K12

Couldn't stand the fan noises from either K12 fan, but I do have wolf type ears and the K12 is 10-12 inches away from me on my desk. While u/grykom has done magic for the K12 and solved, I think pretty much all the flaws GMKTEC love to put into their mini pcs last several years, I don't have access

These are a newer design with better cooling and more features. The M6 Ultra is a refresh of the older 6600H M6 that GMKtec only upgraded to the 7640HS processor. The K8 Plus and K11 have actual AMD supported processors where the K12 has a defective one for the Chinese market. I wasn't very impresse

Will second this, K8 Plus is nice. Was my first foray into mini PCs along with GMKTec's AD-GP1 eGPU, but I wound up returning both cause I don't particularly NEED it right now, and when my (oddly specific) use case becomes a necessity I want something with more oomph and the only thing that really f

I'm kind of new to the Chinese Mini PC market. Didn't know anything existed past an Intel NUC. What I do know of GMKtec is the K8 Plus and K11 are the same. The K11 you pay more for a slightly better processor and the silly RGB fan 😊 Other then those two features they're the same. The K12 is newer b

Your idle temps were indeed a bit to high. At about 20C Ambient temp I had those: A GMKTec M6 Ultra that would idle at about 40C and would throttle under all core load even with the lowest tdp setting. It had an issue with the top fan causing some annoying noises every 30-60mins so I replaced it qui

Another annoying thing with the gmktec k12, is that when disabling the bios fan settings, ie default values, the system takes care of the fan. In this mode, the cpu fan starts and stops every 2 seconds or so, which is extremely annoying. Would rather have a continues whine than one that modulates. H

Unlike my K8 Plus, the K12 case design uses the case fan for primary induction. Air flows out through the heatsink exhaust or the bottom case vents. I'm guessing this was in an effort to reduce noise over the earlier generation M7/K8 Plus/K11 with a fully ventilated case where the case fan exhausts.