Great value silent/fanless motherboard
I bought this ASrock motherboard to convert my 8-year-old Zotac mini-ITX desktop into a silent DC-powered machine, as the mains powersupply fan and CPU fan noise were annoying me in my quiet home office.
After fitting the motherboard I did some thermal stress testing ( with IntelBurnTest and Prime95 ) to see how hot it would get. HWinfo showed the CPU core temperatures rising to 69 - 75 degC, and 54 C even at idle.
I've not used a fanless setup before, but this felt a little warm compared to all my other PCs. So I erred on the side of caution and fitted a 70mm 4-pin fan - from an old graphics card I think - on top of the large CPU heatsink, and it now runs at 37 C idle and 48 C during IntelBurnTest. The fan never goes above 1050rpm so I don't notice it either :)
N.B. its not a powerful CPU - CPU passmark is only 1790 - but fine for Windows 10 browsing, email, etc which is all I need.
I should also mention it didn't like me mixing two 2GB SO-DIMMs from different brands, even though they had the same specs written on them. So I had to use one 4GB SODIMM.
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