ASRock M8 Mini-ITX Barebones Gaming PC Review

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Some of us love compact gaming builds, but the best of these have always been pre-configured into custom enclosures. Is ASRock’s M8 the perfect open-architecture alternative? We load this $550 barebones up with hardware and test its mettle.

Results: Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects loves two things, at least in the context of our benchmark workload: high clock rates and as much memory per core as you can give it. With memory capacity and core count matched between my M8 and our previous $1300 builds, frequency takes priority.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.