ACEMAGICIAN Ryzen Mini PC, AMD Ryzen 5 5600U(up to 4.2GHz) 6C/12T, 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB SSD Mini Computer, AM07 Mini Business PC USB-C, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Windows 11 Pro, Support 4K@60Hz

This PC is quite amazing, especially for the cost. It has Windows 11 on it and does not have a lag. Right now, it is handling standard work things and gaming. We are currently running Steam gaming and it works well. The system seems to have a little trouble with Oculus VR rendering, but the system works well beyond that.

I use it as a compute server over VNC (its headless). I dont care for Windows 11 but am getting used to it.

This Mini PC is a perfect for heavy multitasking as the Ryzen 5 5600U provides plenty of performance not only for work tasks but you’re also able to use this for gaming which makes this ideal for playing games using a TV. For most users 16GB is plenty of memory and 500GB SSD is decent for most home/home office needs. What makes this Mini PC better than others is you have dual ethernet ports, if you plan to use this as a media server such as pairing this with a USB TV tuner stick this would be a perfect compact DVR setup.

Having two NICs, I purchased this to be a replacement PFSense firewall and proxy server. As of the begining of 2023, the hardware in this is too new for the current PFSense so, had to switch to the Dev version. This computer may seem over kill for a firewall but, with PFSense it is also a proxy server and so much more. So, if you want a PFSense firewall with this computer until PFSense 2.7 is officially released, use the Dev version.

I have a small business that specializes in destruct testing. We use Mac computers for our engineering group and Windows for the regular business side. We wanted to add a computer on a kiosk in the waiting room where customers could come in and look at films of some of our testing over the years. So, it was important to have Wireless capability for the network and for the keyboard/mouse and that the form factor be small.

Let me start this out by confessing that Im not a techie by any stretch of the imagination. So Ill leave the nuts and bolts to the more qualified. Im just a guy who cant even remember the last desktop I purchased. But I still recall the thrill of walking into a store and plunking down 2k on a Compaq that couldnt do a quarter of what this baby can.

This style of mini PC was popularized by the Intel NUC - I own two NUCs plus a GEEKDOM NUC-clone and love them. This Ace Magician mini-PC isnt in the same league, build-wise, as the NUCs or even the clone, but the configuration is the minimum I would recommend to anyone (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD). Im an Intel guy, so am not intimately familiar with the AMD lineup, but the Ryzen 5 5600U is a decent midrange processor with good integrated graphics.

So I unboxed this, connected my wireless keyboard and mouse and a monitor, then plugged it in. The PC recognized my monitor and the keyboard/mouse combo and I was off. IF YOU DONT WANT TO USE A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT TO LOG INTO THIS PC, DO NOT CONNECT TO YOUR HOME NETWORK UNTIL AFTER THE SETUP IS COMPLETE.

This is an inexpensive upgrade for older desk tops, where you already have one or more monitors. Its very fast for routine tasks and works fine on simple games and video.

This is the third mini PC we own and I love that they are so small but powerful. This Acemagician took about 10 minutes to plug in, hook up and start using. In one of the pictures you can see that right after setting it up through the windows setup, it immediately let me know there were updates and started doing them. It was fast and I was back to browsing within a few minutes.