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With the Asus TUF Gaming TF120, we are testing a mid-range fan from Asus today that shines, cools, and does almost nothing wrong, if you ignore two minor slips. But the part is so conspicuously inconspicuous that we were happy to comply with the readers’ requests for a test. It is a decent “can-do” fan that does not deliver top [...]
After dealing with the topic of LCD and OLED panels in the last article, today we take the next step on our journey around the basics when it comes to monitors. From the advantages and disadvantages of the last article, we were able to take away a few things for today’s topic in the transfer. Not all LCD panels are the same, and not all [...]
Everyone is currently shaking their heads over the rumored 600 watts (or more) power consumption for NVIDIA's upcoming flagship, but it's not that new. My HIS HD 6990 already managed 590 watts with the OC BIOS at the time and the three cards from 2012 presented today are also only just below 600 watts. And with two of the HIS HD 6990s, I [...]
New driver, new luck? I gave Intel’s Arc A380 with new beta drivers another go and also looked at the draw calls under DX11, DX12 and Vulkan. Old wine and maturing? Yep, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The test system used in the first article and the roughly equally fast cards from the last test are used, i.e. the Intel Arc A380 in [...]
I had to let it sink in that Corsair now offers good fans without RGB again. No iCUE, no controller clutter, instead just a plain (but highly pure) white or a nice, exciting black. Bling-bling is not even available for a surcharge and the current street price of just under 24 Euros leaves you in the dark. Fiat Lux? No one needs it if the fan is [...]
Is there THE ideal gaming headphone? I thought about it and decided: I’ll just do an interesting experiment with the inexpensive OneOdio Monitor 80 for just under 100 Euros. Let’s just leave the microphone aside, because I wanted to know how well an open studio headphone with a more neutral (i.e. flat) audio signature would do overall [...]
Also the be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 140 mm were already advertised by marketing weeks ago, but today there is finally the test as part 2 in direct comparison with the models with 120 mm diameter. Of course, there have already been various reviews on the web since the launch, but we deliberately took more time this time. If you want to learn [...]
Last time, we had a small air cooler from Deepcool for testing, but today it’s practically exactly the opposite. With the new LS series, the manufacturer certifies itself “elite performance”, whether you can keep this promise you will learn in the following article. If you prefer compact air coolers after all, here is the article [...]
Even 10 years ago, there were already technical outliers and critical "solution approaches", not just since today. At that time, I caught MSI and as a result, the manufacturer got one on the lid ("NVIDIA's Rules") and the customer subsequently got a flawless product. Yes, some of the MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition that was [...]
Finally, the time has come and I can finally offer you the detailed review of the Gunnir Arc A380 6GB Photon, which should provide interesting conclusions and also prospects for the larger models. Together with Computerbase, Golem and a user of 3DCenter, we publish the first German reviews of this card today at a self-arranged “launch [...]
The be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 120 mm have already been extensively reviewed in the media, but today we finally have the long-awaited test. We chose the 120mm case fans as the first part, though we will follow up with the larger 140mm fans in a timely manner. In theory, there have already been press releases and information in wave-like [...]
Sapphire provides the new flagship 7970 Toxic GHz Edition with a full 6 GB of video memory and uses one of the new Tahiti XT2 chips, which is even clocked with 1.2 GHz thanks to “Lethal Boost”, as long as the card runs within the thermally intended limits. The then higher RAM clock of 1600 MHz also promises a rich gain, always provided [...]
The better is the enemy of the good, and that is exactly why we have taken stock after almost 40 tested fans, evaluated the feedback from readers and added more details. Although the effort involved increases somewhat, many processes can be automated. The question of which units to base the whole thing on has kept us busy for some time. Since the [...]
This article is about the external extension of an internal double AIO loop in the direction of a large custom loop, and if you’re going to build bigger, then build really big. At least, as far as the radiator is concerned. Over a few air-cooled stations and a BQ Silent Loop for the CPU, I ended up with the Alphacool Eiswolf 2 360 for my [...]
When a graphics card “dies”, you really only have two options: species-appropriate scrapping or emergency admission in the “graphics card hospital”. I admit it, I had a harder time with the title than usual and actually there are two authors, Bernhard and me, because we both had the victim in our hands. But I’m more [...]
The latest headset from Steelseries has a lot of PR firepower, so we didn’t miss the opportunity to see if you can not only hear the great tones from the headset yourself, but also objectively prove them. The following article will tell you how the wired version of the Arctis Nova Pro with the included DAC performed in the test and what of [...]
G.Skill is probably one of the best-known brands in the desktop memory market and of course, the Taiwanese manufacturer also has several interesting SKUs for the new DDR5 standard on offer, of which we finally get to test one for you today. Specifically, it’s a Trident Z5 RGB kit with silver heatsinks and DDR5-6400 CL32 XMP profile, which we [...]
The radi(k)all fan of the current AMD graphics cards is an acoustic plague that is better fought where it originates, namely on the card itself. After a few minutes of testing with the cheeky original, all doubts as to whether the conversion would even be possible were quickly thrown overboard. Pain makes you brave, and in the end you will lean [...]
Who doesn’t know them, the multiple entries of the supposedly same graphics card and the annoying consequences of this registry collecting mania? Sometimes you don’t even consciously notice this and then wonder why a new graphics card of the same chip type suddenly runs unstable after a replacement. DDU is certainly a solution, but [...]
