Small form factor takes center stage today as MSI drops a Project Zero case, NiPoGi ships a whisper-quiet 7735HS mini-PC, and FSP squeezes 1,200 watts into an SFX-L power supply. Noctua breaks into closed-loop cooling with the NL-LC1 series, delivering custom-loop-tier thermals at near-silent noise levels for $249.95 and $279.90. Gigabyte finally tames the glossy OLED mirror problem with its $600 MO27Q28GR, while AMD's new Ryzen 7 7700X3D challenges the 7800X3D at a $329 price point. Sim racers, mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, and resin printers get solid upgrades from Simagic, EPOMAKER, and Anycubic, rounding out a packed daily digest of hardware.
Today in Hardware Reviews: SFX-L Power, Glossy OLEDs, and Budget PSUs Punching Above Their Weight
Small form factor keeps eating the desktop enthusiast market from the inside. Today's roundup lands a stack of reviews that double down on compact builds, alongside a glossy OLED that finally stops looking like a mirror and a $90 power supply that refuses to act cheap. You will find cases, mini-PCs, coolers, and a few peripherals that probably shouldn't exist yet.
Let's start with the MSI MPG Vixta 300R PZ case review from Club386. It is a Project Zero ATX case built around a floating base and extensive back-connect cutouts. You get up to nine 120mm fans, a 360mm top radiator, and full I/O including a 20Gb/s USB-C port. Build time landed right around an hour. The GPU holder lock screws hide themselves once the card is seated, and the PSU chamber feels tight, but the airflow results are solid. Idle noise sits at 33 dBA, and Cyberpunk 2077 RT Ultra runs the GPU at a stable 60°C. At £119 / $129 it lands on Club386's recommended list.
Club386: MSI MPG Vixta 300R PZ review: a stylish floating PC case
Promising heightened airflow and a unique look with its floating design, the MPG Vixta 300R PZ is a great chassis for back-connect builds.
MSI MPG Vixta 300R PZ review: a stylish floating PC case | Club386
Next, the NiPoGi Hyper H1 shrinks an AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS into a chassis barely bigger than a hardcover book. Igor'sLAB measured idle draw at 5.9 watts and peak load at roughly 53 watts. The cooler tops out at 35.4 dBA under stress. Gaming numbers hover around 100 FPS for CS2 and GTA V at 1080p low settings. It is not squeezing every last watt out of the 7735HS compared to rival Mini-PCs using the exact same chip, but the thermal and acoustic headroom is genuinely impressive. Grab one for roughly €494 with the right coupon code.
IgorsLAB: NiPoGi Hyper H1 Review: 7735HS, Performance and Noise
The NiPoGi Hyper H1 with 7735HS outperforms the Hyper H2, remains quiet and cool, but delivers less performance than other Mini-PCs with the same CPU.
Filling out the compact theme is FSP's Dagger PM 1200W. TechPowerUp notes it packs 1,200 watts of pure output into an SFX-L shell measuring just 125 by 125 by 63.5 millimeters. The unit uses 0.7 mΩ Infineon MOSFETs and pushes direct heat into the case chassis. It clears 80 Plus Platinum and Cybenetics Platinum, carries ATX 3.1 compliance, and includes a native 12V-2x6 cable. A 120mm fluid dynamic bearing fan keeps things quiet, and the whole thing weighs 1.25 kilograms. Ten years on the warranty. FSP designs its own silicon, which keeps the markup chain short and the engineering honest.
TechPowerUp: FSP Dagger PM 1200W Review
FSP has crammed a 1200 W power output into an SFX-L enclosure using 0.7 mΩ Infineon MOSFETs and direct casing heat dissipation. On paper, it packs full ATX 3.1 compliance, a native 12V-2x6 cable, and dual 8-pin CPU support into a size usually reserved for lower-power builds.
Speaking of power, Tom's Hardware tested the Montech Century II Gold 850W. It targets the mainstream Gold-tier market at a striking $90. The unit runs a half-bridge LLC platform with 100% Japanese capacitors on the primary side. It clears Cybenetics Platinum efficiency and carries ATX 3.1 compliance. Voltage regulation is solid, and the native 600W 12V-2x6 connector handles modern GPUs without breaking a sweat. Tom's Hardware says it punches well above its weight against significantly pricier competition. Solid numbers for the price.
Tom's Hardware: Montech Century II Gold 850W power supply review: Excellent budget-friendly Gold-tier ATX 3.1 unit with Cybenetics Platinum efficiency
A standout at the $90 mark
Heat, Silicon, and Displays
Noctua has never done closed-loop liquid cooling, and the NL-LC1-36 and NL-LC1-42 prove the brand meant business. EnosTech ran a Ryzen 9 9900X on both units and the results sit at the very top of the 360mm class. The 420mm variant takes the overall crown. Peak temps landed around 78.5°C on the 360mm in manual pump mode. What actually sells these coolers is the noise floor. They run silent at 100 percent PWM while still clearing benchmarks that rival custom loop setups. The Asetek Emma V2 Gen 8 pump features three layers of acoustic foam damping, and an optional NL-ACF1 top fan drops VRM temps by roughly 9°C. Pricing lands at $249.95 for the 360mm and $279.90 for the 420mm. Steep. Silently excellent, absolutely.
EnosTech.com: Noctua NL-LC1-36 and NL-LC1-42 Liquid Coolers Review: Impressive Performance
Noctua has landed in the water cooling market with three liquid coolers: Noctua has used the high-performance, flagship pump Emma V2 Gen 8 from Asetek. Noctua has customized the pump housing design to absorb maximum sound coming from the pump by introducing three layers of acoustic foam.
Noctua NL-LC1-36 and NL-LC1-42 Liquid Coolers Review: Impressive Performance - EnosTech.com
On the CPU front, The FPS Review is comparing the new AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D against the established Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Same eight cores, same 96MB of L3 cache, same Zen 4 Raphael die. The 7700X3D drops the boost clock from 5.0 GHz to 4.5 GHz and cuts the MSRP from $449 to $329. Benchmarks run at 1080p on an RTX 5090 FE to keep the GPU from bottlenecking the comparison. The reviewer is isolating real in-game manual benchmarks rather than auto-generated suites. If you already own an AM5 board and want peak gaming performance without paying the 7800X3D tax, keep an eye on that $329 price tag.
The FPS Review: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU Review
We pit the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D versus AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D in games to find out the performance difference, test power, temp, frequency, and benchmarks.
Glossy OLED monitors have always looked incredible until you tried using them near a window. Gigabyte's MO27Q28GR finally solves that problem. TechPowerUp says the RealBlack Glossy coating passes UL certification for full black reproduction at 500 lux of ambient light. The 27-inch panel pushes 280 Hz from an LG fourth-generation WOLED sheet with a 0.03 ms response time. HDR hits 1,500 cd/m² on small windows, and the subpixel layout shift from RWBG to RGWB dramatically cuts text fringing. It retails for $600, matching its matte sibling dollar for dollar.
TechPowerUp: Gigabyte MO27Q28GR Review - Gloss Without the Glare
Gigabyte's MO27Q28GR pairs a 280 Hz fourth-generation tandem WOLED panel with a RealBlack Glossy coating that finally makes a glossy OLED workable in a normally lit room. It also hits the highest peak brightness we have measured on an OLED monitor, and there's an even better feature.
Sim racers get a solid pick from TweakTown's handbrake testing. The Simagic TB-Neo runs a 100kg load cell inside a CNC machined aluminum body. TweakTown scored it 96% overall. I spent about twenty minutes fiddling with the dual mounting modes, and it honestly changed how I route my desk cables. The base unit sells for $139, and you can bolt on a P-HYSi hydraulic module or a P-HPR haptic reactor for deeper drift and rally immersion. Even without upgrades, the signal across the full 0 to 100 kg pull range stays consistent.
TweakTown: Simagic TB-Neo Racing Sim Handbrake Review
Simagic's TB-Neo is a modular racing sim handbrake with strong build quality, great feel, and upgrade paths for drift and rally rigs.
For the desk, EPOMAKER teamed up with designer vvyruus on a 130-key PBT Cherry profile set. Funky Kit gave it an 8.6 out of 10. Five-side dye-sublimation keeps the pixel-art legends from fading, though reading them at a glance takes a moment. The ANSI layout leaves ISO keyboard users out in the cold, and the legends do not shine through for RGB builds. The $39.99 price keeps it firmly in impulse-buy territory.
Funky Kit: Epomaker × vvyruus Retromania Keycaps Set Review
The EPOMAKER × vvyruus Retromania Keycaps Set is a keycap set that immediately stands out from the typical minimalist designs we see across the mechanical keyboard market. Taking inspiration from retro gaming and pixel-art aesthetics, the set combines bold colours, playful graphics and detailed legends to give a keyboard a much more distinctive personality. Rather than simply changing the colour of your board, Retromania is designed to become a major part of the overall look.
Epomaker × vvyruus Retromania Keycaps Set Review - Funky Kit
Tom's Hardware named the Anycubic Photon P1 MAX an Editor's Choice for large format resin printing. The 285 by 214 by 300mm build volume pairs with a 12K monochrome LCD and a 1-inch screen. New to the lineup is Wave Release film that stops air bubbles from trapping during the peel cycle, plus a vat that actually maintains 35°C throughout the print instead of cooling off halfway through. Presale sits at $1,103, then jumps to $1,149. A Diablo Tyrael figure at 0.05mm layers prints in just over seven hours using roughly 254 milliliters of resin.
Tom's Hardware: Anycubic Photon P1 MAX review: bigger, better, and tech-packed
If you’re after a bigger, feature-packed resin printer, Anycubic P1 Max should be at the top of your list.
Anycubic Photon P1 MAX review: bigger, better, and tech-packed
Today's stack proves compact hardware is not a compromise anymore. FSP is pushing 1,200 watts into SFX-L shells, MSI built a back-connect case that actually stays quiet, and Noctua just forced custom loop builders to rethink their noise budgets. If you are hunting for a glossy OLED that does not fight your morning light, Gigabyte's MO27Q28GR is the one to watch.
