Once upon a time, the time period ‘larger is healthier’ was a advertising and marketing slogan that many firms adopted for its merchandise, however generally ‘larger’ is not essentially sensible. For use instances the place measurement (smaller) truly issues, ASRock has unveiled a dinky little motherboard designed to be used with its Ryzen primarily based APUs, the X300TM-ITX. Based on AMD’s AM4 chipset and the Thin Mini-ITX kind issue, it contains one M.2 slot, twin HDMI video output, and assist for 64 GB of DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM reminiscence. Thin Mini-ITX on this case means a decreased total z-height, and the rear panel IO is restricted on how tall it may be.
The ASRock X300TM-ITX contains assist for many of AMD’s Ryzen APUs (all besides the brand new Ryzen 5000 collection APUs are listed). This contains Ryzen 2000, Ryzen 3000, Ryzen 4000, and the related PRO APU components. On the slender but unassuming black PCB is a pair of reminiscence slots able to supporting as much as 64 GB of DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM reminiscence. For storage, ASRock features a single PCIe 3.zero x4 M.2 slot with assist for the quicker NVMe primarily based SSDs and a single SATA port for standard storage and optical units. The X300TM-ITX is designed to harness the built-in Radeon graphics inside the APUs it helps because it does away with any full-length PCIe slots.
Due to its smaller than normal Thin-ITX body, the ASRock X300TM-ITX has much less area for bigger connectors comparable to 24-pin 12 V ATX which usually energy motherboards. Providing energy to the board is a 19 V DC energy enter on the rear panel and a 4-pin 19 V connector on the PCB itself. Interestingly, ASRock contains an LVDS header, a COM port, and twin HDMI 2.1 video outputs. Regarding USB connectivity, there’s USB 3.2 G1 Type-A and a single USB 3.2 G1 Type-C port, with two USB 2.zero entrance panel headers offering assist for 4 extra ports. The X300TM-ITX makes use of a single Realtek RTL8111GR Gigabit Ethernet controller. It features a single M.2 Key-E slot for customers trying so as to add Wi-Fi modules, whereas audio is dealt with by a Realtek ALC233 HD audio codec offering a 3.5 mm headphone and three.5 mm microphone jack pairing.
We count on the ASRock X300TM-ITX to be out there to buy quickly, however there is not any out there pricing on the time of writing.
Source: ASRock
