I’m currently using a Deskmini X300 with 5700G as my main system, but I’d love to have a 12 or 16 core box for development use. The video mentioned that you can run a 7900 in the X600, does it have profiles to run this at the 35/45/55/65w profiles? My current X300 has 35w/45w and 65w profiles, so if I could put a 12 or 16 core in and lock it down to a lower wattage it would probably be pretty nice. (I know that these AMD cores can run all the way down to 9w for a 4 core system, on the Steamdeck, and still have solid performance, even though the performance crashes if you go below 9w.)
The 7900 wouldn’t be great for my uses though, so I’d have to wait for a newer unreleased chip that has 12+ cores and a decent GPU, but if it can down-watt a 7900, it would hopefully do the same for those future systems.
I wonder if gentle hot-rodding is possible.
The bequiet shadow rock LP according to spec does not fit, even with the fan mounted on the outside. However, I wonder, so if anyone happen to have both and could test…
Good to know. I actually don’t really want to get the 7900 itself, but was more wondering about how the higher wattage chips worked since you had tested one. The one I’m hoping for is if Strix Point Halo ever gets a desktop release, since I really want something with a bigger GPU and more cores in the same form factor.
I’m not quite ready to abandon mounting my PC to the back of my racing desk just yet, so anything that is in a larger form factor will take a lot more work, like offsets to push the PC mount out where it won’t interfere with the vertical bars of the monitor mount and such. That’s why a Strix Halo in a deskmini case would be the ideal.
I checked the shadow rock lp cooler, 75.4mm is its listed thickness, the fan is 25mm of that, so it’s 50.4mm without, the listed clearance is 47mm for the case, so it might just barely fit if you put the fan on the outside, but it’ll probably scrape as you insert the motherboard back into the case.
