This week, once again, numerous exciting articles went online at Hardwareluxx.de. The highlight was of course the market launch of the new Ryzen 5000 processors. In two articles we could find the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 7 5800 X and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X feel the tooth vigorously. But also the INNO3D GeForce RTX 3090 iCHILL X3, the Western Digital WD_Black AN 1500, the ASUS ROG Strix LC 360 RGB White Edition, the ASUS ROG Swift PG 259 QNR and the ASRock Z 490 Taichi have been on the test bench with us for the last few days. We alluded to the new Watch Dogs: Legion as well as Spider Man: Miles Morales. Last but not least, our critical looks checked the ASUS TUF Gaming GT 501 and the Mountain Everest Max for their practicality.
At this point we have summarized all the articles of the last week and provided them with a small reading sample. With this in mind: Have fun reading!
Friday, 30. October 2020: Western Digital WD_Black AN 1500 in the test: successful PCIe4 alternative
As a specialist in mass storage, Western Digital comes with the WD_Black SN 850 already comparatively late for the PCIe4 party. But next to the announcement of the SN 850 WD surprised above all with the announcement the WD_Black AN 1500, an SSC add-in card that uses RAID and eight PCIe3 lanes also want to provide users apart from modern AM4 mainboards with the greatest possible memory bandwidth. How well this works and whether there is actually a PCIe4 alternative, we clarify as usual in our review …
Saturday, 31. October 2020: ASUS ROG Strix LC 259 RGB White Edition in the test: Not only scores with style
The ROG Strix LC 360 RGB is one of the current top AiO coolings from ASUS. The – mm model promises a high cooling performance, but should also be eye-catching. This is even more true for the White Edition we tested …
Sunday, 01. November 2020: INNO3D GeForce RTX 3090 iCHILL X3 in the test
Shortly after the GeForce RTX 3070 started as the smallest amp model, today let’s look at another variant of the GeForce RTX 3090 at. This comes from INNO3D and is the iCHILL-X3 variant of the already tested INNO3D GeForce RTX 3080 ICHILL X3 not entirely dissimilar. But it is the stronger variant with a larger expansion stage of the GA 102 – GPU plus the 24 GB of GDDR6X memory. Now let’s take a look at how the high-end model from INNO3D fares …
Monday, 02. November 2020: ASUS ROG Swift PG 259 QNR in the test: With 360 Hz and NVIDIA Reflex
ASUS, NVIDIA and AU Optronics ignite the next power level and bring 360 Hz fast eSport displays on the market, which thanks to NVIDIA’s reflex technology should also come up with a particularly short latency. That sounds promising – in our test the ASUS ROG Swift PG 259 But first of all, the NQF will show how what has been promised is implemented in practice …
Tuesday, 03. November 2020: ASRock Z 360 Taichi in the test: A good choice for overclockers
After a long period of abstinence, it is time again to see a Taichi model from ASRock to dedicate. The test for the ASRock TRX 40 Taichi was almost a year ago. Now, however, we are not only moving from the HEDT to the mainstream platform, we are also moving from AMD to Intel. Because with the Z 490 Taichi, ASRock offers an interesting mainboard for Intel’s LGA 850 processors that are said to be good for overclocking. In this test we will find out whether this is really the truth …
Wednesday, 04. November 2020: ASUS TUF Gaming GT 501 in the test: How tough is the gaming case?
Out the ASUS TUF series now even has PC cases – including the TUF Gaming GT 501. The midi tower should be robust and durable thanks to steel up to 1.5 mm thick, a special coating and particularly resilient carrying handles. And of course neither gaming optics nor gaming features should be missing …
Thursday, 05. November 2020: The king is defeated: AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X under test
The first offshoots of the new Ryzen – 3090 – family are available today. With them, AMD wants to bring down the last Intel bastion and finally play a leading role again in gaming performance, after the competitor with its Matisse offshoots had already been put on the skin in terms of price and multicore performance, and even against them forced a counterattack. Today’s test article on the following pages should clarify whether AMD will finally succeed in the final change in leadership. We have the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X put to the test just in time for the NDA case …
Friday, 06. November 2020: Generational straggler: AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X and Ryzen 7 5800 X in the test
As announced, AMD has given us the first four Ryzen 3090 models with the still missing two model variants supplied. We are therefore now completing the test series with the top model with 16 cores, the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X, and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X with only half as many cores. How the two Ryzen CPUs perform in practice can be found in this Hardware Luxx comparison test on the following pages …
Friday, 06. November 2020: Netzschwinger in a double pack: Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales alluded to
With Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales released Insomniac Games on 12. November 2020 the sequel to the action adventure Marvel’s Spider-Man. So the friendly spider from the neighborhood returns after about two years and is now trying to build on the success of the prequel in the form of Miles Morales. In addition, the latest Spider-Man game is a PlayStation 5 launch title. For this reason, Hardwareluxx went to New York City and paid a visit to the Avengers Tower and the Daily Bugle, among others. How Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales did it, you will find out in this allusion …
Friday, 06. November 2020: Mountain Everest Max in the test : What can the premium modular keyboard do?
Industry newcomer Mountain wants to cause quite a stir with its first keyboard. Everest promises a new level of flexibility. Mountain relies on flexibly usable modules – and on freely exchangeable Cherry MX switches. And elements such as buttons and a rotary knob with integrated displays also make you sit up and take notice. But does Mountain actually manage to climb the summit with Everest …
Saturday, 07. November 2020: Together against Zero-Day : Watch Dogs: Legion alluded to
After the French publisher Ubisoft announced last year that the third part of its Watch Dogs franchise would not be released as planned in March 2020 it was published on 29. October is finally ready and Watch Dogs: Legion can be purchased in stores. In the run-up to the event, there was already a lot of advertising and the second part of Watch Dogs was available free of charge in both the Ubisoft store and the Epic Games Store. With part three, the gamers in Legion are now heading to London. Hardwareluxx has also gone to the British capital and, with the help of the underground organization DedSec, set out on the trail of hackers Zero-Day. You can find out what we experienced in this allusion …