Finally Sunday and once again a photo series. But there is an important insight to start with: Only with PCIe do old floppies unfold their true data rates. And so it came as it had to come – the great floppy revival.
AMD has announced that they have been able to identify the cause of the defects in their Ryzen 7000 processors. In a Statement to Anandtech the company stated that the issues are due to excessively high voltages that are outside of the intended specifications. In response, motherboard manufacturers have received an updated AGESA version, whose [...]
Increasing demand for computing power and growing energy efficiency requirements have greatly influenced the development of data center technologies in recent years. AMD and 451 Research, a leading technology analysis and market research firm, have played a critical role in shaping and analyzing these developments. Of interest here are advances [...]
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 [...]
Meanwhile, some (few) users reported serious problems with the new AMD Ryzen 7000 processors, which had led to destroyed CPUs and motherboards. My friend Aris discovered, actually rather by accident, an interesting thing, which he had measured with his Powenetics v2, a shunt-based measurement setup and also logged. I don’t want to withhold [...]
ASUS has finally issued an official statement regarding the recent cases of damaged AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs on its AM5 motherboards and also explained why the older BIOS was removed. In the statement, ASUS explained that the issues were due to a combination of factors, including CPU cooling, voltage regulation, and the use of older BIOS versions [...]
The problem with inaccurate flow sensors I had already questioned once, so I had resolved to check every now and then what has happened so. With the Alphacool ES flow and temperature sensor “HighFlow” with tachometer signal (what a terribly bulky name!) Alphacool has a flow sensor in the portfolio, which works amazingly accurate for [...]
It’s that time again: Latency Time for eSports enthusiasts and of course those who want to become one. Besides high FPS and low – constant – frame times, latency can make the difference between victory and defeat. Everyone has to reflect on their own skill in the respective game – self-critically – because [...]
The process with the destroyed Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs has of course already interested me and I didn’t want to just cover a news and that was it. So I took the damage picture from Reddit and put the back of the CPU in the right position first. We can see the destroyed Ryzen 7 and the dent along with the scorched copper pads in the picture. The [...]
Let’s start the graphics card week with today’s review of an RTX 4070 from Palit and an information that I also got confirmed in the meantime: NVIDIA will stop supplying its board partners for a few weeks. In the previous news, there was usually explicit talk about the GeForce RTX 4070, which is now also the case for the GeForce RTX [...]
Powerful microprocessors have a tendency to get hot as they deliver high performance, converting electrical energy into heat. If they are overclocked without sufficient cooling or throttling, this can lead to excessive heating of the chip, which in turn can compromise the integrity of the CPU. In this case, there is a risk that the CPU will [...]
The Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Dual 12GB in review is one of the cheaper GeForce RTX 4070s that are already sold well below the MSRP. So good, so unspectacular. Especially since Gainward’s “sister card”, the RTX 4070 Ghost (same manufacturer, different label, different look) has already cracked the pychological 600 mark with 599 [...]
It is well known that our site is bilingual and that the content must be managed in the WordPress CMS. I’ve been using Polylang for this since 2019 and Polylang Pro since 2020, which significantly simplifies the implementation and management of multilingualism. Many things are also first translated by machine and later still manually post [...]
If the sound card drops out or cracks, USB devices do not work or only work sporadically or the performance drops, then interrupt conflicts are usually the cause. This is something that Windows users have long since ignored out of sheer convenience, although the problem is as old as PCs and has only shifted under the colorful operating system [...]
Over three years after releasing the Z-series of water coolers, one of the first with an integrated display, NZXT now introduces a successor. The advantage from the unique selling proposition of that time no longer exists today, but the addition of “elite” raises great expectations. You can find out whether it can live up to them in [...]
I already wrote about the cheaper MSRP cards and the resulting cost down. With the GeForce RTX 4070 Verto 12GB, PNY tries to square the circle, so to speak, by not saving essential things, but only the rather unimportant ones. More voltage converters, fewer fans and instead of a massive cooler design, a cleverly stabilized lightweight [...]
Valve and CodeWeavers have recently released the latest version of Proton, namely Proton 8.0-1. Proton is an open source software package based on Wine and developed by Valve. It allows Linux users to play Windows games through the Steam platform without requiring a separate Windows installation. With Proton 8.0-1, many improvements and bug fixes [...]
Lately, lightweight mice have been sprouting up almost like weeds. While the last tested input devices always had the impression that they all seem to come from the same factory and every manufacturer simply sticks their logo on it to have an ultra-light mouse in their portfolio, things look a bit different with Glorious. Whether the refresh of [...]
I recently discussed the prices and the profit margins of the board partners for the GeForce RTX 4070 and also noted that there is hardly any financial leeway left for the manufacturers, especially for the cheapest models, i.e. the so-called MSRP cards (cards that are supposed to be sold at maximum MSRP). This is reflected on the one hand in the [...]
