From Tom's Hardware: ASRock recently announced its strategic partnership with Topfeel to produce several lineups of mini-PCs for different market segments. The result of this cooperation is the creation of six new product lines, consisting of DeskMix, DeskMff, DeskNAS, DeskMic, DeskAIO, and DeskMax.
Founded in 2014, Topfeel specializes in R&D and manufacturing embedded solutions, workstations, servers, and controllers. Before collaborating with ASRock, Topfeel also cooperated with Gigabyte to work on the brand's QBiX industrial systems.
The DeskMix and DeskMax series cater to workstation users, whereas the DeskMic and DeskMff are designed for mainstream consumers. On the other hand, the DeskAIO and DeskNAS explicitly target the HCI (human-computer interaction) and NAS (network-attached storage) crowd, respectively. The new mini-PCs (via momomo_us) are available with Intel and AMD processors. They arrive in base configurations and barebones presentations so consumers can customize the devices for their specific needs.
The DeskMix features the Intel H610 chipset and supports Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake and 13th Generation Raptor Lake processors. It has two standard DIMM memory slots for DDR4-3200 memory modules and one M.2 interface running at PCIe 3.0 x1. The device includes spacing for two 2.5-inch drives and a full-height, single-slot discrete graphics card. The DeskMix comes with a 1U Flex 250W power supply and supports CPU air coolers with a maximum height of 1.6 inches (40mm).
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