I’ve had the Corsair Hydro X Series iCUE XH305i RGB Pro in black in the works for a while now, and today I can finally present you with the first part of the long-awaited review. The second part will then be about a complete build with all components from this custom loop kit. Speaking of shooting: Then, of course, there is the usual video [...]
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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 [...]
In keeping with Intel’s oneAPI and the possibility of actually being able to enable this option in games, I have another classic for you today. Whether Intel decides to handle the whole thing as open or closed source, however, will probably also depend on how Intel will continue with the graphics card division at all. I don’t want to [...]
Why I took a closer look at the Doogee S89 Pro today and let you participate in the self-experiment (of my kids)? Because, as the father of two young boys, I see myself once again confirmed in the fact that it is rather counterproductive to pass on the discarded parental smartphones to the squirts. Rugged smartphones are certainly a niche, and yet [...]
After we have dealt with the monitor basics in the last part of our journey – especially with the topic of color space – we will go one step deeper into the matter today. I already mentioned it briefly in the last article: color depth 8 bit vs. 10 bit vs. 12 bit, what does the user need? And, what does Rec. 2020? Is there already [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A little over a year ago, I presented an ITX gaming system here whose case came entirely from the 3D printer. Since then there were from me now and then smaller topics in this direction, today I present you my next big project with a small footprint. However, instead of a gaming PC for your own leisure time, it becomes rather useful and practical [...]
2010: Plenty of hot air for a quick death The following article contains parts of a classic from 12 years ago that was already believed to have been lost. Who remembers the Sahara PC and Tom’s menu from the younger ones? We already and the younger ones will be amazed that not so much has changed hard. Even then, graphics cards were glowing [...]
With the Asus TUF Gaming TF120, we are testing a mid-range fan from Asus today that shines, cools, and does almost nothing wrong, if you ignore two minor slips. But the part is so conspicuously inconspicuous that we were happy to comply with the readers’ requests for a test. It is a decent “can-do” fan that does not deliver top [...]
After dealing with the topic of LCD and OLED panels in the last article, today we take the next step on our journey around the basics when it comes to monitors. From the advantages and disadvantages of the last article, we were able to take away a few things for today’s topic in the transfer. Not all LCD panels are the same, and not all [...]
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 [...]
New driver, new luck? I gave Intel’s Arc A380 with new beta drivers another go and also looked at the draw calls under DX11, DX12 and Vulkan. Old wine and maturing? Yep, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The test system used in the first article and the roughly equally fast cards from the last test are used, i.e. the Intel Arc A380 in [...]
I had to let it sink in that Corsair now offers good fans without RGB again. No iCUE, no controller clutter, instead just a plain (but highly pure) white or a nice, exciting black. Bling-bling is not even available for a surcharge and the current street price of just under 24 Euros leaves you in the dark. Fiat Lux? No one needs it if the fan is [...]
Is there THE ideal gaming headphone? I thought about it and decided: I’ll just do an interesting experiment with the inexpensive OneOdio Monitor 80 for just under 100 Euros. Let’s just leave the microphone aside, because I wanted to know how well an open studio headphone with a more neutral (i.e. flat) audio signature would do overall [...]
Also the be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 140 mm were already advertised by marketing weeks ago, but today there is finally the test as part 2 in direct comparison with the models with 120 mm diameter. Of course, there have already been various reviews on the web since the launch, but we deliberately took more time this time. If you want to learn [...]
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 [...]
Even 10 years ago, there were already technical outliers and critical "solution approaches", not just since today. At that time, I caught MSI and as a result, the manufacturer got one on the lid ("NVIDIA's Rules") and the customer subsequently got a flawless product. Yes, some of the MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition that was [...]
Finally, the time has come and I can finally offer you the detailed review of the Gunnir Arc A380 6GB Photon, which should provide interesting conclusions and also prospects for the larger models. Together with Computerbase, Golem and a user of 3DCenter, we publish the first German reviews of this card today at a self-arranged “launch [...]
The be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 120 mm have already been extensively reviewed in the media, but today we finally have the long-awaited test. We chose the 120mm case fans as the first part, though we will follow up with the larger 140mm fans in a timely manner. In theory, there have already been press releases and information in wave-like [...]