ASRock DeskMini 110 mini-STX PC Review
by Ganesh T S on June 8, 2016 8:45 AM ESTPower Consumption and Thermal Performance
The power consumption at the wall was measured with a 1080p display being driven through the HDMI port. In the graphs below, we compare the idle and load power of the ASRock DeskMini 110 with other low power PCs evaluated before. For load power consumption, we ran Furmark 1.12.0 and Prime95 v27.9 together. The numbers are what one might expect for the combination of hardware components in the machine.
Our thermal stress routine starts with the system at idle, followed by 30 minutes of pure CPU loading. This is followed by another 30 minutes of both CPU and GPU being loaded simultaneously. After this, the CPU load gets removed, allowing the GPU to be loaded alone for another 30 minutes. The various clocks in the system as well as the temperatures within the unit are presented below.
According to the official specifications, the Tcase of the Core i5-6500 is 71C, and the BIOS performance curves are set to ensure that the processor doesn't go beyond that even under stress. Therefore, we see very strange package power / at-wall power consumption in the pure CPU loading case. However, things do stabilize at a higher power number when both the CPU and the GPU are loaded together.
Another important aspect to keep note of while evaluating small form-factor PCs is the chassis temperature. Using the Android version of the FLIR One thermal imager, we observed the chassis temperature after the CPU package temperature reached the steady state value in the above graph.
We have additional thermal images in the gallery below. The chassis temperatures are not a big concern even under extreme loading conditions.
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extide - Monday, June 13, 2016 - link
Then it would be ini-ITX .. which has been around forever..extide - Monday, June 13, 2016 - link
Mini ITX *extide - Thursday, June 9, 2016 - link
Come on guys , full page ad completely covering the page. It was the LG OLED TV ad. PLEASE get rid of that BSLolimaster - Saturday, June 11, 2016 - link
Ublock is your friendextide - Monday, June 13, 2016 - link
I know how to use adblock, but I prefer to leave ads turned on here if possible, and so should you.stubblepoo - Friday, June 10, 2016 - link
hmm, slowly inching towards my dream of stuffing something into an orange Gamecube case and being able to run dolphin off it...jaydee - Friday, June 10, 2016 - link
There is conflicting information on the front page, whether the USB type-C is 3.0 or 3.1 specganeshts - Friday, June 10, 2016 - link
3.1 Gen 1 = 3.0No conflict, it will operate at 5 Gbps max. theoretical rate.
jaydee - Friday, June 10, 2016 - link
So basically it's going to be like when graphics cards and monitors said they were "HDMI v1.4", when in fact they were pretty much HDMI v1.2, because they didn't support resolutions higher than 1920x1200. Perfect.extide - Monday, June 13, 2016 - link
No...