I’ve been seeing ads for these machines for a while now. They look attractive for the price charged, but I’m a bit leery of an on-board graphics adaptor. Of course, they insist the machines are excellent for gaming, & the reviews are all good, but I don’t know anything about them.
If you can tell me your experiences with this company – good, bad, or indifferent – I’d very much appreciate it. MTIA.
Do you have a link or something?
Base on what I can see these are just similar to intel nucs. These are meant to be low power compact office pcs
I can’t post links, but the one I’m looking at has 32GB RAM, a 1TB SSD, & an Intel i7 processor. It’s explicitly advertised as a gaming machine.
You can link it just put a space in the http part
ht tps://www.geekompc.com/geekom-mini-it11-mini-pc/
O Ok I didn’t know that, thank you.
CPU: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1195G7 (4 Co…
Wireless LAN: Intel® Wi-Fi 6, AX201 (CNVI)
Graphics: Intel® Iris® Xe
Ethernet: Intel® 10/100/1000 Mbps Ether
This is a laptop CPU with integrated Intel graphics. It can’t really game in any meaningful way.
MSRP is $699 as well; you’re better off with a gaming laptop or DIY build.
I have a “gaming laptop.” With only 8GB RAM, it’s not a gaming laptop. It runs WoW & a few other games fine, but it won’t run anything more modern. It can’t even run Fallout 4. But thank you for the feedback, I’ll look elsewhere.
What’s your budget and location? (USA? what state? Mostly to determine online prices or if you have a Microcenter nearby) Are you willing to DIY, and do you have a display already? What kind?
There are a lot of options and even more resources to guide you.
I’m in Indianapolis & willing to spend up to ~$2kish. Have a 32" monitor. Willing to DIY, but would rather buy a pre-built just because I’m not much of a techie – hence, this thread.
Again, thanks. I can take it from here 
Do you have space requirements? What kind of monitor do you have?
$2k is a good budget. You can get into mostly high end gaming from there. But, depending on your display, it might be wasted performance.
I have a 32" monitor. I think I’d prefer to go with “wasted performance” for now & then maybe upgrade the monitor later.
Well I was perusing Best Buy’s website on gaming PCs…but it seems they think I’m a bot searching for graphics cards nobody wants and I got blocked LOL.
At this point, I would give the following advice:
Skip any Intel systems that are prior to 12th gen. Skip all AMD systems that are prior to Ryzen 5000 series, and make sure you do not buy a G series chip or a Ryzen 5 5500.
I would go for any graphics card in the Nvidia 3000 series (although make sure you aren’t overpaying relative to GPU class), which at that price point is around a 3070, 3070ti, or 3080; possibly if you’re stretching your budget an RTX 4070ti. For AMD cards, go for the 6700XT, 6750XT, 6800, or 6800XT; if stretching budget perhaps a 7900XT. Likely that most Nvidia 4000 series and AMD 7000 series are out of reach at that price point.
I would recommend just getting 32GB of RAM at this point as well. I wouldn’t worry too much about storage, as that’s one of the easiest things to user-end upgrade.
ABSOLUTELY avoid any 11th gen Intel, and Ryzen 3000 series.
This one would be good; kind of light on the RAM but you can upgrade that later if you need to.
Seems like it has the best CPU/GPU combo out of that price point on Best Buy.
Thanks I was looking at Cyberpower machines earlier today. I might run up to Best Buy tomorrow & see if they have anything in stock.
I built this one myself last year . About PS5 size. Satisfied
Core i5-12600K
EK AIO 240 basic
Gigabyte Z690i Aorus Ultra Plus DDR4
G.Skill TridentZ 32GB DDR4-3200
Zotac RTX 3070 Twin Edge OC (will switch this one to more VRAM card)
WD Black SN850 1TB
Kingston KC3000 1TB
WD Black 1TB 2.5"
Cooler Master V 850W SFX
Lian Li A4-H2O
If you have a MC near you…this is an unbelievably good value.
So I’m stuck on choosing vid cards. I can afford a 4070ti, but that adds $425 to the price, & I’m really not sure I need that much performance.
If I drop to the 3060ti, that cuts off a lot of $$$ but drops me down to ~135fps. So I’m wondering how much do I really need? The 3070ti is ~$300 more than than the 3060ti, for not really much gain.
The closest comparison I can find with AMD vid cards would cost about $130 more; spending less on AMD gets less performance, so I think I’m sold on the geforce, just not sure which one.
Closest Micro Center is in Sharonville Ohio, about 2 hours drive; not undoable, & I’ve never been there so I could think about that, for the savings.
If you can afford the better GPU, buy the better GPU. Keep in mind the RTX 3060ti came out in 2020…that is closing in on 3 years already. Were I you, I would shift towards the newer generation card. Not only are we talking about absolute performance, we’re looking at driver support. So in the long run you’re looking at 3 years less driver support.
If you want to save a few bucks, and want to get a 3000 series card, I would consider ebay and sellers like resepcio. They are probably mining cards, but they are reconditioned well.
If you’re saying the 4070ti is $425 more than you are paying for the 3060ti, then I presume a 4070ti is around $825, and you are paying $400 for a 3060ti.
Respecio storefront on ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/str/bitproconsultingllc?_trkparms=folent%3Abitproconsultingllc|folenttp%3A1&_trksid=p3542580.m47492.l74602
For nearly the same $400 you can get a 3070
OR you could consider red team and get a 6800XT for $569 new
This is $169 more than your 3060ti, and is much, MUCH more powerful. It actually outperforms the RTX 3080 10GB in most games not counting Ray Tracing. AMD also is known to support GPUs much longer than Nvidia.
AMD.com has 6950XT on their website for 699.00
For that price you’re better off ponying up the extra $100 for a discounted 7900XT