Category - Reviews

Intel’s finest crowbar selection – Core i9-12900KS binning and OC comparison with 12900K/KF

The Intel Core i9-12900KS has been on the market for a few weeks now and is, at least on paper, actually just an even more highly selected variant of the i9-12900K with a slightly higher clock and base power out of the box. Enthusiasts argue about whether this is a sensible expansion of the product portfolio. Overclockers are naturally keen on the [...]


High-End Gaming PC 2021/2022 with Custom Water Cooling | Part 2 Assembly

Time is running out and many are already waiting for the second part and today is the day (who missed the first part: click here). We take a look at the finished high-end gaming PC including the peripherals. The focus will be on the topic of custom water cooling. So if you expect there to be much on the subject of PC assembly in general today [...]


Cool flagship instead of fusion reactor: the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti turns the efficiency list upside down with a 300-watt throttle and beats the Radeons

What actually happens when you forcefully and cunningly slow down a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, which swallows up to 500 watts in ultra HD, to 300 watts?  With only 60% of the consumed power, the question arises how many percentage points of performance are lost when 40 percentage points less energy is needed. Where does it place its self in the end as [...]


NVIDIA’s and AMD’s demands on the PCI SIG for the new 600 Watt VGA cards – limits, allowed overruns and transients | Exclusive

Is the 600 watts really the upper end or where are the tolerance ranges for exceeding the standards for a short bursts? And why does the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti suddenly show a completely different behavior under full load? I will answer exactly these questions today, because the review of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has (probably not only) made me [...]


One Motherboard, Two Faces – ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex review with Teardown, RAM- & Adaptive Core-OC

Today we continue with our Z690 motherboard reviews, with the Asus Maximus Z690 Apex. Not only the naming convention has changed compared to the predecessor models, because besides DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and the LGA1700 socket, there are unfortunately also a few teething troubles that I would like to address in advance, if not have to. Preface: Silicon [...]


MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti SUPRIM X 24 GB Review – Hot potato, RTX Titan, collector’s item or just a test run for the GeForce RTX 4090?

Actually, everyone had already checked off the Ampere generation, but then came CES 2022 and Jensen with the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. One can really argue about the sense or nonsense of this card in the full version of the GA102 and the high-energy implementation, but it exists and would like to be tested and evaluated. And while we are at it, this [...]