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MSI Cubi 5 12M PC

Decided to by MSI Cubi 5 12M:

Please note that it is NOT fully passive PC - there is small fan inside.

Some info (but not much) is on Support site:

WARNING! If you plan to also add SATA drive - insert SATA cable before inserting NVMe (it has to go under NVMe (!) - in other words cable must point to center of cube - please see this video https://youtu.be/mD_NoJzvfBU?t=2577 around 42 minute. It saved my Cube. In my case I have also to lift a bit 2 WiFi wires to be able to insert that connector.

I had issues with NVMe detection - because one have to properly insert it in that way so no pins are visible! Pins must be hidden under connector. So now I know :-)

I have to buy new monitor, because:

  • I have VGA, 1440x900
  • adapter DP -> VGA supports only up to 1024x768
  • adapter HDMI -> VGA (bought for RPi 1.B) supports up to 1900, but not 1440x900
  • it is cheaper to buy new monitor than more and more adapters...

My first impression is good - so far no problems with hardware - and NVMe boot is really fast. Currently testing openSUSE LEAP 15.6 with XFCE (X-Server).

Here is output from inxi -Fz:

System:
  Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.22-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce
    v: 4.18.1 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-B0A81 v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 8.60
    date: 02/16/2023
CPU:
  Info: 10-core (2-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP cache: L2: 6.5 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4400:3300 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400
    4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1280x720~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.3.4 renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.0-150600.23.22-default status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: eth1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 6.79 GiB (1.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Gigabyte model: AG450E500G-G size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 97.87 GiB used: 6.79 GiB (6.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.7 MiB (1.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 265 Uptime: 0h 14m Memory: available: 31.13 GiB
  used: 1.35 GiB (4.3%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.27

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