Shouldn’t any dock that works via USB PD work for this as long as the lighter USB adapter is rated for enough juice?

For simple reference, cheap SD cards will have speeds around 75-100MB/s a gen 3 NVME SSD(What’s in the deck) Will have speeds around 2500-3500MB/s. (I should mention here that there are very substantial diminishing returns for many many games once you get beyond around 600MB/s speeds and you will not likely see a 3-5x faster load time in most games.)

High end SD cards can reach around 170-180+MB/s Which is about as fast as a pretty fast Spinning Hard drive, but with lower latency(Which is the biggest killer of HDDs, seeking to get the needed data).

Game load times will definitely be worse off of an SD card(Especially cheaper slow ones)

I picked a Samsung Pro 512GB SD card for my deck with claimed 180MB/s speeds. I’ve installed games onto it and even played Nioh 2 off of it. Load times weren’t terrrible, but could be faster. An inconvienence, but a cheap and easy way to double my decks storage and put lesser used games on the SD card.

You can also migrate a game from card to SSD or back easily.

Oh I’m not interested in personally seeing Arctic LFII benchmarks (I’m already running the LFII 420mm myself)

I just meant this person should have included one of the most well regarded coolers available. Having more people cover it is good, but you can’t really compare results between two different reviews very effectively with the number of variables that can change.

• CPU Bin/efficiency
• Ambient temps
• Case setup
• Mounting consistency/installation
• BIOS/Firmware differences
• Possible Software differences

and more I’m sure I didn’t think of.

Yeah, the “Year Roundup” only having 8 products…I’m guessing that’s not even 1/3rd of the number of AIOs that launched this year, let alone the best options from previous years.

Obviously a very useful “It runs fine on my PC” but I just had to pull my GPU to check an SSD and am glad to see both sides of my connector are completely fine over a year later, even while technically using it “out of spec” the whole time.

Odd that they don’t test Arctic, regularly regarded as the best and best price/perf.