I didn’t choose the title entirely by chance, because I actually wanted a treat for both: working in a video studio with precise sound and the appropriate sound system after work as a reward and relaxation for stressful hours. This may sound simple at first, but it is not. Analytical reproduction during mixing and cutting does not [...]
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Death Stranding is in some ways an opinion leader. Either you like it or you hate it. At least you can't accuse this game of being "uniform mash", because it does many things differently than you would expect. Whether it is a successful console port nevertheless or just because of that, you can read in the short test.
This article aims to give you a rough overview about the current state of Undervolting, including detailed instructions, potential risks, benefits and some political background. Undervolting is the deliberate reduction of electrical voltage on the CPU and GPU. If applied correctly, it has the potential to slightly lower the temperature and power [...]
In addition to EK Waterblocks, there is another well-known company in Sweden that can count AiO water cooling systems among its portfolio: Fractal Design. And since 2020 seems to be the year of the AiO new editions in addition to the year of the catastrophes, a revised version of the in-house Celsius S water cooling system from 2017 is now being [...]
The market for all-in-one water cooling solutions for graphics cards is still abundantly manageable compared to CPU coolers, although the potential gain over air cooling is significantly higher. Higher boost steps and lower operating noise are only part of the reward, because all other components of the graphics card board also benefit from such [...]
For some time now, a separate encoding chip, which Nvidia NvEnc has christened Nvidia NvEnc, has been used in many NVIDIA graphics cards. This is a real hardware solution that can convert videos quite efficiently. Currently the common codecs H.264 and H.265 as well as resolutions up to 8K are supported. The Turing generation now promises video [...]
Granted, it sounds a bit lurid, but in the end it is. Well, at least a little. But which all-in-one compact water cooling system can cope with up to 400 watts of waste heat (and even a bit more)? Of course, the watt figures are a thing of the past because they also depend on the CPU model used and the resulting heat flux density. That’s [...]
Corsair H150i RGB PRO XT under test – Strong 360mm AiO with a simple design, but with lots of colour
Corsair has long been an established name among the manufacturers of AiO water coolers, and despite its high price level it can always hold its own in the first places in price comparisons, provided you sort by popularity. This makes it all the more surprising that of the 16 Corsair AiOs currently on sale, only one model with a 360mm radiator has [...]
Does that sound very lurid? Not at all. The whole thing isn’t that absurd, because such a Ryzen is actually a complete SoC (System-on-Chip). But you would have to bring such a processor to life first. That there are other possibilities for this, apart from all the known chipsets, is no state secret, but at least it seems to be uncomfortable [...]
You have to look hard to find the advantage of the Ryzen 9 3900XT over the Ryzen 9 3900X. The longer such a session runs and also includes different scenarios and a very different thread load (number, load level), the smaller the actual differences become and you have to look very carefully. In order to remain as meaningful as possible and not [...]
After one year of Ryzen 3000 (“Matisse”), the replacement of the current Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3800X and Ryzen 9 3900X is approaching, by adding MTS2 (internal for “Matisse Refresh”), an improved XT replacement, which should make waiting for Ryzen 4000 (“Vermeer”) a little easier. And probably also a little bit [...]
Especially after the tests of the B550 motherboards, the justified question about the problem with the split PCIe 4.0 ports naturally arises. PCIe 4.0 with 16 or 8x connection should not show any (serious) difference together with the suitable (AMD) graphics card. But what about the fallback to PCIe 3.0, for example runs an older AMD or [...]
Gigabyte puts a B550 motherboard on the market with the B550 Vision D, which is rather poaching in the nobler upper house with currently a good 260 euro and is partly almost twice as expensive as the cheapest X570 boards. While I still had stomach aches with the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master to explain the price in a plausible way, the Gigabyte B550 [...]
I had already reported a few things about NVIDIA’s new generation of Ampere cards in several articles and read the feedback on them. Interesting there were especially the extrapolations of the number of possible CUDA cores, where all comparisons to Turing regarding performance and efficiency and as a consequence also with the possible power [...]
Since there are always questions and some things are often confused, we will give you some insights into AMD-UEFI, what is colloquially called “the BIOS” (although it is no longer correct). I have also broken down the following extremely to remain as simple and understandable as possible. Nevertheless, what happens when the PC starts [...]
The classic soundcard is dead, long live the classic soundcard? Somehow it is and I would like to explain it again with a longer self-experiment. I myself criticize the headphone outputs of the onboard sound solutions often enough and am always glad when motherboard manufacturers have followed the suggestions of customers and editors and improved [...]
One for all and all on one? it’s perfectly possible if you use the right hardware. With RainPOW! 2.0 the German startup CrankzWare has combined pretty much everything that can be read and controlled into one unit, as long as it has RGB and connectors. The advantage of the RainPOW! 2.0, which is completely manufactured in Germany, is however [...]
In part 1 “We build a Hackintosh – part 1 as a starting aid for newcomers and assembly” it was “only” about choosing the right hardware and assembling it, but now it’s getting serious. I would like to thank al6042 from the Hackintosh Forum, who was able to shorten the learning curve up to the “finished [...]
What should one actually write in capital letters about a mousepad if it works? but people are curious and since everybody and everything is screaming for RGB by now, one can also try it on oneself. Since I, as a user of a full-size mechanical keyboard and low-senser in general, only use pads with a length of at least 90 cm and a depth of 40 cm [...]
Toshiba became KIOXIA and now the EXCERIA series is presented, which moves in three directions: the normal consumer, enthusiasts and the upgradeers with SATA option. Some time ago, the RC500 was introduced, which even uses the same controller and is also available in stores as an NVMe-SSD for the normal consumer. EXCERIA (without Plus) is now to [...]
