So far you know me mainly from the forum as a helper with hardware problems. Since similar questions often come up, Andreas (ApolloX) asked me if we could create some tutorials. I’ll start here with an article about the possibilities Windows itself offers for troubleshooting. If you would like to create tutorials as well, please feel free to [...]
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They do still exist, the graphics cards that also stand out optically and technically in equal measure. You can’t reinvent the wheel, but you can achieve one or two performance improvements via the tires. This realization probably also prompted Gigabyte to turn the cooling principle upside down in the truest sense of the word. With the new [...]
The launch of the Radeon RX 6750XT is a week ago and the prices are falling. It’s about time again to test a board partner card with the Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT Nitro+ 12 GB, which is either more frugal or thirstier than the older RX 6700XT and can thus be faster or a bit slower. Either, or – by the way, the two generations will [...]
What’s on the other end of the graphics card? Right! A cable leading to the monitor. In most cases, this will be a DisplayPort cable. The connection to the monitor is now established. The monitor can now render everything the GPU outputs to your eyes. Or at least it could. In almost all the articles you have read from me so far, I refer to [...]
Gradually, FSR compatible games will receive the update to FSR version 2.0. What was initially seen as AMD’s desperate answer to Nvidia’s DLSS is supposed to be a serious opponent in the new version. Since there is already a lot of content on this topic, I can already spoil in the introduction that even as a GeForce user I would like [...]
With the KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, I’m happy to fulfill the desire to once again test a single card that isn’t at the very top of its already hefty price range within its performance class. At currently less than 1150 Euros, it is already back in rather “normal” regions, because just under a year ago we were already at just [...]
After my last article “Back tot he /root(s) – Retro gaming for beginners and enthusiasts” I thought about how I can indulge my passion when I’m on the road. After some research, I found what I was looking for: The company Hardkernel, which I already recommended in the previous article with the Odroid N2+, also provides [...]
The Lian Li Unifan SL-INF120 are supposed to replace the current and already tested Uni Fan SL120 RGB, and they have meanwhile triggered a certain hype in the community thanks to the daisy chain used. Lian Li has once again reworked the exterior a bit (endless mirror design on two edges as well as on the impeller) and also given the fan slightly [...]
In the meantime I have finished building the measuring station and have also finally solved the amplifier part for the headphones and the measuring microphone with a Creative Soundblaster AE-9. Of course, that’s exactly what I’ll be reporting on today. By the way, I also exposed the used technology to the graphics card glitches and was [...]
If you also hear what you see, the external analog amplifier has a nasty background hum, the headphones are much too quiet, and the sound comes across much too flat and powerless in other ways as well, then something is obviously rotten with the system. But where is the best place to start and, above all, what are the causes? I have already [...]
Today I want to talk about a guilty pleasure of mine, the overclocking of RAM, more precisely DDR5 and its timings. There is a strange difference between the specifications of JEDEC, the standard’s committee, and the Intel specifications of the Alder Lake CPUs of the 12th generation. And even though the exact functionality of the individual [...]
Today’s test was not only requested by many readers, but almost insisted on. So I bought the part for almost 40 euros after all and was just as shocked as most who had complained so loudly about the product. A fan whose RRP is around 43 Euros and which is hardly available on the market for significantly less than 40 Euros already sets [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
The latest rehash of the Ducky ONE comes with a whole flood of new features that are almost unnoticeable at first glance. Many improvements took place under the hood and make the new full-size keyboard a true jack-of-all-trades. What is also immediately noticeable in this concrete model: it polarizes! Bright yellow, Cherry MX-Brown switches and [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
The new Eiswolf 2 from Alphacool is actually no stranger, however it too now uses the re-design of the Aurora Acryl GPX-A ice block along with better flow and lower temperatures across the entire block. That’s exactly why, after testing the waterblock with a Sapphire RX 6950XT Nitro+ Pure, I also tested the approx. 245 euro expensive AiO [...]
Today we’ll take a look at GEEKOM’s mini-PC, which looks very similar to Intel’s NUC systems on the outside, a self-proclaimed new star in the sky of microcomputers. Although they say they were founded in 2003, this is the first system from this brand. So the whole thing is worth a closer look, more on that in the article below [...]
This was already true 10 years ago: Passively cooled mid-range graphics cards have become rare exotics. Often enough, the power loss to be dissipated and thus also the heat generated are too great. Passively cooling these cards requires not only a sophisticated cooling solution, but also the right operating environment. Powercolor has not changed [...]
While cleaning up in the storage, I found a virtually unused Raijintek Morpheus prototype that was supposed to clarify the difference between copper and aluminum heatsinks on RAM and VRM ages ago. Fittingly, the GeForce RTX 3080 reference board is also on the shelf of good deeds in the test lab, including a universal backplate that could be [...]
