Even if one or the other might think, I’m taking some time off after all these launches – this is (unfortunately) not the case and there is more to do than ever before. However, much of this work has to be carried out in parallel and is usually bound to various NDAs with regard to the respective publication period. But I can still [...]
In the last few weeks I have been able to talk to some manufacturers who are all complaining (ok, it must always be like this) and try to hoard as much copper or semi-finished copper products as possible for current and future production. Of course, this cannot be done endlessly, if only for logistical and financial reasons. Especially since it is [...]
The new AMD Radeon Software Adrenaline driver is now available for download and for the first time also offers official support for the Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions. The 20.11.3 driver also now includes support for Immortals: Fenyx Rising, a new open world game (Ubisoft Quebec) The AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.11.3 driver also fixes a number [...]
MSI has also begun to introduce new BIOS versions for the X470 and B450 motherboards that support AMD’s Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs. MSI is the next manufacturer to offer support for AMD’s 3rd generation CPUs. Ryzen Generation (Ryzen 5000 ‘Vermeer’) on its motherboards, which are now available for download from the official [...]
With the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE (Founders Edition) introduced today, NVIDIA shrinks the GA104, which we already know from the GeForce RTX 3070, even further. In terms of surface area, the chip is of course just as large or small, but also slightly trimmed. Still higher yield and thus a better availability, a similarly good efficiency as with the [...]
2020 was actually a first-class year for technological innovation, but it will probably also go down in history as the year of the ultimate frustration of discouraged consumers, when the target group will end up not being able to buy what has been on their wish list for a long time: graphics cards and processors, power supplies and last but not [...]
Meanwhile, besides the already extensively tested reference cards of AMD’s RX-6000 series, there are also various board partner cards (not) for sale, of which two of these coveted specimens are already in the lab for at least one public test. The continued unavailability is all the more annoying as these products are really good and [...]
As far as the usual text lengths for shops and marketing material allow, AMD’s board partners (AIB) are obliged to use certain designations in the product labeling and for the first time use the addition “Gaming Graphics Card”. In addition, “with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA™ 2” also focuses on memory expansion and the fact [...]
Overview and requirements You know what that’s like? In and around your PC there are dozens of hard disks, on each one there are different files, you never find anything and space is always limited anyway. Now, you could just buy a ready-made NAS from, for example Synology or Qnap, but that’s not an option for small wallets [...]
Barely half a year after I tested the EK-AIO 240 D-RGB, the EK-AIO Elite has been added. According to EK Waterblocks, the regular EK-AIO became one of the best-selling articles after a short time, so that the company would like to expand its own assortment a little more. The design has been largely retained, but the polarising RGB acrylic pump [...]
Who doesn’t know the great 80-Plus logo on most power supplies? This label suggests a certain efficiency and contributes not insignificantly to image building. 80 Plus Platinum? This just has to be good! Or maybe not so really? A document that I received today shows how the money printing machine 80 Plus is ticking in such a way, i will tell [...]
Even though AMD has solved the determination of Tjunction (“hotspot temperature”) differently with the new Radeon graphics cards (Navi21) and measures and calculates much more widely, it is precisely this temperature that is the linchpin for telemetry. This in turn means that the applied clock rates including voltages, the fan control [...]
Yeah, we did it again, and better this time. Especially since our forum member Gurdi probably won one of the main prizes in the silicone lottery, as his RX 6800 in reference design shows very impressively what can be done if you had a lucky hand with the order button. I can spoil it in advance, because his card reached an average stable and above [...]
Would you like a little more or a little less? The overclocking limit of the Radeon RX 6800 XT isn’t particularly large, so the cheaper RX 6800 already looks much more interesting. But you won’t be able to pull out any trees here either, because AMD is now following the example of NVIDIA and is completely sealed off with the [...]
MSI presents SUPRIM, a completely new model series above the Gaming-X and Gaming-Z series. Whereas up to now, individual Lightning models have been the top dog and icing on the cake of the fastest graphics cards, MSI wants to introduce SUPREME, a complete new product line for all faster graphics chips, which is aimed more at prestige and technical [...]
Without wanting to spoil everyone’s joy with a hasty spoiler in the first sentence: AMD is also back in GPUs. And how! Nevertheless, despite all the euphoria about the enormous performance boost, one must remain fair and consider the entire pixel cosmos: performance (rasterization, DXR, compute), feature set, electrical as well as mechanical [...]
I have already photographed the Radeon RX 68o0XT in part 1, now it’s the turn of the smaller sister, which might even be number one in demand. The price is hot, but still secret. So let’s unpack what aunt Lisa sent me as a second DLC, because it’s worth it again. And those who think I simply continued to use the pictures of the [...]
The tension is naturally at the stop, there is not much missing before the bullet snaps off. Today there is a first twitch, where I can give you some data and of course show you what I am already allowed to show in my own pictures: superficialities and the outfit on light metal, plastic and kerfuffle. You may simply browse through the pages and [...]
The Polish company COOLING.PL with its SilentiumPC / SPCGear brands is perhaps best known here in Germany for its ready-made systems or the ZackZack offers from Alternate. Why the name does not ring a bell directly can be partly answered by the company philosophy: ” No aggressive marketing, no flashy advertising banners and huge slogans [...]
Currently, there are many patches, new BIOS versions and various minor teething troubles with selected motherboard and CPU configurations, for example regarding the maximum achievable fabric clock rate. Unfortunately, most people quickly forget about a problem that could disturb the new Holy Trinity of motherboard, CPU and graphics card: certain [...]
