Our Verdict Insanely compact and thoroughly well built, the G1 Pro captures an impressive amount of performance for a remarkably reasonable price.

It's not flawless, it can run hot, and you'll need a USB hub to really take advantage of it, but if you're after a solid machine that can game, handle productivity tasks well, and even act as a console replacement, this'll do nicely.

For Insanely compact form factor Decent value Solid gaming performance at 1440p Quiet enough Remarkably portable Against CPU performance could be better Cooling is mixed You're going to need a USB hub PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.

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The Minisforum Atomman G1 Pro has sat on my desk now for about two weeks.

Happily bimbling away, running benchmarks, stress tests, and going through all manner of arduous rigamarole that we require these mini gaming PCs to endure in our pursuit of testing excellence, (write that down, it'll be in the company call later).In essence, it's quite unique.

Effectively a weird hybrid of sorts.

Fluidly blurring the lines between a mid-range gaming laptop and an entry-level ITX rig.

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The case is outlandishly compact, with only 3.8 L of internal capacity, and yet somehow, Minisforum has slammed a 350 W PSU in there, a motherboard with 32 GB of dual-channel DDR5, an RTX 5060 low-profile GPU, and no less than two M.2 slots as well.

It's so slim.

So sheepishly svelte, it's hard to believe that this plucky little case actually manages to hold all that in there without buckling at the seams.

Looking more akin to a PS5 than a dedicated gaming desktop.The saving grace is, without a doubt, that CPU that Minisforum has strapped up under the cooler, puttering away underneath that chassis.

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Namely AMD's Ryzen 9 8945HX ## Editor's Note The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-pcs/atomman-g1-pro-review/)