Today is Friday and thus for many also the last working day this week. Well, exceptions prove the rule, but since I’m working on a longer test, today I’ll just share a story from my three months older colleague Ronaldo Buassali, operator of TecLab and full-time Head of Latin America at Galaxy Microsystems Ltd (as well as passionate LN2 [...]
Nothing against leaks, because they satisfy everyone’s curiosity to a certain extent, on the contrary. As you know, I know that quite well myself. Much of this more current information also came from kopite7kimi and it was also the case that they seemed to contradict each other in sometimes rapid chronological succession. Now, you can of [...]
Who doesn’t know them, the multiple entries of the supposedly same graphics card and the annoying consequences of this registry collecting mania? Sometimes you don’t even consciously notice this and then wonder why a new graphics card of the same chip type suddenly runs unstable after a replacement. DDU is certainly a solution, but [...]
Why do you think there was no HD 7830, but the rather unloved HD 7790? We had reported in a news item back then that we came across a board during the test of a new Radeon HD 7850 in the rare singleslot design, which didn’t contain a normal Pitcairn chip with 1024 shader units, but a weaker engineering sample with only 768 shader units [...]
They do still exist, the graphics cards that also stand out optically and technically in equal measure. You can’t reinvent the wheel, but you can achieve one or two performance improvements via the tires. This realization probably also prompted Gigabyte to turn the cooling principle upside down in the truest sense of the word. With the new [...]
The launch of the Radeon RX 6750XT is a week ago and the prices are falling. It’s about time again to test a board partner card with the Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT Nitro+ 12 GB, which is either more frugal or thirstier than the older RX 6700XT and can thus be faster or a bit slower. Either, or – by the way, the two generations will [...]
What’s on the other end of the graphics card? Right! A cable leading to the monitor. In most cases, this will be a DisplayPort cable. The connection to the monitor is now established. The monitor can now render everything the GPU outputs to your eyes. Or at least it could. In almost all the articles you have read from me so far, I refer to [...]
Gradually, FSR compatible games will receive the update to FSR version 2.0. What was initially seen as AMD’s desperate answer to Nvidia’s DLSS is supposed to be a serious opponent in the new version. Since there is already a lot of content on this topic, I can already spoil in the introduction that even as a GeForce user I would like [...]
I built the first board for performance measurements long before Nvidia’s PCAT was released. Nvidia had also purchased a Powenetics system to study about a year before PCAT was released. And they kind of lost track of me there, so I guess things didn’t go as expected for them or they thought maybe they could do it differently or better [...]
With the KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, I’m happy to fulfill the desire to once again test a single card that isn’t at the very top of its already hefty price range within its performance class. At currently less than 1150 Euros, it is already back in rather “normal” regions, because just under a year ago we were already at just [...]
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 [...]
If you also hear what you see, the external analog amplifier has a nasty background hum, the headphones are much too quiet, and the sound comes across much too flat and powerless in other ways as well, then something is obviously rotten with the system. But where is the best place to start and, above all, what are the causes? I have already [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
The new Eiswolf 2 from Alphacool is actually no stranger, however it too now uses the re-design of the Aurora Acryl GPX-A ice block along with better flow and lower temperatures across the entire block. That’s exactly why, after testing the waterblock with a Sapphire RX 6950XT Nitro+ Pure, I also tested the approx. 245 euro expensive AiO [...]
This was already true 10 years ago: Passively cooled mid-range graphics cards have become rare exotics. Often enough, the power loss to be dissipated and thus also the heat generated are too great. Passively cooling these cards requires not only a sophisticated cooling solution, but also the right operating environment. Powercolor has not changed [...]
While cleaning up in the storage, I found a virtually unused Raijintek Morpheus prototype that was supposed to clarify the difference between copper and aluminum heatsinks on RAM and VRM ages ago. Fittingly, the GeForce RTX 3080 reference board is also on the shelf of good deeds in the test lab, including a universal backplate that could be [...]
To put it briefly: vigilance and secrecy meet industrial mass production and the technical preparations for it. It’s not like I don’t have any information at all that I could post in any form and with the necessary sense of responsibility, but you have to clearly separate between two things here. At the beginning, there is the [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
Alphacool has given the Aurora Acryl GPX-A Eisblock a complete redesign, promising better flow and lower temperatures across the block. So why not test the 2022 version together with a Sapphire RX 6950XT Nitro+ Pure, which was already disassembled in the 3D scanner anyway? Of course, I don’t want to spoil anything, but the temperatures as [...]
Better late than never, or what was that? Yes, unfortunately I am late with today’s topic, because the launch of AMD’s FSR 2.0 was already on 12.05.2022. At that time I was traveling abroad on business and therefore could not do any tests. Probably many of you have already dealt with the topic on various YouTube channels or other sites [...]
