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Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host


When I saw the first reviews of the ASRock DeskMini X600 barebone, I was immediately interested in building a home-lab hypervisor (VM host) with it. Apparently, the DeskMini X600 uses less than 10W of power but supports latest-generation AMD CPUs like the Ryzen 7 8700G!

Table of contentsWhen I saw the first reviews of the ASRock DeskMini X600 barebone, I was immediately interested in building a home-lab hypervisor (VM host) with it. You can find synthetic benchmark results for the Ryzen 8700G elsewhere, so as usual, I will write about the specific angle I care about: How fast can this machine handle Go workloads? If a Raspberry Pi isn’t enough for your needs, check out the DeskMini X600, or perhaps its larger variant, the DeskMeet X600 which is largely identical, but comes with a PCIe slot.

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