We show you what to look for when buying an ASUS barebone.
Check beforehand if the case is also large enough for their use. The product range of the ASUS barebones It runs from the Mini Tower to the Midi Tower.
Also important is which mainboard is installed in the barebones here the product range ranges from the ASUS V7 via the ASUS V8 to the ASUS S2 series. A general topic that also draws on the ASUS barebones is the power supply here you should also know in advance how many Hard disks and CD/DVD/Blue-Ray drives & possibly external Graphics card You integrate.
There may be a problem with the Energy supply Too little energy is supplied to these components.
ASUS V7 Series
The ASUS mainboard V7 series supports the 1155 Intel CPU socket which means that from an Intel i3 to the Intel i7 you can use any CPU.
The maximum main memory is completely sufficient here. Here, however, it should be noted that there are only 4 DIMM slots, in order to really use the maximum main memory of 32 GB you have to install 4 x 8 GB DDR3 RAM modules. (important note about memory: Your operating system must also support this number of Giga bytes, with the older operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 2000 there is a memory limit in the 32bit version of 4GB, with the Windows XP 64 bit version you can use up to 128GB.).
With the 6 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0 interfaces you get relatively far but you should pay attention that a large number of external devices such as mouse, keyboard, printer, scanner, external hard drives are connected via USB, because the USB interface can quickly be in short supply.
The integrated network controller is a 10/100/1000 Mbit controller and is therefore state-of-the-art, since Gigabit is used in most companies and private households.
The 7.1 channel sound card also leaves nothing to be desired for normal use such as listening to music.
ASUS V8 Series
The main differences between the ASUS V7 and V8 series is the number of USB ports the V8 has 8 USB 2.0 ports and only 2 USB 3.0 ports, even with the chipset ASUS has opted for the V8 series on the same of the V7 series the Intel® H67 Express. What the V8 series lacks are 2 PCI Express x1 slots, this you should check before the purchase whether you also do not use PCI Express x1 interface cards.
ASUS S2 Series
This series was developed specifically for Mini Towers, using an Intel H61 Express chipset and limiting the maximum main memory support to 16 GB. With the ports of USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI, VGA, DVI, PS2 was also not spared here.
We would recommend this ASUS barebone for private households because the requirements usually do not correspond to those of a company because this system is always sufficient for surfing the Internet and to collect documents, but we do not recommend this barebone for playing 3D games.