I recently purchased a K11 Gaming Mini PC, sporting a Ryzen 9 8945HS, 32GB of DDR5, a 1 TB SSD for just shy of $584 without taxes. Given the prices on RAM and sometimes SSD, I thought it was a great deal. Having said that, my mission for the first 4-6 months of 2026 is to test out how good these tiny machines are for “modern” gaming.

The very first thing I noticed upon receiving the shipment was that this K11 Gaming Mini PC is surprisingly heavy. You would look at it and be like, “I guess at best it would be a pound or two,” but it feels heavier, I’d say around 4 pounds. And it is absolutely blazingly fast. The first thing I did was just hook all the tables and install Bazzite. Everything worked out of the box without any ordeal.

Games I’ve played on this so far have been:

• Satisfactory (Around 12 hours)
• No Man’s Sky (Around 5 hours)
• Enshrouded (Around 1 hour)

I hope during the following months I can provide more information and my thoughts on this. For now, we just game on.