RTX 4090 mobile graphics in the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 – 8 laptop

RTX 4090 mobile graphics in the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 – 8 laptop

Today the embargo on mobile graphics of the GeForce RTX 4000 series ends. In today’s article, we will first test the RTX 4090 graphics itself. The performance of the processor and the test of the entire notebook will be in a separate test. I will be honest and say that I did not expect any … Read more

Great news for owners of older SSDs – DirectStorage almost completely erases the difference between PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 3.0 SSDs

Great news for owners of older SSDs – DirectStorage almost completely erases the difference between PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 3.0 SSDs

It turns out that in both recording times and maximum FPS, there is no significant difference between the latest Phison E26 PCIe 5.0 controllers and those using PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 when using the DirectStorage 1.1 API. This was demonstrated by the Forspoken benchmark, the first game to support Microsoft DirectStorage. The latest PCIe 5 … Read more

Aorus Radeon RX 7900 XTX Elite 24G: Top equipment at a great price – 21

Aorus Radeon RX 7900 XTX Elite 24G: Top equipment at a great price – 21

The new Aorus Radeon RX 7900 XTX Elite 24G is currently cheaper in our country than a number of much less equipped Radeons from the competition. For a favorable price, you will get superior equipment including a powerful cooler with a large reserve and high overclocking directly from the manufacturer, probably the only downside is … Read more

Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX test: Cheap model from Sapphire, good features and price

Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX test: Cheap model from Sapphire, good features and price

Sapphire’s Pulse line of cards are popular because they are typically among the cheapest on the market, but offer solid performance comparable to mid-range competitive cards. And this also applies to the Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. We already looked at the reference Radeon RX 7900 XT a few weeks ago. Today we have … Read more

Test Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: Cheap model from Sapphire, good features and price – 17

Test Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: Cheap model from Sapphire, good features and price – 17

Sapphire’s Pulse line of cards are popular because they are typically among the cheapest on the market, but offer solid performance comparable to mid-range competitive cards. And this also applies to the Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Conclusion The crown went up again, so according to the current exchange rate (even if I take … Read more

PiVPN: How to secure your home connection via VPN for free

PiVPN: How to secure your home connection via VPN for free

Do you need to securely connect to the Internet in different environments? If you have a public IP address, you may want to use your own VPN. There is a relatively simple way to create it using a Raspberry PI minicomputer and VPN Wireguard. It also works on Ubuntu and Debian distributions. The instructions can … Read more

Try the impressive Unreal Engine 5.1 demo – walk through a desert oasis on your own sandals

Try the impressive Unreal Engine 5.1 demo – walk through a desert oasis on your own sandals

Warm weather isn’t so hard to come by these days. But finding an oasis of peace and warmth on a gloomy winter day? We need to look for that more. Time and time again, Unreal Engine 5.1 shows that the time of photorealistic game backgrounds is not far away. Let’s take a look and walk … Read more

Palit GeForce RTX 4080 Gamerock in the test: it’s one of the cheapest, but the cooling is top notch

Palit GeForce RTX 4080 Gamerock in the test: it’s one of the cheapest, but the cooling is top notch

The introduction of the new Radeons has paradoxically revived interest in the GeForce RTX 4080. We’ll be reviewing a variant that’s at the lower end of the lineup, but cooler performance can bravely match models costing several thousand more. . At launch, we introduced the GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition. The RTX 4080 is the … Read more

ASUS TUF RTX 4080 Gaming OC Ed. O16G in the test: a high-end card at a terrible price – 17

ASUS TUF RTX 4080 Gaming OC Ed. O16G in the test: a high-end card at a terrible price – 17

The GeForce RTX 4080 offers higher performance than the previous generation top model RTX 3090 Ti as well as significantly lower power consumption and new technologies. The TUF model also adds a massive cooler that manages to keep the card cool while gaming without being audible. The result is only spoiled by the current price. … Read more

Seagate has come out with Exos 2X18 hard drives that are as fast as SSD drives

Seagate has come out with Exos 2X18 hard drives that are as fast as SSD drives

Ancient technology is refined down to the last atom. It might seem that turntables should have been rotting in the dustbin of history long ago, but somewhere. They still have their place in the PC. Of course it has to do with capacity. If you have, for example, a 12TB disk in your PC and … Read more