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Noctua Celebrates It’s 10 year Anniversary
PRESS RELEASE*: Vienna, October 29th 2015 – Noctua today celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Since the introduction of the first generation NH-U12 heatsink in October 2005, Noctua’s products have received more than 6000 awards and recommendations from leading international hardware websites and magazines, making them a default choice for quiet cooling enthusiasts all over the world. …
ZOTAC Announces the ZBOX BI323 and CI323 Mini PCs
PRESS RELEASE*: ZOTAC International, a global innovator and leading manufacturer of graphics cards, original manufacturer of Mini PCs, introduces a more capable and more energy efficient ZBOX Mini PC with Intel Braswell processors. ZOTAC ZBOX Mini PCs are getting more capable, adding more value than ever before. Both ZBOX BI323 and CI323 nano are powered …
CPU Coolers – An Introductory Roundup
Any good review website needs a solid test bench for reviewing hardware. Now it’s time to introduce ours. It does not yet have a name, and it’s a bit camera shy, but it does the job well. Specifications The test bench currently includes the following hardware; Gigabyte 970-D3P Motherboard Phenom II 555BE @ 3.2GHz 8GB …
ASUS Unveils a Limited Edition White R9 Nano
ASUS has released a limited edition Radeon R9 Nano graphics card with a matte white cooler shroud, replacing its matte-black reference unit. Besides this, there’s absolutely no changes to this card from AMD’s reference design. The PCB is reference, and so are the clocks, with up to 1000 MHz core, and 500 MHz (512 GB/s) memory. It remains …
Gentle Typhoon PWM 120mm Fan Launched
The casemodder’s beloved Nidec-Servo Gentle Typhoon fans are now available in a new 4-pin PWM version. The fans are now on sale at ModMyMods, with more retailers hopefully coming soon. Priced at US$19.99 per unit, these 120 mm fans offer up to 58.5 CFM of air-flow, with speeds ranging between 550-1,850 RPM, with claimed noise levels no higher than …
GIGABYTE B150N Phoenix Pictured
The first pictures of Gigabyte’s upcoming B150N Phoenix M-ITX board have appeared, courtesy of EXPreview.com. The board is for socket 1151 processors. Positioned between its mainline 100-series N products, such as the H170N-WiFi and its more premium Z170-based ones; this distinctive board features an orange+black color scheme which I think is awesome! Its PCB appears …
Weekly Community Update – 24 October 2015
This week in the Small Form Factor Network community forum; Z170 The discussion continues on Z170 motherboards, instigated by the Intel Z170 Motherboards Launch article. Most of the comments have been discussing features (mostly missing features!) Join the discussion here. Kimera Industries Project Nova: 17 liters of 5-slot mATX goodness One of the most looked forward to …
Shuttle Announces SH170V XPS Slim
Shuttle has announced the SH170V compact desktop. The new 3-litre Mini-PC barebone goes by the name of XPC slim XH170V and is based on Intel’s H170 chipset. “3-litre PCs have for a long time represented a really serious alternative to conventional PCs,” says Tom Seiffert, Head of Marketing & PR at Shuttle Computer Handels …