SFF.Network ASRock DeskMini at Computex 2018

ASRock's DeskMini line, the proponent of the STX and Micro-STX form factors, is undergoing a tonne more development. More layouts, new chipsets, and overall, a determined promise from the manufacturer to continue the STX family of form factors, something we are wholeheartedly behind. Lets see what ASRock had on display.

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[xcrco]

Thanks for the update, its a great news indeed they're continuing expanding the stx from factor, yay for amd stx board! hopefully am4 in the following months!

 

[sgtspiff]

Great news.
Love it when the large manufacturers make the cases smaller. Most of them use just way too much free space inside the "small" product line.

 

[ondert]

Yaaaayyyy AM4 STX! ..and I liked the XL version, with more headroom for cpu cooler you can just put beefier cpus.

 

[chinevo]

No, please, no, no

Useless and very high ports. My suggestion:

 

[jØrd]

Useless and very high ports

Depends who your selling it too, there are lots of front of house / POS style deployments where serial and VGA are still well deployed for example.

Im still waiting for an mSTX board w/ an SFP+ cage, can dream I suppose.

 

[matt3o]

I agree on serial and VGA ports. PS/2 port is a gaming thing and could be a good selling point actually.

Anyway they are still very hard to find, especially without case and GPU.

 

[confusis]

Guys, that is a prototype version With the location of the socket on the board, the tall ports aren't an issue. I'd expect a more modern IO on a consumer focused production version.

 

[dotch]

Great to see progress...if only the z370 ones were available here in Europe.

The slim version is exactly what I am looking for. Any more info on availability?

 

[confusis]

Proto at this stage, gauging feedback. We gave positive feedback on the slim and XL variants.

 

[whum]

Proto at this stage, gauging feedback. We gave positive feedback on the slim and XL variants.

Any chance there was mention of what cpu cooler clearance might be expected in the xl version?

 

[ondert]

Any chance there was mention of what cpu cooler clearance might be expected in the xl version?

For slim up to 46mm

For XL version up to 68mm

 

[jmarin]

Hmmm STX AM4 would be great for my NES rebuild

 

[jujudk]

AM4 micro stx please (with a vega nano)

It looks very promising

 

[Solo]

Alright, Newegg. Go ahead and slash the price on that B250 variant.

 

[LocoMoto]

So exciting!

 

[pyxls]

Any news on Intel 300-series mini-STX board (the one without the MXM-slot)?

 

[Solo]

I'm using this thread to ask a serious question.

What CPU should I get for the B250 DeskMini? I was using an i5-8400 in my last Coffee Lake machine, so I don't need overkill. Not that the DM can handle overkill CPUs anyway.

@confusis @Everyone

 

[simmtuck]

I'm using this thread to ask a serious question.

What CPU should I get for the B250 DeskMini? I was using an i5-8400 in my last Coffee Lake machine, so I don't need overkill. Not that the DM can handle overkill CPUs anyway.

@confusis @Everyone

i think you can put pretty much any non-k kaby or sky lake processor in it that you want. I have an i7-7700 in mine and with the noctua cooler it's lovely. idles at 24-25c in a 21c room, with fan setting in asrock bios on level 2 out of four rpm increases available.

 

[Solo]

I was leaning heavily towards the 7700. I was also trying to figure out of the "t" variation would make sense in the system as well.