Minisforum BD895i SE Motherboard Unveiled for Compact Gaming Builds
Minisforum has officially launched the BD895i SE, a diminutive Mini-ITX design board to form an immaculately small form factor for gaming desktops. The motherboard comes fully integrated for a high-performance mobile processor and accommodates full-sized discrete graphics cards through a PCI-Express slot.
Key Specs
The board comes with a pre-soldered AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX CPU and is bundled with a heatsink. Important hardware support includes:
- Memory: Two DIMM slots for DDR5-5200 RAM, supporting up to 96 GB.
- Storage: Two M.2 slots for SSDs, achieving a total of up to 4 TB in storage.
- Expansion: One PCIe 5.0 x16 slot destined for personalized graphics-card use.
- Power: The regular 24-pin main power connection and an added 8-pin CPU power supply.
Connectivity and I/O Ports
The rear I/O panel is equipped with an entire array of ports for modern builds:
- Networking: One 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port.
- Video Outputs: HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4.
- USB Ports:
- One USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (with DisplayPort Alt Mode).
- Two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports.
- Two USB 2.0 Type-A ports.
- Audio: Standard audio jacks.
Price and Availability
Minisforum BD895i SE motherboard is available at $423.90.
