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...
Image Credit – Nvidia Nvidia has revealed the RTX 4060Ti and 4060 to the world today. Pricing starts at $299 for the non-Ti model, and rises to $499 for the 16GB Ti variant. Nvidia is stating that these cards are targeting the high frame rate...
All credit to Mark Tyson at Tom’s Hardware (click the link for their article) for finding this little gem of a retro SFF handheld. The Hand386 is a retro gaming PC designed around a 386 CPU, OPL3 sound, and 8MB of Ram. It supports DOS, Windows...
Intel has decided that for the 14th gen Meteor Lake CPUs there will be a rebranding. The new moniker will be…. CORE ULTRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m having fun with this one…. Though it should be...
Image Credit – ETA Prime ETA Prime has gotten an early look at the prototype for the AOKZOE A1 PRO hand held PC. The unit is powered by a Ryzen 7840U RDNA 3 APU, and features an 8 inch 1920 x x1200 display. Storage is via an M.2 SSD, and it...
Well, here we are with yet another terrible PC port of a potentially great game. Star Wars Jedi Survivor launched today and it’s been a complete mess. A large part of the problem is the heavily restrictive DRM (Digital Rights Management) via the...
Minisforum has added a new product to its growing arsenal of mini PCs, this one being a followup to an existing design but a much needed and welcomed followup. When the original B550 released, it looked like a normal mini PC but with a socketed...
Today is the last Mini PC review I’ll be doing for awhile. The good news is I think we’re ending on a high note, as the Minisforum Neptune Series HX90G delivers fantastic value for a PC. Before we get too far into the review, I want to point...
Image Credit – AMD With the recent issues discovered by Hardware Unboxed regarding resizable bar, I decided to take a look at our own test bench. Currently, we test with resizable bar on. This will be an ongoing test series but for today, we’ll...
Image Credit – AMD Small Form Factor Network is continuing to update its internal benchmarks charts and I thought I would take a moment to share our AMD Radeon 6900XT reference design results. I purchased this card directly from AMD when they...
Today the UM690 follows up on our previous reviews of Minisforum mini PCs. Unlike the previous two reviews, we now have RDNA2 graphics and Zen 3+ CPU cores, which should offer a significant uptick in performance across the board. As you may...
Before we begin, I want to thank System76 for their patience and extra time they provided for us to review the Thelio SFF PC. During the course of this review, I had a lifetime’s worth of events happen ranging from back-to-back natural...
Recently we took a look at the HM90 mini PC, today we’re taking a look at a smaller, cheaper, and probably less powerful UM480 from Minisforum. Minisforum released this last fall, but it was overshadowed by bigger news such as the UM690. It...
We at SFF.Network are still working out the details of our new case testing methodology. However, we still want to profile and feature some of the cases that our readers are interested in. For now, we’re going to be doing some case overviews that...
Over the next few months I will be releasing a series of Mini PC reviews. Today I’m starting with one that I’ve been sitting on for awhile, over a year in fact. It is the Minisforum HM90, powered by a somewhat dated but still powerful Ryzen R9...
Image Credit – AMD Reviews are out for the Ryzen 7950X3D, and it’s actually quite interesting. For those that don’t know, the X3D version of Ryzens include a very large amount of 3D V-Cache. In this instance, it’s 128MB of level 3 cache...