The construction that drives three 8K displays and can be supplemented with an eGPU also supports link aggregation.
The Minisforum presented the MiniWorkStation MS-A1 mini PC, which is in principle the smallest and at the same time the most expandable solution based on the AMD Socket AM5 platform.
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The novelty arriving with the AMD A300 control bridge can be ordered with an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU, under the hood of which a Radeon 780M IGP serves alongside the NPU. There are two DDR5 DIMM slots on the motherboard of the device, so it can handle up to 96 GB of memory working with an effective clock signal of 5200 MHz, while three M.2 2280 and one M.2 2280/22110 connectors await our seven-slot storage. Of the latter, two sockets communicate with a x4 and one with a x1 PCI Express 4.0 interface, but there is also a full-bandwidth PCI Express 3.0 instance among them.
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The separately purchased Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 modules can be inserted into an M.2 2230 Key E slot, while the cooling of the hardware is ensured by a system that adjusts four heat pipes and two fans. On the front of the machine, which is thoroughly sprinkled with ventilation slots, there are two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A and one USB 2.0 port next to the 3.5 mm combo jack, while on the back there are two 2.5 gigabit links (with Realtek RTL8125BG chip) aggregatable Ethernet, a DisplayPort 2.0, an HDMI 2.1 output, a video signal and a 40 Gbps USB4 Type-C prepared for data transmission, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, and another USB 2.0 connector can be registered OCulink for operating the external GPU outside the connector.
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The iron with physical dimensions of 189.5 x 186 x 48 mm can be added to the basket in the following configurations:
- barebone – 290 euros
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G + 32 GB RAM + 1 TB SSD – 830 euros
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Source: prohardver.hu
