Minisforum MS-A1
Good morning! I’ve been looking at the Minisforum MS-A1 and have some questions. Does anyone have experience with this box?
I bought a Brenuc 7 just over a year ago and haven’t been that happy with it. It works fine but I had to load the security keys into the UEFI to enable Secure Boot, it doesn’t always POST when powered on, no Oculink port, and all the ports are upside down (minor annoyance fixed by flipping it over). I doubt it’ll ever see any BIOS updates either.
With the RAMpocalypse going on I thought this would be a great upgrade since I already have DDR5. It would allow me the use my SODIMM modules and have a desktop class processor without really increasing the PC’s footprint.
My concerns are really only two things—reliability and regular BIOS updates. Is Minisforum a decent brand when it comes to these things? Are there other similar options?
Also I’m guessing I’d need a water cooling setup for the higher end processors.
Any insight would be appreciated. TYIA!