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When resource scarcity, hype-driven demand and the creativity of engineers come together, the strangest products often emerge. This is also the case with today’s test specimen, which at first glance may appear to be a run-of-the-mill 2x 16 GB DDR5 kit, but in reality is a curious oddity that is deceptively put in front of uninformed [...]
After a long absence on my part, I’m back today with a very interesting case. The Corsair Air 5400 arrived at my home in mid-October and wanted to be tested. As I have already built one or two PCs, I can assure you that the Corsair Air 5400 is something very special. This doesn’t just refer to the price, but first and foremost to the [...]
Corsair’s AIO coolers have become an integral part of the market. Loved, hated, but above all bought. With the TITAN 420 RX RGB, Corsair not only wants to set a new performance reference, but also push its own iCUE LINK ecosystem. Goodbye tangled cables, hello RGB – at least that’s Corsair’s marketing promise. But how does [...]
In this article, I deliberately do not want to follow the common expectation of judging the performance of a thermal interface material based on individual Kelvin or supposed peak values. Such comparative figures often appear more precise than they actually are in a real system. The decisive factor is not the isolated thermal conductivity of a pad [...]
In the private home cinema era, HDMI has established itself as a universal interface, which at first glance gives the impression that audiovisual signal transmission is reduced to a simple plugging in of a cable. However, HDMI remains a complex high-speed protocol that only works flawlessly if all the components involved are technically correctly [...]
Introduction and unboxing Minimalism meets functionality, all in one block. The Block keyboard is based on a deliberately minimalist design that combines suitability for everyday use with a clear design language. The soft gray tone of the housing, complemented by warm orange accents, creates a calm visual presence that blends harmoniously into [...]
We have already tested some network storage devices aimed at regular end customers, and the market is currently being flooded with new providers and models. But what about the “traditional” providers of such devices, who can also afford to offer special devices for special purposes and do not have to address the largest overlapping [...]
I’m taking today’s launch of the Arctic MX-7 at 2 p.m. (article in full depth only here, of course) as an opportunity to give you a brief, deliberately neutral impression, without anticipating the actual test, as this is not intended as an advertising text, but as a clean technical classification. What I can spoil about the release [...]
On a Sunday like today, just before the end of the year, the question of whether the DIY PC market could die out almost seems like a seismograph for something bigger, namely the state of an entire culture that has lived for decades on the fact that technology is not only consumed, but also understood, dismantled, improved and reassembled. I notice [...]
The calendar week just ended was also characterized by several incidents that revealed significant weaknesses in the handling of IT security, data protection and the integrity of digital services. It is striking that the incidents are once again spread across a broad spectrum of industries and in many cases can be traced back to problems in the [...]
When you hold a Radeon card in your hand today, you are looking at the product of a company that is officially called AMD, but has an engineering culture that has grown over three decades and clearly originates from Markham, Ontario. It all began there in 1985 with three founders who set up their own company out of pragmatism rather than a grand [...]
The current calendar week was characterized by several incidents that revealed significant weaknesses in the handling of IT security, data protection and the integrity of digital services. It is striking that the incidents are once again spread across a broad spectrum of industries and in many cases can be traced back to problems in the management [...]
The current development towards agent-based AI systems is changing the cyber threat landscape in a way that goes beyond traditional attack patterns. The speed, adaptivity and autonomy of modern attacker models are shifting the structural balance between attack and defense significantly in favor of the attackers. Companies are confronted with a [...]
The past week was characterized by an unusual accumulation of confirmed security incidents, complex data breaches and several zero-day attacks targeting both global corporations and critical infrastructure. The recurring connection between compromised third-party providers, vulnerabilities in software supply chains and insufficiently isolated [...]
China has been working for many years to develop its own semiconductors based on its own technologies or licensed foundations in order to reduce its dependence on Western manufacturers. These projects include Hygon, a company based on a licensed version of AMD’s Zen architecture. The Hygon C86-4G 3490 represents one of the most visible steps [...]
Sometimes you come across products on the open market that seem so ambitious that you almost have to smile in awe. Thermally conductive pastes with utopian performance specifications undoubtedly belong in this category. Suddenly, gray mush becomes the physical reincarnation of the perpetual motion machine, silicone oil and fillers become a miracle [...]
Introduction and unboxing The new height-adjustable “T4 Pro Plus” desk from Maidesite is aimed at users who not only want ergonomic functionality but also a stable and well thought-out design. The frame is based on four columns – a design that inherently provides a higher degree of stability and balance. The height adjustment is [...]
After testing well over 100 thermal pastes, today we have a real upgrade! In today’s presentation of the new database version 3.0, I will explain why the evaluation of thermal pastes based on a simple CPU measurement is often misleading. I will also show why the TIMA5 has been fundamentally improved once again and why the content of the [...]
In a future where Earth no longer belongs to humans, but is controlled by an artificially controlled machine power, a small remnant of survivors struggle to have any prospects at all. The surface has become a hostile territory, no longer a place of civilization, but a hunting ground for the ARC units, a technologically superior, relentlessly [...]
With the two new models Skyfall Pro Wireless and Skyfall 80 MAG Ultima 8K Wireless, Hator is launching two high-quality gaming keyboards that take design, technology and functionality to a new level. Both models combine an elegant appearance with modern technology and are aimed at users who expect maximum precision and comfort, whether for gaming [...]
I bought this SHAN ZU bread knife exactly a year ago, before that a Santoku knife from the same series and also without any intention of testing it, but simply because I needed a proper bread knife and the Santoku knife performed quite well. The price of around 65 euros seemed too good to be true for a “67-layer, hand-forged Damascus [...]
With the Dark Rock 5, Be Quiet! presents the latest representative of its well-known high-end air cooler series, which is designed to harmonize performance and quietness. The manufacturer promises high cooling reserves combined with very low noise levels, which has been one of the brand’s key features for years. In contrast to the larger [...]
