Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've used MSI motherboards for builds before, and found them to very solid, as this product has been. I wanted the Cubi 5 not for business, but mostly as an entertainment center connected to my TV. I bought a remote control (by ZYF) for PC to select things from the couch. This Cubi 5 has lived up very well to expectations: nearly silent, excellent performance, and quality graphics. It is truly AMAZING what such a small device can do now! The Intel Gen 10 i3 is a powerful CPU. I will mention a couple of issues in using this with a TV: - Picture quality is not quite as good as a monitor with my TV. After making adjustments, I got it to be much improved, but a monitor would still provide better quality. (I wonder if a newer model TV would give better quality with a PC?) That said, HD video streams and HD video files still look excellent on full screen. - older analog video files may not look good when expanded to full screen. -Windows 10 is imperfect for an entertainment PC. I considered just wiping the drive and installing a Linux distro, but wanted to give Windows a chance. Staying with it for now. - you'll probably need to expand text to improve selecting items from a distance - I use a different media player than what comes with Win10, though that's not too bad. - This is a lot more expensive than a Roku media streamer, but a lot more powerful.

This mini computer has been working extremely well in my living room hooked to my big screen LED paired with a blue tooth keyboard, track-ball mouse and HD webcam for family zoom meetings. I was pleasantly surprised with the quick response and fast boot up and shut down times. Plus its easily upgradable.