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ASUS ZenFone Zoom Smartphone Announced
Today, Asus announced the ZenFone Zoom smartphone. The ZenFone Zoom features 3x optical, yes optical zoom. The lenses are produced by HOYA, a Japanese optics company. The camera also features a laser autofocus that, ASUS claims, can adjust in three hundredths of a second. While auto modes are available, it also allows the user …
Lenovo ideacentre 610S Announced
Lenovo has announced the ideacentre 610S, a tiny PC with a triangular shape, designed for any situation where a small-footprint computer is needed. Adding to the impressive specs, a TI DLP micro projector is bundled with the system. System: Up to 6th gen Intel Core i7 processor Up to NVIDIA GTX 750ti 2GB GDDR5 desktop …
Zotac Launches PCIe SSD
CES 2016: ZOTAC unveiled its upcoming premium PCIe SSD. Designed for high performance, with sequential transfer rates around 2 GB/s, the drive is based on a Phison processor, combined with Toshiba 10 nm MLC NAND flash memory. The half-height add-on card features an integrated heatspreader, with a back-plate. The PCIe x4 Gen 3 card is bootable. Thoughts? Discuss them …
Samsung to release 4TB 850-series drives and 1TB 950 Pro this year
Sean Webster from The SSD Review is in Las Vegas for Storage Visions 2016 and had a moment to check in with Samsung on their plans for 2016. According to his report, Samsung plans to make use of their high-density 48-layer V-NAND to launch 4TB versions of both the 850 EVO and 850 Pro later this year, …
AMD reveals some details of Polaris, their next GPU architecture
AMD is getting some pre-CES buzz going with light details of their upcoming GPU architecture, Polaris. Please head on over to AnandTech for the full story where Ryan Smith talks about the information AMD released. There’s not much in the way of hard info but there were a few tidbits of interest to SFF. The reporters at the …
Premium SFF – The Noctua NH-L9x65
Having already investigated Noctua’s NH-L9a – an ultra-low profile unit designed for AMD sockets – we turn our attention today to the NH-L9x65, a top-down cooler that (comparatively at least) adds some height in exchange for improved acoustic and thermal performance. This 65mm high cooler is claimed by Noctua to be compatible with any motherboard layout …
The Noctua NH-L9a – Luxury in uSFF
In the world of CPU coolers, one name stands out as the ‘premium’ brand in the minds of most PC enthusiasts – Noctua. Today, then, we’ll be looking at one of their SFF-orientated coolers, the NH-L9a. The L9a is designed exclusively for AMD sockets (and thus compliments the NH-L9i, designed for Intel platforms), and the 37mm-high profile …
NVIDIA 2-Way SLI Bridge Giveaway!
We’re giving away one NVIDIA 2-Way SLI Bridge! To enter, please post ONCE in this thread. Note: this is the short (40mm) version. Pic of it installed here. More info here: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/bridges