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Asus GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua OC Costs as Much as RTX 4090
Do you have $1,650 US Dollars to spend on a GPU? Neither do I. However, for those that want to pay RTX 4090 prices for an RTX 4080 you can now buy the 4-Slot Asus RTX 4080 Noctua OC. I’m not going to list this as a news post because there is absolutely no …
Tom’s Hardware Finds Up To 10% Performance Loss in Games From Windows VBS
Tom’s Hardware recently discovered that Windows Virtualization Based Security was automatically activated on their Windows 11 test platform. Thankfully, they took the time to test the performance difference with and without it on. With modern GPUs pushing more bottleneck to the CPU, it turns out that there was a pretty substantial hit to performance. …
Digital Foundry Reviews AYANEO 2 – Faster Than SteamDeck
Digital Foundry has gotten their hands on the AYANEO 2. Powered by the Ryzen 7 6800U, the AYANEO 2 is a Windows OS SteamDeck competitor. It packs double the cores and far more graphics power than Valve’s still awesome handheld. It also has user adjustable power limits. Check out their review below.
System76 Thelio Review
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 disasters, upheavals in my career and financial situation, major medical events, and …
Minisforum UM480 (4800U) Review
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 shares the same design, but it is built to a much lower …
EKWB Launches Monoblock for the ROG Strix X670E-ITX
EKWB has launched a new “MOMENTUM² Monoblock” for the ROG Strix X670E-ITX, encompassing CPU and VRM cooling in one schmick looking unit. Gone are the days of monoblocks covering CPU and chipset, with today’s M.2 stacks sharing heatsinkage with the chipset, the next target of cooling is the VRM section. This is also a boon …
Minisforum HM90 (4900h) Review
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 4900H mobile APU. Like most mini PC’s, this …
Ryzen R9 7950X3D Review Round Up – It’s good for SFF but…
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. However, there is an important catch that anyone looking at the 7950X3D as a gaming …