Topic: thermal management
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Razer Blade 18 Review: Big, Light, and the Fastest Gaming Laptop
The Razer Blade 18 is an 18-inch gaming laptop that, at 7 pounds, is significantly lighter than rivals like the Alienware 18 Area-51 and Lenovo Legion 9i, making it relatively portable for occasional travel despite its large footprint. Its defining feature is a dual-mode IPS display that toggles ...
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Watch Coolant Flow Inside Ugreen’s Liquid-Cooled Power Bank
Ugreen has launched the MagFlow Pro, a premium 10,000mAh power bank featuring the world’s first integrated liquid-cooling system to manage heat during wireless charging. The device utilizes CryoPulse technology with a micro-pump and copper foil to maintain performance at up to 25W while keeping t...
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Inside a 10Gbit SFP+ Network Adapter: Autopsy Photos
A teardown of overheating 10 Gbit SFP+ modules (hitting 40°C at idle and causing frame drops) revealed a Marvell Alaska X PHY chip with a heatsink glued to the IC, and power draw climbing to 2.5 watts, causing thermal stress and PCB discoloration. The modules contained an 8051-based microcontroll...
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MacBook Pro Upgrade That Excites Me (It’s Not OLED)
Apple is releasing a major MacBook Pro redesign in 2026, featuring OLED displays, touch screens, M6 Pro/Max chips, and a Dynamic Island cutout. The redesign will make the MacBook Pro thinner and lighter, particularly benefiting the 16-inch model which has historically felt heavy for frequent trav...
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Framework Laptop Returns With Major Upgrades and Familiar Trade-Offs
The Framework Laptop 16 for 2025 features significant hardware upgrades including new AMD Ryzen AI processors, Wi-Fi 7, enhanced cooling, and a user-replaceable Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics module, delivering substantial performance improvements. Despite its modularity and upgradeability, the laptop ...
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Top Gaming Laptops of 2025: Our Expert Reviews
The Razer Blade 16 (2025) is an exceptional all-around gaming laptop with a stunning display, powerful RTX 5090 graphics, and impressive cooling, earning a 90% rating for its polished experience. The Asus TUF A14 (2025) offers strong gaming performance and portability in a sleek 14-inch design, h...
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Longsys' 2mm MicroSSD Breaks Speed Records
Longsys has introduced a compact microSSD (20x30mm, 2mm thick) that achieves high-speed PCIe Gen4x4 performance with read/write speeds up to 7400MB/s and 6500MB/s, rivaling larger M.2 drives. The mSSD uses System-in-Package technology to integrate components, reducing solder joints and improving ...
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My 2025 iPhone Upgrade Advice Has Radically Changed
The standard iPhone 17 offers exceptional value at $799, featuring a 120Hz ProMotion display, a 48MP dual-camera system, and doubled base storage to 256GB, making it a strong alternative to previous Pro models. The iPhone Air showcases cutting-edge design with its ultra-thin and lightweight build...
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Score a 4TB Crucial P310 SSD for Just 5 Cents/GB
The Crucial P310 PCIe Gen4 SSD offers high capacity and significant discounts, with the 2TB model at $112 and the 4TB at $202, making it a great value for expanding storage without deleting files. It features a Phison E27T controller and 232-layer Micron QLC NAND-flash, delivering fast sequential...
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D: 10 Years Later, Still a Legend
AMD re-released the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a 10th Anniversary Edition at $340, down from the original $450, aiming to make 3D V-Cache gaming performance more accessible amid rising DDR5 memory costs. The anniversary chip is identical to the 2022 version,8 Zen 3 cores, 96 MB L3 cache, 105 W TDP, and n...
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StreamFast SSD Concept Cuts Memory Use by Ditching FTL and DRAM
The StreamFast architecture eliminates the Flash Translation Layer and controller DRAM from SSDs, using a file-system-centric design that assigns sequential addresses to data streams, drastically cutting memory needs and power consumption. This approach solves the scaling "DRAM crunch" by reducin...
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The Brutal Economics of Orbital AI
The vision for orbital AI data centers is driven by the belief that space will soon be the cheapest location for AI compute, with major companies racing to develop prototypes despite significant technical and economic hurdles. The primary economic barriers are the immense costs of launch and sate...
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HP EliteBoard G1a: A Keyboard With a Built-In PC
The HP EliteBoard G1a is a fully functional, portable PC built into a keyboard chassis, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processor for modern AI workloads. It emphasizes user serviceability with modular, easily replaceable components like RAM and SSD, and is designed for professional portabi...
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iPhone 17 Buyer's Guide: Which Model Is Right for You?
The iPhone 17 series introduces four models: the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, each with distinct features and the discontinuation of the Plus model. Key improvements across all models include enhanced display quality, processing power, and camera performance, wi...
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Series: The Most Intuitive AI Phone
The Samsung Galaxy S26 series introduces powerful AI integration and hardware, including a customized Snapdragon chip for significant performance gains in CPU, NPU, and GPU, enabling efficient, all-day use with advanced thermal management and fast charging. It features an industry-leading camera ...
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Galaxy S26: Faster, Pricier, and Packed With AI
The Samsung Galaxy S26 series introduces a focus on enhanced performance and pioneering **Agentic AI**, though this technology contributes to price increases for the base and Plus models. Key hardware upgrades include a custom Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor for powerful on-device AI and a lar...
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Refresh Your PC on a Budget: A New Case Makes All the Difference
Upgrading your PC case is a cost-effective way to refresh your entire setup, offering both aesthetic appeal and functional benefits without needing new core components. A new case can significantly improve system performance by enhancing internal airflow, which lowers temperatures for better comp...
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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review: Speed Gains at a Power Cost
The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a modest refresh of its predecessor, offering a higher 5.6GHz turbo clock speed that now exceeds its non-V-Cache counterpart, effectively closing a key performance gap. It builds on AMD's refined 3D V-Cache technology, integrating 64MB of extra L3 cache to deliver signi...
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Phison's New Controller Boosts PCIe 5.0 SSD Speed, Cuts Heat & Cost
Phison's new E37T PCIe Gen5 controller aims to make next-generation SSDs faster, cooler, and more affordable, addressing heat and cost concerns for gamers and mobile users. The controller delivers high performance with speeds up to 14.7 GB/s read and 13.0 GB/s write, while its efficient, DRAM-les...
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Enterprise SSDs vs. Traditional SSDs: 10 Key Differences Explained
Enterprise SSDs are engineered for continuous, heavy workloads with predictable performance and high endurance, measured by Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD), unlike consumer SSDs designed for sporadic use and rated by Total Terabytes Written (TBW). Consistent performance under demanding conditions is ...
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