ASRock QC5000-ITX, AMD SoC Motherboard - AMD A4-5000

The offered ASRock QC5000-ITX motherboard in the mini-ITX format is in its segment while a small oddity, because unlike the related Kabini motherboards with AM1-base, it relies on the coming out of the notebook section FT3-BGA -socket with directly soldered APU. The waste heat of the SoCs can be removed even more efficiently and therefore the built AMD Quad Core A4-5000 reached a total of a maximum TDP of only 15 watts. The processor part convinced by good everyday performance thanks to the four Jaguar cores with 1.500 MHz clock, which is also characterized by an extensive feature range (about AES encryption, AMD-V virtualization technology or SSE and AVX instruction set extensions) of the APU.

The modern architecture of the CPU-graphics chips accordingly, the silicon contains a total of six processing units, divided into the four mentioned 64-bit CPU cores and two compute units of the graphics unit (128 shaders) with 497 MHz clock. The graphics part comes in the form of an integrated Radeon HD 8330 therefore. The architecture is based is called GCN (Graphics Core Next) and is used both in the dedicated Radeon graphics cards, the HD-7000 and R-series, and in the latest game consoles Xbox and Playstation 4 One application.

Even with its extremely generous feature set, including high-quality capacitors for long life, the ASRock QC5000-ITX stands out in comparison to his relatives with AM1-base. Two slots for DDR3 memory modules (single-channel) natively support a clock frequency of 1.600 MHz and can come up with a total capacity of up to 32 GB used. In addition, a PCIe 2.0 slot, which is addressed with four lanes and a mini-PCIe slot for expansion cards are on board. A mini-PCIe slot for WLAN cards is also available.

In addition, there are numerous internal interfaces: a header (max 2 ports.) For USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 headers for (max 4 ports.) And a 4-pin plus two 3-pin fan connectors. Two SATA 6G ports for media are all provided by the Kabini chipset and supplemented by two more SATA 6G ports by the Board in addition to the built-ASMedia ASM1061 controller. Four of the six USB 3.0 ports on the motherboard are also provided by the EJ188H Etron controller. Even a company with older ATX power supplies is possible because no 12V EPS connector is required.

On the mainboards underside can be via the I / O shield additional devices and components via USB 3.0 and 2.0, Gigabit LAN, universal PS / 2 or six audio jacks for 7.1 sound (1x SPDIF) with the ASRock QC5000- ITX connect. Are also available for image playback via integrated graphics unit Kabini four widespread monitor outputs available: HDMI, VGA, DVI-D and DisplayPort 1.2. Resolutions up to 4K Ultra HD support – the latter without a dedicated graphics card! The modern UEFI is controlled with the mouse and provides various comfort features such as an automatic BIOS Update on the Internet.

Technical Details:

Format: Mini-ITX
Color: Black, White
Chipset: AMD Kabini SoC
Processor: AMD A4-5000 (Mobile APU)
Jaguar / Kabini
Manufacturing process: 28 nm
CPU Cores: 4 (4 Jaguar cores)
CPU speed: 1.5 GHz
Level 2 cache: 2 MB
SoC Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8330 (DirectX 11.1)
Graphics Core Next
GPU Clock: 500 MHz
Shader units: 128 (2 Compute Units)
TDP: 15 Watt (total)
Storage Controller: internal
Memory Channels: 1
Memory Standard: DDR3 (up to 1600MHz)
RAM: 2x DDR3 (up to 32 GB)
Single-Channel
Slots (physically):
1x PCIe (2.0) x16 (4 lanes)
1x mini-PCIe
Internal connections:
4x SATA 6G
2x USB 3.0 (1x header, Etron EJ188H)
4x USB 2.0 (2x headers)
3x fan (1x 4-pin, 2 x 3-pin)
1x Serial port (COM)
1x TPM
Power / reset / LED / Front Audio
External connections:
1x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
4x USB 3.0 (including 2x Etron EJ188H
2x USB 2.0
1x Gigabit LAN
5x Audio (7.1, ALC 892)
1x S / PDIF out
1x HDMI
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI-D
1x VGA (D-Sub)
Power supply:
1x 24-pin ATX
Compatibility: Windows 8, 7, XP