Micro-STX This specification we may be unfamiliar, it is a new motherboard specifications ASRock proposed, the size of only 7.4 × 5.8 inches (18.8 × 14.7mm), less than half the size of a traditional mATX board, even slightly smaller than the Mini-ITX, just a little more flat, but can be replaced by an upgraded CPU processor and MXM independent Graphics card , Can bring compact size and powerful tough.
B250, Z270 after seven generations of Core platform, ASRock has now launched based on Z370 eight generations of Core platform Micro-STX motherboard specifications and the whole system.
The new motherboard is named 'Z370M-STX MXM ' , Support LGA1151 Coffee Lake eight generations of core processors, but the thermal design power consumption can not exceed 65W , While supporting MXM discrete graphics card, including Type-A 70 mm, Type-B 105 mm, Type-B + 105-113 mm.
The motherboard also has two DDR4 SO-DIMM memory slots, the maximum capacity of 32GB, the maximum frequency of 3200MHz, two SATA 6Gbps interface, three Ultra M.2 interface, the highest bandwidth PCI-E 3.0 x4 and supports Intel Proton, NVMe SSD boot disk, M.2 Wi-Fi network interface, Intel I219V Gigabit LAN, Realtek ALC233 sound card, and even RGB LED pins.
The expansion interface has five USB 3.0, one USB 3.0 Type-C, two HDMI, one DisplayPort, a miniDP, a headphone and a microphone interface, DC 19V power supply.
Continuation of the whole system last generation design, size 213 × 154.5 × 81.9 mm (2.7 liters), the processor required reprovision, graphics optional GTX 1080, GTX 1060 3GB, RX 580 8GB And all there Active fan cooling , Named as 'DeskMini GTX1080 (Z370)', 'DeskMini GTX1060 (Z370)', 'DeskMini RX580 (Z370)' respectively.
