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Acer Shows Veriton Vero Mini PC Made With Recycled Plastics
Image Credit – ACER For CES 2022, Acer has launched the Veriton Vero Mini PC with an emphasis on green computing. The unit is built with a 25% recycled plastics, and 100% recycled packaging. It’s VESA mountable, and comes packed with an Intel 12th Gen I9 CPU, and Wi-Fi 6E. The case, which bares …
Asus Launches a NOT SFF MATX Case…But It’s Good News
Image Credit – ASUS So Asus is launching a 33 liter totally-not-sff case called the Asus Prime AP201. It has a nearly completely mesh case design, and is focused around MATX motherboards. The case supports 360mm AIOs, GPUs up to 338mm long, and has a traditional build style. …but this isn’t why this …
Run Amok’s “NEON ROCKET” Densium Build Rocks!
Run Amok, one of our long time members of SFFN, has taken the new Densium case and absolutely knocked the build out of the park. Sporting a Ryzen 5800X3D and RTX 3060 in the 4L case, this thing looks awesome. Check out his build log below! Parts List Case: Densium 4 CPU: AMD Ryzen …
Today is the Last Day To Pre-Order the Slate-Case AQ
If you were thinking about getting the Slate-Case AQ, you are down to your last 24 hours to pre-order it. The case features support for twin 280mm radiators, as well as large GPUs and AIOs. It has an internally adjustable inner frame, and unlike a lot of SFFN cases, has room for exhaust fans. Those …
Gigabyte Announces Z690I Aorus Ultra Board Replacement Program Due to Hardware Failures
Finally… Four months… It took more than four months but Gigabyte has finally issued an official announcement regarding the well known Z690I motherboard issues that have plagued owners since launch. In the press release, Gigabyte acknowledges WHEA PCIe errors when paired with “some” PCIe Gen4 GPUs. I tested it with a 3080, 3070, and …
Review: Gigabyte Z690I Aorus Ultra DDR4 – Broken Out of The Box
Photo Credit – Gigabyte Review by Chris aka Revenant Gigabyte. What happened? You could have had the best board of the Alder Lake launch… There is a difference between a bad motherboard, and one that has merely got quirks. Too few USB ports? It’s annoying but I can deal with it. VRM that can’t …
Linus Tech Tips Builds SFF NAS in Jonsbo N1
Linus Tech Tips did a custom NAS build in the Jonsbo N1. Their goal was to build a rig cheaper than the Synology DS1520+ 5-bay NAS. Linus and crew used a Ryzen 3100, Optane cache drive, 16GB of DDR4, and five Seagate Exos hard drives…which Linus almost destroys in traditional Linus style. Check out the …
History of SFF gaming, 30 years of Falcon Northwest, and a Q&A with Falcon Northwest CEO Kelt Reeves.
This has been an article 6 months in the making. It was a lot of fun to research and cover the history of a hobby that’s so near and dear to all of us, but that joy paled in comparison to building inside an actual Falcon Northwest FragBox 2 chassis that I get to call …