PELADN WO5 (Ryzen 3 4300U)

The PELADN WO5 is a palm-sized Windows desktop for office work, a shared family computer, or a quiet Linux box. It runs AMD’s Ryzen 3 4300U, a four-core laptop chip from January 2020, so it is a budget machine with older silicon. It has two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots and two M.2 slots, so memory and storage can grow with it, and it drives three 4K displays. The bundled SSD is a SATA drive that runs at a fraction of the speed of the PCIe slot it sits in, and replacing it is the first upgrade to plan.

Pros and Cons

PELADN WO5 (Ryzen 3 4300U) Comparison Chart

	PELADN WO5 (Ryzen 3 4300U)	PELADN WO5 (Ryzen 3 4300U)
Price	List Price: $264.00 Amazon Prices: Loading prices...	List Price: $324.00 Amazon Prices: Loading prices...
Version	8GB/256GB/Ryzen 3 4300U	16GB/512GB/Ryzen 3 4300U
Performance Rating	2.8	3.2
Operating System	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro
Processor	Quad-core 2.70 Ghz (max 3.70 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Quad-core 2.70 Ghz (max 3.70 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
GPU	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics
RAM	8 GB DDR4 SO-DIMM, 2-channel (2x SO-DIMM, DDR4-3200)	16 GB DDR4 SO-DIMM, 2-channel (2x SO-DIMM, DDR4-3200)
Internal Storage	256 GB M.2 SATA SSD	512 GB M.2 SATA SSD
Dimensions width x length x thickness	4.53 x 4.17 x 1.46 inches (115.06 x 105.92 x 37.08 mm)	4.53 x 4.17 x 1.46 inches (115.06 x 105.92 x 37.08 mm)
Weight	0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)	0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
WiFi	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.3	Bluetooth 5.3
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	4K60 video out over USB-C	4K60 video out over USB-C
VGA	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports
USB Ports	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C Front: 2x USB-A 10Gbps. Rear: USB-C 10Gbps, USB-A 10Gbps, USB 2.0	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C Front: 2x USB-A 10Gbps. Rear: USB-C 10Gbps, USB-A 10Gbps, USB 2.0
Thunderbolt Ports	No	No
OCuLink	No	No
Internal SATA Ports	No SATA ports	No SATA ports
Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader
Headphone Jack	combo	combo
Fanless	No	No
VESA Mount	Yes	Yes
In the Box	Mini PC, 19V 3.42A power adapter, HDMI cable, VESA bracket, manual	Mini PC, 19V 3.42A power adapter, HDMI cable, VESA bracket, manual
Expandability	Two DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM slots. M.2 2280 and M.2 2242 slots, each PCIe 3.0 x4 or SATA; PELADN lists up to 4TB.	Two DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM slots. M.2 2280 and M.2 2242 slots, each PCIe 3.0 x4 or SATA; PELADN lists up to 4TB.

Ports, size, and networking

The WO5 measures about 4.5 x 4.2 x 1.5 inches and weighs about 0.7 pounds, according to PELADN’s spec sheet. The body is silver and black plastic with dotted vent grilles on the sides and a tinted translucent top that shows the memory and SSD underneath. The front carries the power button and two 10Gbps USB-A ports. Everything else is on the back: two HDMI 2.0 ports, a 10Gbps USB-C port with 4K60 video output, a third 10Gbps USB-A port, a USB 2.0 port, Gigabit Ethernet, a combo headphone and microphone jack, and the 19V barrel power input. A Kensington slot sits on one side, and a clear-CMOS button is on board.

Both HDMI ports and the USB-C port each drive a 4K display at 60Hz, so three monitors can run at once with no adapters beyond a USB-C cable or dock. Wired networking is a single Realtek RTL8111K Gigabit port, and wireless comes from a Realtek RTL8851 card with WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3. PELADN lists Wake-on-LAN, PXE boot, RTC wake, and automatic power-on after an outage, so the box can restart and wake on its own as a small always-on server. The 19V 3.42A adapter, an HDMI cable, and a VESA bracket for mounting the WO5 behind a monitor all come in the box.

Ryzen 3 4300U performance

The AMD Ryzen 3 4300U has four Zen 2 cores and four threads (no simultaneous multithreading), a 2.7GHz base clock, a 3.7GHz boost clock, and a 15W default TDP. AMD launched it in January 2020 for budget laptops. Its PassMark CPU Mark of about 7,300 puts it ahead of the Intel N150 (about 5,300), and well behind a Ryzen 5 5500U (about 13,100). That is enough for Office, a browser with a dozen tabs, video calls, and 4K video playback, but not for video editing or modern games.

Graphics come from the chip’s integrated AMD Radeon with five compute units at up to 1,400MHz. PELADN pitches the WO5 for light and casual games only, and one Amazon owner reports that a relative played vanilla Minecraft smoothly at 1080p on the Fast graphics setting. The integrated graphics share system memory, so a single 8GB stick holds them back. Adding a second stick to run the memory in dual channel is the cheapest upgrade for this machine.

Memory and storage upgrades

The WO5 has two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots rated for 3200MHz memory. PELADN’s Amazon listings quote 16GB or 32GB as the maximum, and its own store says up to 64GB. One buyer of the 8GB model found a single 8GB stick in one slot and the second slot free for a matching stick.

Storage sits in an M.2 2280 slot wired for PCIe 3.0 x4, which also accepts SATA M.2 drives. The bundled 256GB or 512GB drive is a SATA M.2 SSD, so it reads at roughly 500MB/s instead of the 3,000MB/s or more a PCIe 3.0 NVMe drive reaches in the same slot. A second M.2 slot takes 2242 drives, also PCIe 3.0 x4 or SATA. PELADN supports up to 4TB of storage. There is no 2.5-inch drive bay.

Customer Reviews

As of October 2026, the 8GB/256GB listing held a 4.7 out of 5 rating from seven ratings. StanfordBear set it up as a shared family computer and wrote that it “Supports my 4K 60Hz monitor with no issues.” Sean P. Ford runs three monitors from it and reports “one through the Type-C and two through the HDMI ports, and it handled it without any lag switching between them.”

CrossHanded, who gave four stars, wrote that “The back end is very crowded with ports and its surprising they didn’t move the USB-C and headphone jack to the front,” and also found that “the WO5 model does not have drivers available to download on their official site,” which complicates a clean Windows reinstall. R.J. Cagampan wrote that “The SSD interface is PCIE/NVME compatible but the included model is SATA based, so you’re only going to get about 500-550MB/s while a proper PCIE3 NVME drive will get you 3000MB/s.” The same reviewer reported that the installed memory ran at DDR4-2666 rather than 3200.

Our verdict

The WO5 fits office work, a shared family computer, video calls, and 4K playback, and it drives three 4K60 monitors from its two HDMI ports and USB-C; one owner runs three monitors without lag. Wake-on-LAN, automatic power-on after an outage, and the VESA bracket suit a small always-on box behind a monitor, and PELADN backs it with a three-year warranty. Plan on adding a second memory stick for dual channel and replacing the SATA SSD with a PCIe NVMe drive.

Skip it for compiles, photo work, several virtual machines, or modern games, where four cores and four threads run short; look at a six-core or eight-core machine instead. PELADN’s own WO4 steps up to a Ryzen 5 5600H with 2.5GbE and a 2.5-inch drive bay, and the Beelink SER5 (5500U) runs a Ryzen 5 5500U that scores about 13,100 in PassMark against about 7,300 for the WO5. To compare more options, use Starry Hope’s Mini PC Comparison Chart.

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