Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 power connector – Is NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 Ti* the dawn of a new era? | Exclusive

With up to three 8-pin connectors for current high-end graphics cards, the result is a cable-connector tangle that is slowly but surely reaching the limits of what is acceptable and sensible. The old 6+2 Molex connectors in this form are now technically simply obsolete. The 12-pin Microfit connector on NVIDIA’s Founders Edition was [...]


Faster than light? Definetely not with the memory – Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Tachyon test with teardown and overclocking

Gigabyte’s Z590 Aorus Tachyon, unlike many other Rocket Lake XOC (Extreme Overclocking)  motherboards, has been available virtually since the platform’s launch, albeit in fairly limited quantities. A 2-DIMM topology optimized for RAM overclocking, ample power supply and OC features en masse are supposed to squeeze out the absolute [...]


SanDisk Professional G-Drive SSD 2TB Review – Portable, secure and not quite cheap data grave with USB 3.2 in practice

With the SanDisk Professional G-Drive SSD 2TB, Western Digital offers a shock-proof and also dust-proof according to IP67 as well as (at least for a short time) protected against accidental submersion, which fits in pretty much every trouser pocket, even if it is quite narrow. Such a thing is called rugged design, so it is a kind of BMX bike among [...]


It gets better and better – Scythe Kaze Flex 120 ARGB case fan up to 1800 RPM, lots of pressure, extreme thirst and surprisingly little noise

I’m always amazed at how much has and is happening in the case fan field lately. With the Scythe Kaze Flex 120 ARGB one sends nowmahe also in this country an illuminated bolide into the race, which is to appear emphatic and determined, however not too loudly. The fact that it also illuminates the waste heat in a nice colourful way is a nice [...]


Intel Core i9-12900K, i9-12900F and i5-12400 – Pictures of the new Alder Lake CPUs and details about HGS (Hardware Guided Scheduling)

The latest high-resolution images of an engineering sample of the Intel Core i9-12900K have now been leaked by Yuuki_AnS. The leaker obtained this chip, which was sold on the Chinese black market for a starting price of $700. These images give us a slightly better impression of the Intel Core i9-12900K as “ES2” (Engineering Sample 2) [...]


Asetek with problems – warning letters against many companies, profit correction and dangerous negative trend | Exclusive

What does an animal do when it finds itself cornered? It bites wildly. And a larger company? It secures the supposed silverware, initiates a wave of warnings and lawsuits in order to be able to derive the greatest possible benefit from (still) valid patents. We’ll see exactly how and against whom the company is taking action (including an [...]