Category - Reviews

Missing flux compensator: Flux residues in cheap radiators – why so many AiO water cooling systems really die | Investigative

I did not make it easy for myself, but worked on this topic for almost half a year. In the first article last year I had already written about clogged radiators and tubes, defective pumps and the theory behind the coolants on their additives. After a very complex analysis with the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and with the help of energy [...]


DDR5 (relatively) affordable – Teamgroup T-Force VULCAN 5200 CL40 2x 16 GB kit review with teardown and OC

Teamgroup is a known brand in the memory market and not only since DDR5. Today we’re looking at one of their more cost-effective product lines of the new RAM standard, in the form of a VULCAN DDR5-5200 2x 16 GB kit. In addition to testing in XMP, we will of course overclock the kit manually again and find out how close you can get to faster [...]


MSI Vigor GK71 Sonic Keyboard Review – chic High-End with crystal Keycaps

It has been quite a while since I last tested a keyboard from MSI and the difference to the last model could hardly be bigger. The Vigor GK30 tried out at that time was clearly intended for beginners with membrane switches and a low price; here, one now rather turns to the other end of the spectrum. The following article will tell you whether this [...]


Supercool Computers Direct-Die waterblock and delid tool for Intel Alder Lake Review| Intel Core i9-12900K in Pain

Ever smaller manufacturing processes lead to ever higher thermal densities in CPUs and GPUs. This is one of the reasons why Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs run so hot that every air cooler almost has no chance with a big i9, no matter how many watts of waste heat it is designed for. The often cited bottleneck lies further up the cooling chain [...]