Category - Reviews

Corsair 7000D Airflow Review – elegance and function on a grand scale

With the generously dimensioned 7000 series, Corsair brings two full-tower cases with high-end requirements to the market. In this article, I want to put the feature-oriented Airflow version through its paces and find out if the 20kg Behemoth lives up to its claims. An all-in-one compact water cooling system can be installed by anyone, there is [...]


WLAN says: Let there be light! How to control LEDs with WLED for lighting purposes simply by yourself via WLAN | Practice

For many years now, the maker scene, i.e. the hobbyist crafting of primarily electronic or information technology applications, has been enjoying lively growth. Projects in optoelectronics are particularly popular, as you get direct visible feedback on your work performance. Furthermore, one could use the term eye-candy as a psychological [...]


Six popular140 mm case fans from Alphacool, Arctic, Cooler Master, Corsair, Noiseblocker and Noctua in a comparison test

Reader requests are of course our command and so today we have a big comparison test with 6 popular 140mm case fans. And yes, fans are a dime a dozen, but in the end, which fan fits which system and which budget? Is a model suitable as a case fan and how does it really perform on different radiators? What about the real speed range, how high is [...]


USB ports and latency measurements – myths and reality | Practice

After the last article about system latency (NVIDIA Reflex & Boost vs. Radeon Boost and ZERO vs. AMD Anti-Lag), we should urgently discuss a few things about testing. So today we’re going to take a look at NVIDIA LDAT in terms of the USB ports it uses. For this I tested two different possibilities regarding the use of LDAT. The AMD [...]


Community Test of two GPU Waterblocks: Alphacoool Eisblock Aurora Acetal GPX-A vs. Aquacomputer Kryographics Next

Alphacool vs. aquacomputer? Once again, today we have a reader review by Elmo from our community that addresses this very issue of GPU water blocks. Since I find the test, the methodology and also the used technique extremely exciting, I have summarized the whole thing as a real article and with the author’s consent also slightly changed so [...]


RAM OC: Basics you need to know for getting started – A rough guide and overview for memory overclocking

Even though compared to CPU and GPU, RAM overclocking probably has the smallest impact on your daily computing experience, specific memory sensitive applications can see a big boost from optimizing your PC’s memory, like we covered in our Cyberpunk 2077 memory roundup. So today we want to show how we overclock and – equally important – [...]