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New ASRock Deskmeets, Deskminis Incoming, and DeskSlim?!

Previewed in ASRock’s Computex Press Release (Courtesy of TechPowerup), three new Desk* products are on their way to market, two Intel models and an AMD model. The biggest news is the new DeskMeet supporting Ryzen 7000 up to 65w, featuring the usual quad DIMM slots, PCIe 4.0 slot and dual M.2 slots, but also including a 2.5G ethernet jack. The smallest news is the new DeskSlim model, using the standard DeskMeet board, but in a new 6.5L chassis. We’re looking forward to this one and will have pictures as soon as we find them. On the Intel side, the DeskMeet …

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ASRock Launches its Radeon RX 7600 Series—Challenger, Phantom Gaming, Steel Legend

NOTE: This is a press release. It presented exactly as the company released it with no editing by SFF.N. While we at SFF.N try avoid using direct press releases for our news coverage, there are instances when doing so is necessary due to time constraints. — ASRock, the leading global motherboard, graphics card and mini PC manufacturer, today launched the new Phantom Gaming, Steel Legend and Challenger series graphics cards based on the new AMD Radeon RX 7600 GPUs. In addition to the popular Phantom Gaming and Challenger models, the new Steel Legend series graphics cards are designed in white …

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ASRock Launches Intel N100 Processor ITX Motherboard

Asrock has launched the new N100DC-ITX motherboard featuring an Intel Quad-Core N100 CPU. This passively cooled ultra efficient processor features 4 E-Core Gracemont CPU cores with a 24 EU Intel UHD graphics solution. The N100DC-ITX features a single DDR4 DIMM slot, one PCIe 3.0 x 4 slot (supports 2X mode), gigabit LAN, 7.1 audio, HDMI 2.1 (4K 60Hz max), and a single D-Sub output supporting 1080P at 60Hz. The N100DC-ITX has video playback support for AV1 decoding, 10-bit HEVC and VP9 encoding and decoding, and a maximum resolution of 4Kx2K at 60Hz. Power is provided by an external 19V …

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ASRock Industrial Launches 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series with AMD Ryzen 7000U-Series APUs

ASRock Industrial announces the 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series Mini PCs powered by AMD Ryzen 7000U-Series APUs up to 8 Zen 3+ cores. Featuring maximum dual DDR5 4800 MHz memory up to 64 GB, the 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series bring about performance enhancement through unleashing higher standards of power, speed, and energy efficiency. Now poised with enriched IOs and expansions, the Series also provide quad-display outputs of up to 8K outstanding graphics with one HDMI 2.1, three DisplayPort 1.4a, and five USB ports, including two USB4 for versatile connectivity. Moreover, dual storages with one SATA 3.0, one M.2 Key M, plus …

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Intel Arc A380 Listed on newegg.com

Intel’s controversial new Arc GPU family has made it’s first appearance on an e-tailer’s listings in the form of the ASRock Challenger Arc A380 6GB. The card has been listed on newegg.com at a price of US$139.99 with touted availability of 22 August. As noted by Gamer’s Nexus and other sources, performance of the GPU seesaws between challenging the AMD RX6500XT in some game titles, all while being handed a solid beating by the RX6400 in others. The ASRock Challenger Arc A380 6GB GDDR6 itself features a 2250MHz core clock, 1 x HDMI 2.0b and 3 x DisplayPort 2.0 ports, …

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ASRock’s DeskMeet B660 – Fantastic Idea, Interesting Execution

ASRock’s DeskMini series has been a stalwart in the SFF world for some time now, even with the canning of the GTX/RX series (Rest in Peace, MXM graphics cards). Eschewing standard form factors to enable denser computers, the DeskMini has been the basis of many builds and mods in our community forum. But the challenge with the DeskMini has always been hardware compatibility – only really supporting CPU, RAM and storage upgrades. What if we wanted more graphics power and more RAM? Enter the DeskMeet. As a larger brethren to the DeskMini, the new DeskMeet series significantly increases component compatibility …

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ASRock’s B550AM Gaming Motherboard Sighted

ASRock’s B550AM Gaming motherboard has been sighted, but rejoice ye not, as this board has a pair of caveats that make it less news worthy than I originally figured. Firstly, the B550A chipset is a rebrand of B450. Secondly, this board at the time of writing appears to be for OEM only markets. So, with that out of the way, let’s look at some interesting features – From TechPowerup; “The AM4 socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots supporting dual-channel DDR4 memory; the board’s sole PCI-Express 4.0 x16, and an M.2-22110 slot that has PCIe 3.0 x4 and …

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CES 2020 – A SFF Roundup

Whilst we were unable to attend CES 2020, I’ve been trawling the depths of the interwebs for SFF related coverage to summarise in lieu of aforementioned physical presence. Let’s go! AMD Of course, AMD took centre stage, continuing the steamroller-like (pun intended, sorry!) push of the recent years. AMD produces both CPUs and GPUs, so we get a double barrelled keynote. AMD is pushing into the laptop space more than ever, with the new Ryzen 4000 series, Zen 2 core, 7nm laptop CPUs. Taking aim at the three laptop market segments – ultrathin, gaming and professional, a pair of new …