The official slides of Intel’s Rocket Lake, the 11th generation of Intels desktop CPU family was leaked now and at the same time the specifications and the lineup were confirmed, which I already published a few days ago. These new slides are meant to show the gaming potential of the Core i9 CPU compared to the last-gen flagship. According to [...]
In the last review I introduced you to the Shure Aonic 50 Overears, today I introduce you to another product from the Shure Aonic range: the Aonic 5 in-ears with matching Bluetooth 5 adapters. The Aonic 5 can definitely be classified in the high-end category, and this is also reflected in the price. According to the RRP, we have to put down a [...]
If one installs all BIOS updates for the motherboard and current drivers, then also with the older AMD graphics cards e.g. in the device manager and the properties the “large memory area” is indicated as available resource, which caused in the meantime many speculations whether and what the whole thing could bring then perhaps [...]
With today’s article, I ventured into a segment of the keyboard market that I’ve tended to avoid. Since I’ve always had a bit of a hard time with the lack of a numpad on many notebooks and TKL keyboards, the jump from fullsize to a 60% layout is a big one. In the following review, you can find out how the tiny device could do in [...]
Unofficially it went with the ComboAM4PI V2 1.2.0.1 already longer, but since 03.03.2021 AMD announced also officially the support of Zen2. Up to now, AMD required a current Zen3 CPU, a B550 or X570 motherboard and an updated BIOS. Or just a current Intel solution. Now also officially Zen2 and it is time to draw here once the direct comparison [...]
Update from 09.03.2021 – CTR 2.0 RC5 Lower reference frequency values for Zen3 (extra safety when pressing the TUNE button) The number of attempts to contact the SMU is increased from 5 to 10 Testing Mode – only AVX Light (fixed a bug where it was possible to unlock this switcher) Update from 04.03.2021 – CTR 2.0 RC4 As we [...]
The Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT have already been launched, the Radeon RX 6900 XT will follow on 08.12.2020. And what’s underneath? Nvidia blows out one card after the other with relish, because the GeForce RTX 3070 was already launched, the RTX 3060 Ti follows on 01.12.2020, the RTX 3060 even later. And how’s AMD? The Radeon RX 6700 [...]
The board partners are currently tinkering with the BIOS Generation Tool to make the implementation of the feature, announced for late March / early April, as user-friendly as possible. And of course, such measures also accompany various rumors, one of which, however, can probably already be debunked. After all, the recently launched GeForce RTX [...]
And then there were three! After the Radeon RX 6900XT and RX 6800XT, the RX 6700XT is now supposed to delight gamers from 18.03.2021. But whether the MSRP starting at 479 Euros is really real and whether you'll be able to buy cards at all in the end remains to be seen. We'll wait and see…
Load spikes that can cause even nominally adequate power supplies to suddenly shut down are all the rage right now, especially since the launch of NVIDIA’s current Ampere generation. It is also undisputed that this leads to the creation of legends and, of course, the accessories industry. But is there any point at all in placing a capacitor [...]
Anyone who spends a lot of time in a home office knows the dilemma: one computer for work, one computer for private use, both with monitors and peripherals, but both somehow have to be on the same desk. Chaos ensues, ergonomics and productivity suffer. The remedy is a KVM switch. We’ll take a look at what that is and what an implementation [...]
Those who are waiting for news about Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake processors can take a deep breath just before the launch, only to come up for air again right away. After all, Intel’s Rocket Lake architecture represents the first significant architecture upgrade in over 6 years and will also support PCIe 4.0, so they can catch up to [...]
The Nerdytech Couchmaster Cycon 2 is the successor of the first version since the end of last year and Nerdytech must have taken up the feedback on the previously released products, because there are only a few points of criticism. Now it’s not like I realize every test request immediately and euphorically, because it is as always also a [...]
That you can expect a good price/performance from this manufacturer has already been shown in past articles about Sharkoon peripherals. But how much mouse can you expect for under 10 euros? The answer to these and other questions can be found in the following article: Packaging and scope of delivery Externally, there is nothing special to see at [...]
With the GeForce RTX 3060 introduced today, NVIDIA is now rounding out the Ampere portfolio on the downside for now. Since there won’t be a Founders Edition, I’m testing an MSI RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio instead, which shouldn’t be a problem in terms of comparability due to NVIDIA’s very tight TDP limits. But more about that in [...]
Already on 03.03.2021 AMD wants to present the continuation of the current Radeon RX 6000 graphics card family with RDNA-2 architecture. Generally expected (but not yet officially confirmed), however, is the assumption of a Radeon RX 6700 XT, the possible reference design of which can be seen in AMD’s announcement. Whether there will be [...]
Darren McPhee, who we knew from earlier AMD times as “Director, Product Marketing and Content Strategy” (until 2015) and who then came from RTG via various detours to Intel to work there as “Director of Product Marketing, Discrete Graphics” until February 2021, has also returned to AMD. He will now join the team as [...]
You’ve seen a lot of things, even on YouTube. For example, a 500 watt power supply miraculously survives even a GeForce RTX 3080, while exactly this card even forced a 1300 watt Platinum behemoth to give up in the lab before the Ampere launch. Well, NVIDIA has meanwhile defused the boost and thus also the load changes, but that should still [...]
It was only about a quarter of a year ago that the EK AIO Elite fought its way to the top of the cooling solutions in my charts, and now they are delivering what is now the third version for a lower price range with the Basic series. Completely black and without RGB lighting, it might not only be interesting for price-conscious buyers. Whether the [...]
In the meantime, the rumors about the upcoming graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD have also increased. While the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 on 25.02.202 is visibly close, the launch of the Radeon RX 6700 (XT) is rumored for 18.03.2021. I had already published some of the possible key data of the upcoming Radeon RX 6700 (XT) in November 2020 [...]
