News – Page 72 – SFF.Network

Welcome to TLDR News. Here I’m going to pick a few stories from around the computing world that might impact my fellow SFF users, and just write the TLDR for them. The original story link is next to the TLDR blerb… Fractal Designs has ordered a recall for their new Torrent PC Case due to …

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G.Skill has entered the Small(ish) Form Factor ITX case market with the Z5i. The vertically designed Z5i supports a 280mm radiator/AIO, 70mm tall CPU cooler, ITX motherboard, PCIe 3.0 riser, 3 slot wide and up to 330mm long GPU, and SFX power supply. It can also house two 2.5 inch hard drives, and one 3.5 …

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RTX 3000 series blower style cards quietly disappeared several months ago. Galax is bringing them back but only for the Chinese market in the form of a RTX 3080 and 3090. Videocardz has posted a comparison article looking at the previous Galax models and found there are some minor changes to the PCB design. Here …

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More graphics cards are coming and it’s not from AMD or Nvidia. Intel is planning to enter the dedicated GPU market with their new Alchemist GPU. Digital Foundry’s Richard Leadbetter and Alex Battaglia have done a fantastic interviews with Intel’s Lisa Pearce and Tom Pettersen. Topics include the architecture, machine learning, and Xe Super Sampling …

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Zotac has posted a product page for their latest 1.79L mini-pc; the ZBOX CI621 / CI625 / CI645 / CI665 Nano. Powered by the Intel 11th generation mobile processors, and sporting up to 4 cores with 8 threads, the newest ZBOX is focused on silence complete with entirely passive cooling. The C1625 uses a large …

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Maxtang PC, a China based PC manufacture, has released the specs for their upcoming fanless SFF PC according the FanlessTech twitter account. According to Maxtang’s website, the fanless mini-pc can be equipped with up to an Intel I7-1165G7  CPU, 64GB of SO-Dimm DDR4 Ram, and a single 2280 sized M2 SSD. Pricing was not specified …

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Thermalright has updated their website to show a new cooler of interest to the Small Form Factor community; The Silver Soul 135.     Coming in at only 135mm in height but packing a 120mm fan, the Silver Soul 135 could be an efficient cooler for those in the SFF community. Cases such as the …

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Noctua has announced that it will be offering free upgrade kits for the upcoming Intel LGA1700 socket. However, the NH-L9i will not be compatible with these kits due to hardware incompatibilities. Noctua will introduce a new version of the NH-L9i specific for the LGA1700 platform. The Noctua NH-L9i is one of the most popular cpu …

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