Category - Reviews

Cougar Immersa Pro in review – headset with surround and USB sound card

Introduction and scope of delivery The Cougar Immersa is with approx. 45 Euro street price is a real bargain with good wearing comfort and a very interesting price/performance ratio. Success is notoriously courageous and that's how you pep the whole thing ... Software The UIX software also detects the headset, although it works without any [...]


nacon Revolution Pro Controller 2: more than just a simple gamepad?

Game controllers are available like sand by the sea, licensed console products, which can also play more than just their sticks and buttons on the PC. The PR has let the (write) muscles play in the announcement of the features and ... Software and limitation on the PC The configuration, also for the PS4, is done via a software to be installed [...]


AMD Radeon RX Vega64 without temperature limit with interesting findings

Telemetry in high form But how and where do we want to start? In order to understand our concern, we first have to delve a little deeper into the theory and first take a quick look at how Power Tune works. Power Tu... Tensions and clock We already know that the Radeon RX Vega64 benefits significantly from AVFS because telemetry strives to maintain [...]


Soft alternative: Noblechairs Icon in review

With the upholstery and the contours it is like with the great love. Some like it hard, others rather soft and fuller. And since you can't please everyone, it has to set up a new model. Was the Ep... The assembly order recommended in the manual is somewhat illogical and in practice rather hindering. We have therefore documented the assembly in [...]


Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC in review

Asus uses the same board as the ROG Poseidon Platinum hybrid card, but with slight modifications to capacitor assembly. Otherwise, the Strix cooler of course has much more space, which can only be advantageous. The Kart... Asus uses its own design for this board. The two 8-pin sockets for the external power supply are followed by two coils in the [...]


Sharkoon PureWriter TKL: Flat, space-saving and mechanically flawless

One can also celebrate the art of skilful omission without anyone immediately shrugging off in pain. If you can live without a number pad or even want to, you also save the space for a second, thick coffee cup. Frills? ... The "Chocolat" switches from Kailh are an in-house development, even if one may still remember the flat cherry [...]


Gaming Headsets: Myth, Truth and How We Test

Due to the constant high response over the last few years, we will once again focus more on gaming headsets. However, many of our tests with more or less positive conclusions have certainly also contributed to the fact that in the... Of sound, waves and lengths The focus is on airborne sound, which is exactly what takes place between the sound [...]


Small, hot-cold sister: AMD RX Vega56 with efficiency test and VR

In the end, however, this remains the most exciting question of the day, because there has been little noticeable about a wide availability and above all stable software. So it can only get better. But what's left in the end ... Disassembly and radiator details Removing the top hee cover is easy. With a small Phillips screwdriver (PH1), the [...]


Sharkoon Skiller SGS3 Gaming Seat in review: Twisted or for seat edisin?

Almost 300 euros is already a lot of wood foam, no question. But quality seating has always been at a price. This starts with the ergonomically highly bred seating furniture at the grey-melted chief secretary with dutt and ends ... Let's unpack the Boliden once and start assembing in the next chapter. A lot of things are pre-assembled, but not [...]


Overclocked and boiled: AMD Radeon RX Vega64 water-cooled

Exactly this question we answer today and - without spoiling further - also show that even with an all-in-one compact cooling over 400 watts of waste heat, you can still master it acceptable if you only use a more functional radiator... Introduction AMD believes it can easily get over the summer day with the small 120mm radiator of its AiO (Vega [...]


The wait has finally come to an end: AMD Radeon RX Vega64 in test

Already at the end of last year we were able to marvel at the Vega64 in its first form and since then the manufacturer (and thus also the readers, as well as the potential customers) has fed us again and again with small bits of information and announcements about the n... Also at the risk of us repeating ourselves, we want to go back to the most [...]


Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SuperJetstream in review

Palit ranks the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti SuperJetstream below the GameRock Premium Edition, but uses the same board, but no Vortex fans. How good is this model compared to its own top model and the competitor cards... Palit uses its own design for this board that is no different from the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium from the same house. At [...]


Ultra-fast flash: MSI GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z in review

With the Lightning z, MSI really played with the muscles, which you also need as a customer when unpacking this chunk of graphics card. With a combat weight of just under 1.7 kilograms, the card competes to conquer the PCs of this world - the necessary K... MSI uses its own design for this board, which is also significantly different from the MSI [...]


Beginner class: AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 in test

If you want to refresh your knowledge of AMD's new architecture, take a look at the launch article "AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X in Test" and the first follow-up "The Ryzen Family: Three Sevens with Eight Cores in second Comparison", as well as the... Introduction In the gaming tests, we provide the two Ryzen 3 with different [...]


AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition review: Hiking between the worlds

This means that it is already in the approximate, where AMD actually wants to go. While Nvidia has to be careful not to cannibalize its own sister card, the Quadro P6000, AMD does not (currently) have an in-house sister, which can be used with it. With Vega, AMD is now offering a new generation of GPUs that will have received over 200 changes and [...]