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Reviews have dropped for Phanteks T30-120 fan with very positive results. Phanteks has clearly taken a shot directly at Noctua, but also put their own flare on the 120mm fan segment. A quick...
 
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...
 
It's the weekend, so news will be light. Time to take a trip back in time and look at some retro small form factor PCs with a Retro Relook. This week is focused on Apple and some vintage SFF...
 
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...
 
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...
 
We're late to the party on this but Silverstone is introducing its take on the NUC element chassis called the Vital 4. Featuring a unique fold out design, the Vital 4 supports up to 321mm long...
 
China based manufacturer Colorful has launched two B560 ITX Motherboards that compliment the styling of their recently announced ITX 3060 GPU. The boards are the CVN B560I Gaming Pro V20 and the...
 
The be quiet! Dark Rock TF 2 reviews have dropped today and they are mostly positive. The C-style cooler was praised for VRM cooling, noise levels, and stylish looks. However, it was criticized...
 
News for the SFF crowd is light right now, so let's take a walk back in time to the old days of SFF. The really old days. I'm talking about when the term shoebox PC was the word of the day, and...
 
Optmum Tech, a SFF focused YouTube tech channel has gone hands on with Skyreach 4 Mini with a complete Ryzen 5600G APU build. While the processor left Optimum Tech wanting, the Skyreach 4 Mini was...
 
A Pro version of the Aya Neo has been announced via the Aya Neo Indiegogo campaign. The new version of the Aya Neo, now called AYANEO 2021 Pro, will feature an upgraded APU in the form of a Ryzen...
 
Based on a recent ECC filing, it looks like Noctua and Asus may be collaborating on a GPU cooler. The name provided for the card was Asus GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua GPU. Nothing has been announced...
 
The ID-Cooling IDEAMINI-X (IDM-X) is a 12L SFF barebone, packed with a iGame 3060Ti and the custom designed Z590 motherboard takes 10Gen and 11Gen Intel CPUs. With the custom Motherboard/Riser...
 
Adata has announced the SE920; an external USB 4.0 SSD that can achieve up to 4000MB per second. USB 4.0 is the next-generation standard of peripheral interface featuring up to 4,800MB a second...
 
AMD's Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G APUs are now available for sale at major retailers for $359 and $259 respectively. These APUs incorporate a Zen 3 based CPU with AMD Vega based integrated GPU...
 
Cougar has announced its Dust 2 ITX case. Going for the rugged look, the case features aluminum front and rear panels, mesh side panels, and carry handles on the top. The interior is a sandwich...
 
Minisforum has launched a new prebuilt / barebones mini-pc with the Zen 3 Ryzen 9 5900HX at it's heart. The chip is an 8 core / 16 thread Zen 3 part on the 7nm process node. It has a base clock of...
 
Intel has announced its next high-performance NUC: The Nuk 11 Extreme. The eight liter sized NUC is built using a modified sandwich layout. The modification is that it features a lower PCB that...
 
Asrock has announced a new ITX sized graphics cards based on AMD's RDNA2 architecture. Called Challenger ITX, the card sports a 6600XT with 8GB of GDDR6. The product page lists the dimension as...