Introduction

A big thank you to ASRock Industrial for supplying the review sample and Kingston for the DDR5 SO-DIMM memory.

There was a time when ASRock was but a small-time player in the DIY PC world, but this is no longer the case. From their humble origins in 2002, they have come a long way in the last two decades, with the company now producing motherboards, graphics cards, Mini-PCs, networking hardware, workstations, monitors, and numerous other products. With popular motherboards from their Taichi series to cross-brand promotions like the Intel Z790 PG SONIC, they are not afraid to try something new, being a popular choice for custom PC builds of nearly any budget.

Today, I will be taking a look at the ASRock 4X4 BOX-7735U/D5 barebones system. With the MSRP set at $649.99, its barebones nature means you will need to provide your own memory, storage, and operating system. To put the unit through its paces, I used 16 GB of Kingston’s Fury Impact DDR5 SO-DIMM memory and a Kingston 1 TB KC3000 SSD. That aside, the 4X4 BOX-7735U/D5 looks to be quite promising on the performance front; it packs AMD’s Ryzen 7 7735U processor, which has 8c/16t, along with the Radeon 680M IGP which is based on the RDNA2 GPU architecture and features 12 CUs equating to 768 shaders. Therefore it should be quite potent in our benchmark testing, especially when you consider it has a higher TDP performance mode. However, before we get to that, let’s take a closer look at the system itself.