More Power for Less Money: Build Your Own Steam Machine
Image Credit - Valve Article written by...
Mobile / Laptop RTX 4080 Review Roundup
Image Credit – Nvidia Reviews of the Mobile/Laptop variant of the RTX 4080 have begun to pop up. This chip features the same name but vastly different specs than the RTX 4080 desktop variant. That said, Jarrod’s Tech showed that the mobile 4080 outperformed the mobile RTX 3080Ti by an average of 26% at …
Hardware Unboxed Benchmarks Mobile RTX 4090 Against Desktop…And It’s Pretty Brutal
Hardware Unboxed has done something that will no doubt ruffle some feathers at Nvidia; they have compared the RTX 4090 mobile to the RTX 4090 Desktop. Let’s get this out of the way: The RTX MOBILE 4090 is nowhere near as a fast as the RTX DESKTOP 4090. It’s still a fast chip, but …
Hardware Haven Explores Used $93 Lenovo M715q G2 SFF PCs
Image Credit – Hardware Haven Hardware Haven, seen above wondering why his mini-pc smells like bacon, has picked up three Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE powered Lenovo M715Q for $200 and a little change. This APU powered mini-pc packs Vega 11 graphics and a 4-core / 8-thread Ryzen 2000 series CPU. It also features a …
ASRock Industrial Launches 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series with AMD Ryzen 7000U-Series APUs
ASRock Industrial announces the 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series Mini PCs powered by AMD Ryzen 7000U-Series APUs up to 8 Zen 3+ cores. Featuring maximum dual DDR5 4800 MHz memory up to 64 GB, the 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series bring about performance enhancement through unleashing higher standards of power, speed, and energy efficiency. Now poised with …
ETA Prime Builds 1080P SFF Gaming Rig From Old HP Office Computer and Nvidia RTX A2000
Image Credit – ETA Prime ETA Prime has once again put out a great video about budget SFF PC gaming. In this case, he used a pretty old HP Elite Desk unit which he picked up for a little over $100. He paired it with a used Nvidia RTX A2000 low profile GPU for …
Atlantic Writer’s HP Printer Disabled Remotely For Canceling Monthly Ink Subscription
Image Credit – HP via Wikipedia Commons Fudzilla has posted an article about the a problems of tech subscriptions and service contracts that happened to Atlantic writer Charlie Warzel. It would seem that Warzel’s printer, which he paid $200 for, stopped working because he unsubscribed to HP’s Instant Ink program. More specifically, because …
Nvida RTX 4090 Laptop Edition Review Roundup
Image Credit – Nvidia The mobile version of the RTX 4090 has launched and it’s very fast, hot, and expensive. Coming in with roughly the same performance as a desktop RTX 3090 to 3090Ti, this chip can pull 150 watts and play Cyberpunk in 4K. However, that performance is going to require a powerful …
Gigabyte Launches Aorus Gen5 10000 NVME 5.0 SSD With Massive Heatsink
Image Credit – Gigabyte PCIe 5.0 NVME drives have begun to trickle out and it’s not good news for SFF rigs right now. It would seem that cooling is becoming an absolute necessity for consistent performance. In this instance, Gigabyte has launched the Aorus Gen5 10000 NVME SSD, and has an “optional” twin heatpipe …