Building the Minisforum EliteMini HX90 Mini PC

I find that the Minisforum HX90 to be a great value for the raw performance you get with its AMD Ryzen 5900HX CPU. Combine that with 64GB of 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM and a fast NVME SSD, this computer makes a great low-cost compute node for a personal computer cluster.

In this video, I discuss my use case for this computer, then I unbox and build it. If you would like to make a similar build, here are the parts that I used (affiliate links):

Minisforum HX90 Computer - https://store.minisforum.com/collecti...
Kingston FURY Impact 64GB (2x32GB) 3200MHz DDR4 CL20 RAM - https://amzn.to/3blhTbh
Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe Internal SSD - https://amzn.to/3SbrJgp
Crucial MX500 1TB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - https://amzn.to/3QbG4rz

My blog on building and using a personal data science cluster - https://www.diybigdata.net/

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:25 Personal Compute Cluster
02:38 Minisforum HX90 Characteristics
05:59 HX90 Controversy
07:01 Box Opening
08:15 Opening the HX90 Case
09:16 Installing RAM
10:55 Installing NVME SSD
12:10 Installing 2.5" SATA SSS
14:39 Closing the HX90 Case
15:53 Ubuntu Installation
19:39 Conclusion