Yes, it took a long time, and improvements were also constantly being made to the adapters, which then proved their worth in the long-term test. One must not forget that the topic with the rather hot 12VHPWR connections is richly complex and therefore quick fixes of any kind are completely forbidden. Of course, you could have just soldered a few [...]
It was long overdue, but is now finally official. In revision 2.01 of the ATX version 3.0 (Multi Rail Desktop Platform Power Supply) from February 2023, Intel has finally had the design of the contacts specified. This was preceded by months of investigations and tests, which have now also been completed. But it also proves that I was right with [...]
What’s next week, where I’ll continue to work ahead even on the weekend? Quite a lot! By popular demand, we will start with the Sapphire RX 7900XT Pulse, which I have not only tested extensively, but which we (Igor’s magnetic fingers!) are allowed to keep and raffle off in the community. I would like to thank Sapphire in advance [...]
The GeForce RTX 4090 is already very expensive as such, but there are also considerable price differences between the respective models and manufacturers, so it is definitely worth looking twice financially. The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 SG 24GB (1-Click-OC) is one such candidate, whose clever positioning might only be recognized at second glance. At [...]
PCI Express (PCIe) is the standard interface for connecting devices within a computer, and the fourth generation of this standard, PCIe Gen4, offers significantly faster speeds and much greater bandwidth than previous versions. The specifications “x16” and “x8” refer to the number of data channels a specific PCIe slot has [...]
Today I am testing the fourth and for now last water block for NVIDIA’s top model with the Watercool Heatkiller V Pro on the GeForce RTX 4090 FE. And I can spoil it in advance: all four coolers are very close to each other and the actual differences are only in the appearance and in some areas in the temperature, depending on the block [...]
Intel is also working on its own super-resolution technology for videos in Chrome browsers. There were already hints of such technology that Intel engineers referred to in Chrome development, but it was not entirely clear how and if it would work at all. As it turns out, this technology is already enabled for certain Intel GPUs, but it is not [...]
Since its debut last December, The RX 7900 XT doesn’t seem to be selling as well as hoped, as it was marked down directly from its original MSRP of $899. Just a few days ago, the price officially dropped to $830, which is the lowest price for this card since its launch. Today, the RX 7900 XT is available for $819 for the reference model and [...]
The energetic crowbar is not new and some board partners like to use it to put their own top models even higher on the pedestal. GALAX had already launched the RTX 4090 HOF and the RTX 4070 Ti HOF, but the RTX 4080 has been left out for some reason until now. Now the time has also come and GALAX is introducing not one, but three models based on [...]
Graphics cards in blower design are not necessarily the standard on the market, certainly not for gamers. Manufacturers were quite fond of using this efficient method of cooling a few years ago as an efficient way to not only keep the graphics card cool while gaming, but also to be able to transport the waste heat out of the case as easily as [...]
Intel has announced the new prices for its A750 GPU, to which retailers have reacted relatively quickly and lowered their prices. The A750 is now available for just $249 in the US, around €259 in the EU and £249 in the UK. For US customers, prices are relatively constant, but EU and UK customers have not always been so lucky. Gamers in the UK can [...]
GALAX has many brands, one of which is called Kuroutoshikou Galakuro, for example, and is (unfortunately) sold exclusively in Japan. The company has announced the availability of the new RTX 4070 Ti. But “new” might not be a good word here, because the same card is already offered by GALAX and KFA2 as EX WHITE model in the US and [...]
This summer, AMD’s Vega graphics cards will celebrate their fifth birthday. Always standing in the shadow of Nvidia’s Pascal cards, the power-hungry cards were never really popular with gamers. Currently, the small models with 56 shader clusters change hands for just over 100€ on the second-hand market. Without further ado, we [...]
The latest attempt at overclocking AMD's CPUs focuses purely on the integrated graphics solution and possible optimizations. It is worth remembering that the Ryzen 7000 desktop series has a tiny RDNA2 GPU component with only 2 compute units. That's not nearly enough to provide a decent gaming experience, but it also doesn't stop anyone [...]
There is still no word on official DirectX11 tessellation support, which means Chinese GPUs like MTT S80 will still not support many of the popular and old games. However, software development is progressing and the company has just announced that 42 games are now supported by the hardware, doubling the number since the last driver release. The [...]
In late 2022, a Japanese media outlet published an interview with AMD executives responsible for the company's graphics business. They were asked about the current generation of RDNA architectures, but also about what might come next. The interview focuses on many important topics, such as primitives and mesh shaders and how they are used by [...]
The latest Intel 13th Gen HX CPU and NVIDIA's RTX 4090 are installed as components in the Razer Blade 18. Currently, this is the best gaming hardware you can get in a laptop, but that also comes at a high price. Needless to say, where the form factor limits performance, there will always be people who want to buy the best and most efficient [...]
The upcoming Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) will feature a keynote address by Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. The event officially begins March 20 and will run through March 23. The keynote has been confirmed for March 21 and will include many topics that might be of interest to graphics enthusiasts. At the moment, unfortunately [...]
This is the third generation of the AORUS Gaming Box, following the RTX 20 and RTX 30 models released in recent years. The next-gen box is said to be equipped with NVIDIA’s flagship RTX 4090 graphics, and that’s not a mobile variant, but the actual desktop GPU. Whether it would not have made more sense to focus on smaller Ada cards is [...]
Notebookcheck recently acquired the new ASUS TUF Gaming A16 notebook, which is equipped with AMD’s latest Radeon RX 7600S “RDNA 3” GPU. This is one of the first RDNA 3 GPUs for the notebook segment. The AMD Radeon RX 7600S uses the Navi 33 GPU die, which is based on the RDNA 3 graphics architecture. The graphics unit has 28 [...]
