The Minisforum EliteMini HX90 should stay far away from liquid metal, because the company clearly can't be trusted to apply it in a safe way. Overpriced and mismarketed. Sponsor: EVGA Z20 Keyboard on Amazon https://geni.us/kvPqEC The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Check out Intel Beast Canyon NUC review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyuOxrPggAs And our Phantom Canyon NUC review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNK_VfUeBbQ We also reviewed AMD’s most recent APUs, like R5 5600G here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KycNI1FxIPc This review looks at the Minisforum EliteMini HX90 and similar products. Minisforum advertises hard that it's using liquid metal, yet the only liquid metal we found was spattered all over the interior of the chassis, the motherboard, and the fan. The company had two chances to get this right with us, and after wasting weeks of testing HX90 thermals, noise, gaming performance, power consumption, and more, we continually arrived at one conclusion: It's not worth buying. Even ignoring the liquid metal problems, Minisforum's system is overpriced for its performance. Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus RELATED PRODUCTS [Affiliate Links] Minisforum on Amazon (not that we recommend it): https://geni.us/7hsxt Intel NUCs on Amazon (some are better than others): https://geni.us/Nfox AMD Ryzen 5 5600G on Amazon: https://geni.us/nsXiD TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Liquid Metal Murder Scene 02:43 - Getting Progressively Worse 06:50 - Electrical Short Risks 07:12 - Early Conclusion: Probably Don't Buy This 08:39 - Minsiforum Claims & Specs (EliteMini HX90) 11:02 - Literally Burning the Marketing Falsehoods 12:09 - Frequency Validation 12:24 - Horizontal vs. Vertical Orientation 13:04 - Load Limits & Throttling 13:59 - Gaming Benchmarks (Fortnite, CSGO, Rainbow Six, & More) 16:43 - Conclusion Again: Can't Be Trusted with Liquid Metal ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Host, Testing, Writing: Steve Burke Testing, Writing: Patrick Lathan Video: Andrew Coleman Video Production: Keegan Gallick