**Testing Performance with the ASRock 4x4 8840 U Mini PC**

There we're way over 60 and you could adjust the settings accordingly few of the settings at medium so at low medium mixed but we will need to use FSR no matter what here's Fallout 4 with the latest update 1080p medium settings and I haven't seen it drop under 60fps we're actually seeing an average of around 71 across the board here and it's really playable on this machine to tell you the truth with this update on most of the PC stuff that I've tested given that I do like using these smaller lower powered PCs I haven't seen a huge jump or decrease in performance yet had to go back to some OG Skyrim just to see what we could do.

I am connected to a 120 HZ monitor was kind of hoping we could do this at 120 stably 1080p ultra settings but I'm not complaining here and I know it's an older one but it's still really great to see that we can get an average of around 89 FPS I always like to throw in at least one fighting game so I went with Street Fighter 6 and we're at 1080p medium settings I knew we'd have a good time with this because even on the 7840 U we can actually run this at these same kind of settings locked at 60 using the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p medium settings AMD Cass set to 70% so that's kind of resolution scale we don't have FSR here without any mods and with it like this we're getting an average of 66 FPS.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1080p balance preset with FSR set to balance I've been having a really good time with this game on these igpus and by the end of this run here with the built-in Benchmark we had an average of 118 FPS and a low of only 72 on this machine and you can see we are at 1080 but that resolution scale with FSR 3.0 is set to balance so it's taking it on down still looks pretty good though.

Finally, I was actually expecting a little more out of this uh we do see some pretty good performance out of this game on these rdna 3ig gpus and we're kind of right there hand inand with the same kind of performance we've seen on the 7840 U and one thing to keep in mind is when I go to low settings here I turn everything to load that's exactly how you need to run it on these systems at 1080p moving over to Total system power consumption like I mentioned I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter while doing all of my testing.

One thing to note here is we are in performance mode if you're in balanced mode most of this will be much lower except for idle but at idle we're pulling 7 Watts 4K video playback up to 12.6 average gaming around 53 watts and the maximum that I could get this to draw from the wall was 78 watts and that's an extreme use case scenario and again in balanced mode you will get much lower but you're not going to see the kind of performance that we saw in this video using performance mode.

Overall, seen some really good performance out of the ASRock 4x4 8840 U and it does come down to the optimizations they do we've got a few modes that we can use here balance mode performance mode if you want to get the max out of it obviously you're going to go to Performance mode here and like I mentioned you really don't need to go to Performance mode if you're just going to be using this as an everyday desktop.

We've got a few more things coming up with this Mini PC we've got that extra m.2 slot in here so I think we're going to be adding an oculink egpu it does have USB 4 up front and we could always plug in a thunderbolt egpu but we're just not going to get the kind of performance that we could out of an oculink setup so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that like button think about subscribing.

So, if you're interested in learning a little more about the ASRock 4x4 8840 mini PCS I'll leave some links down below and if you got any questions let me know in the comments like always.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at asrock's brand new Mini PC and their 4x4 line known as the ASRock 4x4 8840 U obviously the name gives away what we've got going on here but this is one that I've definitely been waiting on and it really comes down to the optimizations that ASRock does in the Bios just power management is really good on this and their rise in line of 4x4 mini PCS at lower wattages seem to kind of perform exactly the same as others at even higher wattages and that's one of the big reasons I love these little mini PCS it's definitely not a looker they're very plain Jane mini PCS but they get the job done and perform really well we've actually got quite a bit packed into this one here given that it's their brand new 4x4 84u and inside of the Box along with this new Mini PC from ASRock we're going to get a mounting bracket really good to just stick on the back of your monitor we've also got a 120 wat power supply that utilizes a barrel Jack glad to see that they haven't swapped over to us spe type-c yet this also comes with a SATA cable because it will accept a 2.5 in drive in the bottom of the unit and when it comes to I/O up front here we've got a 3.5 mm audio jack full- sizee USB 3.2 Gen 2 port and dual USB 4 ports these do run at 40 gigs not much going on around the sides but flipping this thing around you can see we've got our power input and one thing I do like about their new line is this does have a wide input range 12 volts up to 20 so you can run this on a 12vt power power supply which is really great we also get two full-size HDMI ports and dual 2.5 GB ethernet so in total we can actually do four displays out of this thing utilizing the HDMI around back and those two USB 4 ports up front most of the time when you run across these 4x4 mini PCS they will come bare bone so you need to add your own RAM and storage pulling the bottom off super easy we've got four screws and they've got a new heat sink assembly system in here in the bottom we can add a 2.5 in drive but this is going to make contact with our m.2 drives and this will accept two plus when it comes to the ram we've also got a spot here using those thermal pads so it will make contact with the ram extracting the heat out of those components when it comes to this system it will accept up to 96 GB of RAM but I'm just going to be going with 32 gigs from crucial running in dual Channel and the fastest we can go here is 5600 MHz and when it comes to our m.2 drive it accepts 12280 and 12242 both both of them are Gen 4 Drive slots and I just went with a 1 TB Lexar 620 m.2 drive and you can see we've got that 2242 slot free it is a Gen 4 slot so one thing that I was really considering was adding an oculink egpu to this system and if that's something you're interested in seeing a video on let me know in the comments below we can actually build a pretty cheap dot using parts from Amazon and really up the GPU performance on this thing ASRock is offering a couple different variants of this mini piece one with the ryzen 5 and one with the ryzen 7 that's exactly what we have here the AMD ryzen 78840 U eight course 16 threads base clock of 3.3 with a boost up to 5.1 the Radeon 78m igpu this is based on rdna 3 and we've also got ryzen AI everybody wants AI in their mini PCS the npu in this will do up to 16 tops of AI performance you can also add up to 96 GB of ddr5 here at 56 600 MHz we've got Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 and that even comes with the bare bones model and this will run Windows or Linux in this video we're going to be running Windows 11 Pro but I did want to show you one important setting that we do need to change in the Bios before we jump over to Windows I wanted to give you a look at the BIOS and one very important setting when it comes to these ASRock mini PCS once you boot these up for the very first time this is going to be in normal mode with this since we've got that 8 84u this is about 28 Watts little bit of a boost up to around 30 but what we want to do here is go to Performance mode that way we can boost up to 45 Watts with this unit now taking a look at the other settings here there's not much else that we can change when it comes to power so with the basic bios here we don't have full control over the performance but I have tested something known as smokeless umf and basically we can get into the hidden AMD settings with most systems out there and yeah you could take this up but for this video we're just going to be in performance mode and another thing here would be our fan mode so under hardware monitor we got automatic we can go to manual or we can do full on I'm just going to use automatic mode here and that's all I usually change here and in my opinion going to Performance mode on these ASRock PCS is a must if you're going to be gaming on it so again one thing I really love about these ASRock mini PCS is the optimizations they put in now while this isn't going to run at a higher TDP like we see with the HS series 8,000 chips this is still going to give us some Stellar performance and we've got that ryzen 78840 U 32 gigs of ddr5 at 5600 and the radon 780 Mii GPU I always like taking a look at what kind of TDP this is running at and remember we went to Performance mode so just running stress test right there on the CPU this jumps up to 50 watts and it'll back on down to about 402 so you just give it a little bit of time fan in this thing does kick up but it's not horribly loud it's got a blower style in the top and I mean since we're working with a small form factor unit yeah it definitely needs to spin up a little higher but the cooling system here is doing a pretty decent job and to tell you the truth if you're not going to be doing a lot of gaming on this machine and just use it as an everyday desktop PC web browsing email checking document editing you could even do some photo and video editing on this you don't need performance mode 28 watts is going to be more than enough for all of those everyday tasks that most people do especially something like web browsing not going to pull a lot at all and we've got Wi-Fi 6 Plus 2.5 GB ethernet if you're into that 4K YouTube video playback is something I always like to test so we're going to find a 4K 60 HDR video here we definitely need to make sure that we're at 4K turn stats for nerds on and if you keep an eye in the top leftand corner you can see that this is going to play through all the way without dropping a single frame and I am connected over Wi-Fi right now Wi-Fi 6E with this Mini PC and power cons iion on this with streaming 4K video from YouTube is around 12.6 Watts from the wall doing all of my testing here I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter just to see what we get up to a lot of people want those really low power consumption PCS and I do love the fact that we can actually power this from a 12vt source up to 20 volt so we've got that wide input range now I want to check out some benchmarks that I ran on this thing and the first one we have here is geekbench 6 single core 2516 multi 12 1,479 now I don't know if we took the wattage up to let's say 65 Watts if we could do any better than this on this mobile chip and this is one of the big reasons I love these ASRock mini PCS it really comes down to the optimizations they've done in the Bios power management between the CPU and GPU checking out some 3D Mark scores night raid 29,8 33 fire strike 805 and you know we had to run a Time spy coming in at 3,400 00 the only other time that I've seen this kind of score out of the 8840 U is on handhelds with 7500 MHz Ram remember we've got sodm here so it's only going up to 5600 and even with this comparatively slow Ram we're getting some great scores here but the next thing we need to move over to is some gaming on this thing I've been keeping an eye on Hell divers 2 performance on these igpus and we're still kind of right there at 900p low with FSR set to balance now you can see I mean we're on up there we're way over 60 and you could adjust the settings accordingly few of the settings at medium so at low medium mixed but we will need to use FSR no matter what here's Fallout 4 with the latest update 1080p medium settings and I haven't seen it drop under 60fps we're actually seeing an average of around 71 across the board here and it's really playable on this machine to tell you the truth with this update on most of the PC stuff that I've tested given that I do like using these smaller lower powered p I haven't seen a huge jump or decrease in performance yet had to go back to some OG Skyrim just to see what we could do and I am connected to a 120 HZ monitor was kind of hoping we could do this at 120 stably 1080p ultra settings but I'm not complaining here and I know it's an older one but it's still really great to see that we can get an average of around 89 FPS I always like to throw in at least one fighting game so I went with Street Fighter 6 and we're at 1080p medium settings I knew we'd have a good time with this because even on the 7840 U we can actually run this at these same kind of settings locked at 60 using the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p medium settings AMD Cass set to 70% so that's kind of resolution scale we don't have FSR here without any mods and with it like this we're getting an average of 66 FPS Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1080p balance preset with FSR set to balance I've been having a really good time with this game on these igpus and by the end of this run here with the built-in Benchmark we had an average of 118 FPS and a low of only 72 on this machine and you can see we are at 1080 but that resolution scale with FSR 3.0 is set to balance so it's taking it on down still looks pretty good though and finally cyberpunk 2077 I was actually expecting a little more out of this uh we do see some pretty good performance out of this game on these rdna 3ig gpus and we're kind of right there hand inand with the same kind of performance we've seen on the 7840 U and one thing to keep in mind is when I go to low settings here I turn everything to load that's exactly how you need to run it on these systems at 1080p moving over to Total system power consumption like I mentioned I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter while doing all of my testing and one thing to keep in mind here is we are in performance mode if you're in balanced mode most of this will be much lower except for idle but at idle we're pulling 7 Watts 4K video playback up to 12.6 average gaming around 53 watts and the maximum that I could get this to draw from the wall was 78 watts and that's an extreme use case scenario and again in balanced mode you will get much lower but you're not going to see the kind of performance that we saw in this video using performance mode overall seen some really good performance out of the ASRock 4x4 8840 U and it does come down to the optimizations they do we've got a few modes that we can use here balance mode performance mode if you want to get the max out of it obviously you're going to go to Performance mode here and like I mentioned you really don't need to go to Performance mode if you're just going to be using this as an everyday desktop we just kind of wanted to get that TDP up in performance mode so we can get the clocks up on that GPU most of the time when you're doing web browsing and 4K playback even some video editing it's really not going to be that necessary with this Mini PC so I will have at least one more video coming up with this Mini PC we've got that extra m.2 slot in here so I think we're going to be adding an oculink egpu it does have USB 4 up front and we could always plug in a thunderbolt egpu but we're just not going to get the kind of performance that we could out of an oculink setup so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that like button think about subscribing so you know when I post the next one and if you're interested in learning a little more about the ASRock 4x4 8840 mini PCS I'll leave some links down below if you got any questions let me know in the comments like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at asrock's brand new Mini PC and their 4x4 line known as the ASRock 4x4 8840 U obviously the name gives away what we've got going on here but this is one that I've definitely been waiting on and it really comes down to the optimizations that ASRock does in the Bios just power management is really good on this and their rise in line of 4x4 mini PCS at lower wattages seem to kind of perform exactly the same as others at even higher wattages and that's one of the big reasons I love these little mini PCS it's definitely not a looker they're very plain Jane mini PCS but they get the job done and perform really well we've actually got quite a bit packed into this one here given that it's their brand new 4x4 84u and inside of the Box along with this new Mini PC from ASRock we're going to get a mounting bracket really good to just stick on the back of your monitor we've also got a 120 wat power supply that utilizes a barrel Jack glad to see that they haven't swapped over to us spe type-c yet this also comes with a SATA cable because it will accept a 2.5 in drive in the bottom of the unit and when it comes to I/O up front here we've got a 3.5 mm audio jack full- sizee USB 3.2 Gen 2 port and dual USB 4 ports these do run at 40 gigs not much going on around the sides but flipping this thing around you can see we've got our power input and one thing I do like about their new line is this does have a wide input range 12 volts up to 20 so you can run this on a 12vt power power supply which is really great we also get two full-size HDMI ports and dual 2.5 GB ethernet so in total we can actually do four displays out of this thing utilizing the HDMI around back and those two USB 4 ports up front most of the time when you run across these 4x4 mini PCS they will come bare bone so you need to add your own RAM and storage pulling the bottom off super easy we've got four screws and they've got a new heat sink assembly system in here in the bottom we can add a 2.5 in drive but this is going to make contact with our m.2 drives and this will accept two plus when it comes to the ram we've also got a spot here using those thermal pads so it will make contact with the ram extracting the heat out of those components when it comes to this system it will accept up to 96 GB of RAM but I'm just going to be going with 32 gigs from crucial running in dual Channel and the fastest we can go here is 5600 MHz and when it comes to our m.2 drive it accepts 12280 and 12242 both both of them are Gen 4 Drive slots and I just went with a 1 TB Lexar 620 m.2 drive and you can see we've got that 2242 slot free it is a Gen 4 slot so one thing that I was really considering was adding an oculink egpu to this system and if that's something you're interested in seeing a video on let me know in the comments below we can actually build a pretty cheap dot using parts from Amazon and really up the GPU performance on this thing ASRock is offering a couple different variants of this mini piece one with the ryzen 5 and one with the ryzen 7 that's exactly what we have here the AMD ryzen 78840 U eight course 16 threads base clock of 3.3 with a boost up to 5.1 the Radeon 78m igpu this is based on rdna 3 and we've also got ryzen AI everybody wants AI in their mini PCS the npu in this will do up to 16 tops of AI performance you can also add up to 96 GB of ddr5 here at 56 600 MHz we've got Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 and that even comes with the bare bones model and this will run Windows or Linux in this video we're going to be running Windows 11 Pro but I did want to show you one important setting that we do need to change in the Bios before we jump over to Windows I wanted to give you a look at the BIOS and one very important setting when it comes to these ASRock mini PCS once you boot these up for the very first time this is going to be in normal mode with this since we've got that 8 84u this is about 28 Watts little bit of a boost up to around 30 but what we want to do here is go to Performance mode that way we can boost up to 45 Watts with this unit now taking a look at the other settings here there's not much else that we can change when it comes to power so with the basic bios here we don't have full control over the performance but I have tested something known as smokeless umf and basically we can get into the hidden AMD settings with most systems out there and yeah you could take this up but for this video we're just going to be in performance mode and another thing here would be our fan mode so under hardware monitor we got automatic we can go to manual or we can do full on I'm just going to use automatic mode here and that's all I usually change here and in my opinion going to Performance mode on these ASRock PCS is a must if you're going to be gaming on it so again one thing I really love about these ASRock mini PCS is the optimizations they put in now while this isn't going to run at a higher TDP like we see with the HS series 8,000 chips this is still going to give us some Stellar performance and we've got that ryzen 78840 U 32 gigs of ddr5 at 5600 and the radon 780 Mii GPU I always like taking a look at what kind of TDP this is running at and remember we went to Performance mode so just running stress test right there on the CPU this jumps up to 50 watts and it'll back on down to about 402 so you just give it a little bit of time fan in this thing does kick up but it's not horribly loud it's got a blower style in the top and I mean since we're working with a small form factor unit yeah it definitely needs to spin up a little higher but the cooling system here is doing a pretty decent job and to tell you the truth if you're not going to be doing a lot of gaming on this machine and just use it as an everyday desktop PC web browsing email checking document editing you could even do some photo and video editing on this you don't need performance mode 28 watts is going to be more than enough for all of those everyday tasks that most people do especially something like web browsing not going to pull a lot at all and we've got Wi-Fi 6 Plus 2.5 GB ethernet if you're into that 4K YouTube video playback is something I always like to test so we're going to find a 4K 60 HDR video here we definitely need to make sure that we're at 4K turn stats for nerds on and if you keep an eye in the top leftand corner you can see that this is going to play through all the way without dropping a single frame and I am connected over Wi-Fi right now Wi-Fi 6E with this Mini PC and power cons iion on this with streaming 4K video from YouTube is around 12.6 Watts from the wall doing all of my testing here I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter just to see what we get up to a lot of people want those really low power consumption PCS and I do love the fact that we can actually power this from a 12vt source up to 20 volt so we've got that wide input range now I want to check out some benchmarks that I ran on this thing and the first one we have here is geekbench 6 single core 2516 multi 12 1,479 now I don't know if we took the wattage up to let's say 65 Watts if we could do any better than this on this mobile chip and this is one of the big reasons I love these ASRock mini PCS it really comes down to the optimizations they've done in the Bios power management between the CPU and GPU checking out some 3D Mark scores night raid 29,8 33 fire strike 805 and you know we had to run a Time spy coming in at 3,400 00 the only other time that I've seen this kind of score out of the 8840 U is on handhelds with 7500 MHz Ram remember we've got sodm here so it's only going up to 5600 and even with this comparatively slow Ram we're getting some great scores here but the next thing we need to move over to is some gaming on this thing I've been keeping an eye on Hell divers 2 performance on these igpus and we're still kind of right there at 900p low with FSR set to balance now you can see I mean we're on up there we're way over 60 and you could adjust the settings accordingly few of the settings at medium so at low medium mixed but we will need to use FSR no matter what here's Fallout 4 with the latest update 1080p medium settings and I haven't seen it drop under 60fps we're actually seeing an average of around 71 across the board here and it's really playable on this machine to tell you the truth with this update on most of the PC stuff that I've tested given that I do like using these smaller lower powered p I haven't seen a huge jump or decrease in performance yet had to go back to some OG Skyrim just to see what we could do and I am connected to a 120 HZ monitor was kind of hoping we could do this at 120 stably 1080p ultra settings but I'm not complaining here and I know it's an older one but it's still really great to see that we can get an average of around 89 FPS I always like to throw in at least one fighting game so I went with Street Fighter 6 and we're at 1080p medium settings I knew we'd have a good time with this because even on the 7840 U we can actually run this at these same kind of settings locked at 60 using the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p medium settings AMD Cass set to 70% so that's kind of resolution scale we don't have FSR here without any mods and with it like this we're getting an average of 66 FPS Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1080p balance preset with FSR set to balance I've been having a really good time with this game on these igpus and by the end of this run here with the built-in Benchmark we had an average of 118 FPS and a low of only 72 on this machine and you can see we are at 1080 but that resolution scale with FSR 3.0 is set to balance so it's taking it on down still looks pretty good though and finally cyberpunk 2077 I was actually expecting a little more out of this uh we do see some pretty good performance out of this game on these rdna 3ig gpus and we're kind of right there hand inand with the same kind of performance we've seen on the 7840 U and one thing to keep in mind is when I go to low settings here I turn everything to load that's exactly how you need to run it on these systems at 1080p moving over to Total system power consumption like I mentioned I've got this plugged into a kilowatt meter while doing all of my testing and one thing to keep in mind here is we are in performance mode if you're in balanced mode most of this will be much lower except for idle but at idle we're pulling 7 Watts 4K video playback up to 12.6 average gaming around 53 watts and the maximum that I could get this to draw from the wall was 78 watts and that's an extreme use case scenario and again in balanced mode you will get much lower but you're not going to see the kind of performance that we saw in this video using performance mode overall seen some really good performance out of the ASRock 4x4 8840 U and it does come down to the optimizations they do we've got a few modes that we can use here balance mode performance mode if you want to get the max out of it obviously you're going to go to Performance mode here and like I mentioned you really don't need to go to Performance mode if you're just going to be using this as an everyday desktop we just kind of wanted to get that TDP up in performance mode so we can get the clocks up on that GPU most of the time when you're doing web browsing and 4K playback even some video editing it's really not going to be that necessary with this Mini PC so I will have at least one more video coming up with this Mini PC we've got that extra m.2 slot in here so I think we're going to be adding an oculink egpu it does have USB 4 up front and we could always plug in a thunderbolt egpu but we're just not going to get the kind of performance that we could out of an oculink setup so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that like button think about subscribing so you know when I post the next one and if you're interested in learning a little more about the ASRock 4x4 8840 mini PCS I'll leave some links down below if you got any questions let me know in the comments like always thanks for watching\n"