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Valve Warns Not to Play on Steam Deck During Heat Periods

Kamil Cuber, 20 July 2022, 12:03

One of Steam Deck's social media profiles posted a warning against overheating the device during hot weather.

Next-gen SSDs May Require Active Cooling

Dawid Wanat, 29 March 2022, 12:55

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.

RTX 3090 Ti Will Require Powerful Cooling

Martin Nothing, 28 March 2022, 12:42

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.

Nintendo Switch OLED with Better Joy-Con Mount and Smaller Cooling

Adrian Werner, 14 October 2021, 13:18

iFixit took apart the Nintendo Switch OLED console. Inside it we find a smaller cooling system and better speakers.

New PS5 as Seen by Digital Foundry; Cooling Passes the Test

Jacob Blazewicz, 17 September 2021, 17:40

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.

Intel May Unveil New Cooling With Alder Lake CPUs

GRG, 13 September 2021, 14:36

A Twitter post suggests that a new range of stock fans to cool Intel's 12th-gen CPUs may be in the pipeline.

New PS5 Not as Hot as Suggested

bachehe, 10 September 2021, 12:48

Thanks to the new cooling system, the CPU in the refreshed PS5 will be slightly cooler, but at the expense of RAM temperatures.

RTX 3080 Cooled by a Magnetic Device Pulled Straight From a Forge

Arkadiusz Strzala, 02 July 2021, 16:17

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.

Passive-cooling RTX 3080 Tested in Fanless PC

Arkadiusz Strzala, 18 February 2021, 15:46

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.

PS5s Differ in Noise Volume Depending on Installed Fan

Bart Swiatek, 01 December 2020, 13:56

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.

PS5 Cooling Will be Improved With Updates

Bart Swiatek, 19 October 2020, 14:10

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.

Xbox Series X Temperatures More Than Satisfactory

Bart Swiatek, 16 October 2020, 13:39

Tests by VentureBeat indicate that the Xbox Series X heats noticeably less than current generation consoles: Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro.

PS5 Teardown Reveals Massive Cooling Unit

Paul Musiolik, 07 October 2020, 20:06

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.

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

Bart Swiatek, 07 October 2020, 12:04

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.

Interesting Artistic Concept for PS5 Cooling

Arkadiusz Strzala, 04 September 2020, 20:28

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.

Not Just RGB; Dedicated Mouse Cooling is Coming

Mikolaj Laszkiewicz, 09 July 2020, 15:39

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?

PS5 Devkit is One Hot Beast to Need Six Fans

Arkadiusz Strzala, 05 June 2020, 13:55

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?

PS5 - Silent Running Thanks to Constant Power Consumption

Christian Pieniazek, 19 March 2020, 21:05

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.

New Cooling in GPUs From AMD

Frozen, 07 March 2020, 21:22

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.