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Puget Systems Reviews Intel 12th Gen CPUs in Detail
Puget Systems is one of the top-tier builders of PCs for very specific workloads. Unlike most of the industry, they design your system based on your specific application, and do a tremendous amount of testing to ensure their customers get the right parts for their workload. They’ve even developed their own benchmarks based on real …
Intel Announces 12th Generation Core Processors With Hybrid Core Architecture
It’s been a long time coming. Rumors and whispers have drifted through the news circles, but it has finally been made real… Intel has announced their 12th generation Core CPUs. Lets dig in, and see what might be in store of small form factor enthusiasts. There are a lot of changes coming with this generation …
SilverStone Shows Sugo 16 Mini-ITX 13L Cube Case
Silverstone has unveiled its latest entry into the SFF world in the form of the Sugo 16. Coming in both white and black, the 13L cube style case features support for ITX/DTX mainboards, 120mm AIO CPU cooling, and either ATX or SFX PSUs. It also has space for up to two 2.5″ drives and one …
Retro Relook: Rik’s Random Retro Shuttle SFF Live Stream!
Rik’s Random Retro has resuscitated an Athlon XP 2600+ Shuttle SN41G2 system from the early XP days, and will be streaming The Elder Scrolls II Morrowind on it tonight. This machine dates back to the early days of SFF, and predates ITX. It’s period accurate with an ATI 9700 PRO, 512MB RAM, integrated audio, and …
MSI RTX 3060 Ti Aero ITX Overclock and Undervolt Benchmarks
If you’ve been following our coverage of the MSI RTX 3060 Ti then you know that one of the few issues we had was that the single axial fan could get pretty loud when at full load. While gaming,the fan was spinning at about 2700RPM or over 80% of it’s max performance. This resulted in …
G.SKILL Shows Low-Profile DDR5
(Image Credit: GSKILL) G.SKILL has announced their upcoming low-profile DDR5 memory in the form of the Ripjaws S5. Coming in at only 33mm in height, the 16GBx2 kits will support up to DDR5-6000 speeds at 36-36-36-75 CL Timings. While the price has not been announced, analysts are expecting the DDR5 memory market to cost up …
Valve Expands Steam Deck Compatibility Program
Valve is working quickly to expand compatibility testing for their upcoming Steam Deck. To this end, they have created four categories as staff test the tens-of-thousands of games that currently reside on Steam. Games that are “verified” will play natively on Steam Deck, whereas a game that is “playable” might require additional steps to play, …
QNAP Launches SFF NAS With Four NVME Drives and 2.5Gbe
Qnap has launced the TBS-464 portable NAS or NASbook as they’re calling it. The unit includes support for up to four NVE drives, two 2.5Gbe ports that support trunking, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports for data transfer, and two HDMI 2.0 ports for direct connection. To power the TBs-464 is powered by an …