(Upgraded) MS-A1 Mini Workstation Barebone PC, DDR5/4xM.2 NVMe SSD, Dual 2.5G RJ45, HDMI/DP/Type-C, 4xUSB Ports, Supports AMD AM5 CPU, WiFi 6E&BT5.2 (No CPU/RAM/SSD/OS)

He tenido problemas con el ventilador principal, ya que tiene 2 y el más grande que es el que disipa la mayoría del calor se desactiva de la nada, al principio crei que era mal contacto pero no, simplemente deja de funcionar, tengo que apagar la computadora y volver a encenderla, este problema hace que todo el chasis se caliente y termine afectando la temperatura del SSD y supongo que de otros componentes también, quiero esta PC para usarla desatendida y via Remota, pero este problema es de tomar en cuenta de que tengo que estar verificando qué no tenga este fallo

This little thing is a monster. I bought the bare bones version and it was only $230. I paired it with a 9800 X 3D and 64 5600 ram (had leftover when 64gb was $220). This thing is absolute beast. I have a pair with a DGPU a 4090 and there’s almost nothing this thing can’t do people talk about having lower PCI lanes, but that only affects you if you’re gaming at under 4k. At 4k the GPU itself is doing the work and it’s outputting directly to your monitor or TV so it actually doesn’t hinder that much performance because it doesn’t have to talk back to the CPU. It does run a little bit hot, but the bios does except PBO and on voting used laptop stand that had a fan underneath it and keep the ms-a1 upside down so you can blow cold air into the intake. It keeps cool air coming into the fans and the VRM. This avoids the heat issues from more powerful CPUs without having to gimp the power usages. I made this setup to use in the living room. It completely hides the fact that this is a monster gaming oc.

I bought three of these for a "small" Proxmox cluster and sadly, one of them came with a mangled socket on account of its own protector coming loose while in transit and hitting the pins. I asked for a refund and proceeded to buy a new unit. However, the new unit had a different cooler on the back, there was no heatsink for the main NVMe and instead it came with a cooler for the VRM, which IMO is not as useful as the previous one. Also, the new unit did not come with the U.2 adapter, which is just unacceptable. All in all, these perform quite well, they come with 2 PCIEx4 NVMe slots (at least per the manual), allowing me to create a 6-drive Ceph cluster. They do support 96GB of RAM, but could not find the option inside the BIOS to make it run at 5600Mts, as advertised; I'm limited to 5200Mts.

I had to assemble it. Screws stripped and I ended up throwing it away. Why in gods name is it not preassembled.

Stellar bare-bones kit. You can see the high level of detail and quality right away. It's a DIY type of product but I had no issues piecing together my mini workstation from parts on hand in quick fashion. Everything came out great, and passed my personal quality control with flying colors. Installing Linux and Windows went off with any problems. Bench-marking applications was a smooth experience too. Definitely compatible and runs stable with everything I've tried with it. My new machine runs rock solid, cool, quiet and super snappy in its response times. I've tried multiple CPUs in this unit and it never faulted for any reason. For the price they offer for this machine, its well worth my investment! I'm considering of purchasing more of these down the line. Excellent!