The main feature of barebone-system was the need to buy additional components such as processor, graphics card, memory, and drives yourself. This is the main question creating closed compact home media centers, because there is no choice of original or compact computer cases .
ASRock together with design team BMW Designworks USA eponymous car manufacturer has developed barebone named M8. This is not the first collaboration with the group of automotive manufacturers of computers and accessories. The same BMW Designworks USA has created for the company Thermaltake Level 10 .
As part of barebone-system ASRock M8 goes Mini-ITX motherboard Asrock Z87-M8 (chipset Intel Z87). The system is intended for the installation of the CPU LGA 1150 (Haswell). Case dimensions - 123 x 372 x 400 mm. Integrated power supply 450 W (80 Plus Bronze, form factor SFX). System is equipped with an optical slim DVD-RW drive.To install an external graphics card there is a slot PCI Express 3.0 x16. Set includes 6 pieces ports SATA 6 Gb / s, 1 eSATA, 8 USB 3.0, 4 USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11ac and integrated sound Creative Sound Core3D.
Also on the front panel of the barebone-system ASRock M8 there is information displayed on OLED-screen style BMW, which with the help of specialized tools can display information such as CPU temperature.
Performance characteristics were acceptable for compact systems, but poorly suited for overclocking sessions. Related Products :
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