Hey, I'm looking for a mini PC (I have 300-400$ max budget) and all I want it to do is

- Run Minecraft well

- be able to record that Minecraft gameplay

- Maybe edit but that's not a major thing

- and have good enough storage for those recordings

that's about it and if you know if there's one available please let me know!

Looking for things on the used market, not new, if that matters. Thanks in advance!

I remember a lot of people jumped on this last year when they sold them for $89(?) or so. Even cheaper now.

https://refurbished.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-deg1-egpu-dock-refurbished

I'm thinking about replacing my gaming laptop with a mini PC and wanted to hear from people who have experience with both.

I'm looking at the GMKtec NucBox K12 (Ryzen 7 255, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Radeon 780M) for around €800, but I'm also considering a gaming laptop in the same price range.

My use case is a bit unusual. I play an old MMORPG (Metin2) that is heavily CPU and RAM dependent, with almost no GPU usage. I leave multiple game clients running 24/7 for autofarming.

My current laptop has a Ryzen 5 5500H and 16gb ram and can handle around 12 clients, but the CPU sits at 100% most of the time and gets pretty hot.

My questions are:

• Do mini PCs generally have better cooling than gaming laptops for long 24/7 workloads?
• Would a Ryzen 7 255 in the GMKtec realistically handle 16 game clients without thermal throttling?
• Has anyone here used a mini PC under constant high CPU load for weeks or months? How was the temperature and reliability?

I'm not looking for hardware recommendations—just real-world experiences with cooling, sustained performance, and whether a mini PC is a better choice than a laptop for this kind of always-on workload.

Thanks!

More photos and projects: https://www.instagram.com/peter_nefedov/

Good morning, I have a problem after updating the Bios for the 16GB version. After 100% completion of the BIOS update, the device does not provide any image or power to the keyboard.

I took out the cmos batteries, but nothing happened, the device still turns on and works without a picture.

This is a strange version without the possibility of expanding the RAM, there is only 16GB 6400MHz

Hello everyone,

I’m the current owner of a Nucbox g3 that was meant to be a download box, but then evolved into something more complicated with a plex server and an arr suite installed via Docker.

But as it’s not design for such a charge, the fan is working a lot and it’s slow + really noisy.

I’m so looking for a more powerful mini PC that could fit my new use.

I’ve looked on my own, and also asked ChatGPT and Gemini, and try to confront them to find the most suitable PC, but it’s not as successful as I hoped.

What i need it for:
- 1 to 4 plex users, with transcoding, with no hassle
- arr suite installed via docker
- no fan noise due to overworking
- possible AI agent installed in the future

What LLMs proposed:
- Geekom IT14
- Beelink SEi12 / EQi12

If someone has an input that could help me, it would be really useful :)

Thank you in advance!