Minisforum previews BD395i MAX, Mini-ITX board with preinstalled “Strix Halo” APU
Minisforum used CES 2026 to show the BD395i MAX, a Mini-ITX motherboard built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU . The board is part of Minisforum’s mobile-on-desktop approach, where a laptop-class chip becomes the core of a desktop build.
The BD395i MAX integrates the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with a 16-core Zen 5 CPU and Radeon 8060S graphics. Minisforum is also pairing the platform with up to 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000, which suggests memory is soldered rather than user-upgradable. This is change compared to previous BD-Series MoDT boards which at least gave users an option to add more memory.
Source: TweakTown
The board can run a desktop graphics card through full PCIe 5.0×16 interface, including high-end options from NVIDIA and AMD, while keeping the Strix Halo chip as the CPU. If you ever wanted to pair Halo with RTX 5090, well now it will be easier than ever.
The PCIe choice is useful, but it is also a strange match for Strix Halo. The main point of this APU is the large integrated GPU, so adding a big discrete GPU can undercut the reason to pay for Strix Halo in the first place. Minisforum already sells 16-core mobile Ryzen-based platforms where the iGPU is clearly not the focus, such as the BD790i X3D board with a Ryzen 9 7945HX3D and Radeon 610M, plus the MS-A2 mini PC built around a Ryzen 9 9955HX.
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Minisforum has not shared pricing or a retail date for the BD395i MAX yet. Given it has memory and APU preinstalled, I’m thinking $1500 at minimum. Hopefully they will add other options, gamers surely don’t need 128GB of memory right now.
Source: TweakTown
