4x4 Mini 4800U USB-C Ports£

Only one of my USB-C ports will recognize an external Pioneer Bluray player£ The one on the right furthest away from power button is fine. Obviously the one on the left closest to power button doesn't. Has power, the drive will take a disk, etc. But it isn't recognized as a device in Windows£

If I use the USB 3 port next to the USB-C port that does not allow Windows to recognize the drive, Windows recognizes the drive. Are those 2 ports sharing some kind of hub like thing£

AMD has been steadily creeping into what once was mostly Intel?™s territory for years now, first with desktop CPUs and then with laptops. Now the company?™s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) Mini PC team better watch their backs.

Because ASRock?™s 4X4 BOX-4800U mini PC, powered by AMD?™s top-end mobile Ryzen 7 4800 CPU, is impressively speedy, and comes equipped with a cadre of next-gen connectivity.

If you?™re after a capable desktop in a tiny 4.3 x 4.6 x 1.9-inch form factor, you?™ll be hard-pressed to find anything better.

Just know that gaming performance is limited to lower settings with the integrated Radeon Vega graphics.

And while the $599 price doesn?™t sound too bad, you?™ll have to provide your own storage, RAM and operating system.

If you have room for a larger desktop, you can get a much better deal ??or at the very least, better performance -- by opting for one of the best gaming PCs.

The 4X4 BOX-4800U does, though, come with a VESA mounting bracket, so you can mount the system behind most (or at least many) monitors for a tidy DIY AIO solution.

Also, just as we?™ve seen with other 4800U-based devices throughout the year (like Lenovo?™s Yoga Slim 7), the 4X4 BOX-4800U can be tough to find in stock. ASRock tells us that the stock of the system it?™s supplied to Newegg has sold out very quickly.

So keep an eye out for it if you?™re after the best possible performance (you can sign up to be notified of new stock at the link above).

But if you can get by with a bit less CPU and GPU grunt, the company will also offer up a 4x4 BOX-4500U (for $429) and a 4x4 BOX-4300U (for $339).

So if you don?™t need 16 threads and a CPU that clocks above 4 GHz, there will be other Ryzen-based options, which (if the history of other 4800U-based products is any indication) should have much better supply.

But note the Ryzen processors on those lesser models lack multithreading, and have lesser integrated graphics.
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Hi Muitro,
people often take USB ports as defective, when a device doesn't work.
But these Intel Nuc like mini PC's don't have a chipset, like regular boards.
And, very important, every USB device uses a convertor chip, which will turn a USB signal into SATA. IDE, LAN, Wifi, storage etc.
UEFI will see this convertor, and the hardware behind it should report to UEFI, what kind of hardware, en which resources, if this information is not correct, UEFI cannot properlu handle this hardware, or it works, because of the OS integrated drivers, and can suddenly stop working all together.
Another culprit, is often the use of Wireless keyboard and mice.
These devices, often use a small USB dongle, and the actual transceiver chip in this dongle is literally inside the USB port, and works on 2.4GHz, which is exactly the same frequency, that USB3 uses to communicate.
As a result of this, these dongles, can disturb ALL USB communication.
This is a known issue with wireless devices, it is NOT a motherboard issue, every brand of motherboard, faces these issues, and it doesn't matetr if it's Intel or AMD.
The best test is to use default BIOS settings, and insert a USB stick, then start and press f11, to get into the boot menu, the USB stick should appear in the list.
Then repeat the procedure on the other ports.
The best way is to use for instance a USB stick with Windows 10 or 11 for this purpose.
And as You said, try another USB cable, and go for a better quality.
Some shops state the transfer rate as 5Gb/s or 10Gb/s, for USB3 C cables, On the 5Gb/s cable my phone takes 5 hours to fully charge, on the 10Gb/s, it takes 2 hours, so there is a huge difference in cables