ASRock's DeskSlim and DeskMeet Compact PCs Get Ryzen 7000 and PCIe Gen5 SSDs

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ASRock introduced its all-new compact DeskMeet and DeskSlim PCs with AMD's Ryzen 7000-series processors at Computex. They go up to a 65W TDP, a discrete graphics card, and a high-performance SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. The company is showcasing working systems at the Taipei-based tradeshow, so they will likely hit the market in the coming months. 

ASRock's DeskMeet PCs sit in an intersection between compact desktops and higher-end gaming machines. Their latest generation is based on an ASRock AM5 motherboard with four DDR5 memory slots, two M.2 slots (PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 4.0), and a 2.5 GbE. These machines can fit in pretty powerful components such as dual-slot graphics cards that are 20 cm long, and can be expanded generously thanks to their dimensions and a 500W power supply; but they are by far not as large as fully-fledged desktops. 

ASRock's all-new DeskSlim also relies on ASRock's AM5 platform with Ryzen 7000 support with an up to 65W TDP, but it is slimmer and therefore can only house a low-profile graphics card (some of which are very powerful). As an added bonus, they can house a slim optical disk drive, which makes them suitable for home theater PCs and, as ASRock puts it, business usage. These machines will come with a 300W power supply.

Traditionally, ASRock will offer its DeskMeet and DeskSlim as fully equipped systems and as barebones.  

At Computex 2023, ASRock demonstrated its next-generation DeskMeet equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, a 2TB PCIe Gen5 x4 and a 2TB PCIe Gen4 x4 drives, and a Radeon RX 6600 XT Challenger ITX, which is a good midrange gaming PC. By contrast, the DeskSlim came with AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, a 2TB PCIe Gen4 x4 drive, and an Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation low-profile graphics card.

The PCs in the showroom may not represent configurations that ASRock intends to offer at release, but they give us an idea of what's to come.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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  • javiindo
    I love those cases. I built a deskmini for a friend. Really a beautiful machine.
    I think the 20 cm lenght requires of single fan graphics cards, a little bit constraint.
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  • digitalgriffin
    Admin said:
    ASRock demonstrates DeskMeet and DeskSlim compact systems with AM5 processors, PCIe 5.0 x4 SSDs, and discrete graphics cards.

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    Useless as a utility box as there is no GPU ports on the motherboard. That means your only expansion slot has to be used for graphics. No networking or wifi cards.
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  • Zakya
    digitalgriffin said:
    Useless as a utility box as there is no GPU ports on the motherboard. That means your only expansion slot has to be used for graphics. No networking or wifi cards.
    I have the deskmeet b660. It has a wifi card slot. The new one also has wifi antenna slots on the back
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  • digitalgriffin
    Zakya said:
    I have the deskmeet b660. It has a wifi card slot. The new one also has wifi antenna slots on the back
    Best solution here is for a multi port NIC for things like untangle and pfsense.
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