Gigabyte has made excellent motherboards and graphics cards for many years, but more recently the company has begun making mini-PCs. You can buy them with affordable, entry-level hardware such as Celeron processors, or with a much more powerful Haswell Core i7 CPU like the one we tested.

The Gigabyte Brix is similar to the Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC). It fits in the palm of your hand and its compact dimensions (10.5 x 11.5 x 3.1 cm) will make it fit basically anywhere in your office or living room. Next to your monitor or TV, or mounted on the back of them.