This Mini PC Can Game! Miniforums HN2673 Review With Intel Ark A730M GPU

lol what is this BIOS? Is it from 2004?
DDR4 is much cooler maybe that's why they used it instead of DDR5

Locked bios really sucks.

I'm Glas they started using MFM cards, makes it possible to upgrade in future. Is the cpu removable?

cpu very poor on this HN2673, the best mini pc for 1080p 2023 gaming is the hx77g/hx99g

Thank you so much for this. I bought this for my son for some gaming and mobility, since he moves it from his moms place to mine, since he has monitors at both places. Then I read more reviews and started to see negative comments for the gaming it's capable of. Such a relief to see your review and know it'll be just fine for him.

Did you retested this mini PC? Some new intel Arc drivers now uplifted the average gaming performance by over 110%

Just recieved the unit and got 5 bsod during the initial setup. During all the updates for win 11 I got a few more bsod. Might return and get the hx99g

I can’t tell the difference between an arc a730M and a rx6600M 😂. Which is better graphics card?

this is a perfect small pc to upgrade. time to let go my old 13yr friend

I bought it as a stand alone retro emulation machine…

The fan noise could be a problem

does ddr5 ram actually run in this or is the bios limiting it somehow?

This PC will be simply perfect for normal use and video editing, nice review, Chris.

These things would've made a ton of sense 2 years ago when we couldn't find a gpu without some mine a-hole taking it first. But now for these prices you can get far better PC parts for less.

Shame they didn't use a single 180mm fan like a Silverstone Air Penetrator. Much more quiet at the same cooling capacity and since it's a lower frequency hum it's more agreeable with human hearing.

Thank you very much!

I am loving all the new mini PC's that are coming out and the progress made. They still have their quirks but things are really moving towards having gaming laptop quality in a small box format

Wow, nice to see Arc GPUs getting some love!

love the build quality, but ONLY one NVme and low performance!....its a shame

Minimalist box with Maximal overprice.

HX99G & HX80G a lot better than this 👍
this one is not bad for the price, but the CPU temp is crazy bad!

A minute of footage rendering as a test for a non anemic PC, is a joke. I don't know why you are not doing at least 10 minutes.

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Their HX80G is far more attractive package than this. The Ryzen 5800H CPU might be a close but The RX 6600M (8GB) is a much better GPU than the A730. and it cost $700 for 1TB/32GB

Hi would you do a review of HeadWolf Fpad 3?

Funny how Intel Arc mobile are present on a mini PC while the only laptop variant to come out this past year or so is one from China. And it's not even going global after being announced for almost a year. I hope codename "Battlemage" has better presence in the laptop space as much as they do on the desktop space than Arc 1.

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