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Valve Warns Not to Play on Steam Deck During Heat Periods
One of Steam Deck's social media profiles posted a warning against overheating the device during hot weather.
hardware & software
Kamil Cuber
July 20, 2022
Next-gen SSDs May Require Active Cooling
SSDs are getting faster with each generation. However, as performance increases, so does the amount of heat they emit, which may necessitate the use of active cooling.
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Dawid Wanat
March 29, 2022
RTX 3090 Ti Will Require Powerful Cooling
Nvidia GeForce 3090 Ti will be the most powerful GPU on the market. At the same time, it is supposed to be one of the largest chips. This is evidenced by photos recently made available on the web.
hardware & software
Martin Nothing
March 28, 2022
Nintendo Switch OLED with Better Joy-Con Mount and Smaller Cooling
iFixit took apart the Nintendo Switch OLED console. Inside it we find a smaller cooling system and better speakers.
hardware & software
Adrian Werner
October 14, 2021
New PS5 as Seen by Digital Foundry; Cooling Passes the Test
The editors of Digital Foundry and Gamer Nexus tested the new model of PlayStation 5. The conclusion? The refreshed version of the console does not differ from the previous ones.
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Jacob Blazewicz
September 17, 2021
Intel May Unveil New Cooling With Alder Lake CPUs
A Twitter post suggests that a new range of stock fans to cool Intel's 12th-gen CPUs may be in the pipeline.
hardware & software
September 13, 2021
New PS5 Not as Hot as Suggested
Thanks to the new cooling system, the CPU in the refreshed PS5 will be slightly cooler, but at the expense of RAM temperatures.
hardware & software
bachehe
September 10, 2021
RTX 3080 Cooled by a Magnetic Device Pulled Straight From a Forge
A Youtuber has built an efficient computer cooled without the use of fans. Instead, he used something like a magnetically driven bellows. The result is marvelous.
hardware & software
Arkadiusz Strzala
July 2, 2021
Passive-cooling RTX 3080 Tested in Fanless PC
Nvidia's flagship GPU without fans? Turemetal's Mical Wong, a specialist in silent computers, tests a completely passively cooled kit with RTX 3080 and... get your fire extinguishers ready and let's go.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
February 18, 2021
PS5s Differ in Noise Volume Depending on Installed Fan
The editors of French website Les Numeriques have put several PlayStation 5 consoles together and discovered that some PS5 sub-models are equipped with a different, slightly louder fan.
hardware & software
Bart Swiatek
December 1, 2020
PS5 Cooling Will be Improved With Updates
Yasuhiro Otori, Vice President of Sony's mechanical design department, was interviewed by the Japanese website 4Gamer. This enabled us to get to know some interesting details about PS5's cooling, including the fact that the operation of fans will be adjusted in software updates.
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Bart Swiatek
October 19, 2020
Xbox Series X Temperatures More Than Satisfactory
Tests by VentureBeat indicate that the Xbox Series X heats noticeably less than current generation consoles: Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro.
hardware & software
Bart Swiatek
October 16, 2020
PS5 Teardown Reveals Massive Cooling Unit
Sony presented a video in which a PlayStation 5 unit is being dismantled. We can see the construction of the device, an extensive cooling system and the place where we will insert an additional M.2 NVMe drive.
hardware & software
Paul Musiolik
October 7, 2020
Xbox Series X Has Heat Issues? True or Not, Rumors Persist
Information that has appeared in the impressions of some of the influencers testing Xbox Series X suggests that Microsoft's platform has a problem with the amount of heat it generates.
hardware & software
Bart Swiatek
October 7, 2020
Interesting Artistic Concept for PS5 Cooling
How It Works magazine features an illustration of PlayStation 5's cooling system. That said, this is just an artistic vision, an attempt to imagine the interior of PS5's unusual case.
hardware & software
Arkadiusz Strzala
September 4, 2020
Not Just RGB; Dedicated Mouse Cooling is Coming
For some time now, new features in computer mice have boiled down to better sensors, buttons and RGB. Maybe it's time for something new?
hardware & software
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
July 9, 2020
PS5 Devkit is One Hot Beast to Need Six Fans
A patent published yesterday revealed the cooling system of PlayStation 5's devkit. It consists of six fans and a steam chamber. Will a similar system dissipate heat in the final version?
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Arkadiusz Strzala
June 5, 2020
PS5 - Silent Running Thanks to Constant Power Consumption
Sony has been extremely slow in revealing the well-hidden cards related to PlayStation 5. The information revealed in yesterday's presentation of this console gives us hope that we will be dealing with a much quieter hardware than PlayStation 4.
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Christian Pieniazek
March 19, 2020
New Cooling in GPUs From AMD
AMD has decided to change cooling in the new generation 2 RDNA-based graphics cards. Things are to become quieter and much cooler from now on.
hardware & software
March 7, 2020