GEEKOM A5 2026 Mini PC with Windows 11 Pro, with AMD Ryzen 5 7430U (Beats 4300U/5500U, Up to 4.4GHz) 16GB High Speed RAM & 512GB SSD, Dual HDMI 8K Quad Display/WiFi 6 for Video Editing/Graphic Design

Bought this to replace my wife's non-windows 11 upgradable PC (well, we all know it can run Win11 fine, but, thanks to a certain large software company who makes operating systems it is deemed not worthy of their latest-and-greatest release). Anyway, I have a bit of a thing for mini-PCs at the moment, and if you are looking for a daily driver for surfing, web-based stuff, office / meeting apps, watching streaming stuff and pretty much anything else up to and including light duty video / image editing then something like the Geekom A5 will suit you down to the ground. This particular box comes with an AMD Ryzen 5 7430U, 16GB DDR4 RAM (max of 64GB installable in the two slots) & 512GB NVMe SSD, Vega 8 Graphics, Window 11 Pro, WiFi 6, BT 5.2 a bunch of USB 3 & 2 ports and also 2x USB-C that you can output video from (theoretically this thing can drive 4 displays, I've done 2 quite happily using the HDMI ports). It also has an RJ45 ethernet port for wired connections. It can also take an additional M.2 NVMe (2242) SSD OR 2.5 inch SATA SSD alongside the full-length 2280 NVMe boot drive. While not the most powerful CPU the Ryzen 5 7430U (laptop CPU) is 6 cores / 12 threads and can handle pretty much whatever you need it to do (loads of chrome tabs? bit of streaming? working? it barely heats up and I have yet to hear the fan). One benefit is that it only draws around 15W when doing general things so you can literally leave it running all day and not pay a fortune for the electricity. It's easy to open and add the extra drives or replace / upgrade the RAM 4 screws and you're done. 5 if you include the NVMe lock screw. The whole unit is tiny and is quite hefty and feels very solid. And from a noise point of view effectively silent. If you stick it on performance mode and then make it render video files etc then you'll get fan noise like any other small machine or laptop, but other than that, you don't know it's there. Installation tip: If you don't want to use or don't have a MS account, when you go through the set up DO NOT connect it to your network via wire or wireless, use the local / offline account option and get into the desktop. Once there, you can then run windows update to get everything up to the current version. You can then log in if you want to. It will of course nag you constantly and try and blackmail you into using your MS account, but there really is no need to, it works perfectly well without it. A surprisingly well built and solid feeling little box, that if you get when on offer is excellent value for money and also slightly upgradable in terms of storage and RAM. Lots of connectivity so likely will suit all your peripherals. Well worth the purchase. Incidentally, the old pc? Currently turning it into a Linux-based media box to stick down on the floor by the TV so we can use it to enhance the no so smart goggle box on the living room wall.

I bought this mini PC to manage my USB oscilloscope and a couple of other instruments on my electronic workbench. I did not want to connect test instruments that may be connected to high voltage sources to my my main workstation. I installed Windows 10 enterprise IoT 2021 LTSC that is supported by Microsoft until 2032. The installer (and Windows update) could not find the wifi driver. I sent an email to Geekom support and had a quick response pointing me at the downloads section on their website (which I should have looked at first). The PC works brilliantly along with a cheap 14 inch touch screen portable monitor. The availability of displayport over the usbc connection makes it a single-cable interface to the monitor for power, display and touch! The system is very responsive, and runs silently. I stopped using Apple Macs once they stopped being upgradable. Geekom have made it easy to upgrade memory, storage and even the bluetooth/wifi card. It also has space for an additional disk. I would have preferred a black box instead of the shiny gold, but it runs 24/7 out of sight! It would make an excellent media PC or desktop for most day-to-day use!

Excellent value for money. Powerful, compact and quiet.

Its actually a really good PC for its size! I was doubting it would run super demanding games, but it can run them smoothly (but just on extremely low graphics settings just know) (if youre wondering what games ive tried, ive tried tekken 8, overwatch 2 and roblox) and all of which have done well (especially roblox as it isnt as graphically demanding) overall its an absolute tank for its small size, a great first pc imo

It’s a nice mini PC, however the second SSD slot didn’t recognise my drive. It supports a 2242 SATA drive not Nvme. Of course I bought and Nvme drive by mistake, which didn’t work but on buying the correct SATA 2242 drive that wasn’t recognised in the Bios either. As I wanted two internal drives plus the 2.5” drive, I had no choice but return it. Unfortunately I also have to return the two SSD drives which wouldn’t work in the PC and the 32gb ddr4 ram kit, which I didn’t get to use. I decided to buy a different mini PC, which is actually fitted with 16gb of ddr5 ram and having two 2280 nvme slots.

Really impressed with what this can do for the money. It's tiny. but blazing fast for most things that I ask of it. (Browsing, Cubase, MPC, even some light gaming). I appreciate that there are cheaper mini PCs and probably better spec for similar money, but Geekom offer a hefty 3yr warranty and seem a cut above with the quality of the parts that they use.

Brilliant piece of kit really fast for every day use and get rid of that ‘old tower’ we’ll recommended

Very productive item