Love this little machine. Please be aware, it is a barebones system, you will need ram, storage, and a compatible Ryzen am4 APU. It will natively support any of the 5000G series processors with integrated graphics. The 5700G may or may not need a BIOS revision. Mine came preinstslled with the correct bios. I decided to put the Ryzen 5700G, maxed out ram, and storage. You will need a beefy cooler. I recommend the Noctua NH-L9a-AM4. Low profile cooler. If you go this high spec on this 1.8 liter chassis, thermal management is everything. If you notice from the photos, the back I/O shield has some brown rubber grommets. That was to facilitate a 40mm additional cooler. AsRock also makes a tiny custom LED/ARGB light strip for the unit. It makes it look nice. This unit is very much built like a layered sandwitch and millimeters count. If you go above a 6 core chip you will also need the bigger power supply. Dell makes a laptop supply with 180 watts instead of the stock 120. To get the required clearances, I also decided to forgo ssd heatsinks for copper graphene heat spreaders, same for the SODIMM laptop ram, and stripped the 2.5 SSD's out of the housing and applied thermal epoxy to those chips with hestsinks for a raspberry PI. Wonderful form factor. Kicks butt for the use case. Try this little guy out. I think you will enjoy the build.

Muy pequeña y funcional si solo tienes pensado usar un procesador con gpu integrada, pero necesitas pensar bien cuál disipador ponerle, porque el que trae incluído se me hizo muy chico, termine poniéndole un axp90, con el noctua se ve muy bien pero siento que funciona mas el otro , además admite 2 discos duros m.2 y dos ssd de 2.5 una barbaridad para el almacenamiento.

I wanted to build a very tiny SFF PC to replace my old big PC I used as a home server for my Plex and Minecraft servers. Wanted something with atlease 8 cores/16 threads and this barebones from Asrock allowed me to use AMD's 5700g APU witch has 8 cores 16 threads with no issues!Building it was a breeze and very simple!It's able to hold 2 nvme ssd and 2, 2.5" ssd with makes this SFF very useful in storage!I used 2 1tb nvme and 1, 1tb 2.5" ssd!I also used 2 16gb 3200mhz ddr4 sodims!It also came with the bios update to be compatible with the new 5000s Ryzens so this was a plus!Included fan is subpar and noisy, so using the noctua NH-L9a-AM4 worked great and completely quiet even under load!

Pros: AM4 chipset (supports Ryzen G processers), dual channel ram, 2 m.2 slots and comes with a low profile cpu block if your stock one won't fit. Optional extra usb 2 connectors for extra ports.Cons: Getting stock Ryzen cooler to fit can be an issue. Sometime the cover "ring" has to be removed so it will fit. Or you have to get an aftermarket low profile that will fit if you are worried about heat. SATA drive connectors are a sata to ribbon type that does not always work. Ram slots are SODIMM due to board layout / space issues which narrows RAM selection some.I bought 2 of these to build PCs for my parents. Had no issues at all with the install of the CPU, RAM, M.2 drives or OS install. I did encounter issues with the SATA drive connections refusing to recognize. 2 ports, on 2 boxes with 2 connection cables each. None would work. Tested with 3 different sata disks which all worked fine when plugged into sata to usb converters. I may have just gotten 2 bad boards, but 2 random boards having the exact same issue is ... statistically rare. I have one of the previous A300 model and it worked just fine.

This is a great little ultra SFF system. I have it pared with a Ryzen 5 5600G(I also tested it with a 5700G, just cuz but that core is a bit much for this little guy and is more at home in my other sff build in the inwin b1 that I use as a "it wount turn my office it a suana in the summer" Linux dev workstation lol it works great in this deskmini tho if anybody was wondering) I also paired it with 16gb of gskill rippjaws 3200mhz sodimm ddr4 and a 256gb nvme ssd and also tossed in 2 2tb 5mm sata hdds in the back and am planning on tossing in another maybe 512gb nvme ssd for dualbooting windows but for now I will use Linux probebly Manjaro xfce, just cuz, I don't personally like gnome and debain based distros don't integrate the bleeding edge software I need for my dev environments and Manjaro xfce is a good middle ground not literly falling off the edge like arch base but not so far back thay the edge is out of reach either. Anyway back to my review lol, it's fast and stable and cool, I am using a AMD Ryzen stock stealth cooler with the shroud removed as I tested both versions of the noctua nhl9 the AMD version that is slightly larger and the Intel version with AMD bracket adapted and also iv tested the thermalwright low profile coolers (pritty shur these are both 43mm) I tested both the all cooper one and the black anodized Cooper one and yes all 4 coolers perform great they have a large mass in a tiny footprint enabling some great cooling performance especially is size constrained chassis such as this but there are 2 problems one with each brand the noctua brand coolers are designed in a way we're they limit exhaust to only 2 sides in this deskmini those sides end up being out the top(if the case is stood verticle as it's designed) and out the bottom towards the sodimm slots this isnt terrible but the air coming out the bottom end up rising due to convenction and getting pulled back into the fan and there is no we're else that the cooler pushes air so it recycles its own thermaly saturated supply and the same the with thermalwright brand but the exact opposite we're it blows out the sides towards the vent on the back and towards the invented front this would be perfect in a difrent scenerio if there was other cooling options for the vrm but there is not and since it is blowing towards the front of the case that is not vented it ends up dumping alot of the thermal energy into the case and that heats everything up(in my other build in the b1 with the normal mitx motherboard this thermalwright option is the best because it actually vents up towards the fan at the top and is optimal unlike the noctua that gets it's airflow chocked off my the memory moduals and the vrm heatsink) but in the deskmini I found the best performance from the short stealth cooler from amd as it blows air in all 4 directions effectively cooling both the vrms and the memory and also blowing air out the vents in the back and since this cooler minus the plastic shroud with the AMD logo on it is literly so snug against the vent of the outer shell it(the fan it'sself dosnt make contact AT ALL just the secondary shroud around it) this enables thay cooler to pull in air from directly outside the unit this way it's not just recycling thermaly saturated are from inside like both noctua and thermalwrights offering do, I know it sounds crazy but in this very specific and maybe only in this case with the deskmini x300w I ONLY recommend the stealth cooler from amd aslong as they continue to manufature it in this way with these dimensions as all other aftermarket coolers Iv tryed perform noticably worse and as a side note the AMD cooler on full speed and moving a metric ton of air wile staying less than anoyingly loud(o and I should add just for fairness that between the fans themselves of both brands the noctuas thin 92mm fans are the best, not saying the thermwright ones don't perform well, they do they are just loud as balls at there higher rpms so for all my testing I used the noctua rubber insulated thin 92mm fans and that is what I have installed on the heaftly Cooper thermalwright cooler on the b1 lol...I spent alot of money specing out that b1 build with the best available options and grabed alternatives to parse out what would be the best performance lol I was serious about not using my big water cooled gaming rig for Linux development when is hot out lol...I do haf to disclose that there was a issues with my unit, it arrived with no m.2 screws in all the bags of individualy sorted parts, that's was it that was the only things missing in my case so I think we did pritty good, as I build many systems and I have a inventory of screws and standoffs and we'll name it but keep this in mind if your looking at picking one of these up just grab a kit a a few short wide head m.2 screws just Incase the odds are this was a one time error in packaging but hay I cannot aduqatly convey with my intermitted English wrighting skill how valuable it is to have a known supply of these little stupidly easy to lose often none magnetic m.2 screws even if not for this system but for anything that needs m.2 screws take it from me, I maintain my inventory of them for this exact reason🙃...ok well I can't think of anything more to say about this system, it's small, it's amazingly fast, and it will more than likely be deployed as another heavily used dev workstation because well why not lol , o ya 12watts idle power!!! 🤑🤑...Update ...ok so after doing alot of testing, thermal and performance via stress-ng and phoronix test suite iv decided that this is to powerfull for me lol...I know it sounds counter intuitive but I built this system because I had a spair 5600G that I got simply because it was temporarily listed new at less than half its MSRP lol it emedietly went back up to around $200 after I made my perchese so idk what happend but anyway this little atx PSU size workstation is fast, super fast and the thermals under the ryzen stealth cooler are acceptable not amazing as they would be under a full tower cooler or a clc but acceptable but as I have previously stated this is being used as a moderate speced Linux dev workstation and for that I really don't need 6cores clocking up to 4+ ghz and also I don't need this 3.9ghz base clock lol so since this ASRock deskmini has a full blown overclockable bios(p1.70 fyi that's what it shipped with so it was out of the box compatible with both cores) I am able to do some overclocking but in my case I actually want to go the other way I want to see how low I can get the Vcore voltages on this and also the idle frequency if I can get that down to maybe 1ghz I think this would idle at closer to 5-8 watts and maybe peak at about 35-40 i know that is about were the 5600GE operates at so this in theory should be achievable as those GE chips are just ones that couldnt quite validate at the higher clocks so since I have one that is effectively binned to be able to hit the higher clocks it should be a fairly stable piece of silicon and I should be able to get it down to about 1.15 maybe 1.2 Vcore(it sits anywhere from 1.3 to 1.4 now on stock) I will keep the memory at it's 3200mhz at 1.2v cuz that's fine if it hitting closer to 1.3 or 1.4 it would be something I looking into undervolting, li think my ideal target is everything stable at 1.2v, I'll likly keep the igpu at stocks because it really wasn't that overkill to begin with not compared to the monster 6 compute cores lol...I think I can turn this little guy into a well optimised little HTPC/dev workstation that ideally operates at well under 65watts full system tdp wich would be ideal, if I suprise myself with my results and I end up closer to the 5watt idles and 25-35watt loaded tdps I'm gonna deploy this as a full blown server lol cuz I can😎😎...If I'm truly impressed and taken off guard by my results I will be shur to appraise potential others who are considering this same setup with my results and breef rundown of my exact settings

Best mini I ever built! Great design for adding storage. I was impressed with how small the design is and how it has performed compared to my desktop builds. I highly recommend AMD 5600G. I have built 3 of these now for friends and family. Huge space-saver with plenty of performance. My specs below..Ryzen 5 5600G w/Radeon Vega IntegratedThermalright AXP-90R Full Copper 4 heat pipes PWM 47mm CPU Cooler- Fits perfect!Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB M.2 SSD NVMe -Boot DriveTEAMGROUP EX2 1TB 3D NAND TLC 2.5 SATA III SSD - Storage/APPSTimetec 32GB KIT(2x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz PC4-25600 Single Rank

Aunque no pude obtener un APU de la serie 4000, el 3400 es suficiente para mi trabajo: programación y diseño en ilustrador y photoshop de forma ligera. No está pensado para gaming pero los juegos te los puede correr decentemente si no son muy pesados, para jugar emuladores te encantará con un control de Xbox! Este barebone sin duda es para un sector muy específico pero si buscas una SFFPC realmente te encantará. Aunque sin duda la versión de intel tiene mejores puertos, no entiendo porque es diferente para AMD, pero bueno igual no los uso tanto.Especificaciones:- Ryzen 5 3400g- Noctua NH-L9a-AM4- Noctua NF-A9x14 HS-PWM chromax.Black.Swap (Reemplazo para el ventilador del L9a)- Noctua NF-A4x10 (Instalado en la parte trasera arriba del puerto HDMI)- HyperX Impact DDR4 CL20 SODIMM (Kit de 2) HX432S20IB2K2/32, 32 GB (2 x 16 GB)- Intel Kit de Escritorio Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+), AX200, 2230, 2x2 AX+BT, vPro®- XPG Adata AGAMMIXS11P-512GT-C (nVMe M.2)Periféricos- Logitech Pebble Mouse Blanco- Logitech K380 Blanco

Después de 1 año, sin ningún problema y feliz del tamaño, con el discipador que trae no hay ningún problema de calentamiento del ryzen 5 3400g

Solamente te preocupas por el procesador, memoria y almacenamiento. A pesar de que tienes muchas opciones de procesadores, yo opté por una opción sencilla y económica: El Athlon 3000G y la verdad es que va excelente para lo que yo necesito. La gente no me cree que es una computadora por el tamaño que tiene. En general luce excelente y funciona igual de bien.