GTi14 Mini PC Intel Ultra 9 185H(16C/22T), 32G DDR5-5600MHz 1TB PCIe4.0 SSD, Mini Computer Support Dual 2.5G LAN, Fingerprint Sensor, Build-in Power Supply, Al Voice Interaction Gaming PC

I got this mini pc, after purchasing 4 other Beelink mini pcs a couple years ago. The previous where AMD cpus and very fast. I maxed them out to 64GB ram, which was a lot at the time. Now I am playing with AI LLMs which require a lot of processing - typically on an external GPU. I got this with the dock as a combo purchase. I also order 96GB of ram and a 30390TI (24GB vram and 10K+ processing units). The small form factor is vert nice. I can do crazy things with this setup without a large case PC. The built in AI capability actually does very well, though is a fraction of course compared to a GPU. I can still load 8GB + LLMs into memory and results come in a few minutes. Besides basic chatting, which is almost instant, at 2.88 tokens a second, I have it processing and extract information out of t-sql scripts and html files. This does take a long time with the built in AI compute chip. Though I can have it doing this task while I do others. This does take complete disassembly to upgrade the ram and ssd - but I only need to do it once so that is fine. Does this preform its AMD equivalent? I doubt it. But I got this model specifically for the dock able external GPU. A standalone, AMD will probably ALWAYS be better. Still, this has a lot of cpu power to do everything. Id recommend this if you want a Intel or a docking ability.

I may be prejudiced in my assertion that this is better than a raspberry pi since I’m allergic to raspberries. That and I’m a key lime pie guy. But wait, that has nothing to do with this pc. So, here’s the deal, I needed something to use as a Plex server. I wanted something snappy with low power consumption. This fit the bill nicely. It’s on 24/7. I’ve had no hiccups, no overheating, no noise, it streams like a champ. I remote into it when I add media and that’s as much as I need to interact with it. You’re probably not going to game on it, but I can definitely see using it for office work, email, browsing and…. A pretty cool Plex server. It’s a solid recommendation from me.

With this little guy, I finally upgraded my 1st gen Intel i7 server that was about 40 lbs and took up a lot of space. First thing I did was install Ubuntu. I kept Win10 Pro on, so it's setup as a dual boot. Got all the necessary software loaded and played around with it for a couple days. There has been no issues so far. It's very fast and snappy for general desktop usage. Works great on dual screen. Haven't run anything super taxing on it as I have other machines for those tasks. This one has other missions. Waiting for a new SSD to arrive so I can install as a secondary drive. It's a little better pricing than a NUC and I like it's port config better, we'll see how it goes.

From the comparisons I did online, its processing power is comparable to that of a Core i3 from 8th generation or a Core i5 from 6th generation, but its way cheaper and more modern than those, has 16GB RAM and 500GB disk. It's surprisingly cheap for what it offers. I bought it to have a good enough PC that will not consume too much energy to host services in my home and I haven't had any issue so far with it. I installed Linux Debian on it and it's working like a charm. As side notes: the customer support is good and the packaging had some attention to detail which I loved. Not just some cardboard with the product inside, I felt like opening some decent hardware, like a gift for myself. Now, what comments do I have? Since I'm running it as a server, I ditched all of the GUI stuff and it doesn't even turn on the fans (it's quite cold, actually), but when I used Windows and updated the system, it used them probably at slow speed (i didn't even know this PC had fans until then) and that's not a problem, not like it was hot or even throttling. I haven't seen it lag so far. However, let's be honest, I don't think this PC is any good for modern gaming. It has a Celeron processor and lacks a dedicated graphics unit. I think it's meant to be used for other purposes: it does office job without any issue and is more than enough for using the browser with a lot of tabs opened. Even so, I think it should be enough for 2015s - 2019s gaming. Also, for example, some non-demanding games like Minecraft or something that can be tuned for low-performance equipment. Probably also League of Legends, I'll let you know if I install it. Currently I'm running 2 servers which don't ever exceed 2 or 3 users and 1 is a video server running Jellyfin on Docker. The processor doesn't usually exceed 5% usage and the RAM doesn't usually exceed 1.5G. Anecdote incoming: Last time I bought a piece of hardware I bought more than I needed and now I have a laptop that rarely exceeds its 5% CPU usage or 10% RAM usage and I almost never use the GPU for anything, since I don't even play games frequently and I'm used to playing on the lowest specs. Unused resources are wasted resources. Today I am happy because I feel like I bought exactly what I needed and for less than what I expected to spend.

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