Today we have something for the readers who don’t only gamble. The MSI Summit MS321UP is a monitor made for content creators. You notice this after unpacking at the latest, because you inevitably stumble across a measurement log. This monitor has a factory calibration for the DCI-P3 color [...]
Graphic Cards
We are through with the basics, then we can get started now. The MSI Optix MEG381CQR Plus is the first monitor to prove itself in our test. Yes, in terms of naming, all monitor manufacturers are trying to generate their own Da Vinci code. Basically, however, there is a certain logic behind it. MEG [...]
Such a test is definitely exciting, because even the onboard graphics of modern CPUs or APUs were sufficient for pure video playback in HTPCs back then. On the other hand, if you wanted to play a small game on a modest scale 10 years ago, these solutions were all still too underpowered at the time [...]
It is well known that the specifications for ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0 are closely intertwined and many things have also found their way into each other’s standardization. Also the many articles I already wrote about the 12VHPWR connector, i.e. the 12+4 pin, already gave a lot of insights there [...]
Since Igor is currently at the Games-Com, I can today – once again – a little romp on the homepage. So far, we had already dealt with the various panel types, the basics about colors, color spaces, and so on. For those who missed it, here’s a quick read. With the third part of our [...]
The Raijintek Morpheus is currently the most popular and most potent air cooler for graphics cards, but not for NVIDIA’s RTX 3xxx series. Until now, because I have now exclusively tested the first prototype, which also performs really well. You surely remember the first experiment with the [...]
With our MoreClockTool (MCT) we want to logically round up the MorePowerTool (MPT) and the Red BIOS Editor (RBE) and replace the Wattman from AMD’s driver packages for simpler overclocking. Which also makes it clear that the MCT can only be used for newer AMD graphics cards. Even if our [...]
In keeping with Intel’s oneAPI and the possibility of actually being able to enable this option in games, I have another classic for you today. Whether Intel decides to handle the whole thing as open or closed source, however, will probably also depend on how Intel will continue with the [...]
SLI is discontinued, Crossfire is dead – so it is naturally easy for Intel to jump into this empty niche and look for a way forward. You see, my friend Rob Squires from TweakTown learned something very interesting yesterday at SIGGRAPH 2022. According to him, Intel is currently finalizing its [...]
After we have dealt with the monitor basics in the last part of our journey – especially with the topic of color space – we will go one step deeper into the matter today. I already mentioned it briefly in the last article: color depth 8 bit vs. 10 bit vs. 12 bit, what does the user need [...]
The NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti FE was unfortunately quite rare as a sample at the launch and only made it into my well-stocked archive much later. But postponed is not canceled and since I didn’t see any sense in testing an even higher clocked (and energetically much more inflated) board partner card [...]
2010: Plenty of hot air for a quick death The following article contains parts of a classic from 12 years ago that was already believed to have been lost. Who remembers the Sahara PC and Tom’s menu from the younger ones? We already and the younger ones will be amazed that not so much has [...]
I will not presume to call the Alchemist project a failure, because time and the market alone will decide whether it succeeds or fails. It’s definitely not my place, and there’s no need to belittle the developers’ invested work based on just one tested product. However, more and [...]
After dealing with the topic of LCD and OLED panels in the last article, today we take the next step on our journey around the basics when it comes to monitors. From the advantages and disadvantages of the last article, we were able to take away a few things for today’s topic in the transfer [...]
Are they coming, or aren’t they? And if so, when? Various media had again written or spoken about a delay, but Intel is said to have now internally decided on a narrower time frame. If they’re going to stick to the current timeframe, the range that’s being colocated to me now is [...]
Everyone is currently shaking their heads over the rumored 600 watts (or more) power consumption for NVIDIA's upcoming flagship, but it's not that new. My HIS HD 6990 already managed 590 watts with the OC BIOS at the time and the three cards from 2012 presented today are also only just [...]
New driver, new luck? I gave Intel’s Arc A380 with new beta drivers another go and also looked at the draw calls under DX11, DX12 and Vulkan. Old wine and maturing? Yep, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The test system used in the first article and the roughly equally fast cards from [...]
Small and super fast, the 24-inch IPS Oculux NXG253R has a 360 Hz refresh rate. A real e-sports monitor! On the other hand, the MEG381CQR Plus is very big, still fast enough and packed with a lot of gimmicks. The basis for both is an IPS panel. But that was it. The two monitors are worlds apart in [...]
After a long hick-hack with my internet provider and a professional special case – the time has finally come. We’ll start with the basics on the subject of monitors. Today we’ll look at the topic of panel types, screen sizes and resolutions. However, I will not do a total deep [...]
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!
Finally, the time has come and I can finally offer you the detailed review of the Gunnir Arc A380 6GB Photon, which should provide interesting conclusions and also prospects for the larger models. Together with Computerbase, Golem and a user of 3DCenter, we publish the first German reviews of this [...]
For once, we’ll start the week with a news article as a description of the current state and a preview of what you can expect from tomorrow onwards, which has already robbed me of the whole weekend. The fact that there isn’t a full test article today is simply due to the amount of tests [...]
Sapphire provides the new flagship 7970 Toxic GHz Edition with a full 6 GB of video memory and uses one of the new Tahiti XT2 chips, which is even clocked with 1.2 GHz thanks to “Lethal Boost”, as long as the card runs within the thermally intended limits. The then higher RAM clock of [...]
When a graphics card “dies”, you really only have two options: species-appropriate scrapping or emergency admission in the “graphics card hospital”. I admit it, I had a harder time with the title than usual and actually there are two authors, Bernhard and me, because we both [...]
The radi(k)all fan of the current AMD graphics cards is an acoustic plague that is better fought where it originates, namely on the card itself. After a few minutes of testing with the cheeky original, all doubts as to whether the conversion would even be possible were quickly thrown overboard [...]