If you saw my Sunday unboxing article about the two MSI monitors, you already know what’s coming today. Let’s take a look at the two identical twins. MSI has not missed the ultra-light gaming mouse bandwagon and has also launched two derivatives. The MSI Glutch GM41 Lightweight V2 (that’s a mouthful) and the MSI Glutch GM41 [...]
Those who value data security will certainly like today’s article and the video of the hot stone. We are publicly destroying a not quite cheap 980 PRO 2 TB SSD today on behalf of Samsung’s warranty department. The correspondence, which I have shortened and anonymized in the article for legal reasons, also shows why it absolutely had to [...]
The Raijintek Morpheus is currently the most popular and most potent air cooler for graphics cards, but not for NVIDIA’s RTX 3xxx series. Until now, because I have now exclusively tested the first prototype, which also performs really well. You surely remember the first experiment with the bracket adjustment. But in the meantime, a few [...]
This article is about the external extension of an internal double AIO loop in the direction of a large custom loop, and if you’re going to build bigger, then build really big. At least, as far as the radiator is concerned. Over a few air-cooled stations and a BQ Silent Loop for the CPU, I ended up with the Alphacool Eiswolf 2 360 for my [...]
When a graphics card “dies”, you really only have two options: species-appropriate scrapping or emergency admission in the “graphics card hospital”. I admit it, I had a harder time with the title than usual and actually there are two authors, Bernhard and me, because we both had the victim in our hands. But I’m more [...]
Who doesn’t know them, the multiple entries of the supposedly same graphics card and the annoying consequences of this registry collecting mania? Sometimes you don’t even consciously notice this and then wonder why a new graphics card of the same chip type suddenly runs unstable after a replacement. DDU is certainly a solution, but [...]
The new ATX 3.0 standard brings many innovations, especially since some things can’t be completely separated from the PCIe 5.0 standard. But even though they are different consortia, there is a lot of overlap that then finds its way into the other specification as well. After all, it’s basically about the same thing and of course you [...]
So far you know me mainly from the forum as a helper with hardware problems. Since similar questions often come up, Andreas (ApolloX) asked me if we could create some tutorials. I’ll start here with an article about the possibilities Windows itself offers for troubleshooting. If you would like to create tutorials as well, please feel free to [...]
What’s on the other end of the graphics card? Right! A cable leading to the monitor. In most cases, this will be a DisplayPort cable. The connection to the monitor is now established. The monitor can now render everything the GPU outputs to your eyes. Or at least it could. In almost all the articles you have read from me so far, I refer to [...]
Gradually, FSR compatible games will receive the update to FSR version 2.0. What was initially seen as AMD’s desperate answer to Nvidia’s DLSS is supposed to be a serious opponent in the new version. Since there is already a lot of content on this topic, I can already spoil in the introduction that even as a GeForce user I would like [...]
After my last article “Back tot he /root(s) – Retro gaming for beginners and enthusiasts” I thought about how I can indulge my passion when I’m on the road. After some research, I found what I was looking for: The company Hardkernel, which I already recommended in the previous article with the Odroid N2+, also provides [...]
In the meantime I have finished building the measuring station and have also finally solved the amplifier part for the headphones and the measuring microphone with a Creative Soundblaster AE-9. Of course, that’s exactly what I’ll be reporting on today. By the way, I also exposed the used technology to the graphics card glitches and was [...]
If you also hear what you see, the external analog amplifier has a nasty background hum, the headphones are much too quiet, and the sound comes across much too flat and powerless in other ways as well, then something is obviously rotten with the system. But where is the best place to start and, above all, what are the causes? I have already [...]
Today I want to talk about a guilty pleasure of mine, the overclocking of RAM, more precisely DDR5 and its timings. There is a strange difference between the specifications of JEDEC, the standard’s committee, and the Intel specifications of the Alder Lake CPUs of the 12th generation. And even though the exact functionality of the individual [...]
While cleaning up in the storage, I found a virtually unused Raijintek Morpheus prototype that was supposed to clarify the difference between copper and aluminum heatsinks on RAM and VRM ages ago. Fittingly, the GeForce RTX 3080 reference board is also on the shelf of good deeds in the test lab, including a universal backplate that could be [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
The LGA1700 socket, which Intel introduced for the 12th generation of their Core CPUs last November, is known to have one or two problems with bending hardware. For context, I recommend our other two posts if you haven’t read them already. But in short, the problem is that the clamping force of the ILM (Integrated Loading Mechanism) is [...]
Better late than never, or what was that? Yes, unfortunately I am late with today’s topic, because the launch of AMD’s FSR 2.0 was already on 12.05.2022. At that time I was traveling abroad on business and therefore could not do any tests. Probably many of you have already dealt with the topic on various YouTube channels or other sites [...]
SK Hynix 16 Gbit M-Die is known to be the holy grail in terms of DDR5 overclocking, at least at time of writing. The prices for the fastest kits with clock rates in the XMP profile of over 6000 Mbps are still quite expensive. However, if you dare to work on the clock and timings of the RAM yourself anyway, cheaper kits with the same ICs are an [...]
Qualified Vendor Lists, or QVL for short, are probably familiar to anyone who has looked for a suitable pairing of motherboard and RAM kit. Since RAM kits with an XMP profile are not covered by the official specifications of the CPU manufacturers (Intel or AMD), motherboard and RAM manufacturers test the compatibility between their products [...]
