The Mini-PC range is constantly growing in quantity and quality, and the AOOSTAR GEM10 is a good example of everything we expect from these small-big machines: compact dimensions, sufficient performance and top connectivity.

Few may be surprised that this product group has replaced typical towers as the best-selling desktop computers. And they have very interesting advantages, starting with a compact size that allows them to be installed almost anywhere, in an office environment, commercial environment, on consumer desks or in living rooms.

AOOSTAR GEM10, top connectivity

The Chinese company bets on an aluminum chassis with really minimal dimensions: 107 x 107 x 60 mm. It has a cooling system of its own construction ‘GLACIER 2.5’ with an active fan, a hardware base that is in charge of the AMD Ryzen series ‘Phoenix’ (ZEN 4) and good connectivity, especially in connecting peripherals.

AOOSTAR GEM10 uses a processor AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS which we saw last year in notebooks and other mini-PCs. Its performance is more than sufficient for this type of device with 8 cores and 16 threads and a maximum frequency of up to 5.1 GHz, and its operating power can be set to 28W, 35W and 45W in the BIOS.

Its integrated graphics card is a Radeon 780M, which is enough for the essentials and with the capacity to power up to three 4K monitors. However, the compact includes an OcuLink port, which is ideal for improving the performance of the graphics part, because, as you know, it is the best thing that can be used for connectivity. external graphics.

The connectivity section of this compact is at a good level and highlights dual LAN Ethernet 2.5 GbE which provides an Intel I226-V chip and a USB4 port with 40 Gbps bandwidth, DisplayPort 1.4 alt mode and power. It has three additional USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A ports, two HDMI 2.1 outputs and a combo audio jack. In wireless connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2.

Another feature to highlight is the internal storage, thank you very much triple connector M.2 to install PCIe SSD drives. The RAM is LPDDR5 type and can be overclocked up to 7500 MT/s. The manufacturer sells this compact with Windows 11 preinstalled, in two color versions and in the basic configuration with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD on 589 dollars.