ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 (Core 3 304) review - Part 1: Specifications, unboxing, teardown, and first boot - CNX Software

ACEMAGIC sent us a sample of the Kron Mini K5 Wildcat Lake mini PC for review. The computer is offered with either an Intel Core 3 304 or Core 5 320 CPU, and features triple display output, 2.5GbE and WiFi 6 networking, and several USB ports, but, interestingly, no Thunderbolt/USB4 ports.The company provided us with the entry-level variant pairing an Intel Core 3 304 penta-core processor with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. In this first part of the review, we’ll list the mini PC’s specifications, go through an unboxing and a teardown, before booting it into Windows 11. In the next parts, we’ll review it using Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 in depth with feature testing and benchmarks.The company hasn’t put up a product page for this exact model just yet, so we gathered specifications from our sample and information shared on the company’s social media accounts.

SoC – Intel Core 3 304 (Wildcat Lake) processor

5-core CPU – 1x P-cores @ 1.5/4.3 GHz (Turbo) + 4x LPE-cores @ 1.4/3.3 GHz (Turbo)

Cache – 6MB L3 cache

GPU – 1-core Intel Xe3 Graphics @ 2.3 GHz (9 TOPS)