Wait, plastic heat sinks work?

MeLE stands firm: plastic heat sink cases are a good idea. The Chinese company launches the Cyber X1, a beefed up version of their popular Quieter series. The case features hundreds of plastic spikes and we'll admit that it does look cool. The N150-powered mini PC features 16GB of soldered DDR5 memory and a 512 GB PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage drive. For connectivity, the Cyber X1 offers dual HDMI 2.0 outputs, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Type-A ports, a USB 2.0 Type-A port, and a Gigabit Ethernet port. It also supports Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.1 and has a microSD card reader. We're happy to see MeLE plastic PCs selling well, but we'll probably stick to good old aluminum cases.

Source: AndroidPC via Liliputing 

Rugged to the extreme: Karbon 525

The OnLogic Karbon 525 is a rugged, fanless industrial computer engineered for the most demanding edge environments, particularly those requiring intensive AI or advanced graphics processing in extreme conditions. This system leverages powerful Intel® Core™ Ultra processing and features a unique isolated expansion compartment configurable with an NVIDIA MXM AI GPU, delivering unwavering performance and accelerated AI at the extreme edge.

https://www.onlogic.com/store/k525/

Rugged to the extreme: Karbon 524

The OnLogic Karbon 524 is a rugged, fanless industrial computer engineered for the most demanding edge environments requiring significant processing and accelerated graphical capabilities via PCIe expansion. This system leverages powerful Intel® Core™ Ultra processing and provides a robust platform for discrete GPUs or other PCIe-based expansion, delivering unwavering performance in extreme conditions, including those requiring automotive power.

https://www.onlogic.com/store/k524/

Rugged to the extreme: Karbon 523

The OnLogic Karbon 523 is a rugged, fanless industrial computer engineered for the most demanding edge environments requiring highly flexible and customizable I/O. This system leverages powerful Intel® Core™ Ultra processing to deliver reliable performance, while its dual ModBay expansion bays enable a wide range of additional connectivity options, even in extreme conditions or mobile applications with automotive power.

https://www.onlogic.com/store/k523/

Rugged to the extreme: Karbon 522

The OnLogic Karbon 522 is a rugged, fanless industrial computer designed for the most demanding edge environments. This system leverages powerful Intel® Core™ Ultra processing and features dual 2.5", hot-swappable storage drives, delivering reliable performance and maximum uptime in extreme conditions, including those requiring automotive power.

https://www.onlogic.com/store/k522/

Rugged to the extreme: Karbon 521

The OnLogic Karbon 521 is a rugged, low-profile industrial computer engineered to perform reliably in the most challenging edge environments. Leveraging powerful Intel® Core™ Ultra processing, this system delivers unwavering performance for industrial automation, remote deployments, and in-vehicle applications.

https://www.onlogic.com/store/k521/

cirrus7's modularity

Here's a closer look at the different sizes of nimbini, the fanless NUC from cirrus7 (with the company's mini-STX system below for reference). The physical size of nimbini is directly tied to its cooling capacity. A version designed for a higher-power CPU or heavy workloads can have more layers, and a larger overall volume to handle the increased heat. The system doesn't feature heat pipes and rely on a copper core for a truly solid state PC. We're completely sold on it.

The bigger the better

Source: LiquidHaus 

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Passively cool everything

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Monochrome is complete

This fanless Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is now complete and it's a success. Cooling a high-octane AMD processor passively is tough enough, but doing it with such style is really impressive. "I found a special condition where the APU heats up beyond 80°C. Maybe that happens at mix loads of CPU and iGPU. Anyhow in game at Cyberpunk it was similar to Eriksholm but when entering the game menu overlay of Cyberpunk temperatures of the CPU die immediately jumped up to 88°C. Tjmax of the 395 is 100°C, thanks to its mobile heritage. When leaving the menu it immediately jumped back to around 78°C. All in all the system is running within expectations I have to say."

Source: smallformfactor