Minisforum has just announced the MS-A1, the world’s smallest and most expandable mini PC based on the AMD AM5 platform. The MS-A1 offers the ability to replace the CPU, ensuring a longer motherboard lifecycle and upgrades to future generations of CPUs.
Integrated with AMD Radeon™ 780M graphics card MS-A1 Mini Forum It features 12 GPU cores and a GPU frequency of up to 2900MHz, which can easily handle the graphics demands of work and games. Additionally, it includes a dedicated NPU with up to 16 TOPS of processing power, making it the first desktop processor to include a dedicated AI Neural Processing Unit (NPU).
In its highest configuration, the MS-A1 includes the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G desktop processor, built on the Zen 4 architecture, featuring 8 cores and 16 threads, a max clock speed of 5.1GHz and a TDP of 65W, providing excellent performance.
The MS-A1 supports up to 96GB of high-speed dual-channel DDR5 5200MHz memory, allowing users to achieve fast and efficient multitasking performance. It also includes four M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD slots, providing transfer speeds of up to 7000MB/s. These ample expansion slots allow a maximum system capacity of up to 27TB, meeting the extensive storage needs of creative and multimedia professionals.
With RAID0 and RAID1 support, the MS-A1 Provides improved storage and data management performance. RAID0 increases transfer speeds up to 14,000MB/s, while RAID1 increases reliability, ensuring data security. The MS-A1 supports triple 8K display output via full-featured HDMI 2.1, DP 2.0, and USB4 video output interfaces. Users can connect up to three 8K displays simultaneously, quickly creating a highly efficient multitasking platform.
OCulink expansion allows connection to high-performance desktop discrete graphics cards, dramatically increasing performance to meet the needs of gamers and creative professionals who require advanced graphics processing capabilities. With dual 2.5G RJ45 network ports, which support WAN and LAN port aggregation, the MS-A1 delivers double the speed and greatly improves the efficiency and experience of multiple users online simultaneously.
Equipped with dual fans and a 4-heat pipe cooling system, the MS-A1 ensures stable performance with noise levels of around 37dB.
Hey MS-A1 Mini Forum Setting a new standard for mini PCs, the MS-A1 combines compact size, expandability and unparalleled performance. The MS-A1 is now available at Official website of the mini-forumstarting at €289.
