Deskmini x600 Overview and Review

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[@SuperMari026]

Still rocking the DeskMini A300 since 2019, never had an issue.

[@peteradshead2383]

I'm running a Deskmini x300 with a ryzen 5900g , 64gb ram , with maxed the storage out 4 + 4tb SSDs and 2 + 2tb nvme. I wish the x600 had USB4 because I can't see a point of upgrading without .

[@vsuarezp]

X300 with 5700G and no issues either.

[@soli-ethd]

I use a Deskmini A300 with a 3400G and it's great for a HTPC and lightweight couch gaming for me. Still very happy with it.

[@justinbailey6515]

A300 with 3.60s bios and 4700g still going strong.

[@o0shad0oo]

Not sure if it'll work in the X600, but one trick I've pulled is the Wraith Stealth cooler will just barely fit into the X300W if you remove the plastic trim piece that goes on top. Provides better cooling than the little cooler that comes with it. Edit: I think this is the exact same mod that's talked about in this video.

[@dfgdfg_]

Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 is a really nice upgrade for the X300. I think there is an AM5 update kit

[@isaacjjones]

That's what I did with my A300. Much quieter (and I believe better at cooling) than the one included by ASRock.

[@igelbofh]

My best solution for the X300 is the P12 slim fan. Taped with double sided tape to the top of the case with the metal slug from the wraith stealth. It's absolutely silent and keeps everything cool.

[@pepejuan6897]

PLEAS, PUT AN OCULINK ON THAT, I really need to see how it works. Great video man!

[@Wrathlon]

Asrocks DeskMini series are the gold standard for what a MiniPC should be.

[@Gametester110-qf8vs]

Same here. I have two. One as my primary Pc and the other as a dedicated, emulation game system. Both 16GB Dual-channel Ram, 512GB SSD, and Ryzen 5700G.

[@henriklarsen546]

Asrock Deskmini fanboyism? Count me in! I've been running three Deskmini 110s in a VMware cluster for years, and now they're running Proxmox. The Deskminis just work. I can't praise them highly enough.

[@greggmacdonald9644]

Zen 5 9700X is rated at 65W, I look forward to you trying it with that, in August, if you do :) ... I do wish they'd been a bit more creative with the holes for the 2.5" drives, it would have been nice to have the option to mount a 3.5" HDD in there.

[@rageraiden888]

Thank you I have been waiting for this review. Deskmeet X600 soon(™)

[@ellypsis603]

been using the X300 with a 4350g for emulation gaming, still working fine after 5 years and plenty enough for gamecube and ps2

[@nadtz]

I'm seriously contemplating getting one of these or the deskmeet X600 to replace a SER5 I'm using for Windows. Also nice shoutout for Nobara, thinking about trying it for my daily driver.

[@John_Doe1980]

given its the new am5 model I am really surprised they didn't increase height " slightly" to give even a basic low profile scythe or other cooler so more options because that tiny like hunk of aluminium is well. ..

[@geraldh.8047]

They spent exactly the least amount of effort humanly possible on this refresh.

[@afungusamungus2860]

Now that EVGA has shuffled odd the mortal coil, ASRock has become my goto for system builds. Had nothing but good luck with the products and customer service from Canada.

[@imreloadin]

With every iteration of these I am more and more tempted to slap one in a Gamecube chassis and make a nice emulation machine...

[@ReluctantReader]

"I've always had a soft spot for fedora, but then... redhat" XD LOL

[@DMonZ1988]

i've been waiting for availability for months. lets hope they're finally planning on selling it sometime soon. they didn't actually do anything at all other than chipswap to the AM5 platform.

[@rogerhalt3991]

Love these things, amazing kit

[@harryniedecken5321]

Thanks for the testing and review. Big fan of Asrock. If you get a chance, please ask them to consider offering a version that can run directly from either a 12 volt or 24 volt battery. Thanks

[@sfgoose2875]

You might be able to do this with an after market adapter. I'm actually running mine off 12v but using an inverter so it's just a regular wall hookup

[@harryniedecken5321]

@@sfgoose2875 Thanks, I build mobile electrical systems for people and they are always looking for options to run directly from 12 and 24 volt batteries directly, even while charging. The voltage range can be significant, even just from 12 volt. I don't really understand why the computer board' vrms can't deal with a wider range of 12 volt ( 11 - 16 volt) just in general. It's all turning into much lower voltage to feed the components. Especially for M.2 on board storage and no spinning drives.

[@hennermais]

Would have loved to see an USB-C with PD as power in and DP alt mode, so you can just plug it into a monitor with USB-C-PD and not use the powerbrick. Or at least have a USB-C with DP alt mode.

[@YaksAttack]

Are there any plans to review the deskmeet x600? Thats what im excited for. I want to downsize my PC but im not ready to give up a graphics card and dont want to spend the premium on a full mini itx build

[@harveysmith4424]

the best graphics card you can put in a deskmeet is a 4070 and the case is limited to 206mm in length.

[@gorgonbert]

Came here to either find and support this comment 👍

[@gorgonbert]

@@harveysmith4424 that’s more than adequate for this category of machine 👍

[@harveysmith4424]

@@gorgonbert yeah I’ve been rocking a Deskmeet for a while. Great little system.

[@LiLBitsDK]

ignore the deskmeet... I ran a 12100 + 3060ti in it... it overheated badly... the airflow is terribad in that case and the airflow through the custom PSU they have included is BAD... find one of the other good options out there if you really want a gpu

[@grantbaxter3669]

I would love to see the oculink test. Maybe running a 4060 or something similar.

[@lamensje]

Watching from Nobara 40 here, with hardware accelerated video decoding on the RTX 3060 out of the box!

[@craigprocter1232]

was hoping for better benchmarks and comparison of 8700G / 600 deskmini to the 5700G / 300 deskmini.

[@Deletistjerk]

Bring Dual NIC and I will buy in a heartbeat

[@dota2tournamentss]

power usage?

[@antoniobanderas7208]

Damn, i could listen to and watch Wendell videos all day😆👏

[@jefferylebowski7355]

Yay! I will upgrade my X300 as soon as this is available for purchase

[@MrAlBester]

Been waiting for this to come out for AM5

[@Dragonheng]

At some point, an Asrock truck is parked in front of the door. It then unloads Asrock's Deskminis until the house is full of them.

[@Ayahrie]

please do the Oculink. :')

[@ShowXTech]

Excited for the DeskMate X600

[@arthurkamalov2176]

It still would be nice to have an ECC memory there.

[@YouTubeGlobalAdminstrator]

No it's too expensive...DDR5 has on die ECC?

[@helljester8097]

⁠@@KZbinGlobalAdminstratorthat on-die ecc is a special kind unique to ddr5, it can’t handle the same kind of errors real multi-bit ecc ddr5 can. Yes it cost me 40% more than a regular 32gb dimm but it was a dealbreaker for my use case.

[@cinemaipswich4636]

More than 48 PCIe lanes are my wants, for I have video and audio capture cards. I've been a Workstation person up until now. I have a TrueNAS server, so the only storage I need on my Workstation is 5 NVMe drives. 1st-OS, 2nd- Programs and Applications, 3rd-Cache, 4th-samples, and 5th-output delivery. Video, Audio and 10 Gbit/sec Network are just add-ons.

[@Jimster481]

These things are really cool and really fast for such a small box. The price sometimes doesn't work out vs just buying a mini PC with a laptop CPU though. It really depends on what you need or want. I do like the upgradability though.

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

Come on ASRock, give us ECC SO-DIMM support.

[@YouTubeGlobalAdminstrator]

What are the prices for ECC SODIMMS?

[@helljester8097]

@@KZbinGlobalAdminstratoryou can expect to pay anywhere between a third to double or more for the same capacity as regular ddr5

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

On the German end-customer retail market (as an example I can immediately check) about 50 % more for unbuffered ECC SO-DIMMs if you try to find modules with otherwise the same specs. But as such end customers we are currently in a bad time regarding the evil cycle of high DRAM and NAND chip prices due to data center booms globally. When the current AI bubble bursts it should get more relaxed again.

[@green929392]

I'm using the x300 as a home server

[@miul84]

Idle power consumption?

[@binhvuthanh5804]

Why? Do you buy pc to stare at desktop screen?

[@eusebiou-say-bee-oh326]

@@binhvuthanh5804 Apathy doesn't help friend. One main reason for the small form factor and the 65 watt processor is about electrical power consumption.

[@glenswada]

around 14 watts with 8700g

[@estebanguerrero682]

This system looks amazing, I love the form factor and power envelope. It is truly amazing, I can't wait to see further development of that with newer and better apu's or even future iterations with native occulink ports, what a time to be alive!

[@AndreAs-ir9vh]

I would be very interested in the DeskMeet x600. I'm thinking of using it to retire my 7900X in Eco mode for homelab, because I'm planning to ugrade it's system to run a 9950X

[@frankwong9486]

Deskmini is good for retirement I put my 9900k retired in a h310 with limited power limit, working kinda good

[@AndreAs-ir9vh]

@@frankwong9486 can totally see that. The reason I'm looking at the Meet instead of the Mini is the PCIe Slot I could use for a dedicated NIC or some A310 shenanigans (and if I get creative with M.2 to PCIe, I might even get both in)

[@frankwong9486]

@@AndreAs-ir9vh they have deskmini mix or something else for adding GPU but I am not sure will the UK market having those on shelf :( Maybe I go for a deskmeet instead as technically will support birficiation Have more options for what to put on , example : a 8/4/4 riser PCB and dual nvme+low profile 4060 in a deskmeet which will give like quad nvme +2 SATA SSD in total along with the GPU , sounds a plan for proxmox/truenas/unraid with some VM

[@AndreAs-ir9vh]

​@@frankwong9486 I don't think I'll need the additional M.2, but certainly a decent idea. I'd go with a Sparkle A310 Eco. It's waaaaay cheaper, takes one only a single slot at half width and it's only 50W. NVENC isn't good enough compared to intel to make spending more on it worth it, if all you're doing is video encode/decode or desktop usage. (And for my usecase, it would still leave a single slot for the NIC)

[@timothygibney159]

Nothing wrong with a 7900x

[@medowucha]

Performance-wise, the 8700G is nearly the same as the 7800X3D (at least on the CPU side). So building a Poor Man's Porsche is totally a thing .. :)

[@ronjatter]

I wonder if the bios options actually work unlike the x300. Also a good upgrade for these is the noctua foam which bridges from the cpu cooler to the top of the case

[@richardfarmer6570]

I'd like to see the Oculink test. I have a X300 that I've had since launch, very versatile little PC. Used to have a 4350G which was pretty weak but recently upgrade to the 5500GT which is much better. Use it for a HTPC/Plex server.

[@LRK-GT]

Awww... no USB4. A theoretical DeskMini X800 w/ eGPU capability, sounds perfect. Edit: Yes, do the 4090. Would be unfortunate to lose the 2nd M-key slot, tho. Edit 2: Apparently, the Jupiter X600 has USB 4.

[@napoficial7123]

It's nice to see a PSU with USB and HDMI 👏👏👏

[@kelvinangeloygar2014]

Do the oculink pls with detailed tutorial 🎉

[@manuelhernandez2017]

Nebora? Make me want to try it. I'm personally more of a Manjaro/arch guy, but want to try it after Wendell talked about it.

[@dwahnaslowdown8887]

For my X300, I had a cooler which BARELY fit inside the case without the fan. I cut a hole in the mesh and mounted the fan to the outside of the case. It's been that way since new (4 years?) and works great. It was my first LINUX install too. Perfect for music, movies or general web surfing from the couch. I think the extra USB ports should have been standard.

[@Sightus]

Unfortunately no USB4. If Asrock would go this extra mile or even add ECC-support, I would drown them in money.

[@Ace-rr2tq]

Great video 👍

[@dfgdfg_]

The powerbrick should have a way to be mounted on the side of the case, maybe vis the VESA mount

[@tanush841]

Hello dear. Great video. Also, I was planning to build mini pc with 7900 cpu. There is a version of 180 watt Asrock deskmini x600 available. Can it support 7900 cpu at default 65 watt.

[@stephenreaves3205]

gah, why can't these ryzen boxes ever come with 10Gb LAN? Otherwise this would be PERFECT

[@superjuddy]

Really enjoyed EndeavourOS as my first real attempt at using Linux, but certain games will not run even with every experimental driver known to man XD gonna have to try out that distro next!!

[@medowucha]

Everybody be like: Oh, it FINALLY dropped.

[@pharmdiddy5120]

He asks genuinely whether we want to see that little thing run with a 4090. Better question would be who doesn't want to see that!

[@greggmacdonald9644]

Though there's no way he'll get it inside it, like he said. *Beside* it, sure :)

[@AgentMetalKid-qj7ym]

actually @level1techs teh What you called "Serial" Punchout.. that for the ASrock Audio Line out kit for speakers..... (i dont se a serial port connection on here at all?)

[@pasimarjanen4231]

if you want to play games with x600 do not use EEC memory or disabled EEC in bios. EEC on APU is very very slow runs 1/2 speed.

[@fleshreap]

I'd love one of these 🤤

[@Mack_Dingo]

Would be koo to see the 180w brick be used just to see

[@Airbag888]

When will we start including power draw AND c-states that these devices can hit as a standard in all reviews.. it's time to expose devices with components that just don't have proper ASPM

[@MindstabThrull]

Mini computer with a Ryzen 7900 and a Radeon 7900 when? :D

[@denvera1g1]

I'd love to see if the 8700g can hit higher memory speeds with the shorter traces on SODIMM if there's ever any SODIMM kits that hit 9600-10600. My 8700G will do 8000 XMP profile in gear1, well, the FCLK is in gear2 but the MCLK/UCLK is in gear1 I really should try to find the highest FCLK, drop the RAM speed so they're all at gear1 with FCLK, and then tighten up the timings.

[@HunTaoLee]

Too bad Deskmini are not available in Australia. BTW, if MiniPC use Camm2 ram instead of sodimm ram, I think the mini pc mobo has too be bigger.

[@meredithremmington4845]

Could I get a bigger power brick and then overlock the cpu past 65w?

[@TheSektor13]

Nice. What is idle power usage ?

[@Airbag888]

Almost no one ever talks about that sadly.. and even less about c-states achievable with the components at play

[@alabastrovo]

Fresh install of Pop OS with 8600G, 32 GB 5600 ram, 1 tb pcie nvme and wifi card, after boot its 7,1-8,5 W, on Windows its around 10-11 W, but I have a lot of stuff installed. With quicker ram (1,35 V 6000-6400) its about 20 W in linux, 23 W in windows. Measured with watt meter on plug.

[@Airbag888]

@@alabastrovo sub 10 W sounds unbelievably low... and 20W in linux just with faster RAM a weirdly high increase.. have you run powertop to optimise ?

[@alabastrovo]

I was also plesantly surprised. But it makes sence, IO in normal desktop CPUS is always running and using 15-20 W constantly and x600 board also lacking chipset, which is another 10+W. With 7600x (with only igpu on 650 board) I had 45-50 W in idle desktop(Windows). Yes, I dont know whats is causing such an increase, if the SOC voltages jump too much with XMR presets or what. This 10 W "Penalty" is universal for Win and Linux, and no, this is honestly first machine, where I plan to use Linux predominantly, so I am still learning things.

[@Airbag888]

@@alabastrovo Well this is all absolutely interesting to me.. so the 8600g compared to the 7600x brought down the idle power draw by that much.. quite insane to be honest.. I can tell you that 8-9W at the wall fully equipped is almost impossible with a N100 which is a 6W part.. If you don't mind sharing all the parts you used (memory, etc) it would be valuable to me :)

[@Quast]

I don't get it... now the X600 platform is here and there is still no way to use Phoenix 8xxxG 2xUSB 40Gbps?? why don't they make use of the native USB4 8xxxG has or prepare the board that it could use the 8xxxGs capabilities e.g. a 20Gbps/40Gbps switchable port....

[@AgentMetalKid-qj7ym]

@Level1Techs yeah ive been waiting for this i got one right now, i havent done much too it yet.. i want teh 180w adapter so i can get teh max perf out of my 8700G its a bit lacking vs som of teh 7000 Mobile chips ??? is it the 8700G or is its teh ASrock x600 mini? or bios fix teh issues?

[@michal1693]

nice, but imo needs asmedia 4242 or pcie4x8 routable

[@keypresspunisher]

I have a few of the old ones as well, I just which these had 2 onboard nics

[@kuyache2]

I have the Deskmini A300 with 2400G and its doing great except for some deadboot problems where the fan spins but doesn't really start, the lan port leds doesn't light up also keyboard and mouse doesn't light up too. I had to hard power off this pc and pray it boots on the next power on press. If not then repeat hard power off till it boots. I would gladly welcome an X600 with an 8700G or 8600G but I want fast 32gb now (2x16gb) as that 780M eats quite a lot of ram up to 8gb I believe and of course at least 5gbps r/w nvme ssd for that blazing experience. Too bad these new APU are ridiculously expensive, must wait for them to reach down to current prices of 5700G/5600G for them to be viable...

[@rodolfovalle2547]

Anyone know when these should release in the US? Been dying to get one.

[@kuyache2]

Running a 4090 on that is too unrealistic, maybe an RX6600/RX7600/RTX4060 would be a much feasible choice...

[@Anno-gm3yo]

Hi Wendel Could you test with ryzen 7900 ?

[@ume3292]

does SROCK DeskMini X600 comes with any components inside or it's just case

[@gurumeditation6424]

Overclocking: Buy a 180Watt PSU, a Noctua NH-L9A-AM5 AND !important! the Noctua NA-FD1 fan duct kit ! --> fast AND silent !

[@cracklingice]

Well this video sent me down a rabbit hole. Someone in a discord server I'm in said windows 10 was dying in a few months and for some reason I thought oh yeah EOL in October and forgot it's October '25 so it's 16 months away before I need to have my multi PC solution established since Microsoft still has a monopoly on PC gaming (yes, Linux is better but I'm not willing to put in that level of work for my entertainment). I am somewhat on the fence about actually making a purchase now anyway. I found out that AM4 still has some reasonably priced dual 8 lane boards so that I can plop in a 25GBE AIC and the 5700X3D is quite reasonably priced. It has me debating making an intermediate move so that I'm not held back by gaming on my X99 CPU and can move my X99 with 256GB of RDIMM over to NAS/LAB duty finally.

[@LRK-GT]

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021. Support 'till 2032. Windows 10 isn't going anywhere anytime soon. It's still growing in marketshare/11 is losing marketshare to 10.

[@cracklingice]

@@LRK-GT That is not what you run on your PC.

[@LRK-GT]

@@cracklingice Literally and unironically, it is. It's just Windows 10 w/o all the extra crap and forced 'feature updates'. You can even add all that back-in, if ya really wanted to...

[@cracklingice]

@@LRK-GT Licensing prevents it. IOT is only licensed for a single application use.

[@kazriko]

Does the 7900 let you down-volt it to the 35w, 45w, 55w or 65w settings? I'm kind of hoping for a strix halo chip to be supported in this.

[@the-patient-987]

I switched from Windows 10 to Nobara when it was on (Fedora) 36 and I'm not looking back.

[@livelifefree1209]

Should the m.2 have a heat sink???

[@crypto_rahul]

Can you power this thing off usb-c?

[@robertj1138]

does it do Diablo IV? Thank you for the video.

[@ivantsipr]

With a 8700G , 6400 Hynix ram, tube the memory and OC the iGPU it should run D4 with very decent fps.

[@ashame001]

What's best cooler on the x300 ya running ?

[@druxpack8531]

the Deskmeet dunks all over this. not sure why you wouldn't want the pcie slot for gaming/homelab.

[@korfenkeil]

Size

[@cheezy2455]

Desk mini is more portable

[@saoudalfares2795]

I have both the deskmini and deskmeet Intel versions and the size difference is significant. The deskmini is for the media/TV/plex. The deskmeet is for a smaller gaming pc 12100/rx6600 that I keep at work for slow days. I love both of them and have built a few of the am4 deskmini for friends (covid school pc for their kids). I love asrock for this no nonsense barebone platforms

[@electricindigoball1244]

Even if you include the power brick the Deskmini is almost 4 times smaller than the Deskmeet so which is better for you depends on your requirements.

[@eusebiou-say-bee-oh326]

The 120 watt power supply says a lot. No wasted energy at idle.

[@ashberic]

beyond annoyed with Asrock. reached out multiple times (>5) asking when the X600 is gonna be available in the US and was ignored each time. I just want to retire my 4650G X300 :(

[@geraldh.8047]

The unit is delayed because Asrock needs to source an adequate supply of VGA ports for production. This is such brandnew technology that it’s hard to get them in volume.

[@NetNeelsie]

I have a 3600 and a 1660ti. Will nvidia cards work with nubara?

[@FelipeBudinich]

Would be great to test a Deskmeet x600 to see if it can drive an Alveo M35A for an awesome plex/jellyfin server

[@fwiler]

Someone needs to build custom power supplies for these external graphics cards that don't make it look so janky and take up as much space as the computer itself.

[@trad4097]

Can put WiFi in please ?

[@uci8124u]

So I can game on this?

[@AgentMetalKid-qj7ym]

8600G has teh 760m level1

[@ahayesm]

see if it'll post with CPUs not on the supported list

[@ewilliams28]

why is it that all I want to do is put a 7900 in it now?😀

[@raya4633]

Still no ECC support on Deskmini?

[@radieroslaw]

I/O ports in DeskMini X600 is a joke compared to DeskMini B760. Nobody wants pcie gen. 5 m.2 but all would benefit from extra usb C 20gbit or alt mode.

[@oakfig]

Bruh, please tell me your gonna connect a 4090 to that!

[@haxwithaxe]

You can totally touch fire ... But don't ...

[@cheezy2455]

Never buy the Intel version they make to much noise compared to AMD machines especially if you fit a stock Ryzen Cooler Inside. I'm rocking a A300 with a 3400g want to upgrade to x600 but they are still not available in my country.

[@WillFuI]

The ultra sff are so excited for this thing. I know it only supports “65w” but the 65w have a ppt of 88w which is the same as the 7800x3d so does it work

[@erwilliams]

[@MikeBob2023]

👍🏼🏆

[@otrapersonass]

put the 4090!

[@عليالجابري-ك7ل]

Can I buy a link?