Motherboard Asrock X600TM-ITX

[mcmaxmcmc]

Did they send you approval QC pics as part of your Superbuy purchase and you have paid your shipping fees so it is essentially on it way?
Could you send a qc pic?

Yup, you get QC pictures with Superbuy as well. I used to buy a lot of keyboard stuff from China and Superbuy has been my go-to. Their payment system has degraded a little bit over the past few years and I now only use it for its forwarding services. They're very reliable for what they do, though, albeit can be a bit slow. My board should be arriving next week

 

[DASBOOT]

@mcmaxmcmc I believe this is a 19v/12v board with a 4-pin molex and a 19V din plug for a brick? It seems my purchase is in the Superbuy Chinese whse but I cannot select it to move to the Hong Kong whse for shipping to US. I have put in a customer service request but no answer yet. Superbuy's site for shipping logistics is worse than their buying part, and I love waiting the 8-hour time difference to continue with a purchase and transfer funds.

 

[DASBOOT]

Update, on my comment, the manual says 19V ATX power supply. NO SUCH THING! HDplex was the only reasonable 19v supply, but it is, and was, not a ATX supply.
The 4-pin molex for CPU power on a ITX board is 12V, not 19V. 19 Volts was never written into the ATX specs. There are some Thin ITX boards that are dual voltage at the Molex, 12 or 19, but 19 is above the spec. and HDplex was the last quality high-wattage internal supply, the rest are low-quality steel-cased crap IMO. To be safe you are better off with a quality 19v GaN brick.

 

[Essence of Flowers]

Yup, you get QC pictures with Superbuy as well. I used to buy a lot of keyboard stuff from China and Superbuy has been my go-to. Their payment system has degraded a little bit over the past few years and I now only use it for its forwarding services. They're very reliable for they they do, though, albeit can be a bit slow. My board should be arriving next week

Any update on this yet? The X600TM looks like a very promising motherboard, if they actually got one to you that'd be amazing.

 

[DASBOOT]

My order is on the way, albeit a complaint for additional shipping charges delaying its final shipping when my account preferences were set to auto top off from my wallet which had more than enough to cover, two days lost, due to the time difference and email communication, Superbuy is far from Super more like "DelayBuy".
We will see what condition it is in when it gets to me. ONE MORE DELAY OF EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS, using their Wise interface results in nothing and logging in to my Wise account and transferring the balance needed as I had some leftover funds in my wallet results in 8 hr post delay even though funds are in their account. I decided to Google Pay and double up so I could finally get the board shipped from an order with them that took place on 12/7 now 12/17 and still not on a plane to the US and no tracking number. And I cannot refund myself back the excess in my wallet from the double-up. If there ever was an intermediary buyer for Taobao purchases NOT to USE Superbuy would be on the top of my list! The board will probably come damaged which would be the icing on the cake.

 

[DASBOOT]

in case anyone wants a better handle on parcel weight for ordering this board:

 

[mcmaxmcmc]

Any update on this yet? The X600TM looks like a very promising motherboard, if they actually got one to you that'd be amazing.

So, update on this:

Yes, I did get the board, and here it is!

I haven't built the computer yet for a variety of problems, the main one being the cooler.

The motherboard uses Intel LGA-1700 mounting holes -- this Thin ITX series, Intel or AMD, usually sticks to Intel coolers as a standard anyway so this wouldn't have been a big problem. However, LGA-1700 chips are thinner than normal, so when you put the coolers on AM5, the mounting screws end up being too short!

So now I'm waiting for a new cooler, with a more lenient screw height, to arrive at the moment.

 

[DASBOOT]

I just received the Asrock X600TM-ITX from Superbuy/EMS/DHL/USPS. It was ordered on 12/4 and received on 1/11/2025, 37 days later. It was packed well. IS Cooling 50X VR 3 works perfectly with Intel 1700 mounting. I will be using a Ryzen 7 8700G, and I note that the Thermal Grizzly short Blackplate will not work without modifying the center hole, which is not large enough to clear components on this board. The normal T.G. contact frame for use above should not be a problem.
Have not tested the board yet for post.

 

[mcmaxmcmc]

Mine, at least and as of now, works. Currently hooked up with the power brick you can also buy with the same link. I currently have a Thermalright AXP90 on, which seems to be okay, although I am not using any backplates. I guess we shall see if I did okay mounting the cooler once I stress test the CPU when my entire build is over.

 

[DASBOOT]

I just got ram, and waiting for wifi, and nvme, but, not needed for test boot, see you have a crucial, you bios date is off... you have the one and only bios available 2.01.
I was going to test with HDplex 400 or my SlimQ Gan brick. (update) it boots perfectly. I will post picks of test later. (SlimQ used as PS) Yes I am using TG contact frame with a stock Asrock back plate.

 

[DASBOOT]

 

[Essence of Flowers]

question for the folks who got their hands on the X600TM, does the 3.2 USB-C port support display/ethernet passthrough?

 

[FrankTL]

Can you power the X600TM-ITX through USB-C PD ? Or is it obligatory to use the 19V barrel DC input?

 

[FrankTL]

I'm wondering which PCIe lanes you lose when using a 8300G/8500G vs 8600G/8700G vs non-APU on this board.
Pretty sure there's nothing on this board using the extra 8 lanes present on non-APU Ryzens (as it seems designed for APU models), but there's a significant difference between the 8300/8500G (10 usable lanes) and 8600/8700G (16 usable lanes).

 

[DASBOOT]

NO USB.

 

[vlsfn]

Anyone done some idle power consumption tests ?

I'm thinking about buying a deskmini X600 for quite some time. SFF is not a hard requirement but low
idle consumption and little to no fan noise.

I'm also eying more in direction of a 8600G, probably 8500G since even that processor is 75% times
faster than my current one and i've never hit any performance issues.
This would basically power my linux desktop pc running a vm 24/7.

 

[mcmaxmcmc]

I've modded my X600TM-ITX to run on 12 volts!


I took a bit of a gamble on whether ASRock used the same circuit design for the 12V line as their X600M-STX board, and turns out I was correct.

The original instructions for the mod for the X600M-STX can be found here (in this forum, actually)

I noticed the same exact chip with the exact same designator can be found on the X600TM-ITX as well, and with help from another community member I was able to slightly reverse engineer the mod and replicate the mod on the slightly different layout.

Here is the corresponding pads on the X600TM-ITX:

I decided to do the Stack Resistor method as I have a good amount of soldering experience and this method is the most seamless one. You can see the stack below:

Now I won't need to power my GPU separately Happy modding!

 

[DASBOOT]

I am IMPRESSED!!!!!

 

[FrankTL]

Mine, at least and as of now, works. Currently hooked up with the power brick you can also buy with the same link. I currently have a Thermalright AXP90 on, which seems to be okay, although I am not using any backplates. I guess we shall see if I did okay mounting the cooler once I stress test the CPU when my entire build is over.

I'm trying to assembly my built with the Thermalright AXP90-X47 and - probably like you - discovered that the provided LGA1700 backplate causes issues on top of the AM5 backplate of the motherboard. The provided long screws are just long enough to install the LGA1700 backplate on top of the provided AM5 backplate, but then the whole assembly is about 3mm higher than the length of the motherboard standoffs.

..... so, I can remove the backplate and screw the cooler directly onto the motherboard, which will add quite a bit of stress on the PCB at the mounting hole - but the whole point of the backplate is to relieve this stress. Alternatively, a flat LGA1700 backplate with non-threaded holes might fit (if those exist).

 

[FrankTL]

Settled the issue by mounting the backplate in inverted manner, and not tightening the motherboard down on the standoff in the corner of the cpu heatsink.

Power consumption figures with a Ryzen 8600G, 2x 32GB Crucial DDR5 and a Hynix Platinum P41 2TB:
Idle 11-12 W
Load: 104 W (with stress-ng --matrix)
Load with ECO mode: 74 W
Load with 35W profile: 54 W

I noticed that only up to C3 sleep states are available, and C6 is not enabled. Does anyone know how to enable C6 in the Asrock BIOS ?