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Tom’s Hardware Reviews Cooler Master G200P SFF CPU Cooler
Tom’s Hardware has taken a detailed look at the Cooler master G200P SFF CPU cooler. Coming in at only 39.4mm in height, and sporting a 92mm RGB fan, the cooler takes aim at the ultra low profile market. While Tom’s Hardware was impressed by the coolers design, they were disappointed with the noise and cooling …
TLDR News – August 31, 2021
Life is short and you don’t have time to read the whole article. So here is the TLDR of various stories I’ve compiled throughou……JUST GO ALREADY! The tech heist of the century has occurred. Last year ARM’s board voted out their Chinese division’s CEO Allen Yu. Yu refused to leave, and hired his own private …
Asus Posts Windows 11 Motherboard Compatibility Website
Asus has posted a website listing Windows 11 compatibility of their motherboards. The list stretches all the way back to the Intel 100 series of the Skylake era, which launched in August of 2016. While the true compatibility level starts at the Intel 300 series and newer boards, Asus does state that older boards …
Review Roundup: MSI Spatium M480 and M470 NVME M.2 Gen4 SSD
Reviews have dropped for the PCIe Gen4 MSI Spatium M480 and M470 M.2 SSDs, and reviewers have given it their endorsement. The drives features Phison E18 and E16 controllers respectively, and are rated for speeds of 7,000MB/s for the M480, and 5,000MB/s for the M470. Both drives use TLC memory, and the M480 comes with …
TLDR NEWS: When You Don’t Have Time to Read It…
Welcome to TLDR News. Here I’m going to pick a few stories from around the computing world that might impact my fellow SFF users, and just write the TLDR for them. The original story link is next to the TLDR blerb… Fractal Designs has ordered a recall for their new Torrent PC Case due to …
G.Skill Launches Z5i Small Form Factor Case
G.Skill has entered the Small(ish) Form Factor ITX case market with the Z5i. The vertically designed Z5i supports a 280mm radiator/AIO, 70mm tall CPU cooler, ITX motherboard, PCIe 3.0 riser, 3 slot wide and up to 330mm long GPU, and SFX power supply. It can also house two 2.5 inch hard drives, and one 3.5 …
RTX 3080 and 3090 Blower Fan Cards Return But Only In China
RTX 3000 series blower style cards quietly disappeared several months ago. Galax is bringing them back but only for the Chinese market in the form of a RTX 3080 and 3090. Videocardz has posted a comparison article looking at the previous Galax models and found there are some minor changes to the PCB design. Here …
Digital Foundry Interviews Intel About ARC Alchemist Graphics
More graphics cards are coming and it’s not from AMD or Nvidia. Intel is planning to enter the dedicated GPU market with their new Alchemist GPU. Digital Foundry’s Richard Leadbetter and Alex Battaglia have done a fantastic interviews with Intel’s Lisa Pearce and Tom Pettersen. Topics include the architecture, machine learning, and Xe Super Sampling …