Mini PC guides
Small box, right job.
Guides to mini PCs for home servers, home theater and everyday desks, built around what decides a purchase: the job it runs, the ports and power it needs, and how upgradeable it is.
By the Mini PC Gear HQ Team
Built around the job
The same small box can be a perfect Plex server and a poor gaming machine. What matters is the workload: transcoding, virtual machines, network ports, idle power draw and whether you can add RAM or a second drive later. Mini PC Gear HQ starts every guide from the job.
What we cover
- 01Mini PCs for homelab: Proxmox, Home Assistant, NAS and firewalls
- 02Home theater and media servers
- 03Office, Linux and everyday desktops
- 04RAM, NVMe drives and upgrades
How a guide is built
Our guides start from manufacturer specifications, chipset documentation and support pages, then the homelab and owner communities where long-term issues show up. When a guide is based on our own time with a product, the article says so plainly. Every pick says who it is not for.
No scores, no printed prices
A score hides the trade-off that matters to you, and prices move constantly in this category, so every product link points to the live listing instead.
Where the money comes from
Mini PC Gear HQ is reader-supported. When you buy through one of our links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Brands cannot pay for a recommendation or a placement, and if a manufacturer ever sends us a product, the article will say so. Read our affiliate disclosure.
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