SER5

Definitely do not go for Aoostar or lesser quality brands. If your main worry is 24/7 reliability, I’d stop thinking in terms of “which one box is perfect?” and start thinking in terms of nodes in a cluster. The Beelink SER5 Max gives you a stronger iGPU and more RAM out of the box (6800H + 32 GB DD

Any mini with RDNA2 Radeon RX 680M integrated graphics + 32GB of memory is a solid starting point for BatoceraOS classic console emulation and/or a BazziteOS Steam Deck console. The recently released/oddly named Beelink SER5 MAX (SER6-LP) 6800U has been popular locally for such projects.

The problem with the Beelink SER5 MAX 7735HS beyond the rebadged 6800H processor is the cost cutting lack of USB4 and the fact it's never been listed on the official website. I've also read that these 24GB LPDDR5 memory Beelink minis have problems like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/s/rECBW7

the ram market is fuuuucked but for like 500 bucks you can get a decent mini pc, checkout the beelink SER5 max (7735hs, 24gb ram). I have a laptop with the same chip and beam runs at medium with a couple traffic cars pretty well. The iGPU is very good, mostly bottlenecked by the bandwidth of the ram

I'm gonna disagree with the other commenter and say you don't need much for PS4 era play if you're willing to downsize graphics settings. I got a used beelink ser5 for something like 350 and it can run god of war at 1080p at a locked 30fps. If you go up a hundred bucks obviously it'll have more hors

honestly those are all pretty light workloads, you dont need much. a beelink ser5 or eq12 would be plenty - they go for like $150-250 on amazon and have decent cpus. or if you want even cheaper, grab a used lenovo thinkcentre tiny or dell optiplex micro off ebay for like $80-100. either way 16gb ram

300 users on Matrix is more demanding than people expect. Synapse is a RAM hog and the PostgreSQL DB grows fast with E2EE metadata. Anything under 16GB RAM is going to struggle. What I did instead of buying new was grab a used Dell OptiPlex or Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF off eBay, i5 8th/9th gen, 16GB RA

I have a beelink ser5 max with a full batocera build installed on a secondary drive. You can find the system itself for around the 350+ mark with some shopping, though it seems to be running a bit more expensive now (I bought before tariffs etc became an issue). It comes with win11 pro but you can i

This at $340 is more than plenty for basic office computing. Beelink Ser5 Max The non-Max version would work as well at $280. Beelink Ser5 Edit: my bad, just saw the 1tb requirement. Those Beelinks above have a second ssd slot that you could add more storage with. Something like this would work. GMK

It is Beelink! i bought a SER5 back before the rampocalypse happened, really sad they dont sell it on amazon anymore, i was able to comfortably play RDR2 on this little beast for 250 bucks (that's what it used to cost back then and albeit on the lowest possible graphics, still a consistent 40 - 50 f