Good afternoon, welcome to flight UM690 with your captain Dave. We will be taking a brief tour of London via the Minisforum UM690 gaming mini PC.
While we reach our next destination, the Minisforum UM690 gaming mini PC is great for gaming on. It has the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX with AMD Radeon 680M. Microsoft Flight Simulator is a very demanding game so we are running at 720P with the Low settings. You can tweak a few settings to Medium if you want to.
Overall, Flight Sim runs OK on the UM690. For the most part, we stay above 30 frames per second with some rare frame drops below when loading in scenery. This is quite a demanding game so it does a good job and is definitely playable at these settings.
Should we fly through Tower Bridge?
On our left we have the millennium wheel. Hands up if you remember the Namco arcade just past it? Next we have St James palace, and a quick wave to the King at Buckingham Palace who is out on the balcony waiting for the flyby.
You can configure your own Minisforum UM690 with a choice of 16, 32 or a massive 64GB of DDR5 RAM. And you won’t be short of storage with choices of 512, 1TB or 2 TB of fast NVMe SSD.
There are two HDMI ports and you can use the USB Type-C with HDMI output for up to triple monitors. The fast 2.5 gigabit ethernet and WiFi 6 are great for fast data transfer, as well as Bluetooth 5.2 for connecting wireless peripherals to the UM690.
There are four USB Type-A ports so that’s plenty for your mouse, keyboard and flight sticks etc.
Here’s some quick info on other games that work on the UM690. On Forza Horizon 5 you can run at Low graphics 720P and get 125 frames per second. You can of course increase the settings for higher quality graphics.
On Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 you can run at 720P on the Minimal graphics settings for around 100 frames per second. Again you can increase the graphics for higher quality visuals.
With the UM690 you can play a variety of games. Newer ones will run just fine and it really does depend on the game. Flight Simulator for example is very demanding on the graphics but we do still get very playable frame rates but at lower graphics. Other games do generally run at higher frames per second and as such you can increase the graphics or run at higher resolutions.
The UM690 is also very good for emulation. You can run all the classic 8 and 16 bit consoles as well as Dreamcast PS1 and PS2 with no issues at all. For PlayStation 3 providing the game is compatible you can generally run them at great speeds with some minor shader caching now and again. You can even play compatible games on the Ryujinx and Yuzu emulators, not all games run at full speed though, but there are a decent number that do.
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