ASUS PRIME N100I-D D4 CSM Review

Sun, May 26 2024 21:26:06 KST

I was using ASRock J5040-ITX board before. I could boot with Linux installation image but could not install. I think it is not booting to EFI mode. Actually, I don’t know either.

Because of this problem, I ordered ASUS PRIME N100I-D D4 CSM from Amazon Germany and it arrived in April.

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This motherboard boots to EFI mode, so there’s no problem installing Linux.

ASUS N100I-D motherboard has only 1 SATA port, so I need an expansion card to connect multiple SSDs. I bought a PCIe 1x SATA 4-port expansion card using ASM1064 chip and connected a DVD-RW and 2 SSDs, and it works well. I can also boot from the device connected to the expansion card.

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The CPU temperature of this motherboard is around 55 degrees when idle. When running a web browser, it is around 60-70 degrees, and when executing a command called stress that puts a lot of stress on the system, it reaches 80 degrees in a few seconds, but thanks to Intel® Speed ​​​​Shift Technology, the frequency drops drastically, and the CPU temperature drops to around 50-60 degrees in a few seconds. Therefore, it is stable to use. Still, it is unfortunate that the CPU temperature is somewhat high. This is probably unavoidable due to the low height of the heat sink.

Performance

ASRock J5040-ITX

When turbo mode is enabled, the CPU temperature may become too high and the system may shutdown, so I disabled turbo mode.

hodong@:~/projects/nimfsoft $ make
rm -rf en/dict/zh-en en/dict/zh-ko
cd hsk-voca && ruby ./gen-md.rb
mv hsk-voca/zh-en en/dict
mv hsk-voca/zh-ko en/dict
jekyll build -s en -d _public
Configuration file: /home/hodong/projects/nimfsoft/en/_config.yml
            Source: /home/hodong/projects/nimfsoft/en
       Destination: /home/hodong/projects/nimfsoft/_public
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
                    done in 78.128 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: disabled. Use --watch to enable.
cp _redirects _public/_redirects
cp ads.txt _public/ads.txt
rm -rf public
mv _public public
hodong@:~/projects/nimfsoft $

ASUS PRIME N100I-D D4 CSM

hodong@:~/projects/nimfsoft $ make
rm -rf en/dict/zh-en en/dict/zh-ko
cd hsk-voca && ruby ./gen-md.rb
mv hsk-voca/zh-en en/dict
mv hsk-voca/zh-ko en/dict
jekyll build -s en -d _public
Configuration file: /home/hodong/projects/nimfsoft/en/_config.yml
            Source: /home/hodong/projects/nimfsoft/en
       Destination: /home/hodong/projects/nimfsoft/_public
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
                    done in 43.558 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: disabled. Use --watch to enable.
cp _redirects _public/_redirects
cp ads.txt _public/ads.txt
rm -rf public
mv _public public