Category - Reviews

Edifier QD35 Review – Bluetooth monoculture in styled up and spacy

And no, that’s not some oversized underwater camera; it’s genuinely a real Bluetooth speaker. This beauty is called the Edifier QD35, and its street price is now 120 Euros (RRP 170 Euros). You really have to come up with such a design, and this piece was so distinctively different that I just couldn’t resist, price [...]


igor’sLAB continues to upgrade: On the hunt for (false) elements and measuring the impossible – Keyence VHX7000 and EA-300 in daily use | Issue 1

You can invest a lot of things for and in something. Time, energy and, of course, a lot of money. But if you take the latter in hand, on the one hand to save time and energy, and on the other hand to test or uncover things that your normal (media) competitors can’t, then something like this is well worth it. After all, I have two mainstays [...]


NETAC NV7000-t 2TB NVMe SSD Review – Complete Far East in cool and fast

The NETAC NV7000-t 2TB NVMe SSD is actually a highly interesting SSD, because it combines (like the already reviewed Acer Predator GM 7) a (still) quite exotic controller (that 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 a DRAM cache and [...]


Power Supply in Graphics Cards explained – Switching Voltage Regulators, PWM Controler, true Phases and the annoying “Coil Whining” | Reminder

I wrote today’s article less than a year ago, so it’s not really “retro” yet, but somehow it’s time to bring it back up in this section on Saturday. I receive so many letters and enquiries on the subject that I think this article simply deserves to be here, and it certainly takes some of the pressure off me because I [...]


CORSAIR K70 MAX Magnetic-Mechanical Keyboard Review – Are switches with a variable trigger point the solution for all problems?

With the next refresh of the K70 – in this case the K70 MAX – Corsair introduces the brand new magnetic switches. Thanks to the adjustable trigger point, the MGX switches are supposed to achieve the perfect balance between fast response (gaming) and maximum precision (typing). You can read whether the “wonder switches” [...]