Arctic has just released a new mini-PC aimed at enthusiasts looking for a clean, minimalist, and silent setup, without compromising on performance. The "Senza AI 370" is the latest in the company's existing Senza lineup that has shipped with the Ryzen 5000 series so far, but it's now been upgraded to AMD's Strix Point. Specifically, it features the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 flagship APU and a neat trick up its sleeve.
Or should we say "below its sleeve"? Because this mini-PC mounts under your desk, completely out of sight, cable management isn't an issue either. Arctic calls it an "Under Desk PC," and it's designed to clear your workspace. You could put it on top of your desk, but that would defeat its entire purpose. You really want to make sure you get the most out of it because it costs 1200 Euros, or almost $1,400.
For that money, you're getting a top-end chip, the Ryzen AI 370, which has 12 cores and 24 threads that can boost up to 5.1 GHz. It launched almost two years ago, but it was the Red Team's premier laptop offering until Gorgon Point did so a few months ago. It's based on AMD's Zen 5 architecture, featuring 4 standard Zen 5 cores and 8 Zen 5c efficiency cores — both are split off into their own CCX.
Testing has shown that this hybrid core config doesn't suit either performance or efficiency, since any tasks requiring more cores spill over to the Zen 5c CCX, and there's a large latency penalty for cross-CCX communication. But that's mostly a concern for mobile devices (since this is a mobile chip), a wall-powered mini-PC circumvents these issues and gives you solid performance regardless.
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The Senza AI 370 looks like an AIO radiator for the most part, down to the two tubes poking out of it that terminate in a front panel hub. This detachable box mounts near the edge of your desk, where you can easily interact with it, as it includes a power button, a couple of USB ports, and a headphone jack. The actual PC is meant to go farther back, toward the rear of your table, where it almost disappears.
The port selection on the PC itself is very strong: you get 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, USB4, HDMI 2.1, and more, plus Wi-Fi 7 for wireless connectivity. Owing to its design, the entire body is essentially a giant heatsink, with the actual PCB only in the middle, occupying about 30% of the chassis. Eight heatpipes run through this heatsink, cooling the APU without any fans, which allows it to be completely silent.
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Despite nonexistent noise levels, Arctic is claiming great thermals — 50 degrees Celsius under a gaming load, while a "competitor mini PC" reached 67 degrees Celsius. The company also says the Senza reaches 98 FPS in Counter-Strike 2 (at 1080p High), while a similarly equipped mini PC only reaches 86 FPS. This is possible due to the higher-spec RAM configuration on the Senza.
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It features 32 GB of LPDDR5X-8000 memory, while many other devices use standard DDR5 at slower speeds. The Ryzen AI 370 also has a Radeon 890M iGPU, which is fairly performant for integrated graphics. It's no Strix Halo, but it will get the job done in lightweight games, and can produce decent results in AAA titles with upscaling. It's got 16 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units and can boost up to 2.9 GHz.
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To round out the device, other specs include a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, support for up to 8K external monitors, pre-installed Windows 11, and, of course, Microsoft Copilot+ branding for AI workloads. You can buy the Senza AI 370 right away from Arctic's website, and while it does cost 1,200 Euros, we noticed that a 170 Euros payback is automatically applied, bringing the price down to 1,029 Euros ($1,192). That's still quite a lot for this performance tier.
Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
I'm surprised they don't offer a VESA mounting kit for it.
My first choice would be to mount it to the rear of a monitor, like most other NUC-like mini-PCs.
I'm surprised they don't offer a VESA mounting kit for it.
My first choice would be to mount it to the rear of a monitor, like most other NUC-like mini-PCs.
On the product page, Arctic claims the APU only hits 50C after 30mins of gaming.
It's not going to melt plastic, even if in direct contact to plastic on monitors.
If I had to suspect anything, it's how gravity affects the heatpipe performance dependent on orientation.
I'm surprised they don't offer a VESA mounting kit for it.
My first choice would be to mount it to the rear of a monitor, like most other NUC-like mini-PCs.
Ya this makes 0 sense. Just make an all- in-one or mount it behind the monitor. So dumb (and expensive too)
