So I found this mini pc that's ryzen 7 from 2022 and supports up to 96GB of DDR5...

Just found this amazing item on AliExpress. Check it out!
$679.98 | GMKtec Mini Pc M7 AMD Ryzen7 PRO 6850H NUCBOX AMD Radeon™ 680M Window 11 Pro WIFI 6 USBC 4.0
https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0yER6R
It says it's only $300 for cyber monday...
It does not come with RAM or an SSD...

I feel like something like this would make a good budget gaming laptop replacement...

My only complaint about these processors are that they only have 16MB of L3 cache...
Thats still way up from my old gaming laptop that served me well and only had 6MB of cache and 1/4th the processing power...
So it could work.

$300 still isn't cheap given that a $50 xeon + $60 X99 motherboard could likely match this thing with at least twice the cache and cheaper RAM albeit with higher power consumption...
It does have nice integrated graphics tho so I guess you are paying for that.

Other than that it might be worth it to look for deals on nice X86 SBCs...

But I'll keep an eye on the chinese market for stuff like this.

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