Motherboard Asrock X600TM-ITX

[goofy84]

Hi, i also bought this motherboard, which power supply and cpu cooler is recommandable ? I am planing to use an external gpu with a m.2 oculink adapter.

 

[mcmaxmcmc]

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 10-11 W
Load: 104 W (with stress-ng --matrix)
Load with ECO mode: 74 W
Load with 35W profile: 52 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 ?

Would you be able to provide some pictures of your mounting method? I went with an even more jank manner (modded the Thermal Grizzly AM5 standoff mounting kit to work with my cooler and bought some screws to attach it onto the motherboard -- no backplate). I hadn't fully built my system up yet as I'm busy with other projects, but I would like to reengineer my solution some day.

 

[FrankTL]

Here's a closeup of the mount bracket of the Thermalright heatsinkfan:

idle nicely stays at 10W (edit: newer uni-t ut230b says 12.0W) after adding an Intel AX210 wifi+bt card.

Will check with Asrock if there's a way to enable C6 CPU, as I'd like to reduce power consumption.
Other steps to test: underclocking/undervolting - if that's a useful approach to achieve lower power consumption under load.

And while I love the aluminium look of my mini-itx case (MS-Tech CI-70), it's rather impractical as it doesn't have many holes in the cover, reducing much-needed airflow under load and doesn't offer a half-heigh PCIe slot in case I want to add 10 Gbps networking through one of the two M.2 slots (not envisioned right now, but maybe in some years).