CPU-Z, Temperatures, and Voltages

*Note: CPU-Z was misrepresenting the voltage values, actual values were taken using AIDA64.

ASRock provided an i7 8700 for this review. As the top non-K Coffee Lake CPU, the 8700 provides six physical cores and twelve threads at clocks of up to 4.6 GHz. That's a lot of CPU for just 65 watts of power draw. This ASRock DeskMini has a MXM GTX 1060 with 6 GB of GDDR5, though ASRock does offer configurations with up to a GTX 1080.

Power and Temperatures

The ASRock DeskMini GTX 1060 does as well as can be expected from such a small unit. The temperature metrics were taken during an extended Dirt Rally benchmark, while the power metrics were taken throughout. The full system load in particular represents the maximum power draw for the ASRock DeskMini GTX 1060 through every benchmark I ran. The ASRock DeskMini GTX 1060 proved to be highly power efficient, even under load.

The heatsinks on the ASRock DeskMini GTX 1060 did saturate fairly quickly, and the whole unit becomes hot to the touch when seriously stressed. The relatively small fans the CPU and GPU are equipped with are as loud as you would expect under load, though they are nearly silent at idle. The GPU fan in particular seems to become noisy when it ramps up. At no point during my measurements did any component on the ASRock DeskMini GTX 1060 come anywhere close to shutdown temperatures. The power brick in particular remained cool under pressure, never getting more than slightly warm.