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The big radiator material test: Radicooler, Richer-R and Magicool including purchase warnings and price-performance winners | Part 3
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Category - Basics
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The basic changes to the new DDR5 memory standard have already been discussed around the launch of the Intel Alder Lake CPUs, even if sometimes not completely correct. So today we’re going to revisit the topic and delve deeper into the matter together with Kingston, who were kind enough to provide us with a written interview. It’s no [...]
The race for ever faster CPUs and above all GPUs is now producing such blossoms that even existing standards have to be softened or modified for the new energy waste offensive that soon every end consumer will have to save up for a portable nuclear power plant if they don’t want to be in debt with the energy supplier well into old age. To [...]
Are you still amazed about the so different power consumption values at the different launch reviews of Intel’s Alder Lake? In the meantime I have the data of a second motherboard model and I could hardly find any deviations to my measurements. The second board is an MSI MAG Z690 Carbon Wifi, which positions itself one price and performance [...]
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After many attempts with various pads, I have once again taken up the subject of liquid metal pads. Because if you use it right, it’s a really smart thing. But the (supposed) hurdles are so high that at least one generation of PC builders might already have despaired of them. So at least without any real instructions on how to actually [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Since I am asked again and again which programs I use for the collection and analysis of my benchmark data and I also attach great importance to transparency, I have now sat down again and completely rewritten an article that I wrote in 2016, so already 5 years ago for Tom’s Hardware. Because not only has much changed for the better in terms [...]
For many years now, the maker scene, i.e. the hobbyist crafting of primarily electronic or information technology applications, has been enjoying lively growth. Projects in optoelectronics are particularly popular, as you get direct visible feedback on your work performance. Furthermore, one could use the term eye-candy as a psychological [...]
After the last article about system latency (NVIDIA Reflex & Boost vs. Radeon Boost and ZERO vs. AMD Anti-Lag), we should urgently discuss a few things about testing. So today we’re going to take a look at NVIDIA LDAT in terms of the USB ports it uses. For this I tested two different possibilities regarding the use of LDAT. The AMD [...]
Even though compared to CPU and GPU, RAM overclocking probably has the smallest impact on your daily computing experience, specific memory sensitive applications can see a big boost from optimizing your PC’s memory, like we covered in our Cyberpunk 2077 memory roundup. So today we want to show how we overclock and – equally important – [...]
Bang frog, China-Böller, widowmaker – for the range of selected cheap cruelties from the Far East there are many harmless paraphrases. But that this electronic waste is literally fire-hazardous, I had to learn (once again) first hand during a short experiment. But trial makes you smart and so I didn’t let what I wanted to do without [...]
What is the real amount of work and know-how that goes into a modern computer power supply? We know the finished products, test and compare them – but that’s all. The forums are full of open questions and often enough the necessary transparency of the providers is missing. I was first allowed a semi-official look behind the scenes of a [...]
In search of the optimal card for my eGPU case I looked for tests for a long time, but unfortunately I could never find anything adequate, where a direct comparison between Radeon and GeForce graphics cards was made as well as one could explain how overclocking affects an eGPU, up to which performance class an eGPU scales reasonably at all due to [...]
We already know since my launch article “Intel Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K, Core i5-11600K and Core i9-10900K against Zen3 – Last man standing in silicon” that Intel’s 11th generation doesn’t act particularly squeamish at the power supply. But also not detailed enough, because there was one thing I couldn’t [...]
The Realtek ALC4080 on the new Intel boards demystified and the differences to the ALC1220 | Insider
The Realtek ALC4080, which was launched in 2020, can now be found as a sound solution on many new mid-range and high-end Intel boards without the customer really knowing what’s behind it. Exactly that I would like to change today gladly and have a suitable data sheet from a mainboard developer procured. The ALC4080 breaks with the long [...]
Intel’s new 11th generation CPUs have been available for purchase for a few weeks now, albeit only recently officially. And so I also got hold of an i7 11700K and took a look at what innovations we can expect with the new generation, especially with regard to RAM tuning and overclocking. Unfortunately, I couldn’t present any reliable [...]