Minisforum BD395i MAX motherboard at CES 2026: built-in AMD Strix Halo APU, use your own GPU

Minisforum had its new BD395i MAX motherboard on display at CES 2026, ready for its new Desk Mini series, as a Mini-ITX motherboard with a built-in AMD Strix Halo APU and up to 128GB RAM.

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The new Minisforum BD395i MAX motherboard features up to an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU built in, with the single chip containing the 16C/32T Zen 5 CPU, up to 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000 memory, and the Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU power.

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The Strix Halo APU is quite powerful on its own and would allow DIY users to just buy the motherboard, which includes the CPU + GPU + RAM, and use it on its own as the Radeon 8060S is more than powerful enough for 1080p 120FPS+ and still a heap of games at up to 4K 60FPS, all without a discrete graphics card.

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However, the Minisforum BD395i MAX motherboard features a full PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, so you could install any graphics card of your choice -- right up to the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 -- and still have a powerful 16C/32T CPU behind it. Alternatively, you could buy the motherboard and a more mid-to-high end GPU like the RTX 5070 or RX 9070, etc.

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