Hi, I want to play mouse and keyboard, but I’ve made up my mind, and instead of a bigole pc, I would rather have a mini pc! I travel a lot from house to house in my family, and I like to bring my gaming systems along with me for both comfort and to play. I mainly play games like overwatch, marvel rivals, wuthering waves, and roblox. I may play others if I get in the mood, but those are my main ones.
I wanna save up to get a good one, and so I need help finding out which one would work.
Would also help if the cheaper ones are good as well.
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None of these are particularly well suited for gaming. If portability is what you want, why not get something like steam deck? You can still connect it to a monitor with a keyboard and mouse if you need to.
Are you currently on console? You could always plug a wired keyboard and mouse into that. But these mini pcs are hardly ever good for gaming. Unless it’s been featured in a documented unsponsored review by a like the Linus team, toasty bros, jays2cents and plenty more. I wouldn’t risk wasting money on it. My brother thought to do the same thing. Even picked one with RGB and that said Gaming in the title. Couldn’t even run Minecraft
No do not buy a mini PC for gaming. You will be very disappointed.
Steam deck for that price or legion go
As others have mentioned, steam deck would be great or any other handheld gaming device. But if you want a mini pc, there’s some pc cases that are literally carried like a briefcase style with a handle on top. Which are really compact pc build.
Better options: steam deck, legion, rog ally.
Hi, for future viewers, I still want to be able to be at a desk and play games using mouse and keyboard with a sort of pc.
You’ll be disappointed at the gaming performance of these things. Radeon IGPUs are good for games like Minecraft & League. You absolutely won’t be playing Marvel Rivals decently on any of these, especially the ones with the 5th Gen Ryzens.
You should look into building an SFF pc. You should be able to keep it fairly cheap, around $700-900.
These things can probably run light old school style Roblox maps and Minecraft with the graphics turned way down, but I wouldn’t expect Rivals or Overwatch to run very well if at all on them. If you want small form factor, build an ITX machine or try and find an ITX prebuilt.
As others said, the handheld PCs can be used with M+K. Otherwise, if you have a Micro Center near by I’m sure they can help you find something within your budget.
i mean if you want to safe money … this would still be the worst investment … 😀
Honestly … if you want to game on a budget ALWAYS get a console like -> PS5 or the Steamdeck (if you prefer to have the option to play with mouse and keyboard steamdeck is fantastic)
i would argue that -> 1000 – 1200 € (SELFBUILD! – i think everyone can and should do it – safes a ton of money which can lead to a better GPU) or whatever curency u use is a sweet spot were you get more from a PC than a console – everything under is very specific and could lose a matchup against a PS 5 (some rigs could still stand there ground against a PS 5 for like 600 – 700 € sure but it will always be a self build and always be on some discounted parts which i will not consider in this.
I’m not sure what everyone is talking about. New mini PCs are more than capable to run games, you just need to make sure it has a dedicated gpu.
Check out minisforum ones. They have surprisingly good build quality with custom cooling and liquid metal on the chips. I recently got one for my partner. The one listed here has a 4060 card. It’s only 8gb but you could play overwatch in 1080p 144hz, pretty much on par with a steam deck.
https://a.co/d/anuxkTC