Category - Reviews

Intel Kaby Lake: Core i7-7700K, i7-7700, i5-7600K and i5-7600 in review

Intel is currently in the midst of the biggest restructuring in the company's history. In terms of its own growth forecasts, the focus is increasingly shifting toward IoT, cloud, and data centers. At the same time, the CPU... 200 chipsets and Optane Ready support Both the 200 and 100 chipsets support Kaby Lake and Skylake processors. This dual [...]


AMD FreeSync 2 grows up: HDR and Low Latency

Review: Improvements instead of standstill

It has now been almost two years since FreeSync was introduced by AMD with a lot of effort and at the same time the distribution by as much compatible hardware as possible in the form of matching Monito...


Xiaomi YI 4K Action Cam: Cheaper and Better Than a GoPro Hero4?

Xiaomi has hit the YI 4K right: Despite all the functionality, it is still quite cheap action camera, which even allows 4K video recording at a tidy 30 frames per second. The scope of delivery of the currently available at Gearbest.com for ... Hands-On Test We have been using the camera in Igor's laboratory for about two months - but with a [...]


Watch Dogs 2: 30 graphics cards in the benchmark marathon

We don't want to dramatize it, but without a clever underplower, Watch Dogs 2 doesn't do much. Living more beautifully or falling by the wayside? We want to clarify which pixel wallpapers still stick well even with little paste. Other... Full HD with 1920 x 1080 pixels and "Ultra" & "Very High" settings We have [...]


EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW with cooler mod and new BIOS in test

Reasons for the post-test In our Pascal Roundup: GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1080 we reported in great detail about the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW and the cooling problems we identified. We already had EVGA... Measurements on the gaming loop Our test demands the graphics card quite neatly and the power consumption increases to values that only [...]


Pascal becomes passive: We build a fanless GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

It's been almost four years since we first tried a GeForce GTX 650 in our two-part Silent Gaming project - More graphics performance including thermal protection circuit (here part 1, which is about the PC itself). Temperatures, clock rates and voltages Our measurements have to be carried out in passive mode over a much longer period of time [...]


How-to-Guide: Optimize Graphics Card Cooling and Thermal Paste

In this article, we don't just want to limit ourselves to a thermal paste comparison with (de-)assembly instructions, but also to show why some cards simply can't cool better and why you can't cool the entire cooling system, including the fans... Dismantling without depression Before screwing, for example, with GPU-Z you should log the [...]


Alphacool Eiswolf GPX-Pro AiO: Compact Water Cooling for GTX 1080/1070

Since we want to test as soon as possible how such a solution behaves compared to closed compact water cooling, we simply reconstructed and assembled the Alphacool Eiswolf GPX-Pro 120 AiO ourselves, because the used... Easy conversion - if you know how to do it Alphacool provides an assembly instruction in the form of a leaflet, which describes [...]


Editorial internal: How we measure and evaluate graphic performance

PresentMon: Frame Times for DirectX, OpenGL and Volcano Measure Since the introduction of DirectX 12, Windows UWP and Vulkan, we have once again been faced with the task of determining at least a largely reliable determination of the rendering times of all individually... Frames per second In the end, these time-based averages only tell how many [...]