MINISFORUM UM690 Slim Mini PC,AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Mini Desktop Computer AMD Radeon 680M 32GB DDR5 1TB PCIe4.0 SSD, Support 8K@60Hz HDMI 2.1/DP1.4/USB4 Output,4xUSB 3.2 Type A,Wifi6E&BT5.3

I have never updated a review. I want to in this case. This PC is awesome. I left a negative review. I want to change my review. I wish to state I I copied my first review and plan to paste it in at the end of this updated review. I no longer place blame on jack's shop or Minisforum. I now have had 3 PC's that failed because of Windows 11 updates. In each of those incidents this same thing occurred. As most of you know when installing a Windows update restarting the PC is part of the installation. My 3 PC's that got messed up all did the same thing. Windows update appeared to be installing normally during the shutting down phase. However, during the starting back up phase all I got was a black screen. So I now blame Microsoft. I read news yesterday. Many others besides myself has had the same thing happen. My advice is to use Windows 10 until this issue is resolved. Also many people have successfully installed this update I don't know how a person is to know in advance if their PC will install the update successfully. I do know nobody wants to deal with this. This was my original review:I connected it and used it for awhile (2 weeks) a short while then I was told Windows had an update. I thought sure update windows. The PC has never booted since. Before that update I used this PC and was so happy with it. When that update occurred I contacted Minisforum. They replied that I failed to update the BIOS. They were saying in a nutshell that it was my fault for not updating the BIOS. I had it only 2 weeks. I have updated a BIOS before. Straight out of the box it needs a BIOS update or it will crash because of Windows update. Really how was I to know it needed to have a BIOS update or Windows update will crash it. When it worked it was totally awesome. I am posting this to inform new buyers, the very first thing they should do is find out if they need to update the BIOS or they may have the same thing happen them. They sold me a Windows PC with a BIOS that can't handle a windows update. Then said it was my fault for not updating the BIOS. It wasn't my fault like they (Minisforum) says they sold me a new PC with a flawed BIOS. They didn't want to backup their product so they blamed me.

To start off, to call this a gaming PC is laughable. Even when I first got it I was unable to play Skyrim at 1080p and get acceptable framerates without dropping the detail level down to medium and even then within half an hour it would CTD. It was however extremely fast for everything but gaming and in the benchmarks I ran I believe it scored in the top 13%, impressive.My major problems with this unit started a couple of months ago when I added an SSD for more storage. On the side of the unit that the hard drive goes into, there is zero cooling, zero vents and almost zero space. The PCB is double sided and the side that the CPU/GPU are on has all the cooling and the side that the memory and hard drives, 1xM.2 and 1xSSD, has no cooling at all. Adding an SSD rather than just upgrading to a larger M.2 was a big mistake.To be honest, I have not contacted their tech support team yet so my ranking for that is just a default 3 stars. I have done plenty of research, maybe something I should have done before I spent $800 on this unit, and what I found out is that the stability issues with this particular unit, the UM690, are well documented on Reddit and apparently the BIOS and the AMD drivers both play a big roll. In my case, I was also unlucky enough to get a model from before they started putting heat spreaders on the M.2 drive and memory.Right now I have the SSD drive sitting outside the unit and I ran some stress tests to find stable operating settings for the BIOS and it is back to running stable 24/7 as my DVR server. It is still worthless for gaming though.

I LOVE this little guy. I work in data processing field and this little computer is a gem! It boots fast, was inexpensive, and powers everything a home computer needs to without taking much space on my desk. I intended to run Ubuntu Linux as I though I was buying a machine with no operating system as the item description literally just said OS. I was pleasantly surprised to see it did come with a licensed copy of Windows 11, so now I dual-boot. NOTE to manufacturer: mentioning that might be a selling point.Setup is nothing just a few basic cables and though the BIOS is simple (if you're into messing around with those kinds of things), it's easy to use.I do wish there were a few more USB ports and a dual video card, but anther $30 on Amazon for accessories and I got a hub and a USB-C to 2 HDMI extender. It comes with some AMD accelerator software to make gaming better, but that's not what I use it for so have not tried it.Could not be happier! Actually want to buy about a dozen to upgrade my office.

For months, I looked at a TON of options for building a home theater PC – Intel NUC, BeeLink, MinisForum, Zotac, or even a custom build. What I wanted:- All the usual streaming stuff, in 4K with 5.1 surround sound- Ability to do some light gaming (Minecraft, emulators)- Silent operation (or at least very quiet)- Something without useless RGB lights all over it- Something affordableAnd based on those criteria, it came down to a choice between one of the BeeLink SER models or this MinisForum. At the time, Beelink had something like a 15 week backlog, so I went with this one and it is exceptionally good. Affordable, quiet, and extremely powerful for such a compact system.I can't recommend this option enough if you're looking for a "Living Room TV" type of setup.