 This is the Geekum mini IT8 PC. It's small powerful and has a ton of features today We're gonna check it out. I'm Jim and this is the edge of tech So I know what you're thinking why the heck am I checking out a mini PC on this channel? I've never done that before well I needed one for a special project and Geekum graciously sent me over this mini IT8 to check out This is not gonna be a review. This is just gonna be me showing you the features What's involved what comes on it and just checking out this little machine and I can't wait to do that Thank you so much to Geekum for sending this little mini PC over. Let's check it out So when we get the box open inside is your PC And if we take off the top here We'll find a nice carrying case the power cord The HDMI cable a power brick an instruction manual And a visa mount which is super cool because you can mount this little tiny PC right to the back of your monitor if you want On the front of the machine. You'll find the power button the headset Slash speaker port a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port and a USB C port but this one's for data only on the back of the machine You'll find the power port a mini display port here a gigabyte LAN port to USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports a USB C port that can be for data and display and an HDMI 2.0 port right here on the left side of the machine You'll find a full-sized SD card slot which makes it very convenient for cameras and 3d printers To give you an idea of size. I put a spool of filament behind it This is only roughly four and a half by four and a half by one and three quarters inches tall That's a hundred and seventeen millimeters by hundred and twelve millimeters by forty five point six millimeters tall So this thing really is a mini PC the Geekum mini IT 8 also features dual band Wi-Fi For two point four and five gigahertz connections along with Bluetooth so you can connect all your favorite devices The bottom was easy to take off And it was just four bolts on the corners and under the hood the Geekum mini IT 8 Runs an Intel coffee lake i5-8259 you CPU and if we're keeping track at home That's an eighth gen i5 powering this thing more on that later the version they sent me came with 16 gigs of Kingston Ram and A Kingston 512 gigabyte M.2 solid state drive as you can see there another cool feature is when you flip the bottom over There's an expansion bay here for another solid state drive You can pop it in right here and it sits in this area as mentioned before this has that display port the USB-C and The HDMI 2.0 and Geekum says this runs the iris 655 graphics and will run for total monitors Also, it will run in 4k at this point. It's time to plug this thing in and get it running But before we do that, please smash that like button if you're getting value out of today's video It really helps the channel and I really appreciate it now. Let's plug this thing in as The PC boots up we see that Geekum has actually pre-loaded Windows 11 Pro on it and that's pretty dang cool I have not played with Windows 11 Pro yet So I'm excited to get this thing configured and let's see what it can do Now is a great time to tell you about the 2022 Geekum Easter egg hunt All you have to do is jump over to the website at Geekum PC calm and there will be a link in the description And you have a 100% chance of winning a prize just by finding the Easter eggs that are hidden throughout the site It will make you register so it can keep track of your winnings and send you an email about what your winnings are So do the registration now or if you already have an account log in So once you get registered say that you found the first egg Then just go through the pages of I click on the mini PC page up here. I can see that. Hey, there's another egg If I go to the laptop page and look there's another egg hiding there There's an egg. Hey, there's one on the home page and it looks like we are one away From winning. I think they're trying to trick us here. We go back to the mini PC page and we're gonna scroll down there, too Maybe there's another egg hiding Somewhere On the laptop page, maybe you can skip some of this rambling crap. No, I don't think I will Wow Really? What the heck is it? I did this once before and I found it pretty quick. I don't remember where Oh So I cycled around a couple times and I went back to the mini PC page and found the sixth one So there you go. I found all six. It will pull up this you hit start it'll cycle through and let's see what we win who looks like a 20% off coupon and It will email this to you as well So you do have a 20% off coupon that I won this time Let's see what you get you can pop it in and order anything you want at the discount or you might get something free Don't forget it is free to play and there's a hundred percent chance of winning so jump into the Geekum 2022 Easter egg hunt and save some money on this machine along with my discount code in the description of another $20 so hopefully if anybody wants to pick one of these machines up you can save some good money by going through this little exercise here And now back to it just to test the slicing capability on this thing I have loaded in a mini gym remixed by The one and only awesome Andrew and there'll be a link in the description I've scaled it up to a hundred and fifty five percent on the Ender 3 s1 build plate and I've put it to fifty percent infill at point one six layers. Let's see how long this thing takes to slice So it is already at twenty percent seventy percent eighty eight percent and It is done. I believe almost done generating gcode ninety percent spinning just a little bit here and done so If I did this it would take three days 21 hours 29 minutes But I tell you what that was actually pretty respectable for a little PC like this I'm gonna have to say not bad not bad at all while overall. I'm very impressed with this awesome little machine There is an elephant in the room. This thing is running an eighth gen i5 from Intel. That is four years old from 2018 I'm not sure why they're still putting this chip in this PC But I have reached out to geek them and they said they're working on an updated model So it might have just been chip shortages or something like that with that being said is that a deal breaker? I don't think so this still runs in i5 with four cores and eight threads It has 2.3 gigahertz and with the Intel turbo boost it says it can hit up to 3.8 gigahertz I think that's still pretty respectable for a little tiny machine like this and just for overall Shop use running your 3d printers your lasers your CNC that kind of thing this thing does really well So what about price well the configuration that I got with 16 gigs of RAM and a 512 gigabyte m.2 solid-state drive came in at $549 but if you look in the description below There's a code for $20 off and I believe that's on top of the discount You can get with the Easter egg hunt as well So that stuff could save you some cash if you wanted to pick one of these up So while I can't tell you what the project is that I got the Geekum mini IT8 PC for I could tell you this if you're looking For a mini PC that you can throw behind your monitor Maybe under a little desk in something you're building. I don't know a cyber deck This is actually a really good PC for that. It does the slicing. I need it works with the CNC software I have it will definitely work with my 810 mini And it'll definitely do streaming on stream yard with no problem So if you have a budget of say $550 or less You're looking for a little tiny PC just to kind of hide it or stick it in somewhere small or even if you're just looking For a small PC that's not going to break the bank. This isn't a bad choice It's definitely worth considering against maybe a nook or something like that So it is a PC I would research if I was in that boat