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GMKtec G2 Mini PC (Intel N100, 12GB DDR5 RAM, 512GB SSD, Win11 Pro) US$90.90 (~A$145.09) Shipped @ GMKtec Office AliExpress

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Low price on this Intel Mini PC for those after something a bit smaller and with the storage/RAM bundled in. While 12GB of RAM may seem an odd number this one has LPDDR5 RAM instead of LPDDR4 and that'll provide much better performance with the Intel N100 CPU. As with all other Mini PCs with this CPU, it works really well with Plex transcoding. This one is powered via USB-C with Power Delivery.

Featuring Windows 11 Pro, Intel N100 CPU with 4 cores & 4 threads (up to 3.4GHz), 12GB DDR5 4800MHz RAM, 512GB M.2 2242 SATA/NVMe SSD (upgradeable), 2x HDMI 2.0 (4K@60Hz), 1x DP (4K@60Hz), USB-C with Power Delivery, x3 USB 3.0 5Gbps, Dual Gigabit LAN, WiFi 6 (RTL8852BE), Bluetooth 5.2, 3.5mm audio jack, VESA mounting and customisable lighting on the bottom of the case.

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  • bircoe on 26/03/2025 - 23:31
    +8

    Note that these don't have SODIMM RAM modules, the RAM is soldered to the motherboard so not upgradable, pretty common in mini PC's. Probably not a big issue for most use cases but important to know if you are buying something with the intention of installing more RAM.

    • Clear on 26/03/2025 - 23:41
      +1

      Correct not user replaceable. I should have said LPDDR which does tend to trigger people sometimes.

  • Jaduqimon on 26/03/2025 - 23:32
    +2

    USB-C PD very nice!

    • Binggggo on 27/03/2025 - 06:14
      +3

      I’m sure you realise this, but in case others don’t: I have a similar gmktec (g5) which can be powered by usb-c pd, but that is the only thing the usb-c port can be used for (not data. Or video).

  • BatmanAU on 26/03/2025 - 23:34

    Seems very very cheap

    • Clear on 26/03/2025 - 23:41
      +6

      You're welcome.

    • bdl on 26/03/2025 - 23:59
      +1

      Is Clear. Is Cheap.

    • freeb1e4me on 27/03/2025 - 00:26
      +1

      Well it comes from China

  • notewar on 26/03/2025 - 23:38
    +1

    Is there an n150 version?

    • User7699 on 26/03/2025 - 23:41
      +1

      GMKtec G2 Plus

      • notewar on 26/03/2025 - 23:45

        I don't think the official store on AliExpress has them.

    • Jimbuscus on 27/03/2025 - 08:12

      Looking forward to the N150, these 6w TDP chips have been awesome.

  • Bob Lou on 26/03/2025 - 23:40
    +1

    What do you use it for?

    • AliKay on 26/03/2025 - 23:43

      I'd like to know the use case too

    • FoxJump on 26/03/2025 - 23:43
      +1

      i use the n150 version as a thin client to my real desktop that's actually a VM inside a laptop behind the tv.

      • Franklins on 26/03/2025 - 23:51

        any link to explain whatever that means…..

        • FoxJump on 26/03/2025 - 23:57
          +4

          I have a NucBoxG2 Plus. N150, 12GB ram, 256 msata
          I use it to remote desktop to my work laptop or my old "desktop" which got virtualised. My old desktop lives as a VM in a proxmox host. The proxmox is running an old i7-8650u laptop.

          The proxmox host also has frigate with 6x cameras (soon to be 10), home assistant, another Win11 VM for personal home video card copy and transcode, and tdarr which im in the process of setting up

          • BatmanAU on 27/03/2025 - 02:02
            +5

            @FoxJump: Dont worry Bob Lou, most of us just heard "I use it for blah, blah, blah and blah".

          • Franklins on 27/03/2025 - 02:26
            +1

            @FoxJump: Ah yeah that sounds awesome, enjoy

          • parad0x on 27/03/2025 - 09:15
            +1

            @FoxJump: I heard "serious OVERKILL RDP host".

            The idea of a thin client is more than volumetric thinness, but also thinly provisioned hardware .

            You'd legitimately benefit from running the OS local - until you hit anything needing clock speed. I can't imagine a laptop serving an amazing virtual experience with shared resources to other machines -particularly transcoding/ML/NVR/HA/Downloads. Heck you might even get more processor punch depending upon what's running at the time . I have a "mobile workstation" nodded to its eyeballs and it would serve me better powered off on the shelf than being used over something that eclipsed its performance at a fraction of the size .

            Ive an 11th gen 2in1 that gets 50% share of use with my VDI instance which lives on a 4 host (mini's) Proxmox cluster. Literally about to jump on and grab an M2 Coral I saw on Ali ~$65 to add ML.to the cluster

            • FoxJump on 27/03/2025 - 09:38
              +1

              @parad0x: it all comes down to what you want / do
              I personally, could not be bothered re-installing everything - again and again and again.

              Currently my desktop VM is there for some rare visual studio work, mostly word and excel stuff and email. Nothing exciting.
              My employers laptop where i actually do my real work, is physical - cos that's what they gave me.

              The beauty of having my desktop VM is that if i were to need faster oomph, i can just move it to another computer without having to reconfigure the VM itself at all.

              i got my n150 for $150 so .. that's as thin as i can go.
              frigate / ha / doesnt use much resources really. Frigate is at 30% of 5cpus, and HA is pretty much idle most of the time. The transcoding only happens rarely when i aquire new media, down to the format i want. So my "desktopVM' is mostly fast enough for rdp.

              I got a new 8845HS mini pc that i was going to make the VM host, but i also want it for games. I can't fwd igpu to lxc's and VMS on proxmox; i might consider using virtualbox as the hypervisor - but then backups kinda suck. So the laptop host remains till it dies.

              • Wonderfool on 29/03/2025 - 10:20

                @FoxJump: That's actually a super interesting use case I didn't think of. I've been thinking of building another gaming PC for my partner, but it feels like such a waste when I don't have time to game. So I've given her my PC, and I've been playing indie or switch games on my laptop with 680m.

                But from time to time, I do want to enjoy my gaming PC, and are too lazy to take my work laptop from the work station. So a single thin client can solve that issue.

                You've mentioned that you've games on it, do you use RDP or do you use parsec for gaming?

                • FoxJump on 29/03/2025 - 12:26

                  @Wonderfool: the 8845hs has games
                  if it hosts vms and games then id host with virtualbox and game directly on it with a monitor and peripherals

                  at this stage, i know i can get frigate working with WSL but haven't tried ha with all the usb passthroughs i need. ill try that later in the year

        • User7699 on 27/03/2025 - 01:20
          +6

          Let me try to translate;

          The mini pc isn't used to run as a standalone system.

          The laptop has a program running in it that simulate a computer. Such software is known as virtual machine (VM).

          The mini PC connects to the laptop to access the VM to perform all it tasks. Base on how the mini PC is used, it is known as a thin client.

          The key point is that he has a REAL desktop that is in actual fact a laptop!!! That what blow my mind.

          • Franklins on 27/03/2025 - 02:25

            @User7699: thank you 😊

          • jimmykim on 27/03/2025 - 08:24

            @User7699: but it can also be used to stream 4K media & play 4K media right? thinking to buy 1 for my uncle.

          • FoxJump on 27/03/2025 - 09:39

            @User7699: just wait till you hear of my physical laptop, that got virtualised as a guest onto my wife's laptop. That way we only carry one and all my apps are inside of it.

            i honestly just got sick of reinstalling everything every few years

            • parad0x on 29/03/2025 - 13:01
              +1

              @FoxJump: I agree with almost everything behind what you're saying Fox. Trust me, my career started down a path of Vmware certification - I've run a virtual desktop about as long as I've owned a Xeon and the core/RAM count far exceed that of a laptop at an affordable consumer price.

              I started off as passing a physical ssd through as my old laptop "image" brought forward, but s entually came to the point where I needed to ground up VDI to continue moving forward or I'd risk a physical device being the hands down better option .

              My main point of contention was that the laptop you use as a VMhost wouldn't meet my needs as bare metal daily driver, so it's impossible for it to do so virtually .

              That and id love to know where on this planet you got a Nucbox G2 Plus w/ N150/12G + mSATA (over M.2 sure is a strange and expensive choice) for $150 from…

              And if you truly do own said $1000 mini 1. How plausible is it that it's still sitting, untouched and you've brought it not knowing what you will or can do with it. 2. gVTD has been possible on KVM for forever, using Proxmox and Virtualbox in the same sentence let alone solution to your problem tells me and anyone who knows all I needed to hear.

              • FoxJump on 29/03/2025 - 19:26

                @parad0x: nucbox g2 n150/12/256 for $150 was from amz about 2months ago. thanks to ozb

                gmktec k8+ is mostly unused atm since i needed it for work for 2 weeks and will do so again in another month..then i can reconfigure it. VirtualBox as an option because i also want to run some games locally but i need to figure out a nice back-up strategy like proxmox backup server

                Lenovo 7860hs wife laptop hosts my old toshiba z20c image
                dell i7-8650 is the current server hosting the image of my intel nuc i5-7xxx, ha, frigate etc

    • myr on 27/03/2025 - 01:32

      Cutrently run a beelink N100 for home assistant and just bought another to mess around with Jellyfin. Playing around with proxmox and various home lab things etc.

      • Franklins on 27/03/2025 - 02:27
        +6

        couldn't one be used for HA & Jellyfin?

        • myr on 27/03/2025 - 10:46

          Absolutely.

          I hit my head against the wall sharing gpu under proxmox and decided life was better if HA had dedicated hardware at about 5 hours fiddling on and off, and still having issues with camera feeds that just never occur for me on dedicated. Your time vs money maths and WAF may be different.

    • tonyamazing on 27/03/2025 - 05:32

      Mini, low cost, power efficient servers.

      Dual network means you can use it as a router. I have one N100 running OPNSense bare metal, and another N100 with proxmox running HAOS and Frigate VMs.

      The Intel iGPU is powerful enough to do Plex / Jellyfin transcoding.

      They can also be used as basic desktops with Windows.

      • StorminNorman on 27/03/2025 - 09:35

        So my mum who browses 4 chrome tabs at most, does some word processing and not much else would be fine with one of these?

        • crazycos on 27/03/2025 - 10:28
          +1

          Yes, enough processing power and RAM to do those tasks - built in wifi or LAN too so you don't need to worry about getting a USB wifi adapter.

      • Wonderfool on 29/03/2025 - 10:27

        Do people use these to replace their existing routers? Or do they run two routers in one network? Or do they somehow decides to run 2 network?

        • tonyamazing on 29/03/2025 - 11:56
          +1

          Yeah I replaced my UniFi Security Gateway router with OPNSense. Before that I replaced my TP-Link all-in-one router with the USG.

          Edit: I still need to use a modem. Most router/modem combos can be put in bridged mode to effectively turn the router into a modem.

          I don't think there's a need to run 2 routers unless you have two internet connections to your house.

          I've seen some people double up on routers because they need to use the Starlink router but also want to use Google Wifi. And then they want to use Starlink app features which means they can't use Starlink in bypass mode. So they end up "double NAT'ing".

          • Wonderfool on 29/03/2025 - 13:43

            @tonyamazing: Hm, interesting. I never actually thought about using a PC instead of an independent router.

            I wanted to make something like a pihole, but perhaps a full PC with pfsense will give me as much control as basically buying a sonicwall at a fraction of the cost.

            Thanks! I've only touched enterprise systems so far, never thought we can replicate it with such cheap equipments.

            • tonyamazing on 29/03/2025 - 13:46
              +1

              @Wonderfool: I have adguard instead of pihole. Same same. With pfsense or OPNSense you can run pihole or adguard as a plugin on the device.

          • parad0x on 29/03/2025 - 16:12

            @tonyamazing: I have 2 internet connections, 1 router.

            A router is 3 things; those tasks which people think a router does, what we believe a router is based on a typical home router, then there's what an actual router role & function is.

            A router is used to segregate and encapsulate, at layer 3 of the OSI model, which typically joinsled two physical networks. Their communication is performed via two methods - the administrative, and the network activities (that which requires routing ). The former is a dying craft and if little interest to very few who's concept of networks is on a tens to hundreds of thousands of endpoint scale.
            This is the level that Internet Protocol operates (IP). This means 5hn3u speak 8n IP addresses. The reality of the matter is its far more complex than that, and yet far simpler.

            At its core a router demarcates a broadcast domain, and retains a table of its nearest neighbours neighbours so that it may route traffic to those destinations based on their headers.

            Consider it the boundary of a packet switched domain. However never ignore that they're also the smallest object in the largest network on the planet. The Internet is content stored on computers that are connected by routers .

    • gyrex on 27/03/2025 - 11:13

      I use these Intel 'N' mini PCs as media interfaces/servers for all of the TVs in my house. I much prefer using a PC/keyboard to watch youtube or stream whatever I want irrespective of what software/hardware ships with the TV itself. I barely watch any FTA and 95% of my view time is on youtube.

  • poorguy on 27/03/2025 - 00:02

    Arguably better than this https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/898533 ?

    • freeb1e4me on 27/03/2025 - 00:30

      This has dual lan which is popular.

      Reviews say:
      - fan noise and heat significant
      - poor sound
      - fake ssd and unstable ram (not sure on this one)

      • Eatoff on 27/03/2025 - 13:48

        The review commebts are about this GMKtec or the soyo? I ordered the Soyo yesterday…

      • parad0x on 29/03/2025 - 16:14

        Fake SSD as in says 512GB but actuality it's a 4GB dressed up in drag?

    • jimmykim on 27/03/2025 - 07:57

      i don't keep up with the NUC technology, apology if this may sound like a dumb question but how is N100 is more superior than N150? I was under the impression that N150 is better?

      they are both WiFi 6, both Bluetooth 5.2.

      ah .. is it because of the RAM? this one is 12GB DDR5 4800 vs SOYO one 16GB DDR4.

      • topherboi on 27/03/2025 - 08:56
        +1

        how is N100 is more superior than N150?

        It isn't. The N150 is faster and newer.

        The RAM is seperate and unrelated to the CPU, and is dependant on the manufacturer/model of the mini PC.

        Some will happily sacrifice the CPU for other features, such as dual LAN, etc.

        • parad0x on 29/03/2025 - 16:15

          RAM is ENTIRELY dependent upon the CPU.

          • topherboi on 30/03/2025 - 08:35

            @parad0x: Right, but in this situation, it's not the deciding factor between the two mini PCs.

            • parad0x on 30/03/2025 - 22:19

              @topherboi: Yep, I hear ya. Sorry wasn't aware of the fact!

          • User7699 on 30/03/2025 - 14:36

            @parad0x: Both cpus support ddr4 & ddr5. The two different systems due to other factors decided which type to support. As such when talking about the two mention systems

            N150 with ddr4 ram I believe perform slightly worst then n100 with ddr5. Natural, which one is ahead depend on benchmarks.

            If both have same ram, the n150 is ahead.

            • parad0x on 30/03/2025 - 22:20

              @User7699: Thanks for clarification. It's always puzzled me how they manage dual support, and whether it's likely to remain (DDR4 support) moving forward… Id love to be able to utilise my hoards of ddr3 right now lol.
              Are they physically independent slots ?

    • BigBirdy on 27/03/2025 - 11:27
      +1

      Depends on your use case. For general PC, get SOYO (more ram & 2x usb-c), for routing get this (2x LAN). I think SOYO can also take 2nd M.2 SSD (from memory). They are probably from same manufacturer, based on certification.

  • Aeongrave on 27/03/2025 - 00:51

    CLEAR12 worked, but the others not so much (under the minimum amount, apparently).

  • drspy00 on 27/03/2025 - 01:38

    Wonder how this compares to Soyo M2 Plus. Got a good deal the other day.

  • Sfh1975 on 27/03/2025 - 02:05

    Finally bit the bullet. Thanks.

  • marko62 on 27/03/2025 - 06:50

    I bought one of these to replace a laptop running Emby, Sonarr, Radarr and SabnzbD. I have been impressed with it. I didn't like the power adapter that came with it so i threw it in a drawer and use a Ugreen USB c charger

  • Dr Prepper on 27/03/2025 - 07:49

    I would buy this but need a cheap16gb ram mini pc to have at home for program i use for work a couple times a week. Any ozbargainers have suggestions?

    • Wonderfool on 29/03/2025 - 10:32
      +1

      Old office fleets. It's been as low as 80 bucks before, so you can probably get the 16gb sticks and it'll work out the same price as this. Just keep in mind that ssf sizes often takes regular ram, while ussf takes sodimm.

      otherwise, there are minipcs out there that has 16gb ram.

  • chibasideup on 27/03/2025 - 07:49

    Does this have 2.5Gbit networking?

  • bulla3 on 27/03/2025 - 08:38

    This is probably obvious, but these are no doubt fine for web browsing, kids to watch YouTube and word office apps?

    • User7699 on 27/03/2025 - 08:53

      Yes, it fine to used it in that manner.

  • dan199 on 27/03/2025 - 08:46

    Will this run ChromeOS? Looking for something to run a webcam/VC in meeting room

  • stuffandthat on 27/03/2025 - 08:53

    OOS :(

    • SamwiseM on 27/03/2025 - 09:11

      I had the same issue for a while. It told me the item could not be added to cart because it was no longer available. I ended up clearing my browser cache and restarting chrome. I went back to AliExpress and placed an order. I note that it said there was only 1 unit left in stock but it took me a good 5 minutes to place the order. There is a possibility that someone had it in their cart and it expired so a unit was made available for sale. Keep trying, you may get lucky. Good luck.

    • Infoguard on 27/03/2025 - 09:37

      ahh.. that would explain " This product can't be shipped to your address. Select another product or address. "

  • rorted on 27/03/2025 - 09:17

    any dual lan options for pfsense?

  • freeb1e4me on 27/03/2025 - 09:38

    EU plug

    • Clear on 27/03/2025 - 09:59

      Powered via USB-C. Everyone would have a heap of those after all these cheap deals all the time.

  • gyrex on 27/03/2025 - 11:27
    +1

    Bugger, just missed out - it's now out of stock :(

    Edit: For anyone looking for an alternative, there's a GMKtec G3 with 16GB RAM 512GB SSD for $100USD here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006997281548.html

  • Captain Cheapskate on 27/03/2025 - 11:43

    Does anyone know if it supports thunderbolt 3/4?
    Would like to connect an EGPU to it.

  • Delta4 on 27/03/2025 - 12:57

    What are these like to run as a media player?

    • gyrex on 27/03/2025 - 13:32
      +2

      N100 CPUs are awesome media players. I've got 2 of them and they can run 4K media all day without dropped frames. Very snappy OS operation too.

  • mwark on 27/03/2025 - 17:55

    Anyone know if it's possible to install Windows 7 on this or any other N100 boxes?

    • gyrex on 27/03/2025 - 23:04
      +1

      Why not? I don't see why it wouldn't be able to be installed. You may need to get drivers for a few devices but it should be doable.

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