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 [...]
This week has brought significant advances in the world of gaming technology. NVIDIA unveiled an updated version of their DLSS3 library with a strong focus on improving ray tracing capabilities. At the same time, AMD has unveiled its long-awaited competitor to DLSS3, which is analogously called FSR3. Both upscaling technologies are scheduled for [...]
In a strategic partnership with the developers of the upcoming game “Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora” (Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft), scheduled for release on December 7, AMD has unveiled a specialized graphics card called RX 7900 XTX Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Limited Edition. The uniqueness of this particular model goes beyond its [...]
Attention allergy sufferers, the following text may contain traces of lead and sarcasm! Once upon a time, in a country called China, engineers and economists asked the eternal question, “Should our solder be leaded or lead-free?” You might say that this was a question of almost Shakespearean proportions: “To solder or not to [...]
How do you upgrade the dead Gamescom? Right, with a hardware launch! AMD explicitly targets the “enthusiasts” among gamers with the Radeon RX 7800XT (499 USD) and RX 7700XT (449 USD) presented today and fills the remaining gap in the midfield of gaming graphics cards at the same time. Mit focuses on “1440p gaming”, i.e [...]
After we recently tested the Quersus ICOS, a chair explicitly marketed as an “office chair”, and found it to be good, SHARKOON now swoops in with the Office Pal C30 and shows us once again how price-performance works. You can read about the compromises that have to be made to reach the price of 229.90€ in the review. 229.90€ – [...]
The preliminary announcement in the run-up to Gamescom hinted at the possibility of an upcoming ‘product unveiling’, without explicitly explaining the exact nature of AMD’s intended unveiling. In recent weeks, there has been increased speculation about possible updates within the Radeon RX 7000 series. Much of this speculation [...]
NVIDIA is gearing up for the release of RTX Remix, an innovative modding platform developed as part of the NVIDIA Omniverse. This platform is designed to give modders tools to create and share #RTXON mods for classic games. These mods will include upgraded materials, comprehensive ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA RTX IO, and NVIDIA Reflex [...]
I have changed the title a bit, because we don’t want to provoke clickbait. But the meaning will make itself clear in the further course of the test report, one way or another. There will be a happy ending! If you want to get started with 3D printing, there is something really interesting to read today. But let’s start at the [...]
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 [...]
As part of this year’s Gamescom 2023, NVIDIA has unveiled a number of upcoming updates aimed at the GeForce gaming community. A highlight among these announcements is the introduction of DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction, a feature that will be available for all GeForce RTX series GPUs starting with the RTX 20 series in the upcoming fall season [...]
Normally you don’t see many reviews of ATX cases from me, I actually feel quite comfortable in the literally small ITX niche. This time, however, a good opportunity arose when I was offered the latest case from Endorfy. I need to free up some space in my basement shelves and want to get rid of as much as possible in one fell swoop. Building [...]
Users now have the ability to experiment with the BIOS of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as if it were 2013 all over again. Over the past decade, NVIDIA had effectively curtailed the practice of modifying video BIOS by introducing strict BIOS signature checks. The introduction of the “Falcon” on-die security processor with the GeForce [...]
Continuous driver updates from Intel boost Arc GPU performance Intel’s graphics driver team has been releasing continuous updates for their discrete Arc GPUs since the launch of the Arc series. These updates, known as “Game On” drivers, not only optimize performance for new titles, but also achieve notable performance gains for [...]
IT Home, August 20: Recent news reveals that the upcoming generation of Arrow Lake S-series processors will be called “Core Ultra”. This processor line is expected to be launched in late 2024 under the name Meteor Lake series as the successor of Core Ultra processors. The flagship of this processor line will be based on the LGA 1851 [...]
Many readers have already noticed that Arctic sells the popular (because cheap) P12 PWM PST (and not only this) in new revisions. In the meantime, the fan we tested today has reached revision 4 and that alone is reason enough to draw a real comparison. For this purpose, we measured both revision 1 and revision 4 again under the same conditions [...]
NVIDIA rightfully dominates the scene in the AI discussion. their GPUs are ready to go and enjoy precedence among professionals and companies looking to enter the world of AI. However, just this week, both Intel and AMD tweaked their software stacks to deliver significant speed increases in the generative AI space. These updates resulted in [...]
Let's quickly jump in again... The before and after show of the fireplace opening That you can warm up to features like a docking station is all a matter of opinion. By the way, the good piece has never been used, so it d... Collateral damage? It's amazing that the rest of the technology survived despite the excess liquid and the short circuit [...]
AMD has announced that the release of Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) v1.0 is imminent. This tool is for post-mortem analysis of GPU crashes (sounds really exciting) and allows developers to retrieve and analyze AMD GPU crash dumps. The information generated assists in determining the cause of the crashes. They include page fault details, resource [...]
Unfortunately, Intel only provided us with the latest information late yesterday evening and I was still busy in the lab with the Radeon Pro W7600 at that time and fully booked this morning. Nevertheless, I took the time and summarized the most important things from the recording for you. Basically, it’s a really noteworthy driver update [...]
