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Minisforum Taking Pre-Orders on Ryzen 5700G Powered EliteMini X500-5700G
Minisforum has begun taking pre-orders on their upcoming EliteMini X500-5700G. As it says in the name, the EliteMini X500 is powered by the Ryzen 5700G. This APU features 8 cores and 16 threads paired with Vega 8 graphics. The unit starts at $859 for the early pre-order discount, and includes 16GB of RAM and a …
Retro Relook: Pocket PCs
It’s time for this weeks Retro Relook. This week we delve into Pocket PCs of the 1980s. These were supposed to be full featured machines for their time, and came complete with BASIC, the ability to print and load programs, and were meant for serious work. Today, they’re a forgotten part of SFF computing …
Beelink Mini-PCs on Sale at Amazon
Beelink, a Chinese manufacturer of ultra mini-pcs, is having a sale on Amazon. Discounts range from $10 to about $120 depending on the unit. These units are based on NUC and APU designs, and have a good reputation according to user reviews. CPU choices range from older Intel Atoms to more modern low power I7s …
Akasa Lists Eight New Fanless SFF NUC and APU Cases
Akasa has listed eight new and revised fanless SFF APU cases on their website. The cases rang from as little as 1.4L for NUC style units, to 2.67 L for vertical tower style. All of the cases are custom designed to use passive, fanless cooling. As such, they do not specify external GPUs, and have …
Geer Seekers Tests XDO Pantera Pico PC
Geer Seekers has taken a close look at the XDO Pantera Pico PC in their latest video. For those that don’t know, XDO is attempting to make the smallest full featured X86 pico PC. It sports a quad core Celeron CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, M.2 SSD, WiFi, UHD 600 iGPU graphics, support for …
DeepCool Releases Compact Top Down ARGB Coolers
Coming in at 71mm in height and 136mm in width, DeepCool is launching a new ARGB top-down cooler. The cooler includes a 136mm x 27mm fan that spins to between 500 and 1800 RPM. Addressable RGB LEDs encircle the fan. The cooler itself is a very basic hockey puck style design with no heatpipes or …
iBUYPOWER Enters SFF Case Market With Hyte Revolt 3 Case
iBUYPOWER, a company more known for prebuilt gaming PCs, has decided to sell their HYTE Revolt 3 ITX case separately. Coming in both white and black, and supporting features like a handle and headphone holder, the case is made of painted steel. It supports GPUs up to 3 slots and 323mm long, and AIOs up …
Retro Relook: Phil’s Computer Lab Tackles Thin Client Retro PC Gaming!
I admit, I’m a sucker for retro PC gaming. I have 11 retro machines, but I pale in comparison to Phil who’s lab is just bristling with glorious retro awesomeness. BEHOLD THE 1980S and 1990S! Dawn your Hypercolor shirt. Dance in those Hammer Pants. Squeeze that Squeeze It! Settle in for the Disney Afternoon! For …