Acemagic F3A an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Mini PC with up to 128GB of RAM – ServeTheHome
This is one that we were not expecting. The Acemagic F3A is a mini PC powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. That is a super cool CPU, but the last time we looked at it in the Beelink SER9 we were limited on memory capacity with a fixed memory configuration. The F3A, however, has DDR5-SODIMMs, so naturally, we thought, why not try the 128GB (2x 64GB) kit. It worked, and this has been running llama3.3 70b and deepseek-r1 70b for the past few weeks.For this one, we have a video that you can find here:As a quick aside, I sent a note to a Crucial contact since after our Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Tiny Gen5 Review Amazon, Newegg, and others went out-of-stock on the Crucial 128GB (2x 64GB) kits. I was told late last week that we should see more stock later in the week we are publishing this review with the modules.A lot of our discussion is going to be around this configuration. We had many folks bemoan that the Beelink SER9 at 32GB of fixed LPDDR5X was not enough. This is considerably more interesting. Just as a note: we also had the 96GB (2x 48GB) kit working as well.On the front of the system we have a poewr button and audio jack which are fairly standard. There are also two USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports. The other big feature on the front is the USB4 port. We often get folks saying they want to see Type-C ports on the front when they were on the rear. When the ports are on the front, folks say they want them on the rear. The F3A has both.On the top, we get an Acemagic logo as well as our AMD Ryzen AI and Radeon stickers.The design is a bit different. That gap on the top panel is functional for airflow. We will show that in our internal overview. At the same time, it is not linked to the bottom side vent you see here.The top portion is a clear plastic, but that is because there is some RGB here. We showed it in the video, but it did not photograph overly well. Here is what it looks like turned on as the colors go around the exterior of the system.Here is the rear, and there is a lot going on. We have two more USB 3.2 Gen1 ports, but then two Realtek 2.5GbE ports. Next to that we have a HDMI and a DisplayPort. We showed this in the video, but the DP did not output video on the system setup, we had to use HDMI.Next to that is the rear USB4 port. It is nice to have two combined with the front USB4. Then we have a 19V DC power input and another audio jack.On the bottom, we have labels and vents.Next, let us get inside the system.Consider changing the hero image description to “Acemagic F3A: ISO 64,000” LOL.According to the review this mini PC can run DeepSeek R1 70B distilled although slowly. How slowly? I’ve tried the same model on an older dual socket Epyc server and quickly realised that too slow makes a big difference in terms of usability. As large language models perform differently than what’s included in the current selection of Serve the Home benchmarks, I think comparing DeepSeek R1 70B performance across a wide variety of CPU and GPU hardware would be make a very interesting article.Did this thing come with preinstalled Windows? Be careful, Acemagic shipped Mini PCs with preinstalled malware/spyware in the past; you can find this documented very well on YT.
TBH, since then i dont trust them. Uefi is clean? With that, it would be possible to undermine anya installation, also fresh own ones.I’d guess, no ECC Ram capabilities? This i’d love: a silent Ryzen mini PC for proxmox with 2 fast Lan ports and ECC support.I am also waiting for the AMD AI MAX+ 395 MiniPCs to come out. I agree with Eric Olson that it would be nice to see an LLM inference speed comparison across different CPUs and GPUs. For me the expandable RAM is key. I was looking at the SER9 when it launched late last year, but I ended up with a 8945HX MiniPC because I didn’t like that I couldn’t get at least 48 GB of RAM in the SER9. I do LLM inference on some of my MiniPCs but my primary use for them is part of a Proxmox cluster so having expandable RAM is more important than maximum performance.Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.Sign me up for the STH newsletter!
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