Minisforum has unveiled its brand new MoDT motherboards featuring the Strix Halo "AMD Ryzen AI MAX+" CPUs on a Mini-ITX design.
AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo" Comes To DIY Desktop PC Market With Minisforum's BD395i MAX MoDT Motherboard
If there's one CPU that was highly anticipated on the Desktop PC platform, that has to be AMD's Strix Halo. The dream of a big APU with a large integrated GPU and CPU combination is coming true with Minisforum's BD395i MAX. The Mini-ITX motherboard features up to the flagship Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 SoC from AMD, and packs a lot of features.
Coming to the details, the Minisforum BD395i MAX is built upon the MoDT foundation, which adds a mobile CPU to a desktop-ready motherboard. The BD395i MAX is a Mini-ITX design, making it a great option for compact PCs. The motherboard houses the SoC and the onboard LPDDR5X memory under a large vapor chamber heatspreader, which can be cooled by any traditional AM5/AM4 cooling solution.
The BD395i MAX motherboard comes with a high-end VRM to support the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ SoCs and features a single 8-pin power delivery. The motherboard carries a single PCIe x16 slot and a single M.2 SSD slot. The SSD is cooled by a decent-sized heatsink, and the board features a pre-installed IO plate with an IO-cover heatsink. There is a good amount of USB ports, and a decent array of IO on the board itself.
With the Minisforum BD395i MAX MoDT motherboard, users will be getting up to 16 "Zen 5" CPU cores, up to a 40 CU "Radeon 8060S" GPU, and 256-bit LPDDR5x support with up to 128 GB capacities. Pricing remains unknown, but we should see more of these options become available in the coming months.
Besides the Strix Halo MoDT, Minisforum also showed off its BD995M X3D MoDT motherboard, which comes in a mATX design and offers up to the flagship Ryzen 9 9955HX or Ryzen 9 9955HX3D CPUs with up to 16 cores, and up to 128 MB of L3 cache thanks to the 3D V-Cache boosted design.
The board also comes with a vapor-chamber heatspreader over the mobile FL1 chip. The motherboard itself is really nice with a dual DDR5 DIMM layout, an X870M chipset, triple M.2 slots, and two PCIe x16 slots. There is a decent array of IO capabilities, and this board uses two 8-pin connectors to power up the processor, so expect a lot of performance along with overclocking capabilities. Once again, the pricing isn't revealed, but we expect these motherboards to launch by the mid of 2026.
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