TAIPEI, Taiwan — ASRock announced that its DeskMini are honored with the 2017 Taiwan Excellence Award with its excellent expandability, while X99 Taichi motherboard made the winning goal with the perfect balance between its cost-effective price and premium features.
Hold by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, a total of 1188 products from more than 500 manufacturers participated this time, yet only 528 products were awarded after 4 months of rigorous selection.
The 8 Layer PCB comes with 4 sets of 2 ounce copper inner layers, providing stable signal traces and power shapes. The PCIe Gen3 x4 Ultra M.2 interface pushes data transfer speeds up to 32Gb/s. It supports SATA3 6Gb/s M.2 modules and has a pair of onboard Type-A and Type-C USB 3.1 ports built on the rear i/o. Even more, dual IntelR LAN with Teaming function allows two single connections to act as one single connection for twice the transmission bandwidth, making data transmission more effective.
ASRock DeskMini is based on the latest Mini Socket Technology Extended form factor, otherwise known as Mini-STX. Contrary to other run-of-the-mill small form factor systems, not only does DeskMini allow users to swap the CPU according to their own choice, it also packs enough headroom for a standard IntelR box fan plus two 2.5 inch disk drives, all into the 1.92-liter chassis.
Three graphic outputs (D-Sub, HDMI, DisplayPort) that serve all kinds of possible displays while two SATA3 headers support additional 2.5" HDDs or SSDs. IntelR Gigabit LAN that provides lower CPU utilization, enhanced stability and your most wanted performance. A USB 3.0 Type-C connector with reversible design located on the front I/O that drives up to 5Gbps data transfer rates.
DeskMini 110 offers two M.2 slots, One for supporting a Wi-Fi & BT module, and another for ultrafast PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 SSDs. Moreover, this is an energy-smart Mini-PC is powered by 19V DC adapters, can save up to 14% electricity compare to the conventional power supply.
