Geekom A8 Mini PC

This compact powerhouse over-delivers in almost every area, but the Ryzen 7 version is better value

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE Ryzen 9, £749 (£899 inc VAT) from geekom.co.uk There has been a growing demand from PC Pro readers – via social media and emails – for us to review more compact PCs, so when Geekom offered its new A8 Mini PC for review I quickly accepted. Especially when I saw the specification: for £719 inc VAT you can buy a Ryzen 7 8845HS with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD; the £899 system I tested doubles the storage to 2TB and packs a Ryzen 9 8945HS. Both of these eight-core, 16-thread CPUs are designed for laptops, but the “HS” in their name denotes their high-performance status. The Ryzen 9 clocks higher, with a 5.2GHz peak to 5.1GHz (and a base frequency of 4GHz versus 3.8GHz), but aside from this the…

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