Dare to Challenge – rarely has a slogan been more fitting than that of the Z590 OC Formula, ASRock’s new high-end overclocking motherboard! Intel’s latest mainstream CPUs of the Rocket Lake family don’t bring any big advantages for gamers, but for friends of memory overclocking the 11th generation opens completely new [...]
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Even if many people don’t want to read it, today I have a board partner card from AMD in the form of the Powercolor Radeon RX 6700XT for you in a single test. What makes the card so special is its white PCB and all-white cover including white LED lighting. Since the whole thing stands out a bit more from the crowd, I just got myself this [...]
What lasts long – usually becomes good. However, I took extra time for today’s test with the question “NVIDIA NULL and Reflex vs. AMD Anti-Lag and Radeon Boost, which works better?”. For some time now I have been writing about the topic of latencies and there have been a few articles from me on this topic. In particular, we [...]
Alphacool vs. aquacomputer? Once again, today we have a reader review by Elmo from our community that addresses this very issue of GPU water blocks. Since I find the test, the methodology and also the used technique extremely exciting, I have summarized the whole thing as a real article and with the author’s consent also slightly changed so [...]
Fear of leaking water and the death of all electronics in the PC as an fatal consequence? Fear no more, the LEAKSHIELD from Aqua Computer is designed to prevent just that: provide a leakage insurance against water accidents in your cooling circuit. Cost? With 119.90 euros certainly cheaper than a big leak. Effect? Priceless! Admittedly, the idea [...]
Anyone planning a water cooling system will sooner or later ask the question, “Which pump do I need?” If you now turn to a community with the question, you will receive many different answers. But predominantly the answer will be: “A D5”. Why this is so and whether the massively expanded version of Aquacomputer is Swiss [...]
Even though compared to CPU and GPU, RAM overclocking probably has the smallest impact on your daily computing experience, specific memory sensitive applications can see a big boost from optimizing your PC’s memory, like we covered in our Cyberpunk 2077 memory roundup. So today we want to show how we overclock and – equally important – [...]
Since we were asked again and again for 140 mm fans, we now also begin with the test of the somewhat larger case fans. As a future reference, the Noctua NF-A14 FLX, which costs approx. 21 euros, will therefore compete against the reference of our 120 mm fans in today’s individual test, which makes for a very nice comparison to work out the [...]
For the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE (Founders Edition) unveiled today, NVIDIA uses the full GA104.1 In contrast to the GA102, a smaller chip like the GA104 usually promises higher yield and thus better availability, improved efficiency and cheaper production. So much for the theory. Except that this often clashes with practice. Because the question [...]
It was very quiet around AMD’s Radeon Pro portfolio of professional workstations for quite some time, which also rely on certified drivers and ECC-RAM, because especially in the professional environment such standards have to be met. While NVIDIA has been left almost without a fight for months, the three new graphics solutions presented [...]
Those who already know my previous articles also know about my second hobby besides hardware: 3D printers! And today it’s about how well both interests can be combined. What follows is a mix of image gallery, buildlog and review: My goal was that I wanted to “produce” the case for a gaming system by myself, mainly to see how far [...]
After the hot autumn of 2020 and the now almost seemingly eternal graphics card thirst, we have in the meantime also learned many new terms and various hardships. If you’re not into SM games, i.e. scalpers & mining, it’s really hard to realize your dream of a new, super-fast pixel slingshot in a reasonable frame at the moment. And [...]
In the course of a soon to be released crossover project of my two hobbies hardware and 3D printing MSI kindly provided me with this board. And even though mainboards are not really my area, I took a closer look at it within my possibilities. The following is the short test: Packaging and scope of delivery Compared to the almost container [...]
Since our readers have repeatedly requested the tests as push, pull and push-pull variants, we simply combine today’s re-test of an upper-class fan with this request. Just under 28 euros is certainly not cheap, but still significantly cheaper than an ARGB fan from other premium brands. Blacknoise advertises the Noiseblocker BP12x-P-BL PWM [...]
Before we get to the content of today’s review, I have to be fair and clarify the premise first. As a home office sysadmin, I spend several hours a day in meetings with colleagues and clients and depend on a high-quality audio solution. With surrounding neighbors and air conditioning another challenge in the summer, Active Noise Cancellation [...]
Much has been written about the game, so I don’t need to go into extreme detail again. And even though it’s actually a console port, the game is already from 2019 and used to be PS4 exclusive – the PC gets to show what it can do again here (and the player all the more). Deacon St. John as the main character is the likeable anti [...]
Having assembled quite a few PCs already, I’ve always wanted to build a mini-I-X system for everyday use. So it came as a call that my work colleague asked me for a new PC, well, the help to build him something tailor-made. After a short information gathering regarding the application of the PC as well as the budget, it was only a few mouse [...]
Steelseries is looking to shake up the highly customizable gaming mouse market with what it says is a chameleon-inspired mouse. How the mouse performed in the long-term test is revealed in the following article: Packaging and scope of delivery The grey-orange box adheres to the unofficial industry standard and holds no surprises at first. Large [...]
In the first part of my review, I took a look at the XMG Ultra 17 barebone inside, the whole thing powered by an Intel Core i9-11900K. assembled and really stressed out. Today we have the missing gaming benchmarks, a few applications and the efficiency review of the GeForce 3080 laptop, which has a (positive) surprise in store. Considering all the [...]
How, pray tell, does one write a review of something that is (almost) unavailable for purchase? Or you were lucky and/or had a somewhat bulging war chest and got one of the KFA RTX 3060 EX. Exactly for such rare moments of happiness in the gamer’s life I wrote this review today, because you should already know if you can also be happy with a [...]
