News Gaming desktop with a mobile CPU — Asus tries a different approach with the TUF Gaming T500

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The Asus TUF Gaming T500 desktop comes with Intel's 13th-gen laptop chips paired with Nvidia's RTX desktop GPUs

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[Notton]

This desktop mATX box has sooooooooooo much wasted potential while costing a pretty penny...

• It uses a custom CPU heatsink, reminiscent of Shuttle Cubes, but doesn't do anything useful with the space savings. Instead they opted to slap on some decoration.
• I'm not against MoDT, but that heatsink design limits the cases this mobo can be used in.
• If you look at the pictures, the heatsink doesn't even line up properly with the rear exhaust vent.
• The mATX case looks bog standard, except it's not and uses a TFX PSU.
• It's hard to see, but the mobo looks like it has some connectors for ATX 12VO, but not all of them...
• I don't even know what's going on with the upper SSD slot. It extends far beyond the mobo and there is a proprietary mounting hole cut into the case just for the SSD.

If it's going to be this proprietary, why not put the GPU on a riser, sandwich style, and reduce the case volume?
Maxsun executes this idea better with their YTX form factor mobos.
Framework and minisforum design a better MoDT that work with standard ATX parts.

Did Asus lose its top design talent or something? because this monstrosity doesn't deserve the TUF branding.

 

[salgado18]

Why not just use a Ryzen instead? 😉

 

[Pierce2623]

This desktop mATX box has sooooooooooo much wasted potential while costing a pretty penny...

• It uses a custom CPU heatsink, reminiscent of Shuttle Cubes, but doesn't do anything useful with the space savings. Instead they opted to slap on some decoration.
• I'm not against MoDT, but that heatsink design limits the cases this mobo can be used in.
• If you look at the pictures, the heatsink doesn't even line up properly with the rear exhaust vent.
• The mATX case looks bog standard, except it's not and uses a TFX PSU.
• It's hard to see, but the mobo looks like it has some connectors for ATX 12VO, but not all of them...
• I don't even know what's going on with the upper SSD slot. It extends far beyond the mobo and there is a proprietary mounting hole cut into the case just for the SSD.

If it's going to be this proprietary, why not put the GPU on a riser, sandwich style, and reduce the case volume?
Maxsun executes this idea better with their YTX form factor mobos.
Framework and minisforum design a better MoDT that work with standard ATX parts.

Did Asus lose its top design talent or something? because this monstrosity doesn't deserve the TUF branding.

To be fair virtually all MoDT systems use custom heatsinks because of the shelf coolers aren’t available for a random BGA “sockets”.

 

[Notton]

To be fair virtually all MoDT systems use custom heatsinks because of the shelf coolers aren’t available for a random BGA “sockets”.

Yes, except the MoDT mobos that come with a custom heatsink usually don't limit you to a weird 90mm cooler.
They usually use a 120mm down draft cooler so it has wide compatibility.

And MoDT usually fits within the confines of a desktop heatsink mounting holes.
see here: https://www.maxsun.com/products/modt-12450h-itx-wifi
and https://www.techpowerup.com/335886/...herboard-with-ryzen-9-9955hx-at-japan-it-week

The only exception is Ryzen AI Max 385/390/395+.
Everyone else using a weird custom mounting pattern is well... lazy.

 

[Amdlova]

Intel cpus and chipset it's way cheaper than AMD ones...

One H670 motherboard, five Cpu's upgrades and Four graphics cards... and barely scrach my wallet
And will resell it to the next gen intel cpus without droop the price.

 

[VizzieTheViz]

This case seems big enough and spacious enough to support a cooler for a regular desktop cpu.

I don’t really see why you would want modt if the resulting system is as large as a system you could build with regular desktop components.

Just seems like a lot of hassle and expense if you ever want to change or upgrade anything.

To my mind modt has its use, but that use is getting REALLY compact desktop pcs, not having something the size of a small desktop pc that performs worse.