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 [...]
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 [...]
Intel had unveiled one of the world’s biggest chips not too long ago and the picture that emerges after all the releases so far is quite overwhelming. Intel’s Xe HPC 2-Tile (PVC) GPU uses a mix of Intel’s 7nm, Intel’s 10nm ESF and TSMC’s 7nm (or 5nm) process technology for this, which is brought together in Foveros 3D [...]
Fear of leaking water and the death of all electronics in the PC as an fatal consequence? Fear no more, the LEAKSHIELD from Aqua Computer is designed to prevent just that: provide a leakage insurance against water accidents in your cooling circuit. Cost? With 119.90 euros certainly cheaper than a big leak. Effect? Priceless! Admittedly, the idea [...]
Anyone planning a water cooling system will sooner or later ask the question, “Which pump do I need?” If you now turn to a community with the question, you will receive many different answers. But predominantly the answer will be: “A D5”. Why this is so and whether the massively expanded version of Aquacomputer is Swiss [...]
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Often a computer case accompanies us for many years and has to endure many an upgrade. At least, that’s how it is for me most of the time. My current case is now almost 8 years old and thus dates from a time when RGB and tempered glass were still dreams of the future. I always found the Air 540 with its two chambers and good airflow to be [...]
With the Aqua Computer high flow NEXT, the Swiss Army Knife for custom loops with lots of functions and accuracy has been available since this year for just under 70 Euros. Does anyone remember the test of all the flow meters and the grandiose failure of all the display toys that weren’t even good for an estimate? At the time, I was not [...]
As threatened last week, the Alphacool ice block GPX-N won’t be the only modification to my RTX 3090 Founders Edition. Today we’re going to look at the shunt resistors, the ones the GPU uses to measure how much power it’s consuming and if necessary downclocks itself if Nvidia’s limits of 350 or 400 W are reached. While [...]
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 [...]
The same applies as already in the review of the model for the GeForce RTX 3080 reference: The market of all-in-one water cooling solutions for graphics cards is, compared to CPU coolers, still plenty manageable, although the possible gain compared to air cooling is significantly higher. Higher boost steps and lower operating noise are only part [...]
Despite the rather bumpy start with problems with the pump in the first generation, be quiet! not discouraged to once again establish its own AiO water cooling. So now they are launching a new, hopefully improved successor. And even though the longevity cannot be tested in a review, we will of course take a closer look at the new complete water [...]
The Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero is of course not a real cryo-cooling for really high loads, they don’t pretend to be, but it wants to guarantee such low temperatures in the partial load range that the highest possible boost clock rates can be run. That’s exactly what I tried to find out in a short test, because especially [...]
After my last article about testing various thermal paste substitutes, I received some interesting feedback and even submissions from my readers, which I will gladly work through in chronological order. Besides great industrial pastes I first received a letter with copper paste and the request to test it. Why not? Copper is not the worst material [...]
It was only about a quarter of a year ago that the EK AIO Elite fought its way to the top of the cooling solutions in my charts, and now they are delivering what is now the third version for a lower price range with the Basic series. Completely black and without RGB lighting, it might not only be interesting for price-conscious buyers. Whether the [...]
In early 2020, NZXT unveiled the Z series, the latest generation of its popular Kraken all-in-one water cooling systems, and its integrated display not only sparked a new trend among other manufacturers, but also a whole wave of funny pictures on social media. Whether the most expensive compact water cooler on the market can also keep up in terms [...]
I had recently received a CPU water block from the RMA of a friendly dealer, which I should investigate. Please “take a closer look”. That’s exactly what I did after my first inspection, because although you could see the dirt with the naked eye – how about some really fancy macro shots of the horror? And since there was [...]
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 [...]
When you hear the name G.Skill, the vast majority of people will think of memory. A few may still have peripherals in the form of a mouse, keyboard and headset. But coolers? That’s new! So it was a big surprise when I was shown the new ENKI series and offered it for testing. With the power of the Sumerian god of water and no less than three [...]
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 [...]
