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 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

Honestly, if I were building a dedicated cabinet I'd probably spend a few hundred bucks and get a Mini PC (like a Beelink SER5 or something) and run Batocera on it. It doesn't take much to comfortably run every single arcade game that is currently reliably emulated in MAME, FBNeo, Daphne, etc. Hell,

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

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

Basically you're looking for 32GB of RAM with the graphics sharing memory and DDR5 AMD 6000 serious processors or newer with Radeon RDNA graphics for the best overall experience. The 5800H has older DDR4 Vega graphics. The M1 6800H is an older design and at $340 is probably 16GB. The Beelink SER5 68

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

My Beelink SER5 pro was about $330 and it can play some ps3. The non-pro version is $299.