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The K8 Plus is the most iconic 8845HS Oculink Mini PC and GMKtec is a bigger Brand, Aoostar has to be aggressive on pricing to win market shares. Don t get me Wrong the K8 Plus is my all time Favorite Mini PC, and i own both GEM 12 (first Version) and K8 Plus, i love them both, the 8845HS is my favo
...RobloxFanEdit in r/MiniPCs
July 29, 2026 at 11:11 PM
5
If you don’t need games then Mac mini is a no brainier here.I am a software engineer and I replaced my main workstation with i9-9900x on x299 platform with it. And it works perfectly fine for 2 years already doing everything faster and silently. With it you can be sure that it will work 10 years and
...Cool-Customer9200 in r/MiniPCs
May 26, 2026 at 11:06 AM
5
It's a solid unit. the R 8745HS is right there at the sweet spot of Low Price to High Performance in the Mini PC space. If you have serious technical issues in the first 3 weeks, consider returning the unit to Amazon for a replacement or refund. It's not about brand, it's the reality that ALL minis
...BlueElvis4 in r/MiniPCs
September 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
7
Of these three I'd go with the Aoostar Gem 12 Max. It has the 2nd NVMe slot and better cooling. However if you're going to be gaming without oculink & dGPU then you're better off getting something with faster soldered LPDDR5X RAM as it will have a big impact on 780m performance.
Specific-Action-8993 in r/MiniPCs
June 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM
4
I just got the Aoostar GEM 12 Max https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-gem12-max-8745hs-for-eu-customers with an eGPU setup so I can recommend it (for now, the older versions of the GEM seems to have a lot of issues).
axelhansson in r/MiniPCs
June 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
3
Mainly for the better value to price, essentially 8745HS / 8845HS (just has the NPU) / H255 are the exact same chip. At my market (plus I wanted to take it from amazon for 2 years warranty) the best deals currently was with the H255. The second point was the I/O, I needed 2xUSB 4 with 40Gbps (one of
...Vast-Singer-2839 in r/MiniPCs
June 25, 2026 at 3:43 PM
3
Why does it look like a Aoostar Gem 12? They all have one father I guess. LoL Also that's double the price and probably no real benefits in games or am I wrong?
zukich7 in r/MiniPCs
June 25, 2026 at 11:16 PM
2
Aoostar gem 12 + or max fits the bill I have the + it’s fantastic and both have Oculink
EXPOPSPEC in r/MiniPCs
July 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
2
Glum-Office279 in r/Steam
July 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
2
So here’s my rec after a fried mini which I got full refund on… don’t get the peladn wo4 terrible cooling the aoostar gem 12 is dual fan vapor cooled and this is under load on black ops 7 for the last two hours It’s a beast and with egpu hitting stupid fps because it also has oculink
EXPOPSPEC in r/MiniPCs
May 29, 2026 at 7:37 AM
2

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