MINISFORUM Mini PC UM560 XT AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 6 Cores/12

Fairly easy to set up, I have a Wi-Fi keyboard, so needed to insert the dongle into a USB port to proceed with setup first. You will probably need to go through windows 11 updates as part of setup. Pleased with the mini PC, very quick and quiet.

I bought this unit to replace an ageing 2012 Mac Mini and am extremely impressed with its capabilities as a Proxmox host. I’ve bonded the two 2.5Gbpe ports together on a 2.5Gbe/10Gbe switch with a Synology NAS connected at 10Gbps. VM volumes are stored on the (ssd backed) NAS, and boot times are near-SSD speeds. I do frequent live migrations across nodes, and this little device handles it like a pro. The attached screenshot is from a NAB6 w/ 32GB memory running: Uptiime Kuma, Home Assistant, a second Home Assistant, Jenkins, a twingate connector VM, Plex, a Kemp Loadmaster, and two instances of Adguard Home. All VMs, and it’s not even breaking a sweat. I’ve also been able to spun up MacOS Sonoma and Ventura without a problem. It impressed me so much I’ve just ordered a second one as part of a proxmox cluster.

Decent spec, small machine with Windows 11 Home on it. I could have done with Pro, but for the price, I can’t argue at all. In fact, bought two of these for specific purposes. Have also previously used a similar machine from MinisForum – an I5, no longer available, hence these two, but is running fine.

Would certainly buy again if needed.

I had a problem when first setting this PC up, it appeared to working really well but after shutting down and restarting the next day, it went to a black screen after I entered my password.
I managed to fix this by forcing a reset option page, do this by pressing the power button and as soon as you see the Minis Forum logo, turn it off by holding the power button for a few seconds, do this 3 times and it will then let you do a reset, I had to do a full reset as something had been corrupted on the first install, no idea what went wrong as it was working very well, but it is working really well now it has sorted itself out on the second loading of windows 11.
Would be 5 stars if it had not failed on the first install.
PS The case is made of plastic but looks okay for what you are paying, after all, it is not an Apple product which are always premium products with a premium price to match.

Bought this to replace 10 year old tower pc was a bit sceptical it would be up to the job .had it now a couple of months.easy to set up and pleasantly surprised how fast it is great little machine found no faults

I was looking for a mini-PC as a means to reduce clutter in my home office and was initially dubious at first with regards to the performance (I’m used to full-sized Desktop and Tower PCs). I decided to go-ahead and was pleasantly surprised at just how good this mini-PC from Minisforum is.

There is sufficient connectivity for USB devices and so far, the machine has proved rock-solid. Performance-wise, the CPU benchmarks at just over 50% of my full-tower PC with a Ryzen 5950x, which is to be expected but during business-related tasks the difference is not noticeable.

Although I am a gamer as well, I’ve not tried running any games on this machine but according to reviews, some reasonable gaming is possible at full-HD resolutions with moderate settings so I’ll still score it the full 5 stars based on the type of system it is.

Overall, this is a fantastic little machine, with good expansion – you can increase the RAM, and add two more 2.5″ disks, which you certainly can’t do with a Mac mini.

Performance is good and it has loads of ports too. The only reason I’m not giving this 5 stars is because of the fan noise. It’s not terrible, but it doesn’t take much for the fan to kick in and it is louder than you would expect it to be. Ironically if you install Linux (Ubuntu or Fedora for example, I tried both) then the fan noise is much less.

I will actually be buying more of these to sit in a home lab, but they won’t be anywhere near my desk because of the noise.

The PC itself certainly does the job and does it quite well. For it’s size it is quick. Best of all, it will happily idle at 18 watts so I feel happy knowing I’m saving polar bears while I work.
The inclusion of windows 11 is a bit of a let down (because I can’t stand windows 11) it might have been better to include windows 10 as you have the option to upgrade for free if you really really want it.
I have had a few software crashes in things like development software and virtual box that don’t bode particularly well, but with PC’s you can never quite be sure where things are messing up. For all I know this is just a windows 11 thing. Unless I see a smoking gun I’m not going to point fingers at the hardware.

I did try to get support from minis forum regarding memory upgrades. I was VERY disappointed. They respond quickly enough, just don’t expect knowledgeable responses. That said I get very irate with Dell support so this might not mean anything

I thought it was time I replaced two custom built tower PCs. They were so highly specified originally that they still worked fine after 12 years but I thought I should not push my luck. I wnet down the Mini PC route 4 years ago when I bought a little intel i3 KODLIX mini PC for web streaming to a wide screen tv. I don’t play computer games but I do a lot of cpu-intensive HD and UHD video re-encoding. This highly-specified Ryzen 9 mini PC looked suitable so I cautiously bought one “on-spec” two months ago. Delivery by Amazon was next day, though I am not a Prime member. I found it straightforward to add extra 2.5″ internal SSDs, aided by the helpful video provided by the seller. This quasi paperback-sized Mini PC feels heavy and looks solidly built. The plastic case is clearly strong and unobtrusive; it is quite irrelevant to me how much carbon fibre it actually contains.

The vertically mounted computer is almost silent, except when the fan racks up for cpu-intensive processing, when it throws out a surprising amount of hot air. This indicates that the relatively “state of the art” liquid metal cooling does facilitate excellent heat transfer. Video processing is as fast as one would expect of an 8 core Ryzen 9 chip. The integral graphic processor in the chip works fine with my single 4K monitor and external usb3 blue ray disc drive / recorder. This is a fast machine. What is not fast is the tedious business of reloading software onto windows, a problem of Microsoft not the machine.
Value for money, particularly if you get a good voucher deal, is excellent. I have no experience using the machine for gaming nor have I needed to contact the seller, so I have not rated those items.

Perhaps the best recommendation is that I was sufficiently impressed with the machine that a few weeks later I bought one for my wife. I would have preferred to buy her a more “goof-proof” MiniMac with M1 chip, not that much more expensive. However she is addicted to a particular legacy piece of Microsoft software which, to my surprise, still runs fine on Windows 11.

I rarely write Amazon reviews and it is early days yet, but two happy users of the Minisforum Ryzen 5900HX MiniPC here!