Category - Reviews

Steelseries Rival 5 Gaming Mouse Review – Brand new Buttons deluxe

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 [...]


Schenker XMG Ultra 17 Review: Benchmarks and Efficiency (part 2 of 2)

In the first part of my review, I took a look at the XMG Ultra 17 barebone inside, the whole thing powered by an Intel Core i9-11900K. assembled and really stressed out. Today we have the missing gaming benchmarks, a few applications and the efficiency review of the GeForce 3080 laptop, which has a (positive) surprise in store. Considering all the [...]


View behind the factory backdrops: This is how a power supply from Be Quiet is created! at the contract manufacturer (OEM) | Documentary

Since I’d like to go to the factories of the contract manufacturers and always try to take a look behind the scene, but just the cute little Corona virus lurks grinning behind every Far Eastern corner and i’m hämisch with a hearty “You can’t pass”, it must direct an older collection of images. The production is [...]


Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Review – A very personal reckoning

Mass Effect is one of those things, it can get personal pretty quickly if you like the genre and remember the fondly sacrificed nights in 2007, 2010 and 2012. I even pulled out the original first part last year and played it on my retro PC. However, I quickly gave it up again, because the real feeling from back then just wouldn’t come back [...]


Sharkoon Light² S mouse Review – ambidextrous to victory?

If I had criticized in the last articles about Sharkoon mice that only right-handed people can enjoy a good/cheap mouse, now left-handed people can also be happy. How the Light² S, which can be operated from both sides, performs in the test is revealed in the following article: Packaging and scope of delivery The design of the box is kept, it is [...]


What can the full Ampere do? NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000 with 48 GB VRAM as a 8K and 5K card in a first gaming test – pure decadence and a small victory against the GeForce RTX 3090

Of course, what I’m doing today is just a first taste of what’s to come later in full glory. But large workloads also take time to prepare, because it’s supposed to add real value. And that’s where I’ll be bringing a larger review, which will then include the usual things like teardown, power consumption, power supply [...]


The big eGPU guide and benchmark test – What is an external graphics card (eGPU) good for? NVIDIA or AMD, who can handle it better?

In search of the optimal card for my eGPU case I looked for tests for a long time, but unfortunately I could never find anything adequate, where a direct comparison between Radeon and GeForce graphics cards was made as well as one could explain how overclocking affects an eGPU, up to which performance class an eGPU scales reasonably at all due to [...]


Successful first attempt? – Acer Predator Talos DDR4-3600 CL18 2x 8 GB Memory Kit | Test with Benchmarks and Teardown

As promised in the middle of the week, today we have the honor of reviewing the new Talos memory kit from Acer Predator, who now want to establish themselves in the storage and memory segment of the hardware industry. The bar is set just as high as the demands the brand places on itself. Whether the first generation of Predator memory modules can [...]