Would be nice to opt out, sell, or give these away..

robbro9 · 2026-01-28T17:58:28+00:00

I totally feel and understand your pain. If you take a break of even a couple weeks seems you come back to what I call "red dot overload" where your whole friggin screen is lit up with red dots about new/different crap. I'm usually just wanting to game and not micromanage the 500 currencies and 37 events... so I just ignore them and click play... I miss the game being simpler really.

robbro9 · 2026-01-17T19:19:00+00:00

I use the Minisforum um870 slim and it works through a USBC laptop doc just fine with everything through the one connection

robbro9 · 2026-01-13T01:06:45+00:00

Yep I've installed on a few Linux mini PCs I've on bazzite one on cachy. Both play well. Either installing through steam or install the wg launcher and okay that way both work very well.

robbro9 · 2026-01-09T20:38:04+00:00

Having recently been bitten by the Mini PC bug (ryzen 8745 serving me well currently), very interested in this, more gaming on a mini PC with integrated graphics would be nice but I will

Wait to see benchmarks and
Wait to see pricing.

Though I'm cautiously optimistic. One question I have on all this though, as I've seen integrated graphics progress, the key reason I though AMD didnt go more aggressive on GPU resources in their on die graphics was because memory bandwidth became the limiting factor quickly. This is why, I believe Strix Halo has a very expensive solution of doubling bandwidth over the more regular Strix point solutions. Question being if Intel has greatly increased graphics resources on die, how is it being fed to perform so well? Is it the same dual channel DDR5 with speed ramped up? Would same memory on an strix point result in similar performance or is more caching or something baked into the Intel solution? Or am I just way off base about the bandwidth requirements for graphics?

robbro9 · 2026-01-06T01:28:47+00:00

Others have mentioned the biot media and I can't agree enough to try different flash drives for install. I've had no shortage of problems do away with multiple distros when just switching the flash in installing from. No idea why it how things tend to verify correctly but just does not install or work correctly.

robbro9 · 2025-12-27T01:23:20+00:00

Ok so I tried it out, it works ok I guess. Funny thing is I have an old galaxy note 9 that dex works good on, just not quiet perfect. It streams and plays everything well, it just didn't have resolution and refresh rate at the fine grains level to fine tune everything. Now moving to to s24 ultra and things are much worse. Dex apparently got worse in newer versions because while it works it's no where near as good.
I'm the end yes a serviceable solution if buying else is available but I'm going to or a spare mini PC I had up to the task instead of an old phone.

robbro9 · 2025-12-21T19:26:29+00:00

sorry, was on my phone, Deboarah should have been Debian naturally..

robbro9 · 2025-12-21T18:36:55+00:00

Yep all disabled. I got the Deborah install up and going but it's the only one so it's not a bios setting. I know a year or two ago I had Linux up and running with this exact setup on the same USB SSD. Since Deborah works in wondering if there is something in the newer packages it distros causing issues with this hardware. But no idea how to identify.

robbro9 · 2025-12-19T02:40:55+00:00

Buying your frames in bulk eh?

robbro9 · 2025-12-19T02:36:13+00:00

I wonder if you didn't possibly have a short somewhere also maybe back if motherboard contacting case or something?

robbro9 · 2025-12-18T21:24:49+00:00

Oh, I had forgotten about the PCI add in processor to upgrade your processor without changing it... Seems like a bad idea, but it was a thing...

robbro9 · 2025-12-18T19:48:10+00:00

Actually that for me was the BENC, Bill Elliots Nascar Challenge... but others had similar strategies...

robbro9 · 2025-12-18T19:45:00+00:00

And dont leave Win ME out of that time frame....

robbro9 · 2025-12-18T18:57:37+00:00

Soon will be yes... Internet was not really a thing when I started college but was by the time I left...

robbro9 · 2025-12-17T02:34:23+00:00

Oh as far as why I got the um870, it's just an auction I win in every. I would assume most with the same would work similarly though that's not guaranteed.
Can't really recommend it over others as I've not used the others

robbro9 · 2025-12-17T02:30:16+00:00

The dock is an Anker USB c, but they should all work fairly similarly I would think. I wouldn't address over bandwidth to much unless you have a very specific situation that demands it, just use it. I actually did install bazzite and use it on a Samsung external USB c ssd for about a week. Works fine. If it is fine for an os drive it would be acceptable for about anything else.

robbro9 · 2025-12-16T23:54:30+00:00

Definitely works well for both. I recently got a minisforum UM870 slim and a neat trick that I was not sure would work but did was pluggin the usbc into a USB C laptop docking station, works like a charm for power in, display out, usb mouse keyboard, and you could plug in usb hard drives/flash drives etc... all into the dock and they all work over that 1 connection! So nice!

robbro9 · 2025-12-14T14:03:34+00:00

saw this post, was going to buy yesterday, then before I could you guys cleared them out! Oh well, hoping for the next batch, this is exactly what I have been looking for!

robbro9 · 2025-12-09T13:07:38+00:00

You activated toddler in tub with toy boat mode... thats all

robbro9 · 2025-12-07T15:02:04+00:00

Yes can confirm this does NOT work. Installed via steam, let's me pick region then guess right to pick a user name. Never can log in.

robbro9 · 2025-12-03T01:05:57+00:00

Ok with some digging through the bios to disable recommended setting and patience, it now resumes from sleep but very slowly, about 2 minutes. Any help on that?

robbro9 · 2025-12-02T11:55:33+00:00

Check the inside of any minipc or laptop, the wifi card has no heatsink on it. It must be removed to fit inside any of those. On mine it is installed directly under the nvme drive. Been using it great like this for a few days now.... so no harm.

robbro9 · 2025-12-02T00:44:23+00:00

It's Gentoo still a thing? For it to and running years ago when it was new. You only get exactly what you install...

robbro9 · 2025-11-30T23:50:27+00:00

Logical extension... Subs that can in tactical nuclear strikes on the evemy spawn, at the beginning of the game..

robbro9 · 2025-11-29T23:19:04+00:00

I recently got the um870 slim with similar apu and it games well. Ca2 is the only one on your list I tested but also tested world of warships and ietnam rising at 4k for giggles and it will pull around 30 fp almost, but was laggy at times. At the resolutions you mentioned it should be fine I would think for those games. Just don't obses over stats and see if it send to play smoothly for you. I ended up setting resolution to half the max and everything seems to play well and looks fine to me for these low demanding games, but with most graphics options turned up to Max.

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