Pros: - Super compact - Solid build quality - Very accessible RAM slots + M.2/SATA - Dual fans are reasonably quiet - Sufficiently fast APU (see Other Thoughts) - Big heatsinks - Case airflow is fairly good - Onboard WiFi + Bluetooth is strong

Cons: - Runs way too hot out of the box, hitting thermal throttle frequently - Atrocious thermal pad material and application (see Other Thoughts) - Dual fans get loud when ramping up to max to deal with the aforementioned overheating - BIOS is very limited in performance and cooling options - (Unrelated to product) Chipset + Graphics drivers difficult to procure from AMD

Overall Review: The other reviews on this were right in that it does run unacceptably hot out-of-box. I was idling at 47C and hitting the thermal shutdown for the APU (105C) after less than an hour of gaming. Worse, the thermal pad that was applied was done sloppily (covering less than two-thirds of the die) with a very poor quality pad that was not designed to sustain the high temperatures this APU runs at. It burned and appeared to have bubbled at some point, which would further degrade cooling capability. I took the machine fully apart and removed the old thermal pads with some Goof Off and 91% isopropyl alcohol. Applied Thermaltake TG-7 grease, covering the entire die and ensuring contact and good fill. Idle temps plummeted to 31C with load temps now in the high-80s. Not great temps by desktop CPU standards, but well within tolerance for this chip and keeping the fans from entering their highest power state. I feel confident with this chip now. I bought this as a portable box to take to LAN parties and it seems to do the trick. Most Source games run well at medium-high details (> 30FPS, 1600x900) Chivalry: Medieval Warfare runs well on low-medium (~30FPS, 1600x900), and Payday 2 is acceptable at low-medium (~25FPS, 1280x720). Straight CPU performance is excellent, running emulators at full steam without issue. The APU's graphics performance is going to be limited by your system RAM (go for dual-channel DDR3), and the chipset appears to sequester 768MB of your system RAM at boot to use as graphics memory. Buy memory with good timings to keep this at top performance. I would recommend this product only if you're willing to take the whole thing apart to re-do the thermal paste, and you're on a budget. I'm not dissatisfied with it in the end, but a less build-savvy user or someone who isn't comfortable doing more than just memory and HDD swaps should look elsewhere.

Pros: Its small and It rocks I was looking for a small booksize computer to function as a HTPC and when I saw the package price for the PC, 240gig SSD and 16 gig memory and it was the right price. It was so good I bought another unit for my father as a gift for Christmas. I have recommended this product to my friends

Cons: The fan noise a little more then I would like at times when taxing the graphic during game play, but for the price I paid I love it.

Overall Review: Great job of pricing

Pros: - Quad-core A8 Processor, 35W TDP - Hudson 2 Chipset - F3 Bios Installed [a la GB-BXA8G-8890] - PWM 50mm Fans - mSATA and SATA III connectors - two (2) SODIMM slots - a/b/g/n/ac wireless - bluetooth 4.0

Cons: - disabled video card taking up space [did someone mention the GB-BXA8G-8890?] - outrageously lousy heatsink on the APU - driver support for Bluetooth and USB3.0 rough [saved by Realtek?]

Overall Review: I've installed, backed up and reinstalled Win7, Win8 and Win10 upgrade. With a SanDisk X300 256 gB mSATA, a WD Blue 1.0 tB, and 8 gB of Crucial RAM, it hums along quite nicely once topped up. Well, hum is really not the right word. I'm inclined to whine about things, and I really have a lot in common with this box. On the plus side, I haven't seen it go above 80C. I've gotten pretty good about disassembling and reassembling this box, just to try different thermal compound treatments. To their credit, the original assemblers did a good job the first time, trying TX-4 actually made it about 4 or 5C worse under load, and the AS-7 is maybe 1 or 2C better uncured. That heatsink on the APU? What a RIDICULOUS load of, well... Yes, it really is. The heatsink on the disabled video card has surface space and fins galore. AFAICT, a real gem. Why not put something like it on the APU??? Here's an idea - pull that out, and put in something that might actually cool the APU, Gigabyte. Judging by the BIOS, this is current product. rev.1.1 needs a better APU cooler. Heck, MINE needs a better APU cooler. Anybody got any ideas??

Pros: Adequate power for its size, setting up was simple. good machine if you are not planning to play any games.

Cons: Thermal throttling kicks in as soon as i start gaming. and shuts down within minutes.

Overall Review: As the description states no discreet GPU, its just suppose to have a APU in it, then Whats the second PCB for? i am trying to figure out what the second PCB does here..

Pros: makes a nice htpc. bought this on bf special for 139. wanted the amd graphics for linux box mainly for kodi and mythtv frontend. used 4gig memory and small ssd. runs well and provides nice video quality. used arch linux and set scaling to lock out turbo speeds. have not yet reapplied thermal paste / pads but may have to. device is silent most of the time. but from time to time fan will roar. it does not even have to be under load for fan to ramp up, but it is not often. overall i am happy so far. if i could solve the fan issue with new paste it would be 5 stars. the linux vdpau is very good and even play 1080p h265 files flawless but load is around 60 per cent without vdpau. the wifi and bt are recognized by linux and work. i use ethernet so cannot evaluate how well the wifi will work, it is a realtek chipset. if i were using wifi i would replace with an intel wifi card.

Cons: like everyone else it is the fan noise. but i do not get it all the time. and it does not seem to be dependent upon load. i will update this if reapplying paste eliminates the issue. but for me it is livable given the good performance for the cost

Overall Review: after having machine a week. i was, after a good deal of tinkering, able to control the fan noise by following the arch wiki on fancontrol and trial and error. the fans are now not ramping up to full speed and it is quiet. it is in a room that is cool at the moment, so i don't know what summer will bring. so for the meantime i will not try to reapply thermal paste. also my device did ship with bios F3.

Pros: Mine runs quiet,fast, smooth,cool, small box

Cons: -probably not for gaming but then again, they make the game box like this for that purpose. -only a standard headphone jack, no high def sound but it does use HDMI -update!! Sound jack came UN-soldered in less than a year with very light use Customer service sucks, unnecessary account sign up to RMA and no response afterwords.

Overall Review: I made mine with G.SKILL Ripjaws series 16GB (2 x 8G), Patriot Blast 2.5" 240GB SATA III SSD, Windows 10 pro x64. It runs 1080p videos flawlessly. Probably best suited as a home office PC or for media. which is what I do with it. update! I haven't had it more then a year and for some reason the speakers weren't working, I looked at it and noticed the solder for the speaker jack was pretty much gone and the jack fell out. Gigabytes rma and customer service really sucks to say the least. 1st they make you set up an account and when you do that it says you don't have any warranty than you email them they tell you it has a 3 year warranty and then the website tells you your email is already in database but won't let you in. then they ignore you after that in hopes you will go away. Well I will go away and thank goodness my monitor has a audio plug in the back or I wouldn't have any sound. I'm getting ready to start another build and I will never use another Gigabyte product or recommend it to anyone because of the lack of support. I Hope they go out of business! Stay far away from Gigabyte!!!

Pros: -Form Factor & Size -Stylish looks -USB 3.0

Cons: -VERY loud fans! I don't know if the fans would have powered down on a unit that would actually boot up or not though. Speaking of booting up... -Would not boot up. After pressing the power button, the fans turned on (did I mention how LOUD they were?) and the power button would blink. That is all. No video display was detected. Tried reseating memory in both sockets and reseating SSD connection but this made no difference. -Quick Setup Guide & Driver Disk but NO other manual or documentation. -NO online resources to diagnose boot up failure or power button LED error codes. Or to download any other documentation or manual except the minimal Quick Setup Guide. I assume that the blinking power LED might have helped me troubleshoot what the problem was, however, I couldn't find any resource online to find out.

Overall Review: Based on the price I got it at (bundled with an 8GB memory stick), I decided to take a chance on the purchase. If it had worked (and assuming the fans would have dropped to a more reasonable decibel range) I probably would have been happy with the purchase. Unfortunately, I'll never know. Definitely returning for a refund.

Pros: Looked good and the lower price was great and I waited a generous three months of owner ship (purchased 10/26/16) to give this a not so good review.

Cons: Too much noise even after replacing the CPU paste with Arctic Silver 5 (twice). I tried adding a fan directly to the CPU heat sink. I ended up restoring it back to factory state. Nothing I tried would improve the temps to run at a safe operating temperature under load (meaning if you were streaming HD and watching TV at the same time). Temps under load were GPU 87c and Core 94c (monitored by Speed Fan). At idle I would get 35c to 50c. At idle, the fans should not be audible from behind the monitor the unit is mounted to. I have ran this for days at a time and so far, it hasn't failed from the heat.

Overall Review: This was and is a poorly designed mini PC. I am trying the Gigabyte Core i3-5010U Ultra Compact Mini PC Barebone Support 2.5-Inch HDD (GB-BXi3H-5010), which should arrive tomorrow.