ASRock - DeskMeet Mini Gaming PC and PCMark 10 Record

ASRock has announced two new developments that touch very different worlds of PC hardware: a compact solution designed for accessible gaming and a motherboard engineered for extreme overclocking that has already set a world record in benchmarks.

Regarding compact systems, the company suggests pairing the DeskMeet series mini PCs with the Intel Arc A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OC graphics card. The goal is to create a balanced configuration for 1080p gaming, capable of keeping costs relatively low.

Between Gaming and Overclocking

A key role is played by XeSS 3 technology, an AI-based upscaling system developed by Intel. With this feature active, the Arc A380 can significantly increase frame rates while maintaining visual quality close to native resolution. According to ASRock's indications, in some situations, performance can approach that of a Radeon RX 6600.

The DeskMeet family includes the X600, X300, and B760 platforms, compact systems designed to accommodate dedicated GPUs and up to 4x memory modules. Compatibility with the AV1 codec also makes them suitable for streaming and content creation.

On the enthusiast front, ASRock has celebrated a new record in the PCMark 10 Express benchmark. Overclocker Alex2305 achieved 14,290 points using the X870E Taichi OCF motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, claiming the top spot on the HWBOT leaderboard, a global ranking dedicated to overclocking and hardware benchmarks.