one) once when I get something better and quieter to play games on.

InfiniteNoise · 8 Jan 2016 at 15:23

Yeah it's on, but the performance loss is noticeable when it's off.

This machine seems to better suited when it's under a TV or something like that, not in a close proximity to the user (the usual desktop set up I guess)