The mining industry, and it really is a billion-dollar market by now, is supposed to be fed with new (old?) GPUs to help equalize the current, very tight market situation. This is exactly the news that hit the press yesterday. But it also raises questions, because the whole thing doesn’t seem quite so simple. Not technically, either. But [...]
As a customer and connoisseur, one associates the Toxic with the most toxic and fastest variant of a graphics card series from Sapphire. There have been quite a few highly interesting graphics cards in history, which meanwhile already enjoy cult status and are true collector’s items. And then came Big Navi, 2021 and the Sapphire RX 6900XT [...]
With the Skiller Mech SGK30, Sharkoon wanted to bring a mechanical keyboard for gamers to the market, which can be classified in the popular “good and cheap” segment. And if the sales charts of the comparison portals are to be believed, then not only has this goal been achieved, but also the number 1 position of the most popular item [...]
With the Xtreme SKUs, ADATA XPG expands the existing Spectrix D50 RAM portfolio with two products in the high-end segment with actually extreme XMP clock rates of 4800 and 5000 MT/s. And to spoil a little in advance, for once not Samsung B-Die, but SK Hynix DJR serves as the basis for this flagship RAM. We will take a close look at whether this [...]
Let’s put it this way: it would have actually surprised all of us if NVIDIA didn’t use this hotspot reading as well. The only thing is that the usable interface for common third-party software is somewhat sparsely documented. It is only a question of time that sooner or later we will succeed in uncovering this little [...]
In early 2020, NZXT unveiled the Z series, the latest generation of its popular Kraken all-in-one water cooling systems, and its integrated display not only sparked a new trend among other manufacturers, but also a whole wave of funny pictures on social media. Whether the most expensive compact water cooler on the market can also keep up in terms [...]
If you own a good subwoofer, you have to be very brave now. The neighbour is indirectly informed and here in the laboratory not only the fingers sweat. Yes, there is still something coming and going up! What exactly, you will find out soon. But it’s gonna be badly toxic, that’s for sure. And for those who found the video too [...]
The reports about failures of Gigabyte’s current P750GM are piling up and also my friend Aris Mpitziopoulos has already tested this power supply and, analogous to what you could read in the social networks, already had to dispose of it professionally with a capital complete failure and, after an also visually remarkable firework. The power [...]
AMD’s Zen3 architecture Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs and matching X570 motherboards are popular, sell like hotcakes, and are also considered one of AMD’s best CPU lineups because they offer a lot of performance.But where there is a lot of light, there also seems to be the first shadows, if you follow the reports on Twitter and Reddit [...]
Whoever wants to buy a mouse today is bombarded by the manufacturers with a lot of terms. Here, the market is courted with up to 16,000 DPI, 4000 Hz polling rate, mouse acceleration, Omron switches, ultra-light, PTFE, RGB and much more. Unfortunately, not everyone has the time, or even the desire to look around before buying a mouse. Fact is, if [...]
I had recently received a CPU water block from the RMA of a friendly dealer, which I should investigate. Please “take a closer look”. That’s exactly what I did after my first inspection, because although you could see the dirt with the naked eye – how about some really fancy macro shots of the horror? And since there was [...]
A proper water cooling makes sense for power losses over 300 watts and thus creates a real added value. With the Kryographics Next, Aqua Computer continues on its path of precisely crafted coolers and offers a GPU water block for NVIDIA’s current GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 refernce boards that even manages without thermal pads on the [...]
After it already went through the media days ago, Teets now also have the visual presentation of the laptop farms ready. Reason enough to take a closer look at it after all: pic.twitter.com/XJrfH9Fx7V — 포시포시 (@harukaze5719) February 9, 2021 And what else was there? Videocardz announces the return of the little entry-level Pascal drug in the [...]
Today I’m testing the PNY XLR8 CS3040 NVMe M.2 SSD 1 TB, which supports PCIe 4.0 and is still relatively new to the market. With a daily price of 170 Euros (Amazon) for the model with a heat sink, it is on a fairly identical price level compared to similar SSDs, so you will have to take a closer look to see if and what differences there [...]
Now that Zen 3 has been out for some time, one naturally wonders about AMD’s next-generation CPU architecture for the Ryzen and EPYC CPUs, i.e. Zen 4 carries. Latest rumors now say that there will be another huge IPC jump and massive performance increase over the current processors. The s latest rumor on this topic comes from ChipsandCheese [...]
Intel has announced that the 11. It is expected that the 3rd generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will not be compatible with the existing B460 and H410 based motherboards. According to Intel, the new CPUs will only be officially supported on Z490 & H470 motherboards, while the more budget-oriented offerings will have to stay out. However [...]
When you hear the name G.Skill, the vast majority of people will think of memory. A few may still have peripherals in the form of a mouse, keyboard and headset. But coolers? That’s new! So it was a big surprise when I was shown the new ENKI series and offered it for testing. With the power of the Sumerian god of water and no less than three [...]
With or without a subwoofer, caught up in nuances and the desire to cut the most tonally clean video possible. And no, I chose the headline with the question of whether the Nubert nuPro X-3000 RC or the nuPro X-4000 RC would do the trick, again anything but by chance, because actually, as with the first test, I wanted a treat for both: precise [...]
In the meantime, also in view of the 16 GB memory expansion of the new Radeon graphics cards, a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GB memory expansion was long rumored, although the first leaks had already spoken a different language in the summer of 2020, well before the actual launch. Because there was talk of a card with 11 GB or 12 GB memory [...]
The forum integration was on my to-do list for a long time and I had to postpone it again and again because other priorities were higher. In the meantime there were also some offers from the community, but in the end everyone had so much to do with themselves and the current situation that nothing could be solved on the side. So I just sat myself [...]
