New Member ASRock Barebone Thread

Welcome to the forums jacobacci. I have created a thread for you here.

Helpful thread for newcomers its great to have a dedicated space for ASRock miniPC questions.

Edited by Xaltar - 05 Dec 2025 at 5:53am

Welcome to the forums silentcreek! I have made a thread for your mod here.

I am setting up a small kiosk box for the kids room at our church and the DeskMini X600 keeps coming up in every thread i read, so figured i should just ask here first.

Use case is pretty boring honestly. It sits under a 24" touch monitor, boots straight into chrome in kiosk mode, and the kids play browser bible games on it between sunday school classes, mostly the quiz stuff from bible quest which is all html/js, nothing heavy. No gaming, no video editing. Runs maybe 6 hours a week, but it gets power cycled by whoever is last out the door, which worries me a bit.

Few things i cant figure out:

- is a 65W Ryzen overkill for this? i was looking at the 8500G but even a 5600G feels like too much for a machine that shows a webpage
- how does the X600 handle being shut off at the wall over and over. our volunteers are not gentle with it.
- single stick of 16gb fine or should i just do 2x8 so the igpu has dual channel

I did look at the DeskMini B760 as well, but AM5 seemed the safer bet long term. Maybe im overthinking the whole thing.

Also if anyone has done a near silent or fanless setup in one of these barebones i'd really like to hear about it, the room is small and every fan noise carries.

thanks