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Zotac Updates Its ZBOX E-Series and C-Series Mini PC’s
Zotac has today announced the latest additions to its ZBOX E-Series and C-Series Mini PCs offering high-performance computing in a small form factor. Zotac Magnus Series Two new additions to the lineup are the Magnus One and the Magnus EN both offering powerful performance in a small form factor. The…
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Passive Cooling Gets Taken to the Extreme With a 4kg Chunk of Copper
Whether you utilised an air cooler, AIO solution, or perhaps even a custom-loop setup, cooling methodologies within PC designs are, typically speaking, fairly uniform in their overall concept and application. – While there are, of course, passive cooling options (such as the Noctua NH-P1), however, they typically don’t tend to…
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Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler Review
For an exceptionally long time now, Noctua has regularly teased that development was underway for an entirely passive CPU cooling solution. Yes, the giants of air cooling were working on a new design that would supposedly be capable of high-end performance without the need for a dedicated fan. Rather a…
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Noctua NH-P1 Passive Cooler & LS-PWM Fans are Here!
Great news from the Noctua team today, as the much-anticipated NH-P1 CPU cooler as well as the optional NF-A12x25 LS-PWM 120mm fans are here at last! The cooler features fanless operation and the NH-P1 is capable of cooling modern high-end CPUs with low to moderate heat dissipation completely passively. Of…
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Retailer Briefly Lists Noctua NH-P1 Fanless CPU Cooler
It’s been well known for a couple of years now that Noctua was working on new passively cooled products. With recent reports suggesting that an official launch was imminent, following a report via TechPowerUp it seems that one major online retailer may have accidentally jumped the gun a little as,…
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Noctua’s Passive CPU Coolers Are “Coming Very Soon”
It’s been known for quite a while now that Noctua has been working on something potentially very exciting indeed. Namely, a passive CPU cooler. Just to confirm what this means for those of you unaware, this will be a CPU cooling solution that does not require dedicated fans of any…
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SilverStone Launches its Nightjar NJ700 Fanless PSU
For those in the know, SilverStone is widely represented as being one of the best manufacturers of power supplies around. As such, when they release something new to the market, you can always be pretty certain that it’s going to be worth checking out. – With the launch of their…
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Noctua Delays Launch of its Passive CPU Cooler
You may recall that just before Christmas, images appeared online teasing the launch of Noctua’s long-anticipated passive CPU cooler. Now, as the name might suggest, the key point of interest surround this new product was the fact that it would be an entirely fanless design and, coming from Noctua, it…
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Palit Releases its Passively Cooled GeForce® GTX 1650 KalmX
Palit has been one of the few companies to really explore the passively cooled market within the Nvidia 16XX range. Admittedly, in most situations, such a graphics card is never ideal. With a decent amount of airflow in a system, however, it can often be a preferable solution. Particularly for…
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PNY Launch Passively Cooled Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 & 6000
The mere concept of a passively cooled workstation graphics card seems, quite frankly, bizarre. While admittedly not unheard of, as you probably know (presuming you own just a gaming graphics card), cooling is a key factor in their design. Put simply, if you decide to run your AMD 5700 XT…
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Zotac Announces Passively-Cooled ZBOX C Series Mini-PCs
Strong and Silent Mini-PCs from Zotac ZOTAC is rolling out their new C-series ZBOX Nano mini-PCs and it improves not just in performance but cooling as well. These ZBOX Nano models come with Intel‘s 8th Gen Core processors which are up to 20% faster than 7th Gen models. By design,…
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Aqua Computer Announces kryoM.2 micro and kryoM.2 evo Cooling Solutions
Aqua Computer has announced the availability of their latest kryoM.2 micro and kryoM.2 evo cooling solutions specifically designed for keeping M.2 SSD drives thermally in check. Unlike the usual Aqua Computer product which are water-cooled, these kryoM.2 units are passive air-cooled solutions. The kryoM.2 micro is a simple heatsink kit…
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Shuttle Launches DS77U Ultra-Slim Media Player Series
Shuttle creates some impressive compact systems for various occasions and the newest family member is no different. Shuttle announced the launch of a new fanless 4K digital signage player powered by Intel Kaby Lake-U processors, including Celeron and Core i3/i5/i7. The new system is called the DS77U and it will be…
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Calyos to Showcase Fanless NSG Kits and NSG-S0 Systems at CES
Calyos is a Belgian company specializing in fanless cooling solutions and has announced that they will be present at CES 2017 in Las Vegas to demonstrate their CALYTRONICS Liquid Heatpipe-based technology used in their NSG Cube kit and NSG-S0 systems. Much of the noise generated by a running PC, especially…
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Researchers Develop Wi-Fi Transmission That Uses 10,000 Times Less Power
Researchers from the University of Washington have discovered a method of Wi-Fi transmission that uses significantly lower power up to 10,000 times less than conventional methods. Score one for those looking to lower battery consumption for mobile devices as wireless connectivity is one of the largest battery resource drains. The…
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