The ASRock Industrial 4X4 BOX-AI350 is a neat little system. Powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, this little system makes a neat workstation or tiny server. In our review, we are going to show you what it offers, and a neat way we set it up.
For this one we have a quick short you can find here:
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ASRock Industrial 4X4 BOX-AI350 External Hardware Overview
Starting out, as the name indicates this is roughly a 4-inch square footprint (117.5 x 110.0 x 49mm or 4.63″ x 4.33″ x 1.93″) that is similar to what we saw for many generations with the NUC series.
Looking at the front, we get an audio jack, USB Type-A (USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gbps) port, and two USB4 ports with DisplayPort 1.4a alt-mode.
On the side, we get vents.
Overall, the chassis looks a lot like we have seen from ASRock Industrial’s other systems of this size. It appears as though the company is reusing the chassis.
That is good for consistency, but it means that we do not get well-labeled ports. For example, the network ports do not say which port is which and the USB ports do not have a generation indicator.
On the rear, we get a DC input, two USB 3 ports, two HDMI 2.1 ports, and two network ports. One is a 1GbE the other is 2.5GbE. We have seen this on a number of other ASRock Industrial AMD systems.
On the bottom, we get mounts for a VESA mount, rubber feet, and then four screws to help us get inside.
In the box, we get a mount.
Next, let us get inside the system.
Two things on this review:
1. I wish you guys would start doing more of the review tests for large memory with your 2x64GB 128GB kit going forward. We have the RAM, let’s test if the systems can support it properly.
2. As you stated, both NICs should be 2.5GbE. Exactly how much do they save by dropping one of the ports to 1GbE instead of both being 2.5GbE on the BOM? 5 cents? 1 dollar? I’ll offer up I’d be willing to pay them 100% profit on that $1 BOM (so an extra $2 on the total cost) to get it up to 2x 2.5GbE.
I still doesn’t understand why Asrock on AMD version still stick with on port at 1GbE
Do these support ECC memory? With 96 or 128 GB they’d make a handy little edge server if they can do ECC.