Asrock DeskMini

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At CES, Asrock told us about a new SFF PC in the works that uses Intel's mini-STX form factor. After a few more months of development, Asrock has new details to share on this system, which it has named "DeskMini."

 

 

 

 

Asrock has revealed some info on their Deskmini that's based on Intel's Mini-STX (Mini Socket Technology Extended) form factor. Coming it at just 1.82L this entire build can hold up to 2x 2.5" drives and 2x M.2 drives. What's different between this and NUCs is the Asrock Deskmini allows standard desktop cpus, where most NUC uses mobile CPUs. By using desktop CPUs, the Asrock Deskmini, it allows the user to install the CPU of their choice, although there might be a limit on that, and should give a better overall performance, compared to a NUC. No PCIe so no dedicated GPUs, maybe sometime in the future, they can probably cram a MXM GTX1080 or 1060 in it and you'll get the ultimate mini gaming PC. 

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-deskmini-mini-stx-pc,31683.html

 

 

[goodtofufriday]

Add a R9 Nano and itll be boss

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3 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Add a R9 Nano and itll be boss

The R9 Nano will probably melt the entire chassis.

 

[Prysin]

26 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Add a R9 Nano and itll be boss

nah, corsairs SFX PSUs are king. They have lower voltage ripple then even the best Silverstone SFX Platinum PSU.... For a much lower price.

[Maslofski]

psu with window and stock heatsink, nice

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Unless they do this properly, the product will be a flop. MSI attempted to come on to the market with their Cubi however the design was fidly to assmemble.  For 1-5 units, this doesn't matter however when you're competing with NUC and BRIX (Gigabyte) which have really easy assembly, support network based deployment, have vPro options for management and simple drivers, Asrock are in for a struggle.

 

In my experience, offices that still want desktops or even thin clients, if they're not an existing and established Dell/HP client, most of them are going NUC and Intel's sales figures represent that. These are the clients that make the product worth developing when they're ordering 100-2500 units. 

[Prysin]

2 minutes ago, DEcobra11 said:

 

Only fits MB and Drive, no PCI-e slot and PSU is a power brick tho

Also OP, You can find pics that aren't renders in asrock's site

not even close. Corsairs SFX can fit way more then just mobo and drive.

you got 24 pin, 3x 8pin and 2x 6 pin for the 450w and 600w...

and its fully modular.

https://www.komplett.no/product/886744/datautstyr/stroemforsyning/enheter/corsair-sf450-450w-psu-sfx-form-factor#

 

This is why cosairs product is the better.

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52 minutes ago, DEcobra11 said:

Snip

Asrock has the exact pic that's in the op.

 

http://www.asrock.com/news/index.us.asp?id=3303

Until they reveal the real one. Render pic is to stay.

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Just now, DEcobra11 said:

Now looking back at this I realized a little and curious step... Ribbon VGA :D!

 

Asus been doing that on their server boards. Nothing new, but still a neat feature. 

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1 minute ago, DEcobra11 said:

Yep, that's greatly appreciated in mini PCs, some manufacturers ommit them, specially in high end NuCs

They probably think we can get dp to vga adapter. Vga is still nice to have for backup purposes.

[Energycore]

Can I mount it to the ATX power supply mounts in another chassis?