If you own a good subwoofer, you have to be very brave now. The neighbour is indirectly informed and here in the laboratory not only the fingers sweat. Yes, there is still something coming and going up! What exactly, you will find out soon. But it’s gonna be badly toxic, that’s for sure. And for those who found the video too [...]
A proper water cooling makes sense for power losses over 300 watts and thus creates a real added value. With the Kryographics Next, Aqua Computer continues on its path of precisely crafted coolers and offers a GPU water block for NVIDIA’s current GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 refernce boards that even manages without thermal pads on the [...]
In the meantime, also in view of the 16 GB memory expansion of the new Radeon graphics cards, a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GB memory expansion was long rumored, although the first leaks had already spoken a different language in the summer of 2020, well before the actual launch. Because there was talk of a card with 11 GB or 12 GB memory [...]
If you are in urgent need of a new computer, you have to put up with the extreme prices on the one hand and the limited availability of the components on the other. It’s annoying, but it’s not likely to change anytime soon. Because you can’t always choose the time of an upgrade, or the conditions never really fit 100% anyway [...]
Anticipation is the best joy – at least that’s what they say. Even though Intel’s DG1 was designed and advertised as an entry-level card from the beginning, a minimum of features and functionality can of course be expected from such a midget. A lot of things scale up nicely as long as the test candidates are good to test. Through [...]
Intel recently unveiled one of its biggest chips, and our colleagues at wccftech.com have tapped various sources for more details. Although it was clear from the technical explanations at Intel’s Architecture Day what Intel is up to, the picture that now emerges is quite overwhelming. The colleagues show for the first time Intel’s 7nm [...]
After the already extensively tested reference cards of AMD’s RX 6000 series, the MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X Trio 16 GB has now found its way to my lab as another board partner card. The continued unavailability of all these graphics cards for the masses is actually embarrassing and all the more annoying because these products are really good [...]
After I already reported about the shortages of graphics cards, a rumor made the rounds that NVIDIA probably wants to revive the older Turing entry-level chips. These were running (and apparently are running again) in TSMC’s old 12nm node, which is supposed to have enough spare capacity to be cheap and responsive. Own surveys among the board [...]
Currently, everything is somehow scarce. It doesn’t matter whether it’s graphics cards, motherboards or simple “white goods” (like washing machines) including spare parts from the household appliance sector, in which there are usually more electronics than one would like. And often it fails also already at things, which one [...]
The second water block I tested was the Hydro Series XG7 RGB, a product from Corsair for NVIDIA’s large Ampere cards. Interestingly, the interest of most manufacturers in detailed tests is now rather restrained, because especially the comparison series of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has shown very clearly that RGB and bling-bling do not help [...]
The fact that graphics cards cause considerable load peaks I could already prove impressively 6 years ago for the first time – including all the resulting problems and measures for the power suppliers. In the meantime, a lot has been done, of course also in the interest of the end customers. And yet, there are always situations where a power [...]
My colleagues at wccftech.com have just published an exclusive leak regarding the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. The website has published the first images of a custom GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card coming from ASUS. To everyone’s surprise, they list the 12GB models as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra. Sure, there was something before and I [...]
New year, new luck! Due to various inquiries and great interest in the topic, I have put together a detailed UV guide for you here, since I had a small craft project pending anyway. The connection with the theory was a logical follow. In addition, as often requested, I explain the individual functions in the MPT (MorePowerTool) again explicitly [...]
Actually, Gigabyte has done almost everything right with the GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming Waterforce, because the performance and the overclockability have impressed us - as well as other colleagues of international media, who could also get hold of a copy -...
After the already extensively tested reference cards of AMD’s RX 6000 series, the XFX RX 6800 XT Merc 319 16 GB has also found its way to my lab as a board partner card. The continued unavailability of all of these cards to the masses is all the more annoying because these products are really good and competitive graphics cards that deserved [...]
The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comes later than expected Let’s start with the long awaited GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which has turned out to be more and more probable, but whose appearance should be further delayed. If I can believe my own sources, which refer to both NVIDIA and AMD, NVIDIA waited for the launch of the new RX 6000 series and then [...]
In fact, it’s both! After a few hours of playing time, the somewhat tough prologue including intermezzo and a few crashes (including patches), I am now a few nerves poorer and many experiences (as well as a game that is probably addictive) richer. If I had simply resisted the temptation to start right on the first day, I would probably have [...]
The new Big Navi cards are released and the 6800/6800 XT and the new one recently celebrated their debut. Our community member Gurdi couldn’t help but take a closer look at the AMD cards this time as well. That’s exactly why I let Gurdi continue writing, because it’s his user review, in which he invested a lot of time himself and [...]
With the Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-A for the new RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT and 6800, AMD now also has the right coolers for the current Radeon cards to the side. Big Navi on Ice is not quite there yet, but at least the chip and the circuit board is a well cooled submarine, so it’s really nice under water. Such a water cooling system [...]
Somehow, despite a permanent lack of time, my fingers itched very badly during the current water cooling test. And because I just screwed the card onto a water block anyway, it just had to be done. With the MorePowerTool I raised the TGP from 255 watts to 320 watts, increased the power limit in the Wattman by another 15%, set the GPU clock to 2730 [...]
