Configure an AMD Mini PC

The mathematical ‘brains’ of the computer. The CPU is the core of the system that interacts with all other devices. It makes sense that this should be considered when choosing our custom computer. If you plan on just browsing the internet, a base model CPU would be fine. Dual and Quad core processors help keep things moving whilst processing multiple background tasks at once

If you need more 3D capabilities for games, 3D modelling, CAD or video special effects, you may wish to add a card to suit your needs.

Note We build all our systems with EVGA & Sapphire Graphics Cards

M.2 SSD Drives save valuable real estate in your system by fixing directly to the motherboard as a small card. Not only does it save space in your case for other storage options, but being directly connected to the PCIe lanes, it also gives a nifty performance boost as well. There are currently two types of M.2 SSD Drives on the market:

M.2 SSD (AHCI) this mirrors the current technology of the 2.5" SSD Drives commonly found in many systems and as such, is more compatible and gives similar read/write speeds to traditional SSD drives. Around 550mb/s Read and 550mb/s Write is about as fast as it gets.

M.2 SSD (NVMe) Has been developed from the ground up to optimise performance for this application. It gives much improved speeds over SSD / M.2 AHCI and some of the high end ones are giving 3200mb/s Read and 1700mb/s Write.

Note We select M.2 2280 / NVME SSD Drives from the following top brand manufacturers depending on stock availability at the time:

Note We select SSD Drives from the following top brand manufacturers depending on stock availability at the time:

This will be the disk for your Operating System. Usually faster the better. There is a compromise however with speed vs. capacity vs. price. Solid State Disks (SSD) are very fast, but are smaller and relatively expensive, where as traditional mechanical SATA drives are inexpensive, slower but very large capacity.

Note We select Hard Disk Drives from the following top brand manufacturers depending on stock availability at the time:

Each device in your system requires additional power. Choosing the right power supply to keep things in operation reliably can catch people out. Generally, if you do not select a graphics card, you will not need lots of power. For your convenience, choosing a graphics card in the configurator will eliminate the power supplies that don’t have the required power.

The standard cooler cools any system just fine. You may wish to change your cooler however if you would like a quieter running computer or if you plan to carry out some overclocking modifications later on.

Each computer defaults to coming with the latest Microsoft Windows version but you may prefer to remove this if you have your own Operating System license. Rest assured – we hate bloatware ourselves. If you do opt to receive Microsoft Windows, we make extra efforts to include only Microsoft Windows and the drivers to utilise all devices in the system. Nothing else, ensuring your system runs at it’s full speed.

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