Category - Reviews

AMD launches the Radeon RX 6600 without XT for the midrange – XFX RX 6600 SWFT 210 SPEEDSTER 8GB Review with small hurdles

With the Radeon RX 6600 released today, AMD rounds out the Navi portfolio even further down the line. Since there are once again no reference cards (AMD is following NVIDIA’s lead here with the GeForce RTX 3060), today’s launch article will thus once again use a board partner card. It will be exciting to see if the XFX RX 6600 SWFT 210 [...]


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 [...]


DDR5, is that you? – Kingston Fury Renegade DDR4-5333 CL20 2x 8 GB RAM kit test with teardown and overclocking

As CPUs become faster and faster, the main memory must be able to keep up with the volume of data to not become a bottleneck. For the same reason, the upcoming generation of Intel CPUs will also rely on the new DDR5 standard, which is supposed to bring more bandwidth through higher clock speed and at the expense of latency compared to DDR4. With [...]