Al's games-and-tech quilling began on PC Gamer Specials magazine in the year 2000, before moving on to PC Format and then out into game development. In the last 23 years he’s reviewed a bajillion games and assorted pieces of hardware, spent 13 years in game dev, built PCs, dry-stone walls, and ebikes, and logged 1000 hours in Fallout 76.
In recent years, the best mini PCs have really bulked up to become modest yet genuinely viable gaming platforms. The Accelerated Processing Units in these tiny machines are made for laptops. They comprise a CPU running at a prudent wattage and an Integrated Graphics Processor to handle games and video.
Being more than capable of proper 1080p gaming performance and practically anything else you might want to do, the Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT is the best mini PC around. Housed in a compact chassis and mounted in its vertical stand, the AtomMan G7 PT is larger than your average mini pc, but still diminutive in terms of desktop footprint. Chances are, if you're in the market for a mini pc for gaming, then space is a factor, and this wee beasty takes up very little.
You might think this compelling combo of components would make the G7 PT screeching-hot and noisy, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Minisforum's proprietary Cold Wave cooling tech is fantastic. It tames heat, tightly manages airflow, keeps fan noise to a minimum, and dedicates supplementary cooling to the RAM and M.2 drives.
The APU at the heart of things is AMD's Ryzen 9 7940HS. It's a fantastic chip, wielding eight cores and 16 threads which can hit a turbo clock speed of 5.2 GHz, and folds the mighty little Radeon 780M into its design. It has since been superseded by the newer Ryzen 9 8945HS, but you won't see a generational shift in performance between the two.
Popping the UM790 Pro open to install your parts is easy, though not the most elegant process. Four screws on the underside hold the upper shell to the component-tray, but these are hidden beneath the unit's four glued-on rubber feet. So getting at them involves tugging the feet off and breaking the rubber seal; it's worth putting another dab of glue on them when you put it back together.
Geared towards high-end laptops, the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU offers a mix of efficient, ultra-efficient and performance cores, with the purpose of drawing reduced wattages in times of low demand and ramping them up when games and apps require it to. For gaming though, it's the six multithreading performance cores, which cap out at 5.1 GHz, which we're most interested in.
The only downside is the RRP. For its asking price of two grand, you can build a system with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, an RTX 4080 Super and all the trimmings, in a small form-factor chassis. This will absolutely demolish games at 1440p and run them comfortably at 4K. In this context, the Asus ROG NUC is objectivelya bargain, or even particularly good value.
It's highly competent with indie games at 1080p and medium settings, and we tested a range of titles including Subnautica , Stray , Soulstone Survivors and finished up with some good old Doom Eternal . It can definitely get a little 'chatty' when its fans crank up should you start making that AMD CPU run a little harder.has been designed to look good, and it absolutely does, but it's also got the power to impress inside, too. And with the AyaSpace software a level of granularity to its configuration few can deliver.
While the 7840HS generally runs at TDPs between 35-54 W, Ayaneo limits this to 47 W, which results in a top turbo clock speed of 4.7 GHz, rather than the chip's theoretical maximum of 5.1 GHz. It's no great loss to be fair, and set against similar APUs in other machines, it only drops one or two fps in more demanding and heavyweight games. otherwise it's pretty much identical in performance to other APUs running the Radeon 780M.
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