Bosgame’s new E5 Plus mini PC is a bargain-bin refresh with ancient Ryzen hardware and a broken product page

Bosgame has quietly added another inexpensive mini PC to its line-up. The new E5 Plus runs AMD's Ryzen 3 5400U, a Zen 3 mobile SKU from yesteryear. It features four CPU cores and eight threads, with clock speeds of up to 4.0 GHz, along with a Radeon Vega iGPU. The E5 Plus follows the E2 Plus that Bosgame introduced earlier this month. That model uses the unusual Ryzen 5 3501U, an even older chip that is effectively identical to the Ryzen 5 3500U.

The Bosgame E5 Plus pairs the Ryzen 3 5400U with 8 GB of DDR4 memory and a 256 GB SSD in the base configuration. The company also advertises support for up to 64 GB of RAM and 4 TB of storage, although you'll have to supply those upgrades yourself.

Despite its somewhat aged APU, the Bosgame E5 Plus offers plenty of connectivity options. The mini PC includes two 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports, plus HDMI, DisplayPort, and a USB Type-C port that supports video output. Thus, it can drive up to three 4K displays simultaneously. You also get two USB 2.0 Type-A ports and two USB 3.2 Type-A ports. For wireless connectivity, it has Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth.

Bosgame's product page should be approached with some caution when it comes to pretty much everything. It is a mess of promotional material from completely unrelated mini PCs. One image even shows an Acemagic-branded system, while another advertises hardware including a Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Ryzen 9 7940HS, DDR5-5600 memory and Wi-Fi 6, none of which even remotely apply to the E5 Plus. And let's not even get to the typos and straight-up incorrect information.

The Bosgame E5 Plus will set you back $499, but for a limited time, you can buy it for $440. There's also a conspicuous 'Add to Cart' button advertising a $240 price, although that appears to be incorrect. Either way, it's clear Bosgame resurrected the mini PC's product page with some bargain-bin necromancy, and nothing written there should be taken as fact without independent verification.

The E5 Plus also appears to be more of a revision than an entirely new design. Bosgame already sells the closely related E5, and the two systems are broadly similar. The main changes appear to be the move from the E5's Ryzen 3 5300U to the newer Zen 3-based Ryzen 3 5400U, along with an upgrade from 1 Gbps Ethernet to dual 2.5 Gbps ports and some rearrangement of the I/O