Utter Incompetence: Liquid Metal Disaster in Minisforum HX90 Small AMD Gaming PC
21,300The Minisforum EliteMini HX90 should stay far away from liquid metal, because the company clearly can't be trusted to apply it in a safe way. Overpriced and mismarketed.
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This review looks at the Minisforum EliteMini HX90 and similar products. Minisforum advertises hard that it's using liquid metal, yet the only liquid metal we found was spattered all over the interior of the chassis, the motherboard, and the fan. The company had two chances to get this right with us, and after wasting weeks of testing HX90 thermals, noise, gaming performance, power consumption, and more, we continually arrived at one conclusion: It's not worth buying. Even ignoring the liquid metal problems, Minisforum's system is overpriced for its performance.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Liquid Metal Murder Scene
02:43 - Getting Progressively Worse
06:50 - Electrical Short Risks
07:12 - Early Conclusion: Probably Don't Buy This
08:39 - Minsiforum Claims & Specs (EliteMini HX90)
11:02 - Literally Burning the Marketing Falsehoods
12:09 - Frequency Validation
12:24 - Horizontal vs. Vertical Orientation
13:04 - Load Limits & Throttling
13:59 - Gaming Benchmarks (Fortnite, CSGO, Rainbow Six, & More)
16:43 - Conclusion Again: Can't Be Trusted with Liquid Metal
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