A rift appears to be forming in the desktop PC market, with full-size desktops on one side and mini PCs on the other side. Of course, there is small, but dedicated community that has sprung up around SFF PCs, but those are often limited, with many calling for flex PSUs and other compromises. The Wee Beastie, a new project on Kickstarter , is a small form-factor PC that hopes to cut back on the compromises, claiming to offer a powerful gaming and LLM-oriented system with an upgradeable dGPU in just 4.75 L volume—this is just 0.25 L more than the Framework Desktop PC , which uses an AMD Ryzen AI+ 395 Max with an iGPU. That said, even the pre-release Kickstarter marketing leaves some questions.

The Wee Beastie Super Mini Fishtank, as it is called, is a mini PC with up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB GPU. It will also be available with up to 128 GB of DDR5 RAM and a 16 TB SSD, and it boasts Wi-Fi 7 and room for up to 13 case fans. It will also contain an internal PSU capable of 400 W, which technically falls well below the 550 W we recommend for a desktop RTX 4070. Although the GPU shown on the Kickstarter page has the " AD104-251-A1" associated with the desktop variants of the RTX 4070 , the PSU output suggests that there will be some power throttling or down-tuning at play, so RTX 4070 Mobile performance might be what's to be expected here. Often, the most challenging part of projects like these, as was the case with the custom expansion modules on the Framework Laptop 16 until recently, is supporting the MXM standard for future hardware revisions. Although MXM modules are technically an open standard, like ATX, it is not commonly used due to limited demand and size constraints. Currently, the Kickstarter has completed funding, having reached $53,763 of its $2,570 goal, and the SFF PC looks to be going into production as soon as 2026.