Minisforum AtomMan G7 Ti review
Spend any time with Miniforum's AtomMan G7 PT and it's clear you're dealing with a tidy piece of engineering. The looks I can leave behind, but the choice of performant components, well-managed by a quiet and competent cooling solution, makes for a neat package. It's a beast at 1080p, competent at 1440p with reduced settings and, in a world of off-the-peg machines, represents the kind of technical innovation we love to see.
This next offering in Minisforum's AtomMan line may be viewed as the G7 PT's bigger brother. Marrying Nvidia's laptop RTX 4070 with Intel's Core i9 14900HX, The G7 Ti is a blade-thin desktop machine which is more squarely aimed at 1440p gaming. With its clean-and-sharp aluminium panelling and understated RGB flighting, it cuts a rather more serious and mature figure than the G7 PT.
Pop the side-panel off and the reason for its slim-and-tall form factor is plain to see. It's literally built around a laptop motherboard, with four wee daughter-boards cabling off to perform external IO duties. This isn't the standard modus operandi for Minisforum, which usually opts for custom APU boards and cooling in its mini-PCs.
A copper Yakisoba of heat-pipes shrouds the lower half of the mobo, which is heartening given the choice of CPU. In mobile terms, the mobile RTX 4070 is no slouch, but the Core i9 14900HX is downright monstrous; a 24-core, 5.8 GHz, desktop-level bulldozer. Together, they make for highest-performing mini-PC we've tested, outpacing both the ASUS ROG NUC and the Zotac Zbox EN—both of which pack the same GPU—across a range of synthetic and gaming benchmarks.
CPU: Intel Core i9 14900HX
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070 mobile
Memory: 32 GB DDR5 5600 MHz SODIMM
Storage: 1 TB M.2 NVME SSD
Wireless: WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4
I/O front: 2x USB 3.2 Type-A, SD reader, Audio jack
I/O rear: 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x USBC Data/DP/PD), 1USB 3.2 Type-A, 1x 2.5G LAN
Price: $1439 | £1349 (1TB storage, 32GB RAM) | $1279 | £1249 (Barebones)
Like the G7 PT before it, the G7 Ti has
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