Category - Reviews

MSI Vigor GK71 Sonic Keyboard Review – chic High-End with crystal Keycaps

It has been quite a while since I last tested a keyboard from MSI and the difference to the last model could hardly be bigger. The Vigor GK30 tried out at that time was clearly intended for beginners with membrane switches and a low price; here, one now rather turns to the other end of the spectrum. The following article will tell you whether this [...]


Supercool Computers Direct-Die waterblock and delid tool for Intel Alder Lake Review| Intel Core i9-12900K in Pain

Ever smaller manufacturing processes lead to ever higher thermal densities in CPUs and GPUs. This is one of the reasons why Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs run so hot that every air cooler almost has no chance with a big i9, no matter how many watts of waste heat it is designed for. The often cited bottleneck lies further up the cooling chain [...]


Depth examination of thermal paste (ArcticMX-4): Searching for snake oil with scanning electron microscope and X-ray spectroscopy. What’s inside?

To describe it in detail, otherwise the headline would have been too long: Today, we will use the field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) to analyze in more detail what is really inside one of the most popular (and also cheaper) thermal pastes in the form of the Arctic MX-4. The [...]


DDR5 is no longer a sidegrade – ADATA XPG LANCER RGB DDR5-6000 CL40 2x 16 GB kit in the test with overclocking and teardown

Today we’re looking at the next high-performance upgrade level of DDR5 memory, in the form of the ADATA XPG LANCER RGB DDR5-6000 CL40 2x 16 GB kit. Our sample is based on the SK Hynix M-Die memory chips, which currently offer the highest performance and overclocking potential for DDR5. Even though the XMP profile looks rather unsuspicious [...]


Intel Socket LGA-1700 “washer mod” part 2 – motherboards, ILM manufacturers and coolers in a before/after comparison | Practice

As promised, today we cover part 2 of the “Washermod”, in which we want to evaluate a few more combinations of different motherboards, socket manufacturers and coolers in a before and after test with the modification. To briefly summarize what the washer mod is all about: washers are installed between the motherboard and the ILM [...]