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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Good idea poor execution
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I purchased this to run games from my Steam Library. The games are older titles that do not require a lot of graphical horsepower. The integrated 780m chip is perfect for this so I ordered one of these mini-pcs. The unit itself functions well overall, but the VRAM is capped at 512MB. I don't know why the VRAM is set so extraordinaryly low but it is and I can't adjust the value through the BIOS. If the manufacturer had stated this in the description, which it was not at the time of purchase, then I could have avoided this aggravation. I would have known prior to buying that despite the specs on paper looking good this wouldn't serve my needs. I gave this three stars because it otherwise worked as advertised. It runs quiet, the processor and 32GB of ram were quick and responsive, and the one or two things I streamed looked great. This is not a bad little computer it just doesn't live up to its spec sheet. If you are more interested in having a quiet SFF home streaming and/or office PC this will work wonders for you. If you want to turn it into a tiny steam deck you'll be disappointed. If the VRAM could be adjusted I'd probably still have this and probably would have given this five stars. I simply don't understand who in their right mind only allocates 512MB of VRAM in 2026.
