Righto – drive configuration. At the front of the chassis, you can mount a pair of 2.5″ drives (spinning rust in place of SSDs – all my 2.5″ SSDs are in use)…

First up, Prime95 in Blend mode. Whilst a lot of people are a fan of small FFTs mode for thermal testing, I find Blend mode to be more realistic of a heavy real world workload – as it stresses not only the CPU, but the RAM and chipset too. On the other hand, the base has almost no influence on the height. In this generation, the boxed coolers from Intel fit into the DeskMini again. The new Alder Lake model with a copper core also does its job in the 65-watt test subjects. There is no PCI Express slot. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.Let's make this clear, I have the unit in somewhat poor ventilation, about 1/2cm top and 1/4cm bottom of open space. There is not much point of posting pictures of the hardware as you can see that anywhere else but I think people here maybe interest in like how much power it use or the stability and temp so that's what I'll give it a shot here. I have very minimal stuff on at the moment and the system take about 30-31sec from hitting the power button to fully loaded with no login.

The two SO-DIMM slots work according to the DDR4 standard. This is a good choice for the mini PC, this memory is very cheap on the market. The supported standard of DDR4-3200, for example, is loaded without any problems via the XMP profile. Although Alder Lake also broadly supports the DDR5 standard and the prices have recently fallen significantly, they are still in a significantly more expensive league than DDR4: around 50 percent more costs can be expected. Support for M.2 SSD with PCI Express 5.0 Power! VRMs! Yeah, this is a pretty basic setup, a given considering the board is rated for 65w TDP chips and no K spec processors. Four more Vishay SIC654 integrated power stages make up the remainder of the VRM section, with a pair of ON Semiconductor FDPC5030SG chipsets playing support. We’ve already seen one of these helping power the chipset! The DeskMeet B660 focuses on the DIY market for gaming and e-sports systems. This segment has served as a growth vector for the otherwise moribund PC market over the last several years. Portabile gaming PCs have the added advantage of being compact, lending themselves to use-cases that are not easily served by traditional tower desktops. Compared to the DeskMini mini-STX series, the new systems bring the following updates: Up to four DDR4 DIMMs can be installed in the system. A M.2 2230 slot is available for a Wi-Fi / Bluetooth combo PCIe / USB card. The case has appropriate holes for the antennae. There are two M.2 2280 slots (one next to the PCIe slot, and another on the underside) for installation of NVMe SSDs. The slot next on the underside is PCIe-only, while the other can accommodate both NVMe and SATA SSDs. Unfortunately, the documentation is not clear on which of these slots is directly attached to the CPU. In other boards, the slot that multiplexes the SATA and PCIe lanes usually comes from the chipset (PCH), while the pure PCIe one is from the CPU. Based on this assumption, we reviewed the system with the SSD installed on the underside. On the other hand, w/o the care of damaging the case, user could cut or drill some holes on the front of the case and mount the 120mm fan, and that maybe the best way to cool the unit. But I would put extreme caution on doing this. Make sure you have the M/B out of the case first. And clean the case w/ extra caution after cutting or drilling hole on the metal plate. Files and sand the holes well after. Any small piece of loose metal shard flowing inside the cause could turn your PC into door stop or even even your house into ash.

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At the bottom of the chassis (when sitting on the case feet) is a large SECC steel section holding it all together. The included ATX power supply rests against the small folded section.

UL's newest 3DMark SSD Gaming Test is the most comprehensive SSD gaming test ever devised. We consider it to be superior to testing against games themselves because, as a trace, it is much more consistent than variations that will occur between runs on the actual game itself. This test is, in fact, the same as running the actual game, just without the inconsistencies inherent to application testing. The Corsair memory used is identical to the x300, it's from the same quad-channel kit, with identical main timings + tRfc (except for some minor sub timings). However memory latency was coming in much higher on Aida64 latency testing. About 65-69ns on the b660 vs as low as 51-55ns on Ryzen 5700g. 69ms memory latency is comparable to what the 5700g has @ 3200mhz. I am unable to explain why, but it is not a good result. Read and Write performance however was great @ 60GB/s.

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The tiny office PC offers customisable specifications and has an affordable price tag, making it ideal for use at home or work. It comes with Windows 11 Home 64Bit as standard, as well as up to a 16 core Intel® Core™ i9 chip, 4-64 GB RAM, and up to 8TB of SSD storage for all your important files, photos and documents. The power supply rests against a little folded ledge, aiding in some rigidity towards the front of the chassis. Another look at the dimpled front panel – many drive mounting options here. Around the integrated front panel ports is a cutout “flap”– likely designed to bend out of the way to aid board installation. I’ve removed the singular retention screw, grabbed the integrated SECC steel handle and out slides the internal chassis. Pink foam! Whatever could this hold? Intel 660p 2TB SSDPEKNW02 (I already have this lying around, might as well use it; might upgrade in the future to gen 4 but figure it's not a big deal right now since nothing that demanding storage speed anyway)