Gadgetory

so a couple of months ago when I built my new travel 4k PC I didn't think it would get any better I thought hey this is the smallest most compact most powerful desktop PC I can get that can edit 4k videos on the road but then asrock sent in this thing beside me here their desk mini and this packs a gtx 1066 gigabyte edition and it has the ability to install a six or seven gen 4 core 8 threaded cpu and you couple that in with the ability to have 32 gigabytes of ddr4 so-dimm memory and you've got yourself this little powerful beast here now it is actually smaller in dimensions than my in wind chop and so it comes in with a total capacity size of 2.7 liters and it's 212 mil tall by 150 4 millimeters long by 81 millimeters deep so it is a little bit shorter in length and width but it is a little bit thicker than the in wind Chopin however that said it does carry an AC adapter and this is probably my only critique with this product you do need the AC adapter to give this unit power does plug in the back fire a four pin connector but with that this whole build only uses up about a hundred and forty watts with an i7 6700 and the GTX 1066 gigabyte which interestingly enough can be overclocked on both the memory and the core clock but you can't change the fan speeds for some reason and you can't unlock voltage so this is an MX M type of graphics card configuration I've never actually heard of it until now and apparently they are releasing a gtx 1070 and 1080 model in the same form factor though for me personally the 1060 is great for this size doesn't use a whole lot of power I'd imagine if you put something in like a GTX 1080 for example you would have some thermal problems especially if the cooler is as small as it is on this one here the GTX 1060 but for what it's worth with the temperatures we're talking around 70 degrees maximum even when overclocked in a heaven benchmark after around 20 minutes of stressing also in games the CPU that got up to about 70 degrees though when I stress tested it individually it did go all the way up to 90 degrees but with that it was the quietest I've ever heard a fork or a threaded CPU on the Intel stock heatsink fan I'll give you guys a quick so what this means is asrock have said in a very subtle fan profile from the get-go and now when I initially got this unit it does come in with three nvme and two slots and so I used an nvme and got to drive and I had no problems until I got to Windows it crashed and then I updated the BIOS and it was working perfectly after that in the bus itself I didn't have any configuration to overclock the memory though one thing I could do was actually down the timings so I could make it tighter for gaming and when I did this even with the soda memory it did make a difference in games games were running very smoothly on this configuration when we move over to the firstly pub G I was getting around 75 FPS on high settings at 1080p on both different maps the new map and the original map and the point one percent loads were very impressive too so the recent update may have optimized this game even further moving over to GTA 5 if you like a bit of this at 1080p seems to be very popular again must have been the Steam sale when I was getting around 80 FPS on the highest settings on this game at 1080p then moving over to Crysis 3 of course there's always that question can it run Crysis and yes it can 60fps 1080p max settings and then we move over lastly to doom we're getting around 122 FPS on Ultra settings so this thing was absolutely kicking it at 1080p gaming and that's the advantage of this sized unit it's very small you can travel with it but of course it has a lot more graphical power then might in win travel PC for example so not only could I edit videos on this but also with that I can play games on the road especially if I'm hooking up to a 1080p TV which a lot of hotels do seem to have they're taking a quick look in the details of this unit you get a hard type front panel with a USB type-c and USB 3.1 connection also get your headphone and audio in Jack's and you've got on the side too 2 USB 2 slots and on the rear an additional two USB 3 ports it was one thing I had to critique about the USB ports it would be that I'd like to see two more additional USB ports on the rear of the unit as I believe five USB ports standard type connections is pushing it a little bit especially if you're traveling you probably gonna hook up an audio interface and extra webcam and not if you're streaming on the road and you're gonna need those USB ports available though besides that the whole frame itself is practically all mashed except for the front panel so this allows this unit to breathe very easily even the rear i/o shield has mesh in it so it's a great design from asrock and especially with that low noise as you guys heard before with the fan profiles being quite silent and the temps being pretty good this is a unit that is definitely going to please people of course this year being a GTX 1060 you do get that hdmi 2.0 reroute DisplayPort and mini DisplayPort outs for graphic options there's also dual band wireless included in the unit and it comes with two antennas to boot and as for the construction of this unit it's an all-aluminium chassis you can take it apart very easy and all you have to do is install two sodium Ram sticks or one if you want a CPU the cooler and of course your nvme drives and you're now good to go though this unit itself it does come in at $800 u.s. and I can only find it available for sale currently at newegg.com I will report on availability in the description below as time goes on but with that at $800 it is a bit more expensive than what you could get these parts for individually but what you're paying for here is simply the size it is incredibly small and I do imagine this unit definitely pleasing people like myself who are going traveling need that desktop-like performance on the road especially 32 cubits of ram extra storage options for nvme and their editing videos but they also want to play games with the power of a gtx 1060 but that's about it for me today this was a lone sample provided by asrock so I do unfortunately have to return it though as for getting one for myself I may think about purchasing one it is just so damn cool for this size again the only thing I would really critique is I'd like to see that AC adapter somehow implemented into the units you've just got one simple unit to carry around and travel even if it makes it a little bit bigger I'd love to see them implement that of course a couple more USB slots but besides that really good unit one that I can highly recommend very low noise and keep in mind these temperatures are in the dead heat of summer as well so the fact that it performed as well as it did is a testament to how well as rock are designing their products as of late so with this unit you do get that case you do get the power supply the the b250 chipset and the gtx 1060 mxm and of course the boss was extremely easy to use and updating it you just can plug in an internet cable and it'll update itself for you within the boss so that was really cool to see and with that guys let me know in the comments section below what you think of this little unit do you see yourself getting one if you're building a travel PC or would you rather a laptop love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and never get hit that like button and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye