I gotta get one of these B660 versions!

I love these looks at the ASRock mini PCs. I built a DeskMini for an HTPC after your original review of that form factor. 9:51 Rad job, editor

This would be awesome if it had ECC support and space for a 2nd 3.5in drive, be a perfect TrueNAS unit then! I do appreciate that's far from the market it's aimed for, would be a great little PC for more than just day to day usage. Nice find Wendell 👍

I think you hit the nail right on the head when you mentioned it's efficiency. It's not a fire breathing performance juggernaut but it is a well-performing efficient machine. I appreciate seeing machines like this. They make more sense than these tricked out hot boxes that look great, but heat up the house.

One thing to note is that the PSU is custom with a reversed fan that sucks air into the case and exhausts onto the CPU cooler. Unless you can reverse the fan of another PSU or figure out another cooling solution, you're going to thermal throttle the CPU rather quickly. Anyway, great video! I ended up buying one of these and added a i31 2100f, RTX 3050, NVEMe drive, 16Gb of RAM, and an Intel AX m.2(e) card to get wifi6 (unit comes with AC m.2). Awesome SSF unit!

Like the tiny fun bits on your video, and what a cool office build.. Very nice Wendell! Keep it up

Super Awesome video share Wendell ! ! !... thoroughly enjoyed watching You toss, turn & flip the interior case (maybe to "find" the "TOP"??)... that's when my old standby tools are front & center for me, "scotch tape & sharpie"... short strip of tape down 1st & then apply an "Arrow/TOP" to properly orientate the case (or item needing it)... keeps it clean so when it's time to Sell/Trade, just pull off the tape and " WHA - LA ".. cleaner than a whistle!!

Thank you for this - this could also be perfect for friend's childrens first gaming system.

I wonder how many 3.25 or 2.5 inch drives you could cram in it with some custom 3D printed brackets and enough room for a controller card? This Deskmeet has so much potential, super cool!

8:33 at that moment we found out Wendell is actually a cat in disguise

I've built many DeskMini X300 desktops for non-gamer friends and they love having their desk space back. I'll probably recommend the DeskMeet for the next friend that wants to upgrade their gaming rig. I wish you had reviewed the AMD version of the DeskMeet. The lower power CPU makes more sense in this form factor. Losing the second M.2 slot isn't a deal breaker.

I feel like AsRock needs to get into making laptops. (do they already? I dont know.) Because i feel like they would make killer laptops for fair prices which would destroy the laptop market with all their overpriced bullshit. Imagine an AMD laptop that was both budget but powerful using the new 6000 series chips. man asrock could rock the market.

Now in stock in the US at Newegg.

I considered this system (the X300 version) but I went with the DeskMini X300W with a Ryzen 5 4600G, 16GB G.Skill DDR4-3200 CL20 RAM kit, 1TB Crucial MX500 SATA SSD, 1TB WD Blue SN570 M.2 NVMe SSD, and Noctua L9a-AM4 Cooler breaking out to a Sapphire Pulse RX 6600 in an x16 M.2 Dock (for gaming at home).

7:46 - don't do that, do it... lol

So it goes the Dell way with the front IO, huh? But since it's ITX otherwise, I guess you could still replace it down the line should it fail/require an upgrade, as long as you're fine with either giving up on front IO, or printing some custom bracket for it.

Pretty cool little rig, would be a great little office machine.

I need this to have 3x5.25 bays with a clear shot to the PCIe slots... for reasons. Also, i hope raptor lake gives us a 12300 with 4P+8E

12:34 If I understood this correctly it is not a regular power supply though, is it? I think it is pulling in air from the back and exhausting it towards the CPU cooler while regular power supplys pull in air from the fan opening and exhaust it out the back. So when you put in a regular power supply you would create more of a negative pressure situation and make the CPU and power supply "fight" for air. To be fair, with low power components this will probably be fine, but still something to keep in mind.

I wish that I had a class teach, when I was in school, like Wendell. “This is ridiculous…in the best possible way!”

You know, I used to keep a cone of gyro meat on my desk, rotating over an open flame. This ended in tragedy one day when my uncle came over to throw his piss jugs away and my pet monitor lizard got out of his enclosure and bit my uncle's face off.

There is also a AMD Ryzen Version that might be a little cheaper, the Deskmeet X300. Its almost the same besides afaik it only supports 1 nvme SSD. But keep in Mind the GPU could be up to 2 Slot width without any head room over that! Another Option like the Deskmini, the Deskmeet also supports APUs like the 2200G and up and CPUs up to 5000.

Personally I'm waiting for the deskmini version to be available somewhere!

Bought the Ryzen (AM4) version. Right now I have a Athlon 2200G installed, but plans for a Ryzen 7 5700x or G and RX6600. Nice upgrade from my X300 DeskMini.

@21:48 -- Yes. Please. VMs, Proxmox, GPU Passthrough, and a Maxed out Version.

This case design just reminds me of those all aluminum ITX cases from Lian Li that have been discontinued.

Could not get pricing or stock, but this is perfect for a middle-aged power user. With the density of today, you can get away with this factor thanks to both competent CPU and GPU. With LVM or rdiff you could get away with M.2 and SATA for expanded storage. VFIO for handling multiple platforms. Chances are you are not going to use the additional power of K CPUs if you build it with as your pet machine. The way we used to do things :)

Planning on buying two of these. One with a 12100 and an X550-T2 for opensense. The other with a 12500, a single slot 6400, and an asus hyper m.2 card. Slap six 1TB m.2 drives for an unraid.

I was just thinking of that DeskMeet but an AMD model with 5600x/5800 and challenger ITX 6600, must be great for living room PC, if manage to find 12core 5900 (yes, it's only 65W !!! wiiiii), would be even great for little gaming/multimedia NAS-like box with two vmachines and 128 gigs

looking forward to the B680 Deskmeet with ECC support

👍👏I almost bought one, but what i dont like, the board and the case are unique, so no upgrade, replace, repair🤔

Im gonna wait for the deskmini B560

Throw a 4port intel Nic in that and run Proxmox/PFSense in it!

Shame it's not 2.5GbE

Wonder if one of those quad slot M.2 PCIE cards for alt uses.

500 watt pico PSU would make this a fun little water cooled project

i have one of these! instead of mounting a 2.5 inch, I have it behind the graphics card + I put a noctua fan on the 3.5" mount! It works wonderfully and keeps everything well below 50 (sitting at 45 on the VRM right now!!!!). i've got so much thermal room i'm going to try putting an i7-13th gen in it and give it hell.

Would've made sense to make it an external power brick here and provide 2 x 3.5 HHDs instead

Do you think they'll make an AMD one? (edit: there is!) My Deskmini X300 could do with some more sata ports

"I don't even know why I'd need it!" But I need it! LMAO.

Wendell - seriously, you can't keep making comments about taking the mill to computer parts without actually doing it at SOME point! When do we get the unnecessarily labor intensive Level1 custom PC(...server?) build? Still have mixed feelings about Alder Lake, a bit iffy on it, but I do dig this build. LOVE what all ASRock does, some of the most interesting products on the market!

Looks like a great alternative to the aged HPE Microserver Gen10+ for HomeLabs... Superior memory capacity, superior CPU, builtin M.2 for OS and caching, with space for 2 SATA 2.5" SSDs... would have been better if it had SFX PSU for more internal space for the cooler, though maybe some of the thinner coolers out there could be even better than the box one from Intel, I mean some slim Noctua or Cryorig etc.? Or to at least allow 4+ SATA 2.5"... it could make a huge difference... As to the GPU, the one you used is not a good choice - if it's desktop oonly, then OK, but you'd want something like the older Quadro T1000 instead for extra CUDA support or media-usage... Or maybe even better, once Intel GPUs are available, a pairing of such with the CPU/MoBo for the extended QSV feature-set since QSV still offers better quality/compressed-size than NVENC/VCE.

is that meet on your desk, or are you just happy to see me

I think he may have ingested his pain killers this morning.....

Ah yes another perfect Asrock product they will never actually get on shelves

haha it's funny, i was thinking of a place to put this i could use this beast and wanted to add it to cart when Wendell put it perfectly "i dont even need it"

Reminds me of DoubleMeat Palace from Buffy.

I'm still Rockin my X99 AsRock OC Formula w/ Xeon E5-1660v4. See what I did there.

I've seen several videos on the Desk meet...but none answer the crucial question:WHERE CAN I GET ONE???

Can you try to rotate the fan inside the PSU to blow air on the CPU and VRMs and check again the temperatures? Another very informative review! Greetings from Greece!

Portable VFIO setup with 12700 :)

Where is the ECC support Asrock? You were the chosen one!

I wish you had provided a picture of the inside of the box after you had the power supply installed. It seems like the cabling would be kind of ugly on the inside (as are most builds).

loving those 4 DIMMs

I couldn't help but notice the sneaky browser tab about Malenia in the background. Has someone been playing Elden Ring? :D

I see you used a "not-ltt" brand screw driver to open the case.

The only deal breaker is the use of non-standard ITX, else it meets everything a SFF person wants (maybe except watercooling, additional RGB, and/or even smaller size such as those

Pretty nifty. That Rome ASRock ITX is the same size do I sense a Rome DeskMeet in the near future?

Can i get 3-2.5 ssd in it? because the specs says upto 5 drives 2nvme 3 satas but i cannot find where to put 3rd sata

As consumers, we consume... Are you sure we can't take just a small bite?😁

That Wendy's ad is from 1984!

does it support CEC?

Yeah that's cool n all, but can it run Crysis? all jokes aside. This is a pretty cool mini ITX build, maybe a Low power under TV "Console"? :v

It looks like a better Lian Li TU-100, it definitely uses the space much better.

that included psu has a reversed fan, it sucks air in

I cannot find these anywhere..ebay, Gumtree...PC retailers...no where.

Does, Gigabyte RTX 4060 windforce oc will fit?

6:44 OK so what's with the bar of radioactive soap?

Someone get this man an iFixit toolkit!

I tried the boxed cooler on my asus itx b660 board... would not work. The pins just screamed "NOOOO", and popped off.. I find the stock cooler hence - cr@p.

Seems like a great case but I hate a case that breathes through the bottom for the exact reason you mentioned. If you have to put the computer on carpet, a bottom vent will be negatively affected. Also, I hate feet on a computer. If I were on a boat, where the room could pitch in any direction then feet would be a good idea but if you have a stable floor then feet only make it hard to pull a PC out of it's location under the desk. And rubber feet are the worst because they tend to stick to the floor. The jarring up and down that the computer experiences (the washboard effect) when you drag it across the floor is really good (not) for it. And a computer with rubber feet on a carpet is un-draggable. I hate feet on a computer. The best cases have a little bump out in the floor of the case that smoothly contact the surface you set it on (whether desk or floor). Whether carpet of bare floor, such a case is easily slid into and out of position. If you're on a boat, however, feet are appropriate.

A dumb question. Why no one makes ITX boards with 4 ddr slots if this claims to be ITX?

Sadly it missing a second pcie slot, preferably x8 with an open back.

So 4 P-cores is 80, and 6 is less than 200...i really just want to get a dual socket mobo...

Is this going to be another desk mini Max? And by that I mean a really cool idea that never actually goes on sale.

Woot! No thanks to proprietary motherboards (integrated front IO) but interesting nonetheless.

Wendel is everything a home server? Jk I know the answer is yes

Screw in the bottom

With an SFX PSU, can we fit a U12S and maybe a 12600k?

Could you fit a Be quiet PureLoop 120 Water cooler without a GPU

Is this a standard mini itx? Great vid and content.

Does floatplane get this video?

i saw some coverage on the ryzen version and immediately fell in love! its a very similar layout to the DIY 8L full custom cpu/gpu loop build i've made and am very proud of, but i used a B450i at the time and i'm particularly smitten with these 4dimm slot, 2x m.2 gen 4 slot motherboards! absolutely everything i could wish for in an exquisitely mini package! do they support bifurication? i'd love to build an igpu based server with one of the affordable 4x4NVME add in cards or similar. split one of the onboard m.2 slots into more satas, use an itx power supply and i think you could get at least 8 2.5" and 5 m.2 drives into this thing with printed brackets or double sided tape! its all solid state so its fine! shame its only got gb LAN, that might need a workaround too. but honestly as a little home use data center, wifi6 is probably ok right? ~swoon~

Hmm, homelab potentials....

Can we call this motherboard form factor ITX-L?

I was wonder how would this could handle 20TB of storage, until you bring up the 16TB drive ...

Its not sold anywhere. Why they bother?

Intel's stock coolers are pathetic. Lets put piece of plastic on top so it look bigger!

I bought a R5 5600 184.99 and have it overclocked to 4.7 ghz all core and a R7 1700 cooler and its at 45c watching this video.

I got one of this, is compatible with 3600nhz rams ? 128gb?

Wish it had more io though

"which hopefully has a screwdriver" ...

I have a feeling this PC was turned into a studio PC for the show :P

1:09 Next time put pickle Rick on focus

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obJpnpp9rbPbiZc.html "Easy to work on with standard parts" Unless you need to replace the motherboard. Then you are also replacing the case. The case and it's form factor being the entire draw of the unit. I think it was a giant mistake to extend the motherboard to avoid case headers.

neat

Wendell please (or whoever is the video editor). For the love of god. Not the "open mouth, shocking face look" on thumbnails. YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS!

I really wish the general quality and company support / warranty services were better on AsRock. I generally avoid them as a company because of this. And no ECC? Hard pass. Plus their aftercare / BIOS / UEFI support is lacking on a ton of boards.

40% of your words are about the topic of Intel’s processors. Video could be way shorter and more focused on the product itself.

They built the front USB ports into the motherboard a.k.a. they did a Dell.