ASRock Finally Unveils DeskMini & DeskMeet X600 PCs: AMD Ryzen 8000G CPU Support, X600 PCH-Less Motherboards

ASRock has finally unveiled its DeskMini & DeskMeet X600 PCs which are ready for AMD Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs.

We have been waiting to see the ASRock DeskMeet & DeskMini X600 series in action since last year's Computex and they are finally just around the corner. The company has announced both PCs which will be equipped with AMD's Ryzen 8000G APUs & also the standard Ryzen 7000 CPUs, depending on your choice. The 65W series is the baseline for these Mini PCs based on their power and cooling capabilities.

So what to expect from the new lineup? The ASRock DeskMeet and DeskMini X600 series will be featuring the latest X600 PCH-less motherboards and these are designed to utilize the onboard CPU I/O capabilities to power the connectivity needs such as USB, PCIe, memory, etc. This can be achieved using the X600 PCH activator which is also used by the AMD Ryzen 7000 Embedded CPU lineup. The boards will come in mATX and Mini-ITX designs with the AMD AM5 socket and carry up to four DDR5 slots for up to 256 GB capacity support. The boards will also offer M.2 Gen5 SSD support but discrete graphics capabilities will be limited to PCIe 4.0.

You can still very much use these to power up to an NVIDIA RTX 4090 graphics card given there's enough room within the chassis however, you'd have to retrofit the PC with your own SFX power supply as the 500W ATX unit onboard these PCs should not be enough for that purpose. That's why these come in pre-equipped and barebone variants. Other specifications include support for 2.5 GbE LAN and a couple of SATA ports so there's enough I/O to get you covered for basic office and gaming tasks.

DeskMeet X600 series has many exciting features such as four DDR5 memory up to 256GB, PCIe 5.0 technology for M.2 SSD and Dragon 2.5G Ethernet. Moreover, the fan of the 500W ATX Power supply is optimized to improve and get better thermal performance. With the PCIe 4.0 graphics card support, the DeskMeet X600 series is the best choice for building a powerful yet affordable content creation and AI system.

DeskMini X600 series is the world's first AMD AM5 Mini STX Platform. It supports AMD AM5 65W CPU and provides two DDR5 SO-DIMMs, bringing outstanding computing power and graphics performance. DeskMini X600 series offers two SATA ports, two M.2 slots including Blazing M.2 Gen5 SSD, super-fast 2.5G LAN and three video outputs for maximum expandability and functionality in the mini size.

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Having support for AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs is a big part of the DeskMeet and DeskMini X600 series since you don't have to worry about discrete graphics cards and can utilize the built-in RDNA 3 GPU which is still very much capable of gaming tasks and also productivity/content creation workloads. ASRock hasn't shared the final prices of these PCs yet but we will update you once we've got more information.