Years ago, the SFF community waited with bated breath for the ASRock DeskMini A300. With AMD APU support, it offered a better balance than Intel chips between the CPU and GPU. This SFF Gem was the ideal Deskmini, and the SFF Network community...
It’s been a year, that’s for sure. Hopefully it hasn’t been too bad for you and yours, and we wish our readers all the best for the holiday season and beyond, from the team of volunteers at SFF.Network. Did you get any SFF related Christmas...
Nova – Derived from the Latin word “Novus”, meaning new. This is the second generation of Nova branded boards from ASRock, however this is indeed the first M-ITX variant. Of note to those who are familiar with ASRock’s product lines, it seems...
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 – Hardware Unboxed Hardware Unboxed has conducted a 40+ game test that shows Zen 4 and Zen 5 were being held back in many games by the current Windows Scheduler. Some games, such as Fornite in the image above, showed over 30%...
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...
This guest editorial has been written by forum member and vendor SaperPL! All opinions in this article are that of the author, and not necessarily those of SFF Network or the team. In context of external power connector placement Foreword This is...
Fractal Design is no stranger to the small form factor community. The Ridge and Node lines have been solid options for those looking for a simple entry point into SFF for years. The Node 202 was one of the better options for console style...
This guest editorial has been written by forum member and vendor SaperPL! All opinions in this article are that of the author, and not necessarily those of SFF Network or the team. NVIDIA – the Stormtroopers of SFF problem solving… On 2nd of July...
Alas, the tech media landscape is changing, sprinting head first into the 30 second TikTok/Reels and 10 minute YouTube video world – instead of the quality, well researched content you’ve been able to find for years from many of the written tech...
We would like to thank Fractal Design for providing us with a review sample of their Ridge chassis. Without their generosity, this case review would not be possible. Way back at CES 2019, representatives at Fractal were quick to quell our...
Source: TechPowerup Spotted at Computex this year, Fractal Design’s North Pi chassis – a super smol version of their gorgeous North chassis, is now available to download and print yourself. Supporting the Raspberry Pi and similar boards on the...
Image Credit – Devyn Johnston Devyn Johnston has done a very nice open frame build with an XWORKS X32 SFF PC. For the build he used a Zotac RTX 4060 SOLO paired with a Ryzen R5- 7600. The end result is quite a nice little showcase build that...
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...
Thanks to ASRock for supplying these review samples! With Intel’s LGA1851 purported to be launching later this year, the last designs based on the LGA1700 platform are making their way on to the market. Supporting “Alder Lake” 12th gen, “Raptor...
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...
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...