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Review Roundup: Phanteks T30-120 Fan
Reviews have dropped for Phanteks T30-120 fan with very positive results. Phanteks has clearly taken a shot directly at Noctua, but also put their own flare on the 120mm fan segment. A quick run down of the specs shows why people are talking about this fan: Sunon Magnetic Levitation bearings. Fiberglass reinforced liquid crystal polymer …
Retro Relook – Old SFF PCs
News for the SFF crowd is light right now, so let’s take a walk back in time to the old days of SFF. The really old days. I’m talking about when the term shoebox PC was the word of the day, and good cable management was just getting all the ketchup and mustard to fit. …
Tek Everything Reviews Osmi 3.1
We’re a bit late to this party, but SFF specialist Jay Mattison of the YouTube channel Tek Everything has done an in-depth review of the Osmi 3.1. The build included a Corsair SFX 450 Watt PSU, Gigabyte 2060 Mini (ITX) GPU , Ryzen R5 5600X, on a Gigabyte X570 ITX motherboard. Cooling duties for the …
Review Roundup: be quiet! Dark Rock TF 2
The be quiet! Dark Rock TF 2 reviews have dropped today and they are mostly positive. The C-style cooler was praised for VRM cooling, noise levels, and stylish looks. However, it was criticized for lackluster overclocking performance, price, and installation issues. Most reviews indicate that while the cooler may be a solid choice for small …
NVIDIA Announces RTX A2000 Low-Profile Workstation GPU
NVIDIA has announced the RTX A2000; a low-profile professional workstation GPU measuring in at only 2.7″ in height and 6.6″ in length. That would be 68.58mm height and 167.64mm for those on the Metric system. The RTX A2000 comes with 3,328 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus. Single-precision TFLOPS are listed …
Optimum Tech Goes Hands-On with Skyreach 4 Tiny (S4T)
Optmum Tech, a SFF focused YouTube tech channel has gone hands-on with Skyreach 4 Mini with a complete Ryzen 5600G APU build. While the processor left Optimum Tech wanting, the Skyreach 4 Mini was well received, and continues NFC’s well respected case design. Features of the Skyreach 4 Mini include: 3.3L base size that is …
Review Roundup: AMD Radeon 6600XT
The reviews for AMD’s Radeon 6600XT have dropped today and it’s not exactly favorable for AMD’s newest 1080P GPU. Reviewers have taken issue with the low memory bandwidth, PCI-E 8X limitation, poor ray-tracing performance, and high price. While the 6600XT can provide rasterized performance akin to the RTX 3060ti in AMD optimized games, it fails …
LTT Goes Hands-On With Steam Deck
Renowned tech YouTuber Linus Sebastian was invited to Valve’s HQ for a some hands-on time with the upcoming Valve Steam Deck. While he was limited to only an hour and a half with the device, he was able to get some basic performance metrics, compare it to similar machines, and provide a lot of insights …