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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 [...]


NVIDIA’s and AMD’s demands on the PCI SIG for the new 600 Watt VGA cards – limits, allowed overruns and transients | Exclusive

Is the 600 watts really the upper end or where are the tolerance ranges for exceeding the standards for a short bursts? And why does the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti suddenly show a completely different behavior under full load? I will answer exactly these questions today, because the review of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has (probably not only) made me [...]


One Motherboard, Two Faces – ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex review with Teardown, RAM- & Adaptive Core-OC

Today we continue with our Z690 motherboard reviews, with the Asus Maximus Z690 Apex. Not only the naming convention has changed compared to the predecessor models, because besides DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and the LGA1700 socket, there are unfortunately also a few teething troubles that I would like to address in advance, if not have to. Preface: Silicon [...]


MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti SUPRIM X 24 GB Review – Hot potato, RTX Titan, collector’s item or just a test run for the GeForce RTX 4090?

Actually, everyone had already checked off the Ampere generation, but then came CES 2022 and Jensen with the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. One can really argue about the sense or nonsense of this card in the full version of the GA102 and the high-energy implementation, but it exists and would like to be tested and evaluated. And while we are at it, this [...]


Familiar design, even faster ICs – Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5-6200 CL36 2x 16 GB kit review with teardown and OC

We recently already tested the Dominator Platinum RGB modules from Corsair, but not yet in the SKU with 6200 Mbps and Hynix M-Die ICs. Today, that is changing. Besides the usual tests, a teardown and overclocking, we also compare the modules with the mentioned Samsung B-Die based variant and RAM sticks from other manufacturers, but with identical [...]


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