We tested a mini PC with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. We added 128GB of RAM to make an awesome compact system for virtualization or even running larger AI models like deep seek-r1 70b and llama3.3 70b.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:27 External Hardware Overview
03:48 Internal Hardware Overview
05:20 Pricing and Why Barebones
07:58 Performance of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 370 HX Compared to the Beelink SER9 with LPDDR5X
11:33 Running big AI models locally with 128GB RAM like Deepseek-R1 70b
12:42 Power Consumption and Noise
14:28 Key Lessons Learned, Quality and AI
17:28 Wrap-up

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The Ace Magic F3A Mini PC features a 12-core AMD Ryzen AI 9 370 HX processor with an AI NPU, upgradable memory up to 128GB, dual networking, and RGB lighting. It offers various ports including USB Type-A, USB 4 Type-C, HDMI 2.1, and dual Ethernet. Despite some quirks and no-name components, it provides good performance for tasks such as running virtual machines and large AI models.

A 128GB AMD Ryzen AI Mini PC is Here

<p>this video sounds more like ADV than Tech info</p>
