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TechSpot article Everything you need to know about small form factor PCs:
https://www.techspot.com/article/2119-e ... factor-pc/

TechPowerUp has a performance review up now:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/watc ... -analysis/

Digital Foundry has a video review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HC8cjfHSvo

The ray tracing reflections make quite a difference.

The DAN A4-SFX cases are really popular:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/dan-a4-sfx/

Here's a Silverstone SUGO 14 Mini-ITX case review:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/silv ... -sff-cube/

RTX 3070 add in board reviews are out now: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/zotac-geforce-rtx-3070-twin-edge-oc/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-3070-gaming-oc/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-geforce-rtx-3070-tuf-gaming-oc/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/evga-g...

It looks like a real demanding game, with a GeForce GTX 1080 only getting 40 FPS at 2560x1440 Ultra Quality. https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/watch-dogs-legion-pc-graphics-performance-benchmark-review,1.html https://www.thefpsreview.com/2020/10/28/watch-dogs-legion-ray-tracing-and-dlss-rtx-30-p...

Benchmark has a side by side comparison between the 3070 and 2080 TI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GG-Bie4Q5s

The NVidia 3070 Founders Edition reviews are out now. Looks like performance is about the same as the as the 2080 Ti. Websites: Techpowerup: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-founders-edition/ The FPS Review: https://www.thefpsreview.com/2020/10/27/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-fo...

Techspot has the webpage review of the Hardware Unboxed storage game loading tests: https://www.techspot.com/review/2116-st ... e-loading/

Like most people I prefer to scroll down to the charts rather then search for them in the video.

Linus gets a $7000 transparent TV to review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOhKULOL4o
Linus has a major issue at time index 12:28.

It's hard to come up with a use case for a transparent TV. Maybe Billionaires could use them for windows.

Linus reviews the LG CX OLED 48" TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9n8Hz_RLqw
Too big and expensive for me but they're getting there.

He gets to play with the coolest stuff.

SSD? pfft, my workstation is all NVMe :) Those NVMe drives read speeds are an impressive 7 times faster then the SATA SSDs. Unfortunately games aren't optimized for them, as you can see from the review's PCIe4 and 3 NVMe SSD drive results. Hopefully the Playstation 5 load speeds will inspire the de...

Hardware Unboxed looks at the Best SSD for Gaming: PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 vs SATA vs HDD Load Time Battle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COofLeqk_tM

Looks like there is not much of a difference between the various SSDs. As we'd expect mechanical hard drives are a lot slower.

Hardware Unboxed has a video up on the 3080 crashing investigation. It had nothing to do with the capacitors. The problem was also happening on NVIDIA Founders Edition and ASUS cards. It was entirely the fault of the NVIDIA windows drivers prior to 456.55 as previously mentioned. https://www.youtube...

Gamers Nexus compares the Founders Edition RTX 3080 Cooler and a Triple Fan cooler vs. CPU & RAM Temperature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWczw89sMe0

Looks like it doesn't make much of a difference in the operating temperature of an air cooled CPU.