ASRock’s X600 DeskMini – Finally – Again

Years ago, the SFF community waited with bated breath for the ASRock DeskMini A300. With AMD APU support, it offered a better balance than Intel chips between the CPU and GPU. This SFF Gem was the ideal Deskmini, and the SFF Network community rallied around it by creating custom 3D printed cases, BIOS updates, and more.
Now, the times have changed and AMD’s AM5 platform has arrived. Again, the SFF community waited. It felt like ages but ASRocks X600 DeskMini is finally here.
Asrock was kind enough to send a sample unit to Small Form Factor Network for testing and review. No review guidance was...

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[SFFMunkee]

Unfortunately Valheim won't support fsr3 until it bases on unity 6 at some point. Playing around with various OC setups on the x600. Everything is stable with ram at 7000 and other ram settings otherwise as with xmp 1. I have the gou static oc'd at 3200 MHz, power at 1250 MV seems fine. The temperature all seems acceptable,

Can you do driver-based FSR FrameGen maybe?

GPU overclock sounds good though

 

[HydrAxx747]

You're welcome. 4.06 includes the voltage settings on the oc options menu. I'm still getting periodic crashes but they seem to be far less often. There was no changelog.

Hi, tell me when you tested the BIOS "4.06" still contained the "Performance Mode" function in the BIOS settings that allows to exceed the current usage limitation (at 120 Watts original) of the motherboard or not? Because this option has apparently been removed from the final BIOS "4.08".

 

[phorize]

Hi, tell me when you tested the BIOS "4.06" still contained the "Performance Mode" function in the BIOS settings that allows to exceed the current usage limitation (at 120 Watts original) of the motherboard or not? Because this option has apparently been removed from the final BIOS "4.08".

I'm running 4.08 now and I don't recall unfortunately.

 

[Jorrit]

Hi, tell me when you tested the BIOS "4.06" still contained the "Performance Mode" function in the BIOS settings that allows to exceed the current usage limitation (at 120 Watts original) of the motherboard or not? Because this option has apparently been removed from the final BIOS "4.08".

It might be that this function has only been removed from the bios menu but is still functional if you edit the values with a tool like RU.efi
Many overclocking functions on laptops are actually still working even if they are not visible in the bios menu. This page explains how to do this:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...-of-your-low-power-u-series-intel-cpu.297210/
Maybe the same principle can be applied to this bios...

 

[dacnick]

new deskmini x600 with usb4 announced. asrock low key admit they betrayed us with the crap x600 of last year.

 

[phorize]

new deskmini x600 with usb4 announced. asrock low key admit they betrayed us with the crap x600 of last year.

Do you have a link to the announcement?

 

[HydrAxx747]

Do you have a link to the announcement?

Here: https://www.asrock.com/news/index.asp?iD=5557

But, honestly I don't think we should expect a revolution either, it seems to be just a variant of the DeskMini X600 to which we would have replaced the D-SUB (VGA) port with a USB 4.0 port, nothing more, something that is already easily feasible by using the secondary M.2 port (for example) to install an M.2 expansion card with USB 4.0 controller, something that I already do personally but with an M.2 expansion card with USB 3.2gen2 (10Gb/s) controller which allows me to have two additional USB Type-C 10Gb/s ports for an additional investment of only approximately 25usd.

 

[dacnick]

Yes i think the sucky part you cannot add on a usb4 accessories to original x600m.
This seems a new motherboard change that is more fitting for APU like other mini PC already out there.

Zen4 and Zen5 G-APU already sacrifised a PCIE5x4 for USB4, the og x600m was lazy Am4 quick money grab

Asrock needs to allow motherboard rma of older users!

 

[SFFMunkee]

Any chance we’ll see USB-PD as well? That would be ideal!
A socketed board with USB4/PD/DP-alt would mean one cable portable machine that’s upgradable! Pipe dream though I fear.

But yeah the current X600 is a joke as it loses out on features to cheaper boards and mini PCs even with the same chip, lets not even go into availability.