KAMRUI AK2 Plus Mini PC

Updated on June 20, 2026

The KAMRUI AK2 Plus Mini PC is a 5.5-inch-square desktop built around Intel’s N100, sold with 16GB of DDR4, a 512GB SSD, and Windows 11 Pro preinstalled. Two HDMI 2.0 outputs drive a pair of 4K displays, and the bundled VESA mount lets the 0.8-pound box sit behind a monitor instead of on the desk. Inside there is one M.2 slot and a free 2.5-inch SATA bay, so storage can grow later without replacing the machine. It is built for office work and web browsing.

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KAMRUI AK2 Plus Mini PC Comparison Chart

	KAMRUI AK2 Plus Mini PC	KAMRUI AK2 Plus Mini PC
Price	List Price: $219.99 Amazon Prices: Check Price on Amazon	List Price: $279.99 Amazon Prices: Check Price on Amazon
Version	16GB/512GB/Intel N100	16GB/1TB/Intel N100
Performance Rating	4.9	4.9
Operating System	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro
Processor	Quad-core 3.40 Ghz (max 3.40 Ghz) Intel Processor N100	Quad-core 3.40 Ghz (max 3.40 Ghz) Intel Processor N100
GPU	Integrated Intel UHD Graphics	Integrated Intel UHD Graphics
RAM	16 GB	16 GB
Internal Storage	512 GB	1 TB
Dimensions width x length x thickness	5.5 x 5.5 x 1.85 inches (139.7 x 139.7 x 46.99 mm)	5.5 x 5.5 x 1.85 inches (139.7 x 139.7 x 46.99 mm)
Weight	0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)	0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
WiFi	Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac)	Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 4.2	Bluetooth 4.2
Ethernet	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps
HDMI	2 Full-Size HDMI Ports	2 Full-Size HDMI Ports
DisplayPort	No DisplayPort	No DisplayPort
VGA	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports
USB Ports	2 USB 2.0, 2 USB 3	2 USB 2.0, 2 USB 3
Thunderbolt Ports	No	No
OCuLink	No	No
Internal SATA Ports	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports adding a 2.5-inch SSD or HDD)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports adding a 2.5-inch SSD or HDD)
Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader
Headphone Jack	combo	combo
Fanless	No	No
VESA Mount	Yes	Yes
In the Box	1 x N100 AK2 PLUS Mini PC, 1 x Power Adapter, 1 x VESA Mount with Screws, 1 x HDMI cable, 1 x User Manual	1 x N100 AK2 PLUS Mini PC, 1 x Power Adapter, 1 x VESA Mount with Screws, 1 x HDMI cable, 1 x User Manual
Expandability	Supports additional 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD	Supports additional 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD

A 6W quad-core with one M.2 slot and a spare SATA bay

The Intel N100 here has four cores and four threads and clocks up to 3.40 GHz on a base power draw of 6W, which is what keeps the chassis small and the fan quiet most of the time. The 16GB of DDR4 arrives as one stick in single-channel mode, enough memory for a browser full of tabs and an office suite running alongside it. There is a single SODIMM slot, so the stick can be swapped but never paired.

Storage starts at a 512GB M.2 SSD and grows through a 2.5-inch SATA bay that ships empty, so a large mechanical drive or a second SSD can go in without disturbing the boot drive. Reaching the M.2 slot itself takes more disassembly than filling the SATA bay does, which makes the bay the easier upgrade of the two.

Wireless is Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2, both older standards than current mini PCs ship with, and a gigabit Ethernet port covers wired networking for anything that needs steadier throughput. No USB-C port appears anywhere on the chassis; peripherals connect through two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports. The two HDMI 2.0 outputs run a dual-monitor setup at 4K, and a combo headphone jack and VESA mounting holes round out the exterior.

Reviewer Insights

This box runs Intel’s Alder Lake N100, a quad-core, four-thread chip that launched in early 2023 with a 6W TDP and integrated UHD Graphics (24 execution units). Its PassMark multi-thread score sits around 5,643, entry-level territory that widened further once N150 parts arrived.

DB Tech: quiet at 100% load, and cheap enough for self-hosting

DB Tech’s review treats the machine as an economical home-lab box, and he opens with a disclosure: KAMRUI “did send me this however they did not send me any money,” and “they will not see this video anytime before you guys do.” On the bench he ran Cinebench R23 and recorded a multi-core score of 1,611 points, with the processor idling at a base clock of “0.8 gigahertz so like 800 megahertz.” He corrected the chip’s rating on camera to “a six watt Max TDP” and pointed out that the 16GB of DDR4 is a single SODIMM running single-channel, a configuration he would trade for two 8GB sticks to get faster dual-channel speeds. He also notes the kinship with other rebadged versions of the same chassis, including the KAMRUI AK1 Plus.

Running Cinebench R23 with the CPU at 100%, he reported the machine “is very very quiet and it is barely warm to the touch,” quieter than the Minisforum PC on his desk, which led him to call the cooling “more than adequate.” For under $200, with an N100, 16GB of RAM, and a free 2.5-inch SATA bay, he called it “a great entry level way to get into self-hosting,” for example a Proxmox cluster or a Plex server leaning on the N100’s Quick Sync video.

Joey’s Retro Handhelds: emulation tops out at Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 1

Joey from Joey’s Retro Handhelds approached the machine as a gaming experiment and benchmarked it before playing anything. He logged a Geekbench 6 CPU single-core score of “about 700,” a multi-core score of “about 1200,” and a GPU compute score “right around 2700,” plus a 3DMark result of “about a 347 which is normal for this processor.” He repeatedly flagged the “cap of 6 watts” as the limiting factor.

His emulation results track that ceiling. Wii U (Mario Kart 8) ran at “a 40-ish 34 FPS but it’s not exactly playable”; Nintendo 3DS (Fantasy Life) got “pretty close to a 60 frame rate”; GameCube (F-Zero on Dolphin) sat “mostly in the 30s to 40s”; PlayStation 1 (Driver, Crash Bandicoot) ran “really well there’s no concern no issue”; and PlayStation 2 (God of War) “didn’t run well at all.” He pegged the realistic top end “at Nintendo 64 and PlayStation one,” roughly the class of a T618 handheld chip, and watched indies like Hades and Dead Cells dip well below 60 FPS. He also tried it as a workhorse, and found OBS encoding and Plex transcoding both unable to keep up. At roughly $150 on Amazon with the coupon then running, he rated it a good buy as “a Mini PC that can browse the internet,” and little more.

Jake Tech Reviews: ninth percentile in PassMark, with a SATA bay upgrade

Jake Tech Reviews confirmed the Alder Lake N100, 16GB, 512GB configuration and ran PassMark’s PerformanceTest, where the system landed an overall rating of “1108, it’s in the ninth percentile,” against a stated world average of 4,661. He installed a Crucial BX 2.5-inch SATA SSD in the expansion bay and noted the single 16GB stick is replaceable but single-channel, “so it’s not dual Channel.” For gaming he stuck to what the chip can do: basic titles such as Roblox and Minecraft plus cloud streaming, reporting that Halo over Xbox cloud gaming “actually runs pretty well” with “a little lag.” He framed the audience as budget, school, and office use, not “hardcore gaming.”

Mark Pickavance for TechRadar: weak graphics and a SATA drive in the M.2 slot

Mark Pickavance reviewed the NiPoGi-branded AK2 Plus for TechRadar, the same N100 / 16GB DDR4 / 512GB chassis sold under several names, and published a full benchmark table. Cinebench R23 returned 706 single-core and 1,682 multi-core (close to DB Tech’s 1,611), Geekbench 5 logged 854 single-core and 1,755 multi-core, and 3DMark scored 2,618 in Wild Life, 998 in Fire Strike, and 331 in Time Spy. PCMark 10’s Office test came in at 2,715, which Pickavance noted is “about 60% of what we’d typically expect from an NUC.”

The “UHD Graphics with only 24 Execution Units is very poor at just 750MHz, and many of the more challenging tests resulted in slideshows where the PC would take longer than a second to render a single frame.” On his review unit the M.2 drive turned out to be a SATA part (an NS512GSSD340), not NVMe, with CrystalDiskMark sequential reads of 560 MB/s and writes of 492 MB/s, which he called “good for SATA” but a fraction of NVMe speeds. He scored performance 2.5 out of 5 and suggested this class of hardware “would run Linux or ChromeOS Flex much better than it does Windows,” steering performance-minded buyers toward a “Beelink, Geekom or GMKtec alternative” instead.

Customer Reviews

Across 162 ratings on Amazon, the KAMRUI AK2 Plus Mini PC averages 4.5 stars, with about 74% of buyers leaving five stars and roughly 7% leaving one. Price is what the positive reviews keep returning to. Several owners describe an Intel N100 with 16GB of RAM handling everyday tasks (web browsing, email, YouTube, work-from-home over a VPN) faster than they expected for the price, and a few mention the small, quiet form factor fitting behind a monitor. Scott, a verified buyer, wrote “It’s really cool that we’re at a point in history where you can get such a capable computer for $150.” More technical owners report using it for homelab and virtualization work; a verified buyer posting as Lab-Ally C.E.O. ran Ubuntu in VirtualBox and “even fired up some docker containers on it,” and was “quite impressed” given the low cost. Multiple reviewers note it is not a gaming machine beyond retro or cloud gaming.

A verified buyer posting as Chihaya gave it one star after Wi-Fi and hardware trouble, reporting a first unit with an unstable connection and a replacement whose “fan failed in a few weeks,” and concluding “I have serious doubt to build quality and QC.” That is a single detailed complaint rather than a widespread pattern in this sample, but it points at unit-to-unit quality control and Wi-Fi reliability as the things to watch.

Read more owner reviews on Amazon.

An N100 desktop with a spare drive bay and no headroom

The N100 keeps a browser and an office suite moving at a low power budget and stalls under sustained CPU or GPU load. The empty 2.5-inch bay and the swappable SODIMM give the machine some life past its first configuration, though the 6W power ceiling never moves. The two builds differ only in storage: 512GB at a $219.99 list price, 1TB at $279.99.

Anyone who needs playable frame rates or a transcode pipeline that keeps up should price a machine a tier up. Rising DRAM prices have pushed N100 mini PCs higher across the board, so that gap costs less than it used to.

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