GMKtec Mini PC, K9 Intel Core Ultra 5 125H (Turbo 4.5GHz, 14C/18T) Desktop Computer 1TB SSD 32GB Dual DDR5 5600MHz Dual LAN 2.5G Dual Fan WiFi 6 USB-C BT5.2 USB 3.2 || Silver Color

It works. It is OK. But it is very loud under high load and temperature goes up to 100 C. It also trottles all the way down to 1.5Ghz. Didn't experience any problems with wifi. I'm thinking of returning it since the noise is very distracting and impacting sleep. It might be fine only for office work.

I use this for 3D modelling and printing, as well has drawing. Zero difficulty setting up and fast!! Haven't tried any gaming on it yet but the video quality is outstanding. My only thing. Needs more USB ports

This machine came in great packaging and was super easy to open and setup. The plugs and everything were quite easy to get and use. the cords were long enough, I would have liked to have about 2 more feet of power cord but that is just my preference, as always cords are either too long or to short or won't work if they are the right length, LOL. The startup was easy and pretty self-explanatory. The using of your Microsoft login that you might already have on other machines makes it nice. I have it configured with 3 monitors so had to use the only usb-c plug available. I ended up having to buy a usb-c 3.o hub to allow a couple of external hard drives to hook up (and that comes with a hard drive read write speed penalty, but it all has worked out well). The one thing I do have to say about these small units is usb ports are scarce and like I said 1 only thunderbolt 4/usb-c port. But the port issue isn't hard to resolve with proper equipment selection and all the hubs that are out there. The graphics are pretty good It has worked on several different monitor configurations, but it is surprising how well it does this as 2 of my smaller screens are touch screens and 1 is just a standard large display. The onboard sound works well and easy to configure but is limited as many this computer this size do. It is a combined microphone, sound port so you might need a splitter. It works well with just a set normal desktop speakers. The computer has plenty of power and super fast it is noticeably faster from my intel I5-12450H and my Rayden7 7735HS. All have the same ram size of 32 gig. And ram speeds are right about 1 speed difference. The hard drive is name brand and works well. read write speeds were consistent and pretty identical. I do have some externals that i move around that all were well managed and did well. The WI-fi and ethernet work very well and maintain speed easily. The wifi 6 works well with the St*rlink router too. I was surprised at the range it has on. The best is how quiet this one is it is so much quieter then my 12450H. You can play with the fan speed in the BIOS but was un-necessary. The BIOS was easy to manage and came out pretty well setup. I did not have to go into bios to get the 3 monitors to play well with each other either. Some of these little boxes you have to go in and adjust to get the cpu speed at full settings but this nididn't. The GPU works great especially with the intel arc software, which has a great system monitor built into it by the way. Now to the only serious caveat I have but it isn't GMK's fault in any way is the AI chip. I was hoping to see it do some work but at the current time unless you want to build some specialty software don't expect the system monitor to graph more than a flat line. Right now benchmarks is the only was to ascertain the AI. Now that Micros*ft has released fully integrated CO-Pilot in a couple of their machines I believe they will allow it to be turned on as this Intel AI is supposed to meet the requirements. I hope that to be true as copilot in online only is slower then i would like to see but i believe if it goes offline with the built in AI we will see it be much better performing. All in all, this is a great Machine with great features and even might be a little feature proof. Great performance, great components, nice and quiet, full of some great features and a dang good value. Only bad is lack of usb-c ports and usb ports in general, but common in machine's of this configuration, I still would like to see at least 1 more usb-c not with video out but data out and in would be great for external storage and such. I took some pics of it beside the 12450H and it is just slightly larger but with 2 fans i would expect that actually. There are some pics of the different screens showing what it shows on install and such. It was a pretty quick initial startup

Great mini PC and fast easy set-up. Had a few questions and GMKtec responded quickly. I would recommend!

GMKTEC K9 Mini Computer BASIC SPECS: Intel Core Ultra 5 125H up to 4.5Ghz 14 Core 18 threads. Intel Arc Graphics Meteor Lake IGPU Enhanced Graphics 32GB of DDR 5 5600 Dual channel RAM configured in 2 x 16GB laptop sized modules. (Upgradeable to 96GB) M.2 Lexmar NVMe PCIe 4.0 1Tb SSD drive with heat sink. (Upgradeable to 4Tb in two NVMe slots.) 2 x 2.5 Gigabit LAN Ports One HDMI and one Display Port video out USB 3.2 10Mbs x 4 (2 in front-2 in back) USB 4.0 Type C My set up uses a 30 inch Samsung monitor, and an HP 25 inch monitor each 1920 x 1080 60hz. I use this for business, word processing, internet and audio processing of larger files, typically Wav files 90 to 180 minutes long.(600Mb to 1500Mb) as well as VST virtual instruments and music composition. INSTALLED APPS BY ME: 1) ATTO (Disk Benchmark Utility) 2) CrystalDiskInfo9_3_1 (Disk Benchmark Utility) 3) Office 2021 Pro Plus (Excel Word Power Point etc) 4) Firefox (Web Browser) 5) Nuance PaperPort Professional.14.5.15168.1450 (Scan and Document App) 6) Thunderbird (Email Client) 7) WinRAR 6.3 x64 (File Compression and Archiving) 8) Stardock Fences (Desktop Organizer) 9) VLC (Media Player & More) 10) Adobe Audition 3 (Audio Multitrack Recording) 11) Virtualbox 7.0.18 (I use a Virtual XP 32 Bit to run archaic 16 Bit Apps) 12) 7-Zip (File Compression and Archiving) 13) Shadow Protect 3.5.0.3570 (Archaic 20 year old backup software) 14) Team Viewer (Remote View Other Computers) 15) Auto Hotkey (Script writing tool to automate functions in Windows and in other programs) 16) jv16 Power Tools (A Suite of Admin Tools for Registry, Uninstalling, File management, Performance Monitoring, and much more) 17) Canon MG600 Printer-Scanner 18) Scan Utility From Microsoft 19) Speedtest (Utility to test internet bandwidth speed) 20) Adobe Acrobat Reader 21) Coretemp (CPU Temperature Monitor Utility) 22) Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 (Old Graphics Program) 23) Macrium Reflect (Modern Current Backup Software) 24) Easeus Partition Manager Free Version 18.5.0 25) Cubase 5.1 (Older MIDI Music composition software) UNBOXING: 5in x 5in x 2in (approx.) 120W power supply. (A little bulky but still OK...like a typical laptop power supply) Power supply seems to have adequate head room to power all my peripherals (i.e. mouse / keyboard / External Drives etc.) HDMI cable and mounting bracket included. Upgrading is easy...The top cover pries off. Then 4 screws on each corner allows removal of the chassis fan. (Be careful to note the fan has a power cable that can be inadvertently yanked.) This exposes the NVME and RAM slots. SEE Photo #1 / Photo #2 / Photo #3 BOOT TIME AFTER ALL INSTALLS: Initially, boot time from pressing power button to fully loading all processes was 19 seconds. 14 sec to desktop fully revealed. This settled into a consistent 17 seconds and 12 seconds to fully revealed desktop. See Video #1 and Photo #4 / Photo #5 BIOS: An interesting BIOS feature that I could not figure out to configure was RAM disk. The high performance of this computer and the large amount and speed of RAM would make a RAM disk likely not worth the effort for most people. Researching RAM disk issues on line shows a significant number of computer enthusiasts with this sentiment. The Power Mode parameter in BIOS on the Advanced tab has 3 settings: Quiet / Balance / Performance I chose performance. Other BIOS categories are shown in photos. See Photo #6 / Photo #7 CPU THERMAL: My CPU temperatures rarely got above 60C to 65C and on a very few occasions into the 70's. Typical idle temperatures are between 35C and 40C. Fan cooling seems to be dynamic so that fan speed ramp up as temperature rises. My chassis fan never ramped up enough for me to even hear it. I had to open the case to confirm it was spinning at a low RPM. See Photo #8 NVME DISK BENCHMARK Lexmark 1TB PCIe 4.0 : I did two benchmark tests with ATTO and CRYSTAL DISK utilities. ATTO scores were slightly lower overall but it is safe to say this drive reads at 4.8 - 5 GB/s and reads at 4.3 to 4.5 GB/sec. This is a reasonable exploit of PCIe 4.0 potential. See Photo #9 / Photo #10 PRACTICAL TESTS: To give you an idea of just how fast this computer can be: I have a 2TB NVMe drive in an enclosure as an external drive for computer backups. I use Macrium Reflect backup software. On the USB 4.0 Type C port, my Macrium Reflect backup of this computer took 1 minute and 3 sec to create a 53GB backup image. Keep in mind though that the data transfer here is from an NVMe drive to another NVMe drive on a USB 4 port. I also tried opening 15 Excel spreadsheets at once and they all loaded in less than 10 seconds. GRAPHICS: I do no gamimg so I cant say too much but the Display Port supports 4K @ 144Hz so some gaming is definitely possible. There are certainly sufficient computing resources here for gaming though. I streamed 1080p for long periods with absolutely no problems. CONCLUSION: When travelling (which I do frequently) I used to bring a copy of all desktop files with me on an external drive and then work from a laptop where I would migrate email and internet browser profiles to the laptop and then resync everything from laptop back to desktop when I got home but I can now just bring this computer with me and a small monitor. Furthermore, I used to have a desktop in my office and one in the bedroom. Now I just carry the K9 from room to room as needed since I have keyboards and monitors in both places. With the fast NVMe drive and the huge amount of fast RAM I can't find any downside to this machine. Its performance rivals any desktop that I've ever used and it's portability means that I can pack it up and bring it with me anywhere. There are enough USB Ports to cover peripherals like printers, portable optical drives, hard drive docks etc. It is a completely adequate full desktop replacement..... a mini power house. Whether it is audio or video editing, music composition and multitracking, VST instruments, a gazillion internet tabs opened at once, there are adequate resources to do anything I can think of. I can't think of a downside to this computer with regard to performance. You may need USB extenders to provide clearance when using many peripherals because it can get a little crowded with some ports configured close together but it isn't any worse than what you would find in a laptop. This machine shows an impressive performance for a computer of any size. I am very happy with it and do not regret this purchase.

I have been using the K9 for about a week now and it works great for my purposes. I needed a better computer to use with my pen display to do graphic design and create digital art. I also have limited space, so wanted something small. This fits the bill. First of all, this thing is fast. It loads up in about 20 seconds and I am able to work on Clip Studio files with dozens of layers with no slow down or lag at all, even if I have other programs running at the same time. There is some fan noise, but it is low enough that for the most part I don’t notice it. There is also a quiet mode but I have not felt the need to use it. One thing that I was not expecting is that I can power the mini through my USB-C monitor. My monitor only outputs 90W, which is less than the power supply that came with the mini, but the mini works great just being plugged into the monitor without needing to be plugged into the wall. I won’t be using this feature because I was unable to daisy chain my pen display from the monitor when attaching the mini through the USB4 port (I had to use the DisplayPort to get this to work), but this is a really nice feature for someone who wants fewer cords and doesn’t need to daisy chain monitors. I attached photos showing both setups. I also really like the look of this mini. Very simple and clean with a silver finish, which fits in perfectly with the rest of my setup. It looks metal but feels plastic and I assume it is. My (non-expert) understanding is that metal is better for heat dissipation but plastic is better for Bluetooth and wireless reception. I use wireless internet, so my preference is for plastic, assuming there are no heat issues. I did not run any tests, but I have not run into any overheating issues with this computer. As far as gaming is concerned, I was able to play at 2k 120fps (the maximum settings for my monitor) no problems. I’m not a huge gamer and don’t have any AAA games, so can’t comment on that, but I do like playing games with my kids and the k9 worked great for everything I threw at it. Overall, this has been a great computer for me so far. It’s small, fast, looks good, and not too loud.