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First AirJet-equipped mini PC tested, Zotac's ZBox PI430AJ has an incredibly thin chassis with N300 CPU

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Zotac's ZBox PI430AJ mini PC is the first computer to use Frore System's fanless AirJet cooler, and as tested by HKEPC , it's not a gimmick. Two AirJet coolers were able to keep Intel's N300 CPU below 70 degrees Celsius under load, allowing for an incredibly thin mini PC with impressive performance.

AirJet is the only active cooling solution for PCs that doesn't use fans; even so-

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Apple Silicon|Intel

MSI MEG Z790 Godlike MAX Motherboard Review: the Apex of Features and Price

Tom's Hardware Verdict

At roughly $1,200, you should expect the best, and you get the best with the MEG Z89Godlike Max. From the TB4 ports and seven M.2 sockets to the overkill power delivery and premium aesthetic, there’s a lot to like here if you have the money to spend.

Pros

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    Seven M.2 sockets

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    Flagship-class audio

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    10 GbE and Wi-

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Meteor Lake laptop chip performs like Ryzen 7 desktop PC chip in leaked benchmark — next-gen 16-core Ultra 9 185H flaunts 5.1 GHz at 45W

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A Weibo user has leaked images and system specifications of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Book 4, which uses Intel's Core Ultra 9 185H Meteor Lake CPU (via @9550pro on X ). The leak includes clear images of the internal layout of the Galaxy Book 4 (presumably the Ultra model) and screenshots from CPU-Z.

Unfortunately, we didn't get much benchmarking data from this leak since the leaker was, in

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Apple Silicon|Intel

China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions

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Chinese foundry SMIC may have broken the 5nm process barrier, as evidenced by a new Huawei laptop listed with an advanced chip with 5nm manufacturing tech — a feat previously thought impossible due to U.S sanctions.

This year, SMIC shocked the world after it began mass production of Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000S processor using its second-gen 7nm process technology. But the company seems to have at least one more trick up its sleeve: a 5nm

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Walletripper: $1,300 Threadripper 7000 motherboard costs almost as much as the cheapest 12-core Pro chip

Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE (Image credit: Asus)

Announced in October, the Asus Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard has finally gone up for preorder with an eye-watering $1,299.99 price tag, just $100 cheaper than the 12-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7945WX. The premium motherboard, which caters to AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 WX-series (Storm Peak) processors

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Corsair Vengeance i7500 Review: Fast and Furious

Tom's Hardware Verdict

Corsair’s Vengeance i7500 is exceptionally fast and looks right out of the aftermarket. There’s no doubt it’s a pretty penny, but it’s no more than the competition and comes with a longer warranty.

Pros

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    Exceptional performance

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    Quiet operation

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    Top-notch build quality

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    Two-year warranty

Cons

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    Expensive with RTX 4090

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    No RGB lighting on RTX 4090 as tested

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(PR) Other World Computing Introduces the Express 1M2 USB4 Enclosure with Speeds up to 3151 MB/s

Other World Computing www.OWC.com -- the leading end-to-end ecosystem solution provider of computer hardware, accessories, and software for both consumers and professionals - today introduced the Express 1M2, the first USB4 drive and fastest single blade NVMe OWC has ever offered.

Exceptional Speed, Ultimate Flexibility
The OWC Express 1M2 was purposefully built to maximize the performance capabilities of today's and tomorrow's USB4-equipped Macs and PCs. It offers photo and video professionals, DITs
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Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel 144-core Sierra Forest CPU benchmark shows strong performance, but still falls behind AMD's Bergamo

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Intel's upcoming Sierra Forest server chip has leaked onto Geekbench 6 with impressive multi-core performance (via BenchLeaks ). Sierra Forest comes with up to 144  efficiency cores, and it's slated to arrive in the first half of 2024. The server CPU is expected to compete directly with AMD's Zen 4c Bergamo server CPUs and ARM-based server chips like those made by Ampere .

The Sierra Forest server tested on Geekbench

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) Two New Marvell OCTEON 10 Processors Bring Server-Class Performance to Networking Devices

Marvell Technology, a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, is enabling networking equipment and firewall manufacturers achieve breakthrough levels of performance and efficiency with two new OCTEON 10 data processing units (DPUs), the OCTEON 10 CN102 and OCTEON 10 CN103. The 5 nm OCTEON CN102 and CN103, broadly available to OEMs for product design and pilot production, are optimized for data and control plane applications in routers, firewalls, 5G small cells, SD-

Apple Silicon

蘋果或明年3月發佈M3版MacBook Air,預計不會有設計上的變化

蘋果在今年6月,推出了全新設計的MacBook Air,採用了無風扇靜音設計,配備了15.3英寸Liquid視網膜顯示屏,搭載了M2芯片,擁有長達18小時的電池續航時間,提供了午夜色、星空色、深空灰和銀色四種配色可選。隨着蘋果在