Revenant

Nvidia RTX 4060 Review – Testing ZOTAC GAMING’s RTX 4060 SOLO 163mm Long GPU for the Small Form Factor Market

Let’s be very clear before we begin: we are looking at the RTX 4060 from a small form factor perspective. I intentionally requested the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4060 SOLO, and not a two or three fan OC card. This is a very small, single fan GPU. This means we’re looking at this from a …

Graphics Reviews

RTX 4060Ti Review: A GPU in Search of a Use Case – Part 2 Ray Tracing

This is part 2 of our RTX 4060Ti review where we look at the RTX 4060Ti’s Ray Tracing performance. To see part 1, CLICK HERE. Ray Tracing Ray tracing has become an important performance metric over the last five years as it slowly supplants older reflection and ambient occlusion technology. Unfortunately, it still carries a …

News

Minisforum Announces 3rd “Anniv.” Sale

Minisforum has announced their third “anniv.” sale They were founded in 2018, but whatever. A sale is a sale. The sale includes discounts on current inventory as well as upcoming units such the EM680 and UM790 Pro. Of particular interest is the well reviewed NUCXI7. It’s basically a laptop without a screen and with …

Other

Press Release: Noctua Releases Offset Mounting for Improved Cooling Performance on AMD AM5 Processors

NOTE: This is a press release. It presented exactly as the company released it with no editing by SFF.N. In this instance, Noctua’ s wording is unchanged and presented as Noctua wrote it. The photos and videos are in the same place they were in the Noctua Press Release where possible. All photo credit is …

News

Retro SFF: RetroGameCouch Builds SFF AMD 5×86 PC With Legos

Retro PC gaming is getting smaller and smaller thanks to industrial system-on-boards. In this instance, RetroGameCouch has built up a kick ass little AMD 5X86 retro machine using a MSC242 ISA board. The board is mounted to a small ISA backplane along with a Sound Blaster Pro CT1600 sound card, and a Trident TVGA9000C …

News

Ars Technica Reviews M2 Ultra Powered Mac Studio

Ars Technica has gotten their hands on the newest Mac Studio and this time it’s packing an M2 Ultra chip. What does that mean? Imagine cramming the nearly the power of an Intel i9 – 13900K CPU and desktop class Nvidia RTX 4070Ti class GPU performance in an approximately 3.7L case that only uses …

News

Gigabyte Releases RTX 4090 Windforce with Revised 12-Pin Connector Placement

It might be a tad difficult to see in this picture but Gigabyte is releasing an updated version of their RTX 4090 Windforce with a new 12-pin power cable placement. The cable is now recessed, and rotated 90 degrees. This aligns the plug along the length of the card, and reduces the height of …

News

ETA Prime Creates Micro Steam Machine With Minisforum EM680

ETA Prime, not seen because I’m tired of just showing pictures of his hand, has taken the Minisforum EM680 micro PC to make a Chimera OS powered Steam machine. The Minisforum EM680 features a Ryzen 7 6800U with 8 Cores / 16 threads, and a 12Cu RDNA 2 Radeon 680m iGPU at 2,200MHz. That …

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