Sure, in the price range between 400 and 500 euros there are many offers of open or semi-open systems. so why the Avantone Pro Planar Red and above all, why at this price? Of course, you can sink money into audio products (like cars or pets) with relish, and you’ll never get to the monetary end of unlimited possibilities unless your name is [...]
At the moment it’s fashionable to dip your coolers in black color or alternatively to re-release older models as “Blackout” or “Stealth” edition. And so Scythe now introduces the now seventh variant of the popular Mugen 5, this time fully blacked out. How the Black Edition performs in the test, you can read in the [...]
The whole cryptocurrency bubble keeps inflating and the value of many of these “currencies” has skyrocketed extremely, even if there is always a dip in between. This month alone, NVIDIA has sold $30 million worth of CMP-series cards to Hut 8 Mining Corp. for example. By then, the seizure of 300 stolen NVIDIA CMP 30HX cryptocurrency [...]
One thing we want to do right away: It's not about a self-taught 2.1 system, in which two small howler cubes are to be combined with a thick, big brother. Our intention is to make the subwoofer so discreet and profitable... Interior and loudspeaker chassis If you remove the complete active unit, you can take a first look at the body. The glued [...]
Must inexpensive really have been cheap and as a purchase in the end maybe even free? Not at all, if you look at the rather plain-looking Arctic P12 PWM, which manages to bring tears to the eyes of a large part of the significantly more expensive competitors. But I don’t want to anticipate the test result, even though many readers have been [...]
Again Notebook Weeks at Igor’s Lab? Well, sort of yes and no, but I’ve now had the chance to at least take a longer inventory in direct comparison of two very similar notebooks, the one tested today containing the successor to the RTX 2080 Super Max-Q tested at the time. A notebook isn’t a desktop PC with a beast of a CPU and is [...]
With the rise of gaming in Europe, games are not only keeping gamers busy in the comfort of their own homes, but developers are also busy creating these worlds from the comfort of their own homes. However, productivity is at stake when the pandemic forces developers and engineers to work remotely rather than centrally and collaboratively within [...]
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 [...]
No, today is not about real hardware that you can’t buy anyway! Today it’s about software for all AMD graphics card owners or those who want to become one, if they could, if there is something to buy again. The team around AMD’s Radeon driver development has always managed to get more performance out of AMD graphics cards over [...]
Recently, be quiet! has given its most affordable CPU cooler a successor, which we will take a closer look at in the following article. How much cooler can you get for cheap and it is a good alternative 5 years later? Packaging and scope of delivery The box is, as typical for the manufacturer, designed in black and only the orange in the logo and [...]
Fans are a dime a dozen, but which fan fits which system? Is a model suitable as a case fan and how does it really perform on different radiators? What about the real speed range, how high is the start-up speed and what parameters does such a fan offer over the speed range, including the usually unavoidable noise emission? Exactly for all these [...]
Case fans are a dime a dozen, but which fan fits which system? Is a model suitable as a case fan and how does it really perform on different radiators? What about the real speed range, how high is the start-up speed and what parameters does such a fan offer over the speed range, including the usually unavoidable noise emission? Exactly for all [...]
After the first versions with the new Navi21 XTXH chip appeared on the market, i.e. specially binned chips, there is also a new device ID in circulation, which we have now included in version 1.3.4 of the MorePowerTool. You need more power? Enjoy! Have fun with my overclocking and tweaking, the MPT team wishes you! RED BIOS EDITOR and [...]
As I could learn from meanwhile three contacts at the manufacturers and suppliers unanimously, the so-called Qualified Samples (QS) differ again from the now delivered chips for mass production (MP). So, as correctly reported yesterday, the GA102 will become the GA102-202 or GA102-302. The beta driver 470.05, which is so interesting for the miners [...]
After almost three years in production, Corsair has finally decided to update its popular RMx line to better suit the needs of today’s graphics hardware. There are again five models with capacities ranging from 550 W to 1000 W. All are fully modular and the OEM is still Channel Well Technology, as before. And since I’m not always just [...]
Driven by your own beta driver? NVIDIA had, after all, started adding ETH mining constraints to its Ampere ecosystem of hardware, firmware, and drivers with the GeForce RTX 3060. It should be insurmountable like the Berlin Wall. Well, yes, but their end is also well known. NVIDIA had torn down their own wall right away, because they accidentally [...]
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 [...]
After the 612 Stealth recently had to prove itself on the testbench, the big brother now follows. Find out how the block does in the article below: Packaging and scope of delivery The box is similar to the smaller cooler down to the last detail, but it is much bigger. A large product picture on the front is complemented by an exploded view with [...]
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 [...]
After the K70 RGB TKL already had to prove itself in the test, it’s now the turn of the second member of the new Champion series from Corsair. The following article will tell you how the mouse, which was developed together with professional eSportsmen, performs. Packaging and scope of delivery The box looks like any other outer box from [...]
