<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246);">Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so the saying goes. Most development in home computers veers toward the ultra large (high impact gaming machines for 4K resolutions/multi-monitor immersive experiences) or the ultra-tiny (Intel NUC, Raspberry Pi). The downside of these two extremes is usually cost, and most regular Joes go for something in the middle trading one side for the other.&nbsp; One popular build right now is mini-ITX in a Bitfenix Prodigy chassis, as it offers space for a full on GPU or many 2.5&rdquo; storage drives.&nbsp; ASRock now come to the market with the M8 barebones based on a BMW design for the Z87 platform, at half the width of the Bitfenix Prodigy and a high build quality. It mirrors what we are seeing with the latest consoles, and thus offers a prime opportunity as a Steam Box.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/7604/asrock-m8" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></p>