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...
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...
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...
