I’ve been keeping an eye out for the BD790i X3D since they confirmed they’d be releasing it in March. Looks like it’s available in the EU but I haven’t found it listed on the minisforum.com website yet
Edit: looks like they added it to the US site: https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-bd795ise?variant=46451384385781
Sorry but why would you buy this?
You can get a 7950X3D and an ITX motherboard for less than $700? Sure you’ll lose a bit of performance over the desktop counterpart but it’s still a very capable CPU
No, you can’t, because that’s a mobile processor, which is what you don’t want. And it doesn’t even matter how powerful that CPU is when it’s bottlenecked by a (also mobile) 610m GPU.
It has a PCI-e 5.0 x16 slot… Why wouldn’t I want a mobile processor? The 7945HX is damn near a the same part as the desktop. It just has a lower TDP. You clearly didn’t look at this product at all
Why wouldn’t I want a mobile processor?
Its in the name. They’re intended for mobile devices. They’re intended to be power-efficient, not powerful or cost-effective.
You clearly didn’t look at this product at all
Didn’t really need to. Again, it’s a mobile processor. If they didn’t make concessions to be mobile they wouldnt bother making desktop processors. It’s simply not physically possible for them to meet the same demands of their desktop counterparts, much less for similar pricing.
Get a 7900X + mobo for $500. Add the extra $200 to your GPU budget. Then save yourself another $700 when you need to upgrade the CPU.
Also, once again, repairability and upgradability. Does just no one care at all about this?
7950X3D
the non mobile version costs more than $600, cheapest B650 mobo costs $200
Get a 7900X + mobo for $500
minisforum mobo with a a closest equivalent (7945HX which is better than 7900X at lower TDP) costs about less than $500, and it being a mobile chip doesn’t mean it’s actually weaker, it’s just better binning, also it does wonders performance wise while not being constrained to mobile environment, like battery and energy efficiency, while idling at 20W? also the SE version was like $400? it’s an awesome solution for ITX builders
Because you want that sort of hardware for a project? E.g. small PC for some lower end gaming, maybe optional eGPU via Oculink on it. That’d be a neat combo.
… Which sucks in my case, since I just bought one begrudgingly, as no X3D version was available.
Because you want that sort of hardware for a project?
But…why? Why wouldn’t you use a standard ITX PC that costs less, has better performance, and is actually repairable/upgradeable?
Because this is smaller and uses less energy due to laptop components.
Sometimes that outweighs having an upgradeable mini itx based system.
