GEEKOM A8

What owners say

Three laboratories measured this machine's wireless and got results that cannot all be true: two recorded around 1.3 gigabits per second, and the third could not push download past 80 megabits and called it unacceptable. The third one worked out why. He swapped antennas and cards with another machine and moved it around the room without changing anything, then taped a piece of foil over the antenna and download jumped from 47 to 512 megabits. The antenna sits directly above the solid-state drive, and the metal plate that should shield it has a cutout at exactly that edge. Whether your unit is fast or unusable appears to depend on which drive it shipped with. The second finding is about long work. Under sustained load it reaches 92 °C, drops its clock halfway through the run and settles lower, and the same reviewer measured it finishing slower than the cheaper model it replaces. The maker claims its new cooling is 20 per cent faster and 80 per cent quieter; he found neither. At rest it is genuinely inaudible, down at the room's own noise floor, but it becomes audible under even light load and reaches 49 to 54 dB(A).

For whom

A half-litre desktop for work that arrives in bursts, with three years of warranty and four independent displays.

Not for

Sustained loads, where it ends up slower than the model it replaces, and anyone who cannot test the wireless before committing.

Our own summary of 6 published sources, reviewed Sep 17, 2026. We have not tested this Mini PC ourselves; the sources are listed under About this data.