All credit to Videocardz and Twitter User Hongxing2020 for this. MSI is planning on releasing a “slim” version of their RTX 4060Ti. While slim in the SFF world usually means single slot, to the rest of the industry it means 2-slots; which is...
ZOTAC has launched the World’s First Solid State Active Cooled Mini-PC, the ZBOX PI430AJ, using Frore’s Airjet system, a solid state “fan”. With no moving parts, the PI430AJ steps us into a new uSFF world – a decent performing tiny PC with no...
With AM5 firmly entrenched, it seems odd for AMD to consider launching a new processor for the now defunct AM4 platform – but VideoCardz reports that AMD is readying the Ryzen 5 5600X3D, a 6 core, 12 thread unit based on the same “Vermeer”...
Test of a dozen of the latest slim 120mm fans with new models from companies such as Corsair
Source: TechPowerup/Tom’s Hardware ASRock, frequently known for cramming a lot of hardware into a small space, has done it again, cramming an Intel Socket E (LGA4766) onto a “Deep” M-ATX board. To get the “Deep” nomenclature out of the way first...
Image Credit – Gear Seekers Gear Seekers, seen above needing his tracking adjusted, has built a mATX socket 370 Pentium 3 powered retro PC. He uses a Fractal Pop Mini as his case as it has a 5.25 drive bay. Interestingly, the motherboard he...
Building on ZOTAC’s successful MAGNUS ONE family of SFF PCs, the ERP74070C brings a NVIDIA RTX4070 and Intel i7-13700 processor to this little, 8.3L, powerhouse. Featuring dual DDR5 SODIMM memory slots (supporting up to 64GB) , dual M.2 slots, a...
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...
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...
Image Credit – Mr Matt Lee Mr Matt Lee has put together a very nice Intel 13600KF / RTX 4080 build into the new Fractal Design Terra SFF case. The video is an ASMR like relaxed build of the case. He also includes temperature results, and a smoke...
Image Credit RetroGameCouch 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...
Image Credit – Apple 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...
Image Credit – Gigabyte 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...
Image Credit – ETA Prime 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...
Image Credit: JayzTwoCents JayzTwoCents, seen above acting his age, has taken look at a Ryzen 7800X3D powered Falcon Northwest Tiki SFF machine. Falcon Northwest is one of the few boutique builders left not owned by a larger company. It started...
Image Credit – L91 With the announcement of several smaller RTX 4060 and 4060Ti GPUs, it’s a good time to look at some builds using similar sized cards. I also need to filter through the backlog of YouTube videos I should have posted links for...
NOTE: This is a press release. It presented exactly as the company released it with no editing by SFF.N. In this instance, Apple’s wording is unchanged and presented as Apple wrote it. The photos are in the same place they were in the Apple Press...
Image Credit – Devyn Johnston Devyn Johnston, seen above not believing your dog ate your homework, has put together what I would consider peak XTIA XPROTO-L. This is the same open frame design that we at SFFN use for our GPU test bench. In his...
Minisforum UM790 Pro (AMD Phoenix Mini-box)
Corsair 2000D Airflow Review at CrazyTechLab
TechPowerup has shared news of XFX’s new RX7600 Speedster QICK 308 and SWFT 210 graphics cards. A hell of a mouthful, but two more AMD RX7600 models to tempt your wallet. Whilst both cards are quite large, they do offer options for those of us...