Category - Gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 4080 SUPRIM X Review – Frozen heavyweight champion on silent soles, if it weren’t for the price as a hurdle

Fast, quiet, cool and efficient don’t have to be mutually exclusive since the launch of the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB, and the MSI RTX 4080 SUPRIM X 16GB is no different. Unfortunately, it is also more, namely currently far too expensive. Even if the ex-factory selling price is already not squeamish, retailers tend to shift the value chain [...]


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition 16GB Review – Faster than expected and much more frugal than feared

Today we can finally present the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition (FE) including all technical details and the long-awaited benchmarks, because the suspense curve was already plenty big. Even though NVIDIA actually sees the card as the successor to the GeForce RTX 3080, it is still a challenge to the RTX 3090 and especially to the GeForce [...]


AMD’s FSR 3.0 emulated: Frame Generation with DLSS 3.0, FSR 2.1 and XeSS in benchmark and quality comparison

We have already reported in detail about NVIDIA’s DLSS 3.0 and the option to generate and insert additional frames via frame generation. AMD had recently announced a similar feature and FSR 3.0 for next year. And interestingly enough, owners of a GeForce RTX 4090 and soon also the RTX 4080 can test exactly that right now, because we found in [...]


MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X Review – Cool and super fast

The GeForce RTX 4090 has been launched, and with the 12VHPWR port, we’ll have to see how it develops, and that’s exactly why we’re turning to the pleasant side of life today. It would be boring to just write about the adapter all the time. And those who are really fluid could also afford the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X [...]


OMNO Review – Award-winning indie game: Relaxation made in Germany

Where is Ryzen? They won’t be here until this afternoon, at 3 p.m. sharp. And to make the wait not so hard, we have a little pearl for you, which is really worth to be presented as well. If you have gasoline in your blood and bullets in your tank, Omno is definitely not a suitable game for you. However, if you just want to switch off and are [...]


Pocket billiards? Mobile retro gaming for a penny!

After my last article “Back tot he /root(s) – Retro gaming for beginners and enthusiasts” I thought about how I can indulge my passion when I’m on the road. After some research, I found what I was looking for: The company Hardkernel, which I already recommended in the previous article with the Odroid N2+, also provides [...]


Where the 600 watts of the NVIDIA GeForce “RTX 4090” come from – a calculation of GPU and components | Exclusive

Once again, I will try to extrapolate the power consumption of individual components to be able to conclude the power consumption of the GPU. I was almost right on the money with Turing and also this time the board design, if it will really come like this, does not pose any riddles. It is possible to derive quite interesting details based on the [...]


Intel Core i5-12400 Review – Efficient and cheap gaming CPU for the masses with way too expensive motherboards | Part 1

Today I want to test the Intel Core i5-12400 in gaming first, before there will of course be the follow up with real application benchmarks soon. I used two brand new B660 motherboards as a base this time and also compare the DDR4 with a DDR5 version of the MSI MAG B660M Mortar WiFi, because there are some really interesting differences with [...]