**Min Forum MS01 Mini Workstation Review**

The Min Forum MS01 is a compact and powerful mini PC that promises to deliver impressive performance despite its small size. In this review, we'll take a closer look at the machine's capabilities, performance, and features.

**Performance in Popular Games**

To test the MS01's performance, I set up the system with an AMD Ryzen 9 13900 H processor, 4GB of GDDR6 RAM, and the AMD Radeon RX 6400 GPU. The first game I tested was Forza Horizon 5, which ran at 1080p medium settings without resolution scaling. With no FSR enabled, the MS01 managed an average frame rate of 106 FPS, demonstrating its ability to handle demanding games with ease.

**Doom Eternal Performance**

Next, I moved on to Doom Eternal, a game known for its challenging gameplay and high system requirements. To my surprise, the MS01 performed better than expected, delivering an average of 81 FPS at 1080p medium settings without static or dynamic GE. This is a notable achievement, especially considering the machine's compact design.

**Power Consumption and Cooling**

One aspect I was interested in testing was power consumption. With the system running idle, the MS01 drew only around 21 Watts from the wall. However, when gaming, the power consumption jumped to an average of 94 Watts, with a maximum of 131 Watts recorded at the stock clock and TDP settings.

**Benchmarking and Gaming Trials**

To further test the MS01's capabilities, I ran the built-in benchmarks for Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Horizon Zero Dawn. While the machine struggled to hit 60 FPS in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at medium settings without resolution scaling, it improved significantly when dropping to low settings with no resolution scaling. In contrast, Horizon Zero Dawn was able to deliver a respectable average frame rate of 65 FPS at original settings.

**Cyberpunk 2077 Performance**

Finally, I tested Cyberpunk 2077, which ran smoothly at 1080p low settings with FSR set to Auto, delivering an average of 76 FPS. While not overly impressive, this result shows that the MS01 can handle more demanding games than initially expected.

**First Impressions and Potential for Upgrades**

Overall, I was impressed with the Min Forum MS01's performance and features. The machine's compact design and power consumption make it an attractive option for those looking to upgrade their gaming PC without sacrificing too much in terms of space or energy efficiency. One area where the MS01 could be improved is with more powerful GPU options, such as the RTX A2000, which would allow users to push performance even further.

**Conclusion**

The Min Forum MS01 is a solid choice for those looking for a compact and powerful gaming PC. While it may not blow the competition away in terms of raw performance, its ability to handle demanding games at respectable frame rates makes it an attractive option for those with smaller spaces or energy budgets. With potential upgrades on the horizon, such as the RTX A2000, this mini workstation has a bright future ahead of it.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a brand new powerful Mini PC from Min Forum known as the ms01 this is one I've had my eye on for a little while due to the upgrade ability and it's considered a mini workstation but as you can see it's still super small form factor they've packed a 14 core CPU in here plus we've got a real PCI x16 slot internally which means we can add a lowprofile GPU to this really great upgradeability and when it comes down to it this has a lot of networking capabilities and storage we're going to get into the internals in just a second but again this is considered a mini workstation for a lot of different reasons now they state that we can do up to an A2000 here just on PCI E power and around back we've got two 2.5 GB ethernet ports which is great but they've also managed to add two 10 GB ethernet ports on this also now inside of the Box along with the ms01 Mini PC we do get a 180 w power supply we've also got this m.2 to SATA adapter so we can add a 2.5 in Drive internally if we want to but we've got enough room in here for three m.2 nvme drives and when it comes to I/O up front here we've got a 3.5 mm audio jack One USB 3.2 Port two USB 2.0 ports but around back is where all the magic happens from the right to the left we've got our power input for that 180 W power supply that comes included two full-size USB 3 .2 ports we've also got a full-size HDMI port dual 2.5 GB ethernet ports and two 10 GB ports providing a total of ethernet throughput of 65 gbits per second which is absolutely outstanding for a Mini PC like this so this thing definitely has IO covered but we've got even more internally now it's really easy to get the chassis out of the case it's just a push of a button you can slide it right out and now you'll notice that we've got a PCI ex16 slot now this only runs at 8X speeds but we've got a lot of gpus that we can add to this now we do have to worry about the height single slot low profile I've got a few to choose from and they do state you know power consumption through this slot here can do up to an A2000 adding an RTX A2000 of this would be absolutely amazing but unfortunately the cover just won't go back on it but we do have a couple choices that we can go with now flipping the unit over you might notice that we've got three m.2 slots and we've got a longer slot here or a space for a longer slot this will do the alt U2 drives so you can do those longer M do2s and this will support up to 24 terabytes of storage which is ridiculous for the form factor and they've also included an nvme Drive cooler we've got this blower style fan here so these aren't going to heat up much while everything's running but I got to say at least for me the most exciting thing about the ms01 is this PCI x16 slot so we've got enough room in here for a lowprofile single slot car now we'll just go ahead and remove the bracket cover comes right out really easily now I wanted to do the A2000 I've got one right here or even the Intel Arc a350 but as you can see it's just a bit too tall those are really dual slot with a single slot bracket on them so what I opted to use here is the Radeon RX 6400 now in the future we will do another video with that RTX A2000 kind of sticking out of the side here but this fits in here absolutely perfectly and I think we can get some really good 1080p gaming performance out of the way now it's been a while since I've tested the 6400 I know drivers have been updated and I'm sure performance has been increased from my initial review and keep in mind Min forum is offering the ms01 with two different CPU options what I've got here is the Intel I9 13900 but they also have the i92 900h with this we've got 14 cores 20 threads six performance cores up to 5 5.4 GHz and eight efficiency cores up to 4.1 we've also got access to the Intel XI GPU with 96 execution units this will clock up to 1500 MHz but since we've added a dedicated GPU we're not going to be testing that out in this video we can do up to 64 GB of sodm ddr5 running in dual Channel at 5200 megat transfers per second we've got that PCI x16 slot now it's a half hype single slot and it runs at pcie 4.0 X8 which is perfect for this Radeon RX 6400 lowprofile GPU we've also got Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 and I'm going to be running Windows 11 on this machine okay so getting right into it got everything updated here with Windows 11 and as you can see we've got that I9 13900 H 32 gigs of ddr5 at 5200 MHz and of course we added that RX 6400 which isn't the most powerful card on the market by far but it's one of my favorite single slot Low Pro profile cards actually it's my favorite right now about the best we can get for a single slot given pricing on something like this now there are some higher-end envidia cards that may be single slot like the a series that will outperform this but they're going to be really really pricey just taking a look here uh CPU run a stress test this does jump up to around 65 Watts on Boost but we've got a 45 watt based TDP with this I9 given the form factor of this unit now from the BIOS we could take this up or even go with Intel tuning utility but I'd say 45 with that 65 watt boost is really going to keep our temps down and it still offers amazing performance another thing I wanted to look at here was uh the GPU now it's been a while since I've tested out the 6400 so we're going to run a stress test I forget what this runs at it's actually higher than I thought I was thinking around 32 watts but it looks like this RX 6400 will jump up to around 42 even without a dedicated GPU using this as an everyday desktop actually works out really well we've got those Intel UHD graphics and for 4K video playback web browsing want to do some light photo editing it's got plenty of power for that but of course we wanted to get some gaming out of the way on this web browsing super Snappy and we've got those two 10 GB ethernet ports around the back I personally have no real world way to test this out but they do have some information over on the website I'll leave a link in the description 2.5 gigb ethernet round back is really fast plus we've got Wi-Fi 6 and that's exactly what I've been using here without an issue the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on the ms01 and first up we've got geek bench 6 single core 259 multi 12,674 looking really good we do get that boost up to 65 Watts so we're seeing some pretty decent single and multi-core performance next thing I did was run some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mar and remember we've got that lowprofile radon RX 6400 the slot on this only runs at X8 but it is PCI E 4.0 so it's perfect for this little card night raid 35,1 159 fire strike 10,428 and finally we've got time spy with a 3,970 the RX 6400 is based on rdna2 and it's not looking like we're scoring much higher than the rdna 3 based igpu known as the 7 ADM but in real world performance This Will trump that igpu and it really comes down to having g ddr6 v Ram we've got 4 gigs with the RX 6400 and the first game we have here is Forza Horizon 5 1080p medium settings no resolution scale so I didn't need to turn on FSR with this we're getting an average of 106 FPS with this game and I'm sure we could do high settings with this card this game isn't the hardest one to run it's very well optimized and I've had really good luck on Lower in systems but again we could add a more powerful GPU to this thing and really up that performance here's Doom Eternal this actually did much better than I thought it would where at 1080p medium settings no resolution scale not using static or dynamic GE we got an average of 81 FPS and if you take a look at After Burner up in the top leftand corner you can see that this little RX 6400 pulls up to 43 WT maximum temperature on the CP that I've seen while gaming does jump up to around 85 but if you're familiar with these 13 gen intels you know they do run kind of hot and we've only got a smaller blower on this but at 45 wats we're not hitting thermal throttle I also wanted to run the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider and initially I went to medium with this with no resolution scale it wasn't great I mean we only had an average of around 61 FPS so it was dipping under but going down to low settings with no resolution scale we got an average of 86 so not bad at all for this 6400 I also tested out Horizon zero Dawn just using the built-in Benchmark and I thought we'd get much more out of this now we are kind of limited by the vram we've only got 4 gigs here with the RX 6400 and at original settings 1080p with no FSR we got an average of 65 FPS and the final game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 2077 1080p low settings with FSR set to Auto and if I had to guess I'd say we're going to about balanced here we averaged 76 FPS with this game at 1080 so it's not all that bad but I am craving a little more GPU performance so maybe in the future we will install that RTX A2000 and really up everything because uh we're kind of being held back by the 6400 here the I9 13900 H does have a lot more to offer when it comes to gaming like this and we're just kind of really being held back by that GPU another thing I always like to take a look at with these small form factor PCS is total power consumption from the wall so while I'm doing my testing I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter and again we've got that I9 13900 H with the RX 6400 so power consumption will be lower without a dedicated GPU but at idle this is only around 21 Watts average gaming jumps up to 94 and the maximum that I could get this to pull at kind of the stock clock stock TDP on everything was 131 Watts remember this does this comes with a 180 W power supply so yeah we could definitely install a more powerful GPU here like I mentioned at the beginning minus Forum states that you can do up to the A2000 in this unit First Impressions here love the size here working with a super small form factor I mean we've got enough room in here for three m.2 drives we can do up to 24 terab of storage it's got dual 10 gig ethernet around back this is an awesome little mini PC and I know we can get a lot more out of it with a more powerful GP you so if you're interested in seeing something like that definitely let me know in the comments below but that's going to wrap it up for my first look at the Min Forum ms01 mini workstation if you want to learn a little more about this Mini PC I will leave some links to Min forum's official website remember they're offering two different CPU variant the 12 900h and the 13900 H so keep that in mind when pricing everything out but that's going to wrap it up for this one like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a brand new powerful Mini PC from Min Forum known as the ms01 this is one I've had my eye on for a little while due to the upgrade ability and it's considered a mini workstation but as you can see it's still super small form factor they've packed a 14 core CPU in here plus we've got a real PCI x16 slot internally which means we can add a lowprofile GPU to this really great upgradeability and when it comes down to it this has a lot of networking capabilities and storage we're going to get into the internals in just a second but again this is considered a mini workstation for a lot of different reasons now they state that we can do up to an A2000 here just on PCI E power and around back we've got two 2.5 GB ethernet ports which is great but they've also managed to add two 10 GB ethernet ports on this also now inside of the Box along with the ms01 Mini PC we do get a 180 w power supply we've also got this m.2 to SATA adapter so we can add a 2.5 in Drive internally if we want to but we've got enough room in here for three m.2 nvme drives and when it comes to I/O up front here we've got a 3.5 mm audio jack One USB 3.2 Port two USB 2.0 ports but around back is where all the magic happens from the right to the left we've got our power input for that 180 W power supply that comes included two full-size USB 3 .2 ports we've also got a full-size HDMI port dual 2.5 GB ethernet ports and two 10 GB ports providing a total of ethernet throughput of 65 gbits per second which is absolutely outstanding for a Mini PC like this so this thing definitely has IO covered but we've got even more internally now it's really easy to get the chassis out of the case it's just a push of a button you can slide it right out and now you'll notice that we've got a PCI ex16 slot now this only runs at 8X speeds but we've got a lot of gpus that we can add to this now we do have to worry about the height single slot low profile I've got a few to choose from and they do state you know power consumption through this slot here can do up to an A2000 adding an RTX A2000 of this would be absolutely amazing but unfortunately the cover just won't go back on it but we do have a couple choices that we can go with now flipping the unit over you might notice that we've got three m.2 slots and we've got a longer slot here or a space for a longer slot this will do the alt U2 drives so you can do those longer M do2s and this will support up to 24 terabytes of storage which is ridiculous for the form factor and they've also included an nvme Drive cooler we've got this blower style fan here so these aren't going to heat up much while everything's running but I got to say at least for me the most exciting thing about the ms01 is this PCI x16 slot so we've got enough room in here for a lowprofile single slot car now we'll just go ahead and remove the bracket cover comes right out really easily now I wanted to do the A2000 I've got one right here or even the Intel Arc a350 but as you can see it's just a bit too tall those are really dual slot with a single slot bracket on them so what I opted to use here is the Radeon RX 6400 now in the future we will do another video with that RTX A2000 kind of sticking out of the side here but this fits in here absolutely perfectly and I think we can get some really good 1080p gaming performance out of the way now it's been a while since I've tested the 6400 I know drivers have been updated and I'm sure performance has been increased from my initial review and keep in mind Min forum is offering the ms01 with two different CPU options what I've got here is the Intel I9 13900 but they also have the i92 900h with this we've got 14 cores 20 threads six performance cores up to 5 5.4 GHz and eight efficiency cores up to 4.1 we've also got access to the Intel XI GPU with 96 execution units this will clock up to 1500 MHz but since we've added a dedicated GPU we're not going to be testing that out in this video we can do up to 64 GB of sodm ddr5 running in dual Channel at 5200 megat transfers per second we've got that PCI x16 slot now it's a half hype single slot and it runs at pcie 4.0 X8 which is perfect for this Radeon RX 6400 lowprofile GPU we've also got Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 and I'm going to be running Windows 11 on this machine okay so getting right into it got everything updated here with Windows 11 and as you can see we've got that I9 13900 H 32 gigs of ddr5 at 5200 MHz and of course we added that RX 6400 which isn't the most powerful card on the market by far but it's one of my favorite single slot Low Pro profile cards actually it's my favorite right now about the best we can get for a single slot given pricing on something like this now there are some higher-end envidia cards that may be single slot like the a series that will outperform this but they're going to be really really pricey just taking a look here uh CPU run a stress test this does jump up to around 65 Watts on Boost but we've got a 45 watt based TDP with this I9 given the form factor of this unit now from the BIOS we could take this up or even go with Intel tuning utility but I'd say 45 with that 65 watt boost is really going to keep our temps down and it still offers amazing performance another thing I wanted to look at here was uh the GPU now it's been a while since I've tested out the 6400 so we're going to run a stress test I forget what this runs at it's actually higher than I thought I was thinking around 32 watts but it looks like this RX 6400 will jump up to around 42 even without a dedicated GPU using this as an everyday desktop actually works out really well we've got those Intel UHD graphics and for 4K video playback web browsing want to do some light photo editing it's got plenty of power for that but of course we wanted to get some gaming out of the way on this web browsing super Snappy and we've got those two 10 GB ethernet ports around the back I personally have no real world way to test this out but they do have some information over on the website I'll leave a link in the description 2.5 gigb ethernet round back is really fast plus we've got Wi-Fi 6 and that's exactly what I've been using here without an issue the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on the ms01 and first up we've got geek bench 6 single core 259 multi 12,674 looking really good we do get that boost up to 65 Watts so we're seeing some pretty decent single and multi-core performance next thing I did was run some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mar and remember we've got that lowprofile radon RX 6400 the slot on this only runs at X8 but it is PCI E 4.0 so it's perfect for this little card night raid 35,1 159 fire strike 10,428 and finally we've got time spy with a 3,970 the RX 6400 is based on rdna2 and it's not looking like we're scoring much higher than the rdna 3 based igpu known as the 7 ADM but in real world performance This Will trump that igpu and it really comes down to having g ddr6 v Ram we've got 4 gigs with the RX 6400 and the first game we have here is Forza Horizon 5 1080p medium settings no resolution scale so I didn't need to turn on FSR with this we're getting an average of 106 FPS with this game and I'm sure we could do high settings with this card this game isn't the hardest one to run it's very well optimized and I've had really good luck on Lower in systems but again we could add a more powerful GPU to this thing and really up that performance here's Doom Eternal this actually did much better than I thought it would where at 1080p medium settings no resolution scale not using static or dynamic GE we got an average of 81 FPS and if you take a look at After Burner up in the top leftand corner you can see that this little RX 6400 pulls up to 43 WT maximum temperature on the CP that I've seen while gaming does jump up to around 85 but if you're familiar with these 13 gen intels you know they do run kind of hot and we've only got a smaller blower on this but at 45 wats we're not hitting thermal throttle I also wanted to run the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider and initially I went to medium with this with no resolution scale it wasn't great I mean we only had an average of around 61 FPS so it was dipping under but going down to low settings with no resolution scale we got an average of 86 so not bad at all for this 6400 I also tested out Horizon zero Dawn just using the built-in Benchmark and I thought we'd get much more out of this now we are kind of limited by the vram we've only got 4 gigs here with the RX 6400 and at original settings 1080p with no FSR we got an average of 65 FPS and the final game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 2077 1080p low settings with FSR set to Auto and if I had to guess I'd say we're going to about balanced here we averaged 76 FPS with this game at 1080 so it's not all that bad but I am craving a little more GPU performance so maybe in the future we will install that RTX A2000 and really up everything because uh we're kind of being held back by the 6400 here the I9 13900 H does have a lot more to offer when it comes to gaming like this and we're just kind of really being held back by that GPU another thing I always like to take a look at with these small form factor PCS is total power consumption from the wall so while I'm doing my testing I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter and again we've got that I9 13900 H with the RX 6400 so power consumption will be lower without a dedicated GPU but at idle this is only around 21 Watts average gaming jumps up to 94 and the maximum that I could get this to pull at kind of the stock clock stock TDP on everything was 131 Watts remember this does this comes with a 180 W power supply so yeah we could definitely install a more powerful GPU here like I mentioned at the beginning minus Forum states that you can do up to the A2000 in this unit First Impressions here love the size here working with a super small form factor I mean we've got enough room in here for three m.2 drives we can do up to 24 terab of storage it's got dual 10 gig ethernet around back this is an awesome little mini PC and I know we can get a lot more out of it with a more powerful GP you so if you're interested in seeing something like that definitely let me know in the comments below but that's going to wrap it up for my first look at the Min Forum ms01 mini workstation if you want to learn a little more about this Mini PC I will leave some links to Min forum's official website remember they're offering two different CPU variant the 12 900h and the 13900 H so keep that in mind when pricing everything out but that's going to wrap it up for this one like always thanks for watching\n"