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Valve Warns Not to Play on Steam Deck During Heat Periods

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

Valve Warns Not to Play on Steam Deck During Heat Periods
Next-gen SSDs May Require Active Cooling

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.

hardware & software

Dawid Wanat

March 29, 2022

Next-gen SSDs May Require Active Cooling
RTX 3090 Ti Will Require Powerful Cooling

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

RTX 3090 Ti Will Require Powerful Cooling
Nintendo Switch OLED with Better Joy-Con Mount and Smaller Cooling

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

Nintendo Switch OLED with Better Joy-Con Mount and Smaller Cooling
New PS5 as Seen by Digital Foundry; Cooling Passes the Test

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.

hardware & software

Jacob Blazewicz

September 17, 2021

New PS5 as Seen by Digital Foundry; Cooling Passes the Test
Intel May Unveil New Cooling With Alder Lake CPUs

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

Intel May Unveil New Cooling With Alder Lake CPUs
New PS5 Not as Hot as Suggested

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

New PS5 Not as Hot as Suggested
RTX 3080 Cooled by a Magnetic Device Pulled Straight From a Forge

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

RTX 3080 Cooled by a Magnetic Device Pulled Straight From a Forge
Passive-cooling RTX 3080 Tested in Fanless PC

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.

hardware & software

Arkadiusz Strzala

February 18, 2021

Passive-cooling RTX 3080 Tested in Fanless PC
PS5s Differ in Noise Volume Depending on Installed Fan

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

PS5s Differ in Noise Volume Depending on Installed Fan
PS5 Cooling Will be Improved With Updates

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.

hardware & software

Bart Swiatek

October 19, 2020

PS5 Cooling Will be Improved With Updates
Xbox Series X Temperatures More Than Satisfactory

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

Xbox Series X Temperatures More Than Satisfactory
PS5 Teardown Reveals Massive Cooling Unit

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

PS5 Teardown Reveals Massive Cooling Unit
Xbox Series X Has Heat Issues? True or Not, Rumors Persist

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

Xbox Series X Has Heat Issues? True or Not, Rumors Persist

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

Interesting Artistic Concept for PS5 Cooling

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

Not Just RGB; Dedicated Mouse Cooling is Coming

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?

hardware & software

Arkadiusz Strzala

June 5, 2020

PS5 Devkit is One Hot Beast to Need Six Fans

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.

hardware & software

Christian Pieniazek

March 19, 2020

PS5 - Silent Running Thanks to Constant Power Consumption

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

New Cooling in GPUs From AMD