Introduction

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

ASRock Industrial has firmly established itself as a cornerstone in the Mini-PC market by delivering systems that offer not only solid performance but reliability as well. Moreover, they offer a comprehensive array of products, including Industrial and Embedded Motherboards, innovative Edge AIoT Platforms, and IoT Controllers. While ASRock Industrial primarily caters to industrial clients, their Mini-PCs seamlessly fit in both the industrial and consumer markets, and that expanded customer base gives them numerous reasons to continue to innovate and deliver high-performance designs in the years to come.

Today, I will be reviewing the ASRock 4X4 BOX-7840U barebones system, which comes with an MSRP of $579.99. The barebones nature of this system means that you will need to provide your own memory, storage, and operating system. To thoroughly test this unit, I equipped it with 32 GB of Kingston’s Fury Impact 5600 MHz DDR5 SO-DIMM memory and a 1 TB Western Digital SN770 NVMe SSD. With these components in place, the 4X4 BOX-7840U should deliver robust performance as the CPU sports eight cores, 16-threads, and features the Radeon 780M integrated graphics processor with 12 Compute Units (CUs), translating to 768 shaders. This configuration should be a strong contender in our benchmark testing, especially when you consider it has a higher TDP performance mode that can be enabled via the BIOS. However, before we delve into the benchmarks, let’s take a closer look at the system itself.