So the more powerful mini-PC that I purchased the other night on Amazon for $338.99 arrived today. The first thing that I do is make an image of the hard drive (NVME) of any new computer. The quickest and easiest way to do this with this computer was to take the case apart and insert an additional NVME and then boot with Hirens BootCD PE and make an image using one of the programs in the disk imaging menu. I usually use Macrium Reflect and save the image to a file on the 2nd drive. All of this is of course free.
https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
I am used to using my very powerful gaming laptop with Microsoft Fight Simulator 2024. It runs very smoothy at the highest detail and resolution with the gaming laptop. In the past I have used Flight Simulators with much less capable computers. It always takes a bit of effort to find the best display settings. This mini-PC runs MSFS 2024 just fine without any warnings when you start it up, it does not run as smoothly as with my more powerful gaming computer which has a very capable Nvidia GPU and 13th Generation Core I7. But MSFS 2025 is not maxing out the CPU or the GPU the way that I currently have it setup.
I wanted to mention that the “BIOS/UEFI” has many settings that can be changed in this mini-PC. It runs very cool even under load and Ryzens tend to be extremely good candidates for overclocking and increasing the TDP. So, I will be spending some time tweaking this thing and the settings in MSFS 2024 and 2020 to get the best performance possible from it.
So far, I am pleased with my purchase.