Update from 30.05.2021 Based on an expert opinion I created for PayPal, the service provider has now decided in favor of the bruised buyer and has already transferred the money back. As long as you can prove everything cleanly, the buyer protection is quite useful, as long as you follow the most important rules, which I also describe below in the [...]
Steelseries is looking to shake up the highly customizable gaming mouse market with what it says is a chameleon-inspired mouse. How the mouse performed in the long-term test is revealed in the following article: Packaging and scope of delivery The grey-orange box adheres to the unofficial industry standard and holds no surprises at first. Large [...]
Intel announced earlier this week that it had reached a key milestone in the development of its next-generation Meteor Lake 7nm CPUs. The company let it be known on Twitter that the line-in of the compute tile of Meteor Lake CPUs was successful. The milestone of sorts was proudly announced by Intel’s Executive Vice President and GM of the [...]
How, pray tell, does one write a review of something that is (almost) unavailable for purchase? Or you were lucky and/or had a somewhat bulging war chest and got one of the KFA RTX 3060 EX. Exactly for such rare moments of happiness in the gamer’s life I wrote this review today, because you should already know if you can also be happy with a [...]
Last time I had the new powerhouses from Cooler Master with almost gigantic dimensions in the test, today the exact opposite. Whether a cooler with just 39mm total height is sufficient for a modern mid-range CPU, you can find out in the following article. Packaging and scope of delivery As far as the carton design is concerned, the combination of [...]
Meanwhile, more details on AMD’s upcoming AM5 desktop platform supporting future Ryzen CPUs and APUs have been released by leaker ExecutableFix. The AMD AM5 platform will compete directly with Intel’s new 600 platform, as both will be the first platforms to also offer consumer DDR5 memory support. According to this leak, the next [...]
Today we build ourselves a notebook! Well, I don’t want to exaggerate, but that’s the beauty of such a barebone: you can actually put in what you would like to have (or think you have to have). Based on the Clevo X170KM-G, that’s no secret, I simply assembled the XMG Ultra 17 myself once, and again, there’s not a dry eye in [...]
Since I have to do some longer tests now and then, like this notebook test, which takes more than just one day, I’ll give you a not-so-serious picture gallery as a mental compensation instead of a serious review, while I’m sitting up here in the lab and sweating. Light fare in hard times also has something, so just enjoy the next pages [...]
As if the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti weren’t enough, an RTX 3090 Ti could now be on the way as well, according to various speculations. That this is probably not the case, can be clarified quite quickly, because I have checked all my sources. The leak of the supposed NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was originally published by PC Mania [...]
AMD had recently released the first open source Linux graphics driver code for a new GPU called Beige Goby. Listed in it, Beige Goby is the latest Linux-specific codename used for new hardware enablements in their graphics drivers. We remember: After the Dimgrey Cavefish, the Sienna Cichlid, the Navy Flounder and others, the Beige Goby is now the [...]
