Yes, it’s winter again and the next hot hardware is just around the corner. Admittedly, summer is still a long way off, but it’s still getting warmer every day because the wattage of the components is also increasing so immeasurably. For a PC owner or self-builder, the topics of waste heat, cooling and ambient temperature (also [...]
New design, new series, but almost everything the same: MSI presents its new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Shadow 3X
New, but almost the same: Asus presents its Rog Ally X
NVIDIA prepares for hot “Blackwell” GPUs: Cooling for RTX 50 in test (250W to 600W)
MSI QD-OLED gaming monitors: Firmware update brings DSC and other optimizations for an even better gaming experience
Category - Graphics
Today there is my second test monitor, which I use for my articles concerning DLSS/FSR etc.. UHD gaming is becoming more and more popular and thus you also need a monitor that can reproduce this resolution natively. Thankfully, LG supported me here and provided me with the LG UltraGear 27GN950. The LG 27GN950 dates back to 2020 and had an MSRP of [...]
Where is Ryzen? They won’t be here until this afternoon, at 3 p.m. sharp. And to make the wait not so hard, we have a little pearl for you, which is really worth to be presented as well. If you have gasoline in your blood and bullets in your tank, Omno is definitely not a suitable game for you. However, if you just want to switch off and are [...]
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 your understanding!
Now the cat, or Ada Lovelace, is out of the bag. In yesterday’s live event (was linked on the home page), the long-awaited new generation was finally unveiled. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang also mentioned quite impressive numbers in this context in the recorded keynote of the GTC. The large AD102 GPU, which now uses TSMC’s new N4 [...]
If you want to (or have to) separate, then there are two ways to announce this: one emotionless and one where you once again seek the big stage. EVGA chose, what a coincidence, the time shortly before NVIDIA’s in-house exhibition GTC (after that, the whole thing would have gone down a bit) to drop the bombshell that wasn’t really a [...]
While the protagonists of the sensational leaks are currently fighting among themselves and wrestling for the ultimate interpretative sovereignty of NVIDIA and AMD products, I grabbed a bag of virtual popcorn and first read along with amusement. The silly thing about the whole Twitter controversy is that many things may even be true at the time of [...]
Today we have something for the readers who don’t only gamble. The MSI Summit MS321UP is a monitor made for content creators. You notice this after unpacking at the latest, because you inevitably stumble across a measurement log. This monitor has a factory calibration for the DCI-P3 color space. But that is by far not all. The MSI MEG381CQR [...]
We are through with the basics, then we can get started now. The MSI Optix MEG381CQR Plus is the first monitor to prove itself in our test. Yes, in terms of naming, all monitor manufacturers are trying to generate their own Da Vinci code. Basically, however, there is a certain logic behind it. MEG (MSI Enthusiast Gaming), 38 refers to the screen [...]
Such a test is definitely exciting, because even the onboard graphics of modern CPUs or APUs were sufficient for pure video playback in HTPCs back then. On the other hand, if you wanted to play a small game on a modest scale 10 years ago, these solutions were all still too underpowered at the time and it was better to resort to a separate graphics [...]
It is well known that the specifications for ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0 are closely intertwined and many things have also found their way into each other’s standardization. Also the many articles I already wrote about the 12VHPWR connector, i.e. the 12+4 pin, already gave a lot of insights there. It can also be assumed that the new, powerful [...]
Since Igor is currently at the Games-Com, I can today – once again – a little romp on the homepage. So far, we had already dealt with the various panel types, the basics about colors, color spaces, and so on. For those who missed it, here’s a quick read. With the third part of our journey concerning the monitors and the [...]
The Raijintek Morpheus is currently the most popular and most potent air cooler for graphics cards, but not for NVIDIA’s RTX 3xxx series. Until now, because I have now exclusively tested the first prototype, which also performs really well. You surely remember the first experiment with the bracket adjustment. But in the meantime, a few [...]
With our MoreClockTool (MCT) we want to logically round up the MorePowerTool (MPT) and the Red BIOS Editor (RBE) and replace the Wattman from AMD’s driver packages for simpler overclocking. Which also makes it clear that the MCT can only be used for newer AMD graphics cards. Even if our software seems rather manageable at first glance: all [...]
In keeping with Intel’s oneAPI and the possibility of actually being able to enable this option in games, I have another classic for you today. Whether Intel decides to handle the whole thing as open or closed source, however, will probably also depend on how Intel will continue with the graphics card division at all. I don’t want to [...]
SLI is discontinued, Crossfire is dead – so it is naturally easy for Intel to jump into this empty niche and look for a way forward. You see, my friend Rob Squires from TweakTown learned something very interesting yesterday at SIGGRAPH 2022. According to him, Intel is currently finalizing its oneAPi software for multi-GPU support as well. A [...]
After we have dealt with the monitor basics in the last part of our journey – especially with the topic of color space – we will go one step deeper into the matter today. I already mentioned it briefly in the last article: color depth 8 bit vs. 10 bit vs. 12 bit, what does the user need? And, what does Rec. 2020? Is there already [...]
The NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti FE was unfortunately quite rare as a sample at the launch and only made it into my well-stocked archive much later. But postponed is not canceled and since I didn’t see any sense in testing an even higher clocked (and energetically much more inflated) board partner card in my workstation at that time, exactly this part [...]
2010: Plenty of hot air for a quick death The following article contains parts of a classic from 12 years ago that was already believed to have been lost. Who remembers the Sahara PC and Tom’s menu from the younger ones? We already and the younger ones will be amazed that not so much has changed hard. Even then, graphics cards were glowing [...]
I will not presume to call the Alchemist project a failure, because time and the market alone will decide whether it succeeds or fails. It’s definitely not my place, and there’s no need to belittle the developers’ invested work based on just one tested product. However, more and more pieces of the puzzle are coming together to [...]