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This is a simple and effective setup for a windows machine and more powerful than the typical pi builds I usually see. Nothing too remarkable I can comment on other than it would be nice to have the mini pc and battery attached to the back of the display. Best wishes your brother has fun with his bo

interesting. windows is buns for this kind of thing but it can work.linux mint on a pc for ease of use, or a dedicated freenas machine to host media and jelly, then a home theater pc to play. i really like the bosgame style mini pcs on amazon. good deal on 6-8 core little server things. get a usb hd

Best games? Source needed. Everything I need plays on Linux. If you mean the highest grossing games with comical anti-cheat, then that’s just your opinion that they are "the best". I have a Windows 11 machine, but for mini-PCs it’s not the default best OS. No idea what it does some of the time too,

It depends if you’re talking about dense models or MOE models. On 70B+ MOE models, you have benchmarks above that, and you won’t get better performance with a single GPU with 24 or 32GB of VRAM and the rest in RAM. The only time you’ll do better with GPUs is if your entire model fits in VRAM, includ

The other key advise is to make sure Mini PC runs at full 55W power for 7840HS or higher, I've seen a few posts of people with Ryzen 7 8945HS that came capped by bios and could only run at 22 watts, same as most 7840HS and 8945HS laptops, meaning no "performance mode" for them. That really limits an

Typically, you could. My BOSGAME P5/P5 Pro uses Windows PE to reinstall as they had an ISO image on their site. I could do the traditional route of creating a media tool. It's just faster personally for me.