If you were able to purchase an RTX 3090 Founders Edition (FE) at launch for MSRP like I was, you can’t really complain. Ample performance for 144 FPS in most games even at the highest graphics settings and, if we’re being honest, the value increase of over 50%, naturally add to the appreciation. Only, as is so often the case, there [...]
Ryzen has been known to be a gluey matter since Zen 2, though not in a conventional way. AMD has been combining CCX chiplets with IO chiplets into one CPU since the Ryzen 3000 series and the glue is the package in the form of copper and fiberglass. Today, we are seperating the glued components of two such CPUs and glueing them back together to [...]
Anyone who spends a lot of time in a home office knows the dilemma: one computer for work, one computer for private use, both with monitors and peripherals, but both somehow have to be on the same desk. Chaos ensues, ergonomics and productivity suffer. The remedy is a KVM switch. We’ll take a look at what that is and what an implementation [...]
Today’s short text introduces you to a case that can score with simple elegance and good cooling performance: the Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact. It is the successor of the already known Meshify series of the Swedish premium manufacturer. How it does in the practical installation and conversion, you will learn today. The scope of delivery [...]
With the Xtreme SKUs, ADATA XPG expands the existing Spectrix D50 RAM portfolio with two products in the high-end segment with actually extreme XMP clock rates of 4800 and 5000 MT/s. And to spoil a little in advance, for once not Samsung B-Die, but SK Hynix DJR serves as the basis for this flagship RAM. We will take a close look at whether this [...]
Now that Zen 3 has been out for some time, one naturally wonders about AMD’s next-generation CPU architecture for the Ryzen and EPYC CPUs, i.e. Zen 4 carries. Latest rumors now say that there will be another huge IPC jump and massive performance increase over the current processors. The s latest rumor on this topic comes from ChipsandCheese [...]
Corsair has unveiled the new 5000D, 5000D Airflow and iCUE 5000 RXG case models at CES 2021, with a design language and naming scheme that aims to tie in with the 4000 series product portfolio. We’ll take a look at whether Corsair has succeeded in this in today’s review of the top model iCUE 5000X RGB. As our friend “Aris” [...]
Corsair is announcing the new 5000 Series cases at CES 2021. Continuing the naming scheme and design language introduced with the 4000 Series in late September, the 5000 Series is available as the 5000D, 5000D Airflow and iCUE 5000X RGB. In addition to the black variants, there will also be white variants of the model. The 5000 Series is therefore [...]
The fact that you should use your RAM at least in dual-channel if possible has fortunately become widely accepted in the industry today. However, unlike channels, ranks are still talked about very rarely, if at all. Many publications, some of them very well known, prefer instead to talk about “sticks” or modules affecting performance [...]
In addition to the evil, viral C-word, in 2020 we had the P-word (paperlaunch) and many other things, including very annoying deficiencies and also consequential appearances, about which you could get really upset if you wanted or needed to. But a year like 2020 also shows how limited and fragile the global system of ever-increasing [...]
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 [...]
A video recently published in Reddit with the headline “The MSI headquarters in China has apparently just gone up in flames There goes my 3080” shows a fire in an MSI plant in Kunshan. Although this is definitely not the headquarters of MSI, which would be with House 1 and House 3 in Taipei (Taiwan), where the hardware manufacturer is [...]
I deliberately left the term COVID-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) out of the headline for the time being, because otherwise one or the other superficial reader would have picked up and reinterpreted something that does not fit into the context. Nevertheless we have to talk (or write). First of all, I am not ill myself, but now I have to suffer [...]
The nice thing about NDAs is that they always keep the tension so high, but the stupid thing is that you are not even allowed to know that such a confidentiality agreement exists. However, if you are sitting next to someone on the bus who was at the hairdresser’s yesterday, like me, where someone happened to be sitting who knows someone who [...]
The Sound BlasterX G6 looks like a G5, at least at first glance and as long as you don't look at the price tag. The 149 euros on the Creative homepage are a whopping 30 euros above the current street price of the predecessor. Of course, the legitimate question arises as to whether the whole thing is really worth the extra charge. With its USB [...]
The colleagues from Videocardz.com reported about a new list of not yet released Zen3-based EPYC processors, but with very incomplete data. Here I can provide more information today, but this is based on three relatively early samples in the so-called A0 stepping. As we know, AMD’s Milan is also known as Genesis (internal code name) and thus [...]
Nachdem AMD bei Endanwendern, Systemintegratoren, Händlern und wohl auch einzelnen Motherboard-Herstellern gleichermaßen in der Kritik stand, weil man den Support der neuen Ryzen 4000 CPUs auf den 400er Chipsätzen ausschloss, hat AMD diese Entscheidung doch nun wieder rückgängig gemacht. Stattdessen wird man die Unterstützung durch einen [...]
For almost a month now, the MAX M240-T from the 60-euro segment has been available for another AiO water cooling system from the Asian budget manufacturer Alseye in Germany, which is being marketed on the German market via Inter-Tech. In contrast to the Halo H240, however, the MAX M240 does not use RGB lighting of the pump and fan. In addition, no [...]
Amazon has also had to react to the changed situation and is adjusting the return conditions. Probably also to relieve the staff, because the shopping curve has developed very strongly in the direction of onine trading under warranty. It remains to be seen how much items Amazon will actually take back or, in the event of a cancellation, ask to [...]
Many players, but especially AMD's customers or suppliers, are now wondering what the future could bring with the global impact on supply chains. AMD's Dr Lisa Su has sent a message to her partners and pledged that they will support them and do everything they can to support their business. According to Dr Lisa Su, the focus is on the [...]
