Let’s first look back: Intel’s nevertheless very successful HEDT line ended in 2019 with the Core X series, almost 3 years ago. Since then, the company has launched three complete generations of mobile and desktop CPUs, but completely ignored the HEDT platform. In the meantime, the Core desktop chips of the 13th generation offer a high [...]
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After we had a whole series of large air coolers on the testbench, including the almost gigantic be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4, let’s look at the other extreme today. Whether this small cooler and its 92mm fan can tame a Ryzen 9 – and under which conditions – you can find out in the following article. Packaging and scope of delivery [...]
I rarely test any smartphones, unless it is for personal use. The Doogee V30 presented today is ultimately the upgrade to the already tested Doogee S89 Pro and has to compete with the Hotwav Cyber 7 again. Both smartphones are privately owned (by my children) and I have already written about the background and the sense or nonsense of smartphones [...]
It is no secret that cards with power dissipations below the 100-watt limit can already be cooled well passively. If you then move close to the 50 watt limit, things get really interesting. No matter if in a free setup or in a tight case, this small amount of waste heat should actually be manageable with aplomb. That’s exactly what I wrote [...]
I deliberately took a bit more time this time by testing the Solidigm P44 Pro briefly at first and then using it in the workstation for a longer time. The Solidigm P44 Pro is ultimately just a SK hynix Platinum P41 under a different name and with modified firmware. The tested 1 TB version is one of three P44 models that are available with 512 GB [...]
After all the monitors, it’s time for a change. The ASUS ROG Chakram X comes at the right time, because we’ll get to the bottom of the marketing regarding the 8,000 Hz polling rate today. Since I’ve been testing the mouse at home since October 2022, I’ll introduce you to the device as a whole. However, my focus is clearly [...]
How to get the bow elegantly with the fat cable on the much too small plug has already been discussed long and wide. And as an outsider, you can criticize all sorts of things and conveniently blame the user, but that doesn’t solve the actual problem. It’s no secret that CableMod now offers suitable angle adapters for all installation [...]
The Acer Predator is definitely a highly interesting SSD, because it combines a rather unknown controller (which does without DRAM as cache) with a very special Chinese 3D TLC NAND from YMTC. In this form, it is even (on paper) one of the fastest PCIe-4 SSDs without DRAM cache and probably the most efficient SSD in this segment at all. Even if it [...]
The Sendy Audio Aiva has me touched (and not just because it’s a magnetostat), and has made me wonder a bit both beforehand and afterward. But more about that in a moment, because I have to elaborate a bit more. However, why I’m testing a pair of headphones for 649 Euros today is quickly explained: I’m currently testing an [...]
Thanks EA for bringing up, dusting off and polishing up a classic that was once THE game par excellence for me, because Dead Space already captivated me almost 15 years ago! In the truest sense of the word, because I sunk a lot of wonderful hours into it and was virtually mentally tied to the chair. And this enormous time span is of course also [...]
There are days when you would prefer not to get up at all. And there are devices that are still standing. Still. Like Toni’s flatulence station, which just ran Thor’s hammer….
To date, MaxSun has only launched one RTX 40 GPU, the RTX 4080 iCraft. The company’s RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 models have a lot more in common, as they both use a similar 3-slot design with 3 fans. But more importantly, they also have the same white cooler outfit. The iCraft MaxSun RTX 4070 Ti relies on the usual AD104 GPU with 7680 [...]
The fact that the MorePowerTool from Hellm and the Red BIOS Rebellion Team (R.B.R.T.) in the background for RDNA3 will no longer exist in the usual form has already been reported by some media, but somewhat unreflected and unfortunately with insufficient source information. It is important for us to note that the R.B.R.T is not a group of [...]
Today follows the last part of this little hobby project, but the end comes with a bang (metaphorically): Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM and a proud 32TB of storage. I had already teased the slightly extended version of the normal NAS, now it can finally show what it can do! The title already gave it away, for this system, which can also be used as a server [...]
No, it is not a contradiction, but transparent plastic tube (usually PVC) is cheap to buy, but really expensive in follow-up costs. Who can, prefer to go for hard tubing or such nice things as EPDM or Teflon, but there are also situations where you end up torn as to what it should be. And many a person is afraid to take anything other than PVC [...]