BOSGAME E5 Plus

Published on September 18, 2026

The BOSGAME E5 Plus is a budget desktop box for someone who needs two wired network ports more than a fast processor. Pairing dual 2.5GbE with open memory and storage slots puts it in reach of soft-router, small-NAS, and second-desk duty. The Ryzen 3 5400U inside comes from AMD’s 2021 mobile generation.

Pros and cons

BOSGAME E5 Plus Comparison Chart

	BOSGAME E5 Plus
Price	List Price: $219.99 Amazon Prices: Loading prices...
Version	8GB / 256GB SATA SSD
Performance Rating	5.1
Operating System	Windows 11 Pro
Processor	Quad-core 2.60 Ghz (max 4.00 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 3 5400U
GPU	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics
RAM	8 GB DDR4 SO-DIMM (DDR4-2133, 2 slots)
Internal Storage	256 GB SATA SSD
Dimensions width x length x thickness	5.08 x 4.84 x 1.73 inches (129.03 x 122.94 x 43.94 mm)
Weight	1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
WiFi	Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.0
Ethernet	2 Ethernet ports at 2.5 Gbps
HDMI	1 Full-Size HDMI Port
DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort (4K@60Hz)
VGA	No VGA Ports
USB Ports	2 USB 2.0, 2 USB 3, 1 USB-C 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 front, 2x USB 2.0 rear, USB-C with DP and PD 3.0
Thunderbolt Ports	No
OCuLink	No
Internal SATA Ports	No SATA ports
Card Reader	No Card Reader
Headphone Jack	combo
Fanless	No
VESA Mount	Yes
In the Box	Mini PC, VESA mount and screws, HDMI cable, power adapter, manual.
Expandability	Up to 64GB DDR4 (2x SODIMM). One free M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 slot.

Two 2.5GbE ports and a free NVMe slot

Both Ethernet jacks run at 2.5 Gbps on Realtek RTL8125 controllers, which is the reason to look at this box instead of a cheaper single-LAN one. Two independent links let it sit between a modem and a switch as a pfSense or OPNsense router, keep a NAS segment separate from the house network, or hold a redundant path for a machine that cannot drop. Wireless is Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, both older standards than the Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 radios newer boxes carry, though a machine built around its wired ports will spend most of its life on cable anyway.

Storage is split across two M.2 2280 slots. The drive BOSGAME fits is a 256GB SATA unit, not NVMe, so it reads and writes well below what an M.2 slot implies. The second slot is empty and runs NVMe at PCIe 3.0 x4, which means the cheapest useful upgrade is dropping a real NVMe drive in the free bay and leaving the SATA stick as secondary storage. BOSGAME rates that slot for drives up to 4TB. Memory sits in two SODIMM slots rather than being soldered, and the vendor supports up to 64GB of DDR4; at 8GB installed, that upgrade is the first thing most buyers should budget for.

Display output covers three screens at 4K and 60Hz through HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, and a full-function USB-C port that also handles data and PD 3.0. The front panel carries two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports at 10Gbps, the USB-C port, a 3.5mm combo jack, and the power button; the two USB 2.0 ports sit at the back with the video and network connectors. Five USB ports is modest, and two of them are USB 2.0, so a hub helps if you attach several external drives. The chassis is a little over five inches square and under two inches tall, ships with a VESA mount, and runs a fan rather than passive cooling.

The Ryzen 3 5400U is a 2021 four-core part

The 5400U is a four-core, eight-thread mobile chip rated at 2.6GHz base and 4.0GHz boost, with integrated Radeon graphics. That covers office work, browser tabs, video calls, media playback, and light photo editing, but not modern gaming, 4K video editing, or anything that wants eight strong cores. AMD’s Ryzen 5000 mobile line reached laptops in 2021, so a buyer here is spending 2026 money on silicon roughly five years old; that is what the low price buys.

Reviewer Insights

NotebookCheck

NotebookCheck’s launch write-up is a news item, not a hands-on test, so it carries no benchmarks. Anil Ganti’s piece describes the machine as “a bargain-bin refresh with ancient Ryzen hardware”, noting the 5400U is several generations old, while crediting the dual 2.5GbE ports, the triple 4K output, and the user-upgradeable memory and storage. It also reports that BOSGAME’s own product page is “a mess of promotional material from completely unrelated mini PCs”, including an image of an Acemagic-branded system and a graphic advertising a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and Wi-Fi 6, and advises that “nothing written there should be taken as fact without independent verification.”

Who should buy it

Buy the E5 Plus if the second 2.5GbE port is carrying traffic: a software router, a firewall, a small home lab, a NAS front end, or a desk that needs two separate wired links. Budget for a memory upgrade and an NVMe drive at the same time, because the 8GB and the SATA boot drive are the two specs most likely to disappoint on day one, and both slots to fix them are already there.

Skip it if you want current silicon, if you game, or if you only ever plug in one network cable, because then you are paying for a second port you will not use and accepting an old chip for nothing. Anyone weighing it against newer hardware can line it up against the rest of the catalog on the Mini PC Comparison Chart.

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