Minisforum releases UM870 Slim with heavy launch discounts and unusual AMD Ryzen 7 8745H processor
The UM870 Slim arrives as an adjunct of sorts to the UM680 Slim and UM760 Slim, which Minisforum already sells worldwide. For reference, the company released the latter just under three months ago with and AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS processor. By contrast, the UM870 Slim utilises the more powerful Ryzen 7 8745H that arrived over the summer.
In short, the Ryzen 7 8745H is the Ryzen 7 8845HS without an XDNA NPU and lower boost clock speeds. Thus, AMD equips the Ryzen 7 8745H with eight Zen 4-derived CPU cores that can reach 4.9 GHz and a Radeon 780M iGPU pegged at 2,600 MHz. While the Ryzen 7 8745H is a more powerful choice for a mini-PC that measures 130 x 127 x 50 mm, it has not been exploited by many companies yet.
At any rate, Minisforum claims to have overclocked the APU from 45 W to 54 W in its 'balanced' mode and to 65 W when the device's 'performance' mode is active. Moreover, the UM870 Slim finds itself with a pair of SO-DIMM slots that support up to 96 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, as well as two M.2 2280 slots for PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs and an M.2 2230 slot for socketed modems. Furthermore, all UM870 Slim configurations ship with the following ports:
- 1x 3.5 mm jack
- 1x DisplayPort 1.4
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x RJ45 2.5G LAN
- 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 2x USB 3.2 Type-A
- 1x USB4
Currently, Minisforum's latest mini-PC starts at $344 as a barebones unit when purchased from its website. In comparison, a variant with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD sells for $529. However, the company is offering the former for $310 on Amazon at the time of writing after applying a $78 coupon. Similarly, the UM870 Slim can be picked up for $447.20 with pre-installed RAM and storage as one of Amazon Prime's Black Friday Deal items.
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Amazon (1) (2) & Minisforum
