Discussion Getting up to speed

Kmpkt

Innovation through Miniaturization
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Hey all,

In the middle of cleaning up boxes of SFF hardware that have been sitting in storage for the past 2+ years and the nostalgia started to hit me pretty hard so I thought I'd pop on the forums. Just thought I'd say hi and ask the community what the coolest SFF stuff is currently because I don't have the time to pour over pages of forum content.
 

ignsvn

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Apr 4, 2016
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Hey all,

In the middle of cleaning up boxes of SFF hardware that have been sitting in storage for the past 2+ years and the nostalgia started to hit me pretty hard so I thought I'd pop on the forums. Just thought I'd say hi and ask the community what the coolest SFF stuff is currently because I don't have the time to pour over pages of forum content.

Hello there.

IMO probably Dan C4, Apple Mac Mini & Studio, and the NFC S4 stuffed to the max by Petricor.

Dynamo 360 is also still pretty cool for those who want one :)
 

confusis

John Morrison. Founder and Team Leader of SFF.N
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Hey all,

In the middle of cleaning up boxes of SFF hardware that have been sitting in storage for the past 2+ years and the nostalgia started to hit me pretty hard so I thought I'd pop on the forums. Just thought I'd say hi and ask the community what the coolest SFF stuff is currently because I don't have the time to pour over pages of forum content.
I thought I banned you...

Just kidding, welcome back!
 

GuilleAcoustic

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Hey all,

In the middle of cleaning up boxes of SFF hardware that have been sitting in storage for the past 2+ years and the nostalgia started to hit me pretty hard so I thought I'd pop on the forums. Just thought I'd say hi

Welcome back !

and ask the community what the coolest SFF stuff is currently because I don't have the time to pour over pages of forum content.

I'd say Dan C4 and the new GaN HDPLEX units.
 

Kmpkt

Innovation through Miniaturization
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Yeah. I think the new 250w GAN HDPlex is going to inspire me to pick up my old S4-Mini Classic build if it fits.
 

XcPNehVYlE4A3C

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sadly power usage has only been going UP for PC parts... in my opinion, nothing really groundbreaking has happened in SFF since Deskmini GTX/RX (R.I.P).

GaN mentioned above might be the only technical advancement for SFF recently...

(aside from apple's ARM chips, which are an incredible leap for SFF... but not DIY friendly)
 
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Analogue Blacksheep

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Asrock Rack has made a new motherboard form factor called Deep-ITX.
Of relevance, there's a B550, a Z690 and an EYPC board so far.

Also Nvidia came up with the A2000 low profile GPU card. It's between the 3050 and the 3060 for performace. It's currently the best low profile GPU that exists. Would be nice if they made a consumer version which wasn't stupidly expensive.
 
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