First of all, I have to say that the part was not actually designed for the normal end customer, but for the industry and therefore certain features have to be excluded fairly from the start. But the Alphacool ES Orbiter 360 TS is mercilessly trimmed for performance and does exactly what you would expect from such a cooler. I’ve been using [...]
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Recently, we have repeatedly seen how much performance can be packed into the smallest space with the new Ryzen CPUs. Today, it goes in the opposite direction, because Intel presents a power-saving alternative for office use with the new N-series processors. With a TDP of only 6 watts, it is almost on Raspberry Pi level. You can find out if the [...]
AMD’s Scalable Voltage Interface 3 (SVI3) for Dummies and how to check if your AM5 Mainboard is SAFE
Terrible SoC voltages everywhere! AMD’s new horror! Say some YouTubers. But to learn more about this problem and understand why at first glance everything seems different than it actually is, we need to go back to the source, which is none other than SVI3. In this article today I will try to shed more light on this power interface used by [...]
Recently, there has been and continues to be a lot of uproar about ASUS motherboards maintaining excessively high SoC voltages, which appear to be the problem with the Ryzen 7000X3D failures. However, as will be seen today, other brands also maintained excessively high SoC voltages, applying only a minimal drop through the new firmware versions [...]
I didn’t really want to believe it at first, but after receiving feedback in the double digits, I combined what was pleasant for the customer with what was interesting for me. I analyze and repair the card at my risk, so that the buyer gets a working card back in any case and I am at least smarter in the end. The 30 Kelvin delta between GPU [...]
I’ve been using Beyerdynamic products for more than 15 years now: From high-end headphones (T1, T90) to fun headphones like the Amiron Home, Avento and Custom One Pro, to professional microphone technology. I already recently had an article online about the non-durability of the Custom One Pro (link below), but now there is already another [...]
In view of the fact that I am currently reorganising my warehouse and have also parted with various things that have accumulated over almost 15 years, today I am posting a photo series that deals with various residues and deposits, even though it definitely does not describe the state of my own warehouse. But the general rule is: when inner values [...]
The AIO death continues: Lian Li Galahad 360 (1st version) with complete clogging (Purchase Warning)
I had already not made it easy for myself last year, but dealt with products from the OEM Apaltek for a long time, for example. A lot of well-known suppliers were affected, such as MSI, Enermax and Fractal. But the list could be continued. I already wrote about clogged coolers and hoses, defective pumps and the theory behind the cooling fluids and [...]
With the Gainward RTX 1660 Super (Susi), I am once again rescuing a graphics card that I had already tested extensively almost four years ago and that has also been in almost daily use since then. This ranges as a career ladder from the office to the recording PC (OBS) and the gaming use in the PC of my youngest son. And at some point the card got [...]
Today there is once again an excursion into my other hobby away from the hardware. It’s about a very special 3D printer, a project that has kept me busy over several weekends. I am talking about a Voronto be more precise a Voron Trident! Why I chose a 3D printer from a manufacturer that isn’t one at all and for a model that you [...]
After I had recently chosen the Recaro RAE as my new personal reference in terms of office chairs, the young manufacturer SecretLab felt compelled to send us its latest creation for testing. With solid construction and high-quality material appeal, they want to knock Recaro off its throne, and even though the two chairs are in a completely [...]
Actually, a more detailed game review was supposed to be published here today, but I decided against it in the end. Because even though I had already invested several hours, I cannot justify pretending that everything runs so smoothly that it can be objectively benchmarked and evaluated. As this once again confirms the trend of knowingly offering [...]
I have combined the download sections into one page and instead link to the older articles with the tutorials in the software table. The download as such is only available on this page in a summarised form. Preliminary note and introduction Since AMD massively restricted the use of the SoftPowerPlayTables and thus indirectly also the MorePowerTool [...]
Despite all the features like higher power limit, 3-fan design and ARGB, the KFA2 GeForce RTX 4070 EX Gamer (outside EU sold as Galax) belongs to the inexpensive models of the GeForce RTX 4070 series, which are now also sold well below the MSRP. So good, so exciting. Because the current street price is around 629 Euros and is really a real [...]
I noticed especially in the so-called MSRP cards of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 that NVIDIA still does intensive binning and here two quality gradations (“buckets”) are again quite restrictive selected in bin 0 (worse) and bin 1 (better). We still know this from the so-called “Non-A” and “A” chips in [...]
For the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX Vapor-X 24 GB, Sapphire opens the very big cutlery box. Compared to the MBA card (made by AMD), the Vapor-Chamber works perfectly and does exactly what is expected of it. Even in the most outlandish living and installation situations. Together with a significantly higher power limit, the clock rate is [...]
Tests of working memory kits are actually relatively predictable if you already know beforehand which memory components are installed and how they are known to behave. It is all the more interesting when new ICs come onto the market and no one really knows what to expect. This is exactly what today’s test is about, because we take a closer [...]
Over the past few years, we’ve noticed that high-end wireless gaming headsets are popping up like mushrooms out of the audio ground – these marketing-pushed technological marvels promise us heaven on earth in terms of sound quality, no matter what we’re listening to and whether the game we’re about to mercilessly mow down [...]
I’ll keep it short today since we already had the SER6 without “Pro” in the test and this is only a slightly modified version with the newer version of the CPU. So, the main focus is on the performance benchmarks. All the rest can be found in the previous article: Specifications Let’s quickly compare the two installed CPUs [...]
With the GH40 ENC, MSI launches its first gaming headset with noise cancellation for improved intelligibility during communication. Besides the mentioned noise cancellation, other highlights like robust metal hinges and decent sound are supposed to be on board. Whether all this is really feasible in a 60€ headset can be read in today’s [...]
