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Pros & Cons
Pros
Great for the home office setup or a small business. Very compact design, fits well on desk. Easy to hide & perfect for what i want to do outside my home office.
All front-facing usbs are 2. Gbit/s. Comes with two types of mounts - one where you can sit it vertically on a table or counter, and a flat surface mount which can mount to the back of some monitors. It also has a plug-in cable going from it to the wa... Read More
Msi's i3-12100 is a 4 core, 4c/8t desktop cpu. Can run linux at up to 64 gb/s and can be upgraded to a i5 12700.
Intel has made some real strides in getting their graphics on par with nvidia and amd's offerings, and i'm favorably impressed. See my demo video for genshin impact at 1080p lowest setting.
It's a snug fit, but not anything that's hard to do. I like the fact that it has a full sized fan and that fan is pretty much silent. If you have this on top of your desk in a very quiet room you can kind of hear the coils doing their thing.
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Quality
Love the ssd upgradability, the ease of only 5 screws to get to the point of mounting everything and screwing the added drives ... Read More
Pros: small form, plenty of usb ports, very quiet, upgradeable.
Com/gp/product/b0b8276v21/ - and the upgradability to have a video card for better graphics.
There is an empty ddr4 so-dimm slot (2 total) which i immediately filled to have 16gb total ram.
Price
I ended up seeing this unit on sale and i have to say i've very happy with it.
Highly recommend if you need an affordable pc for kids and some light office work.
- price is not cheap but given the performance, i consider it reasonable.
Overall i am impressed with what you can get for the money.
Shipping
Msi was down on the day i was having this problem.
Within 5 minutes, customer service got back with me to let me know the cords were to attach additional drives, etc.
Packaging/appearance
If nothing else, the packaging allows for a thermal solution that's capable of handling a "normal" tdp desktop cpu.
In fact, i'm really very pleased with how capable this little box is.
I took a bunch of pictures of it inside and out as well as the package contents.
I was intimidated by the extra cords that came in the box so i put in a work order to ask about them.
Competitiveness
It seems intel has made some real strides in getting their graphics on par with nvidia and amd's offerings, and i'm favorably impressed!
The external power supply is rated for 120 watts which is at least as good as the beefiest nuc mini pcs.
The msi is different, though, meaning to handle the same problem, but with (theoretically) fewer tradeoffs.
Perhaps the ones with integrated radeon graphics will out-perform this, but without having one of those to compare, side-by-sid... Read More
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 27.5% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 93 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 3 2024.
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Not for gaming but every thing else no problem
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We dont do gaming so have no idea if its good for that
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A little noisy from coil whine heard the same noise on two different units so it appears to be by design
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Its a faint noise though so its not too big of a deal but if you have this on top of your desk in a very quiet room you can kind of hear the coils doing their thing
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Also have to remember this is a desktop processor in a very small form factor so im not too surprised
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Very limited bios options for custom tweaking
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Pros very fast handles most things well like multiple tabs and apps simultaneously relatively easy to set upcons lessor quality keyboard but adequate attempt to contact support unanswered some bloatware necessary to remove
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I got this msi pro dp21 12m407us mini pc business desktop to try
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