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...
Tested by Christopher “Revenant” Moine Senior Editor Update 1-20-2024: More detailed fan tests were conducted in the thermals sections. Those test charts were added, and fan-speed normalized chart updated. These changes do not reflect a...
Source: TechPowerup, Reddit, Bilibili, VideoCardz As large as they are, ASUS’s ProArt GPUs are pretty premium looking – no flashyness, just smooth lines and subtle design cues. Chassis designer Xiikii Industry has taken these design cues, and...
Many thanks to Streacom for providing this review sample to SFF.Network for review. Back in my day… Way back when, the fanciest of home audio equipment, the venerable “tower of power” only found in your child-less uncle’s abode, had a bunch of...
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...
Image Credit – Devyn Johnston Devyn Johnston is revisiting the Thor Zone NANOQ, and this time it’s the larger R variant of the case. The NANOQ R is approximately 5L larger in volume for large cooling solutions and increased compatibility...
Many thanks to FIFINE for supplying SFF Network with this review sample. Unless you’re interested in hiding behind captions, being a streamer or video content creator means having a good quality microphone is a must. While fantastic videos have...
Image Credit – CD Project Red Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing Overdrive mode has gone live today. Virtually everyone is testing it on the latest and greatest RTX 4090, so I decided to test it on an RTX 3080. For those that don’t know, put...
Image Credit – Paul’s Hardware Paul of Paul’s Hardware fame has put together a beast of a giveaway machine for his monthly build. The all AMD system will be given away during a charity live-stream for children’s hospitals host by Paul and some...
A short while back, I took a punt on a broken Dell OEM RTX 3060 Ti from our local eBay competitor – TradeMe.co.nz. As an aside, eBay has never managed to get a foothold on the Aotearoa New Zealand market space as TradeMe offers such a dominant...
Image Credit – Optimum Tech Ali of Optimum Tech, seen above in daylight finally dispelling the myth that he was a vampire, has used his 3D printing skills to make custom fan ducts or baffles with excellent results. Air baffles (fan ducts) used...
Many thanks to CORSAIR for supplying SFF Network with this review sample. Before we get started – SFF Network does not currently possess the hardware, testing equipment and skillset to fully analyse and opine on power supplies. We encourage...
Many thanks to CORSAIR for supplying SFF Network with this review sample. CORSAIR’s ‘small’ case lineup has always been on the larger side (albeit ignoring the fantastic ONE prebuilt) – befitting the RGB-laden, bigger is better mindset of the...
Image Credit – Nvidia 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...
Image Credit – Nvidia I’m not going to waste time with a long and fluffy opening. Nvidia has launched the RTX 4060Ti and it has not gone well. By now, most people know the RTX 4060Ti has been a let down in terms of performance for the price...
NOTE: This is a press release. It presented exactly as the company released it with no editing by SFF.N. In this instance, Simply NUC’s wording is unchanged and presented as they wrote it. The photos are in the same place they were in the...
Image Credit – Shuttle Rik’s Random Retro is streaming right now for the next 3 hours on a vintage SFF Shuttle unit. This is classic SFF when shoeboxes were the goal, and packs and Athlon XP CPU and ATI Radeon 9700PRO GPU. Game of choice...
Image Credit – Minisforum ETA PRIME has tested the Minisforum EM680. This ultra tiny PC features a Ryzen 7 6800u APU with 8 cores and 16 threads. It also features a Radeon 680M iGPU with 12 RDNA2 CUs at 2,200 MHz and 16GB of LPDDR5 at 6,400MHz...
ASRock’s DeskMini series has been a stalwart in the SFF world for some time now, even with the canning of the GTX/RX series (Rest in Peace, MXM graphics cards). Eschewing standard form factors to enable denser computers, the DeskMini has been...
Via Anandtech – SFF Network’s News Post is a quick summary, please check the linked article for a deeper dive. Intel’s upcoming “Meteor Lake” (14th Gen Core) architecture will see the debut of true AI processing hardware on a consumer desktop...