PC Cases & Modding

View behind the factory backdrops: This is how a power supply from Be Quiet is created! at the contract manufacturer (OEM) | Documentary

Since I’d like to go to the factories of the contract manufacturers and always try to take a look behind the scene, but just the cute little Corona virus lurks grinning behind every Far Eastern corner and i’m hämisch with a hearty “You can’t pass”, it must direct an older collection of images. The production is [...]


Special adapter with caps on the PCIe socket of the graphics card against load peaks – snake oil or miracle cure? | Practice

Load spikes that can cause even nominally adequate power supplies to suddenly shut down are all the rage right now, especially since the launch of NVIDIA’s current Ampere generation. It is also undisputed that this leads to the creation of legends and, of course, the accessories industry. But is there any point at all in placing a capacitor [...]


Is a 500 W PSU really enough? An AMD Radeon RX 6800 and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 against a be quiet! Pure Power 11 500 W | Practice

You’ve seen a lot of things, even on YouTube. For example, a 500 watt power supply miraculously survives even a GeForce RTX 3080, while exactly this card even forced a 1300 watt Platinum behemoth to give up in the lab before the Ampere launch. Well, NVIDIA has meanwhile defused the boost and thus also the load changes, but that should still [...]


Competition stimulates business – Cybenetics expands certifications for power supplies as a counterpart to 80 Plus

Cybenetics was founded four years ago with the goal of introducing new efficiency and noise certification standards for AC-DC power supplies (PSUs) through its ETA and LAMBDA ratings. In these four years of being in business, nearly 800 power supplies have been certified and over a thousand beta tests have been conducted so far. This was also done [...]


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Basics: Why case reviews seem so easy and yet almost all of them are “flawed” – This is how it really works! | Aris builds

Even though the title may sound a bit martial and exaggerated – it’s the bitter reality if you really want to compare PC cases objectively in the thermal and acoustic area. And that’s all this article is about. Of course, subjective factors such as looks, build quality and usability also count towards the content of a good review [...]


For almost everything that has a plug and much more: from January 2021 the copper price will then also go crazy

In the last few weeks I have been able to talk to some manufacturers who are all complaining (ok, it must always be like this) and try to hoard as much copper or semi-finished copper products as possible for current and future production. Of course, this cannot be done endlessly, if only for logistical and financial reasons. Especially since it is [...]


When important components become scarce: CPUs, GPUs, console chips and other components as complex trading objects

2020 was actually a first-class year for technological innovation, but it will probably also go down in history as the year of the ultimate frustration of discouraged consumers, when the target group will end up not being able to buy what has been on their wish list for a long time: graphics cards and processors, power supplies and last but not [...]


How a quasi-monopoly will increase the power supply prices in 2021 – Useless certificates for untested power supplies included | Investigative

Who doesn’t know the great 80-Plus logo on most power supplies? This label suggests a certain efficiency and contributes not insignificantly to image building. 80 Plus Platinum? This just has to be good! Or maybe not so really? A document that I received today shows how the money printing machine 80 Plus is ticking in such a way, i will tell [...]


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