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With an RRP of 249 USD and a street price of approx. The 1More Triple Driver plays 160 Euros in the league of the beautiful and the sound rich, at least in terms of price. Today's test has to prove whether this will be the same with the acoustic equivalent...
The firmware of the last generations of Nvidia is relatively easy to read (not only) in terms of expected power consumption and power limits with Nvidia's NVSMI tool. This is nothing new in itself, but I have written a 1-click batch file for the more inexperienced readers, which makes the tedious hanging through the directories obsololet.
The opposite of expensive does not always have to be cheap. In fact, it would also be inexpensive. This is exactly what KFA2 must have thought when the GeForce RTX 2070 EX was designed. Many things were taken over here from the larger KFA2 cards and also the cooler has a decent portiönchen hip bacon, so that nothing burns. I take a closer look at [...]
One finds again and again possibilities to further improve a product that is good in itself and to punish the supposed greed of the accountants with only a few cents of material use nonchalantly. Far more than 90°C below the memory you don't have to find really nice now, but why did the dear Lord God create the so-called thermal guide pads [...]
You know and hate it, the beloved moment when a power supply suddenly switches off in the middle of the game, even though it is new and shows no other abnormalities. The annoyance of the users becomes even greater if one believes that the power supply size has also been calculated correctly. But is that enough for the manufacturers of graphics [...]
With a portable hard drive and a fast memory stick, iStorage with diskAshur Pro2 and datAshur Pro offers something like smart data safes for the secret (data) carrier of the world. And that's what already looks like a safe with the fancy number keypad and promises security, it is. We'll test it...
The fact that I prefer to play with my good stereo headphones has now certainly been talked about. That I used a good stand microphone for communication so far, perhaps less. Unfortunately, nomen est omen applies, because it stands on the desktop and thus automatically also usually grandiosely in the way. With the Yeticaster, a bundle from the [...]
I had already teased this follow-up in the launch article for the Radeon RX 590 and thus also promised the readers, only such a cluster of never-ending measuring series then takes a little longer than expected. After a few hours, I stopped counting how many times I was subvolting towards the desktop or the Back/Greyscreen i crashed. But in the end [...]
White egg in front of white wall? I know I don't do myself any good in advance, if I have to start photographing and releasing all the white components individually. Let's see what comes out of it and how much time goes flute for it again. The ulterior motive for this special build, however, is quite simple, if I may say so. Play instinct [...]
Sennheiser also makes in gaming headsets. Well, this realization is not so new, but after all the tests of the last few months, this specimen was a very welcome change. After all, we are not in the double-digit range, where most of the usual suspects are found, but very clearly above them. With approx. Sennheiser can also pay the GSP 550 quite [...]
First of all, I would like to put two important things before this test report. First, such things that we will do below are certainly not prohibited on the finished product, but anything that goes beyond simply reading and writing the BIOS data is already in the grey area between healthy play instinct and reverse engineering. And it is also quite [...]
Division of labour is a nice thing, especially when your system has to be "persuaded" manually for the 1809 update of Windows and you are unfortunately not one of those who have been pampered with pre-keys. But better late than never and together with colleagues, working and playing is twice as much fun. This is written by someone who [...]
RGB lettering on top? Has everyone. A nice RGB logo in the backplate? Yawn. Illuminated RGB fans? There are already. But what about real light effects on the rotor blades? Some people who are looking for the ultimate difference and would like to be paralyzed by the stroboscope effect will now sharpen their ears. At least that's what she must [...]
The transition to an improved manufacturing process (12nm FinFET) is also intended to breathe new life into Polaris before retirement. However, with regard to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060, the goal has been to use the newly acquired reserves exclusively for clock increases and not to increase efficiency with the same performance, which is a pity [...]
Something like hi-fi goes even without large chests of chests of drawers and high-performance amplifiers, which drive the fear sweat beads onto the self-tanned forehead for every ghetto gangster in the pimped golf. The system tested today is something of anti that it was a real need for me to show that you don't always have to have the [...]
After I was able to test the Toshiba Tecra X40 (reader test) at the beginning of 2018, I replaced the existing 240GB M.2 SSD with a 1TB M.2 SSD. As a result, the Samsung PM961 240GB M.2 NVMe SSD was virtually over and should not be uselessly "rumoxidizing". So For a while I was looking for a solution to be able to use the SSD externally [...]
Not quite cheap, but actually worth every penny. At least you can come to this conclusion if you used the Beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless quite intensively over a long period of time. In the end, today's test also reflects my own user and connoisseur behaviour, even if I of course also take the usual defoliations and measurements for the article [...]
AmD's second-generation Threadripper processors offered the WX series affordable server power for the first time, even for consumers and (semi-)professional users. Content creator. This new series was led by the almost bestial-looking 32-core / 64-thread model Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. This 1800-euro processor set new records for multi [...]
You can drive it with the power limit up to the maximum allowed 380 watts, or sit back relaxed in noble modesty. And always with the knowledge that the last watt from the can only leads to more heat and noise, but not really to more gaming performance. And so PNY runs the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XLR8 factory with 260 watts and lays out the rest of the [...]
