Category - Reviews

The net laughs: Kalinka! – Modding between Moscow and Siberia

You have to like him, the Russian humour. This, in turn, coupled with craftsmanship and a bit of imagination, yields quite unimaginable perspectives in the field of case mods. Pictures that prove that even elsewhere tin produces strange flowers. Modding is a thankful field of activity and does not only consist in the affixing of various lamps or [...]


CPU temperatures within limits? – Thermal Grizzly, Thermalright, Jeyi and Feng Zao LGA1700 frames in comparison test

Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs with their LGA1700 and Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) including the bending problem have been around for 9 months now. The successor CPUs aka Raptor Lake might not be long away, but it has already been confirmed that they will use the same socket and thus most likely ILM as well. Existing motherboards with a 600 [...]


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE in a Studio PC and a Workstation – Showdown against a RTX A6000 and limited to 300 Watts

The NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti FE was unfortunately quite rare as a sample at the launch and only made it into my well-stocked archive much later. But postponed is not canceled and since I didn’t see any sense in testing an even higher clocked (and energetically much more inflated) board partner card in my workstation at that time, exactly this part [...]


600 watts and the fastest graphics card in the world in 2012: HIS 7970 X2, PowerColor 7990 Devil 13 or EVGA GTX 690? | Retro

Everyone is currently shaking their heads over the rumored 600 watts (or more) power consumption for NVIDIA's upcoming flagship, but it's not that new. My HIS HD 6990 already managed 590 watts with the OC BIOS at the time and the three cards from 2012 presented today are also only just below 600 watts. And with two of the HIS HD 6990s, I [...]


Deepcool LS720 Review – discreet AiO with a special installation wish

Last time, we had a small air cooler from Deepcool for testing, but today it’s practically exactly the opposite. With the new LS series, the manufacturer certifies itself “elite performance”, whether you can keep this promise you will learn in the following article. If you prefer compact air coolers after all, here is the article [...]