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Anyonen using these small PCs: Geekom, ...

KW1M
KW1M Member ✭✭
in Computers and Operating Systems

Looking to upgrade my windows pc for shack - 4 HDMI monitors (nothing fancy), SmartSDR, HRD, WSJTX, GridTracker, …

Anyone use these in the past?

Amazon.com: GEEKOM A8 Mini PC with AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS (Beats 6800H), 32GB DDR5 RAM 1TB NVMe SSD, Windows 11 Pro Desktop Computer for Home&Business, Radeon 780M, USB4, SD Slot, 8K, 4 Display | WiFi 6E, 2.5G LAN : Electronics

Hoping for some black friday magic…

Thanks, Martin KW1M

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  • WX7Y
    WX7Y Member ✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2025

    Not sure about the A8's but on my FLEX station I have had 2 GeekComm I12's and they shorted out and I had to send them in for repair, They sent NEW units to me and they where VERY good on their warrantee and good to work with , They RUN GREAT until they don't. These are a very close clone of the Intel/ASUS NUC's. In fact having the same Processer and Hardware on the Main board I used the GeekComm Hard drive in the NUC and ZERO new hardware loads and worked flawlessly.

    Anyway to be fair I bought a NUC I12 and it went out after about 3 months and I had to send it in for Repair as well to ASUS and they also where very good and sent out a new unit.

    I have ran NUC's for a long time and the new I12 was the ONLY one I have had die.

  • John K3MA
    John K3MA Member ✭✭✭

    I have not used the Geekom Mini PC's but have several of a competitive company's models. I have successfully used one of their models with a much lower spec'd CPU and three monitors, and it performed all those ham shack tasks very well. I would not anticipate you will have any issues.

  • bruceg
    bruceg Member ✭✭

    I have a recent GeeKom15th gen intel with the 9 chip, 32 gig of ram and a 2 gig hard drive.

    Blazingly fast and tons of port options. I run appr. 75 feet of cat 8 cable to my Xfinity router's ethernet port and I have about 0% latency on my 8400.

    I have not run a speed test yet….

    Time will tell as regards reliabilty…but the foot print surely is nice on a crowded shack desk.

    73, Bruce N1MZI

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