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ACEMAGIC's NES-Style Retro X5 Goes on Presale at $959 With Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Coverage questions out-of-box feasibility of 70B-parameter models on the base 32 GB configuration.

Overview

  • Orders placed in presale are scheduled to ship on March 18, with ACEMAGIC listing a $959 configuration that includes Windows 11 Pro.
  • The 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with Radeon 890M integrated graphics and an onboard NPU targets desktop workloads and local inference.
  • The base setup includes 32 GB DDR5-5600 and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, with dual SO-DIMM slots and two M.2 2280 bays enabling upgrades up to 4 TB; a barebone version is available.
  • Connectivity supports up to four displays via HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 at up to 8K/60 plus USB-C outputs, alongside dual 2.5 GbE, Wi‑Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4.
  • ACEMAGIC cites support for DeepSeek R1 70B and LLaMA and touts 45% better cooling, though journalists note 70B-model viability on 32 GB depends on quantization and that these claims lack independent verification.