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Interesting. I has a full sized PCI slot AND 2x 10gb nic's. If it were x86_64 and at the right price this would be awesome for a homelab (for workloads that don't work on ARM like game servers).

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>The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a mid-range Mini PC. But what we got... is something different.

Interesting. I has a full sized PCI slot AND 2x 10gb nic's. If it were x86_64 and at the right price this would be awesome for a homelab (for workloads that don't work on ARM like game servers). Archive: https://archive.today/KxC8h From the post: >>The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a mid-range Mini PC. But what we got... is something different.
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It is interesting. I'm considering something like this or a Pi 5 to do daily tasks. The only thing I unwillingly use a windows PC for is games. As Linux gets better in that arena windows job is in danger.

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Too bad this thing costs like $400. I would say that makes it firmly "not really worth it" unless you really want ARM. At that cost you can just get a old off-lease i5/i7 small form factor (SFF). Just try to get one that has a PCIe expansion bay so you can put in a dedicated 10g nic or graphics card for passthrough if that's what you are going for.

Also, yeah. The only thing I use windows for is gaming for games that don't have a native client in linux and don't work well with emulation.

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No disagreement here. I have an older Lenovo nuk (I think it's called) Don't remember all the specifics but I only paid a little over $100 for it and it probably overpowers this thing easily.

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Yeah, I had a few i5 nuc's but the lack of the ability to add a dedicated nic for my storage network and only having 1gb turned me off of those. I'm thinking about going a bit nuts and buying some off lease tower servers so I can get a couple hundred gigs of ram in them.

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They already have the MS-A2 on the x86 side. It's interesting but very expensive since the Strix Point APU it uses are super expensive to produce. Great chips though. I was considering buying the board for a home server upgrade but I couldn't justify the cost vs just upgrading my old Dell SFF I got for free out of an ewaste bin.