Prebuilt HP ProDesk Mini 1.2L

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I had not heard much about these uSFF PCs and nabbed one of these off ebay for the 8500T and Windows 10 LTSB Enterprise edition thinking I was going to transplant to my Alantic case that had been vacated of the P8Z77/i3770K build that was inside. However after throwing in a SATA SSD loaded with Linux I had I started to change my mind as the HP is a shade less than 1.2L and has a credible amount of connectivity inside and out. Ended up putting the Windows(2016 LTSB) loaded M.2 back in after messing with it under Linux and hearing that it was reasonably quiet(laptop level with the similar cooler). There are still some things the Intel iGPUs are supported much better on and I needed Win10 for getting into VPN at work(another topic) anyway here's the rest of the story.

Prodesk with adapter which can be trimmed in size greatly with a GaN design, can almost fit the PC portion in the IO shield area of a regular mobo.


Similar footprint area wise


The original plan




The box came with VGA but these HDMI 2.0a option boards are readily available on ebay, made the swap in about 5 mintues plays 4kx60 no problem using VLC and hardware acceleration on Linux, 2400g can't do that due to VLC/ffmpeg issues, MPV will work.


Came with 1x8GB stick, added a second


Beside the SATA drive bay there's 3xM.2 including the short Wifi(Intel 9560), pic taken before I loaded the original SSD back in


The Wifi/BT antennas, there is a punch out for a regular antenna under the cover and another on the right side so a traditional dual antenna setup can be used.



Oval speaker on the left, thermal sensor to the right of that, full port specs in link
https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c06043924.pdf

 
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Does that mean this is HDMI 2.0? HDR capable?
It was more of a test of the HEVC decoding and frame rate on Linux, which is problematic for 2400G depending on vid stack and app etc. Monitor is 2560x1440 @60hz capable, HDR incapable I'm sure, but UHD630 seems 4k capable from reviews.
 

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... Monitor is 2560x1440 @60hz capable, HDR incapable I'm sure, but UHD630 seems 4k capable from reviews.
UHD630 is usually 4K@60Hz via Displayport only (no HDR), 2560x1440 @60hz ist the maximum for HDMI 1.4.

There are very rare exceptions with HDMI 2.0, like this find of mine:
Gigabyte GA-H310MSTX-HD3
 

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UHD630 is usually 4K@60Hz via Displayport only (no HDR), 2560x1440 @60hz ist the maximum for HDMI 1.4.

There are very rare exceptions with HDMI 2.0, like this find of mine:
Gigabyte GA-H310MSTX-HD3

Edit: I found a spec sheet for the option cards, download and scroll down to the 1st HDMI card for thev400/600/800 models, HDMI 2.0a, w/HDR HDCP 2.2
https://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c06042607.pdf

Curiously the option card for the AMD 2400ge version is only HDMI 1.4
 
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Edit: I found a spec sheet for the option cards, download and scroll down to the 1st HDMI card for thev400/600/800 models, HDMI 2.0a, w/HDR HDCP 2.2
https://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c06042607.pdf
The specs only mention AMD as minimum requirement:
"System requirements, minimum CPU: AMD AM4 A6-9500E 3.0 GHz or higher; "

Weird. But maybe you are lucky and got one of those rare beasts.

Thanks for the documentation!
 

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The specs only mention AMD as minimum requirement:
"System requirements, minimum CPU: AMD AM4 A6-9500E 3.0 GHz or higher; "

Weird. But maybe you are lucky and got one of those rare beasts.

Thanks for the documentation!
Have only seen Intel 8th gen chips listed for the 400/600/800 G4s specs they list as compatible. G5 takes 8th & 9th gen. Not rare at all. Port spec repeated for box link below

https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c06043924.pdf
 
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I had planned to use the M.2 for a Linux OS and have dual boot with SATA SSD as common backup, however SSD/HDD caddy cannot be installed with the 2nd M.2 in place. Seems dumb they did this or maybe not possible hardware wise but plan is to use a nibbler on straight red line sections below, circled area is M.2 connector.
 
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Modded the SATA SSD caddy, damn near cut too much at the front for the pedestal piece to lock in. At least everything can breathe now.

 
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Got one of these USB Type C power meters to check on things, was surprised at less than 20V, so measured at the board and 12.93V there so readiing seems reasonable allowing ~1V for 6ft of cable drop. Removed the meter to see if it was interfering with the chip function, but reading at mobo remained at 12.93V. I need to looks at the PD spec, it's possible the higher voltage is a demand type thing. Even at the low voltage I've had no issues yet. Mobo is probably OK at 12V, have seen the power spike to ~30+ W. Meter even has a cumulative mAh reading if your running off a power bank.

 

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I have an older HP mini. Neat system. Love the design. I’m swapping my Zotac EN1070 6400t with the HPs 6700T
 

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I have an older HP mini. Neat system. Love the design. I’m swapping my Zotac EN1070 6400t with the HPs 6700T

Amazing amount of cramming in these things, most surprised at it being remarkably quiet.