MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro (HX 370)

What owners say

Two labs and a long-term owner agree on what this machine is and disagree about what it costs you. It is quiet, at 28 dB(A) idle and 41.8 under load, with a firmware profile that brings the loaded figure down to 36. The case never reaches 40 °C, the chip settles at 76, and it draws 8.6 W at idle from an internal 135 W supply, so there is no power brick on your desk. The trade-off is the memory. Unlike the soldered machines it competes with, this one takes two ordinary SO-DIMMs, and the owner measured what that costs: memory reads in the high 60 gigabytes per second, against the high 80s on his previous soldered machine with the same chip family. One reviewer lists the slower memory as a direct drag on graphics, and the owner's practical conclusion is that mixture-of-experts models of 20 to 30 billion parameters are about the ceiling here. Two real defects. The SD card reader runs at USB 2 speed and copies at 24 MB/s against a class average near 125. And interrupt latency measured 12,282 microseconds, three times the maker's own sibling machine, which one reviewer says rules it out as a video streaming client.

For whom

An office and creative desktop where you want to choose your own memory and storage, and to add an external graphics card over OCuLink later.

Not for

Real-time audio or video work, and anyone who needs the memory bandwidth that only soldered LPDDR5X delivers.

Our own summary of 4 published sources, reviewed Sep 17, 2026. We have not tested this Mini PC ourselves; the sources are listed under About this data.