Minisforum has added a new product to its growing arsenal of mini PCs, this one being a followup to an existing design but a much needed and welcomed followup. When the original B550 released, it looked like a normal mini PC but with a socketed design, meaning you could easily upgrade to a newer CPU. Since AM4 socket hasn’t seen any APU’s release since the 5700G, this wasn’t particularly useful on the surface. The B550 had a hidden secret however, which was an external PCIe 3.0 x16 connector as well as ATX PSU connectors, allowing it to be a modular component in a larger PC – not too dissimilar to the Intel NUC Extreme. The downside is everything was held in by brackets and was rather exposed. The B550 Pro rectifies this by adding a case around it all.
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