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 RDNA 2 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.