Briefly: Shopping for a mini PC often means compromising efficiency and residing with a loud cooling system. With the Megamini G1, Geekom and Tecno determined that water cooling was the answer to steadiness measurement with horsepower. Nonetheless, it makes use of laptop computer components and prices tons of of {dollars} greater than similarly-configured laptops.
Geekom and Tecno just lately launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign for what they declare is the world’s smallest water-cooled PC. The 5.47-liter Mini PC boasts laptop-grade {hardware} able to delivering glorious 1080p gaming efficiency.
Whereas most mini PCs depend on built-in graphics or APUs, the Megamini G1 includes a cellular Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU and affords configurations with both an i7-13620H or an i9-13900H processor. It comes geared up with 32GB of DDR5 5200MHz reminiscence, 2TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage, and helps an extra SSD.
The distinctive liquid cooling system is designed to persistently function at below 26 decibels. It has a most circulate fee of two.0 liters per minute, holds as much as 3060 milliliters of coolant, and circulates as much as eight instances per minute. Moreover, the Megamini G1 includes a 6,888 sq. millimeter copper heatsink, twin followers working beneath 36 dB, and an L-shaped radiator able to dissipating as much as 250W.
The mini-PC additionally affords a wide range of high-speed connectivity choices, together with a 63 GB/s OCuLink port for exterior GPUs or further storage. It helps Thunderbolt 4, twin HDMI 2.0 outputs, an Ethernet port, six USB-A ports, an audio jack, and an SD card slot.
One other standout function is a small show display screen close to the highest of the chassis, which exhibits real-time CPU, GPU, and RAM temperatures and utilization.
The Kickstarter marketing campaign for the Megamini G1 has obliterated its preliminary aim, and there is nonetheless greater than a month to go. Transport is deliberate to start in November, with early chicken pricing beginning at $1,499 for the i7 mannequin. The total MSRP for the i9 model is $1,899.
For comparability, Lenovo’s just lately launched Yoga Portal packs an i7-14700 CPU and a desktop RTX 4070 GPU in a equally sized bundle. Nonetheless, it’s seemingly a lot louder, at present solely out there in China, and priced round $2,500.
In the meantime, the Souyo S9, that includes the most recent AMD APU, is predicted to ship spectacular 1080p efficiency. With a Strix Level Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Radeon 890M built-in GPU, it can seemingly energy the following technology of handheld gaming PCs.