SFF.Network ETA PRIME Reviews ASRock Deskmeet X300 8L SFF PC

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Hardware reviewer ETA PRIME has taken a look at the new ASRock DeskMeet(sic) X300. I refuse to call this “DeskMeet”, and will be calling X300 from now on. Anyway…
Barring the silly name, the X300 is a barebones SFF prebuilt that supports Ryzen CPUs up to 65 Watts. There is 54mm of CPU cooler clearance, and a single PCIe 3.0 X16 slot. The X300 can support dual slot GPUs up to 200mm in length, 128GB of DDR4 3200 RAM, comes equipped with a 500 Watt Bronze (How is a bronze rating still a thing?!) PSU.
Check out his review below.

 

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[confusis]

I may have the B660 version on my bench right now awaiting arrival of a i5-12500 to do some testing for review. My thoughts so far... mixed.

 

[fadsarmy]

Did you notice something weird about the PSU? The PSU fan is an exhaust fan blowing over the CPU fan. Typical PSU fans are almost always intake.

 

[confusis]

Did you notice something weird about the PSU? The PSU fan is an exhaust fan blowing over the CPU fan. Typical PSU fans are almost always intake.

That's correct, it's reverse flow.. likely because the case has no intake fans :|

 

[msystems]

A deskmini could fit inside of the PSU they chose to use... It's a regular ATX size

 

[fadsarmy]

That's correct, it's reverse flow.. likely because the case has no intake fans :|

True but also you can't have two fans back to back pulling air in reverse directions.

 

[confusis]

True but also you can't have two fans back to back pulling air in reverse directions.

Valid point! If they used SFX there would be sufficient room to reduce that issue significantly though. Or a different case layout