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PC gaming in the living room: nerdytec's Couchmaster Cycon² tried out

Page 1: PC gaming in the living room: nerdytec’s Couchmaster Cycon² tried out It should not be a secret that the gaming industry is enjoying an increased influx due to the ongoing corona pandemic. Whether handheld, console or gaming PC, more and more video games are finding their way into Germans’ own four walls. Since… Read more

ASRock Rack M.2 adapter: PCIe 4.0 x16 becomes 4x PCIe 4.0 x4

ASRock Rack has introduced another piece of interesting hardware and accessories. The M.2 GPU M2_VGA is now followed by a PCI-Express expansion card, which has 16 PCI Express 4.0 lanes are connected, and these 16 Lanes divided into four times four M.2 slots. Such an expansion card is not really new either. ASUS offers this… Read more

ASUS Strix notebooks show themselves with Ryzen 9 5900HX, RTX 3080 and 300 Hz

At the CES in early January 2021 AMD will present the next generation of mobile Ryzen processors alias Cezanne and Lucienne . At the same time, many notebook manufacturers are taking the opportunity and will be announcing the corresponding notebooks. NVIDIA will also probably present the mobile Ampere variants, which also means that we will… Read more

Production volume increased: PS5 sold 3.4 million times so far

The industry magazine DigiTimes claims from suppliers that Sony has now sold 3.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles. Since 12. November 2020 the new consoles will be sold in two versions in the USA and Japan. At the 19. November saw the start of sales in Europe. From the beginning, the PlayStation 5, just like the… Read more

CPUs on the Horizon: New Notes on Rocket Lake, Alder Lake, and AMD's APUs

Over the Christmas holidays (and shortly before) there were numerous sightings of the next generation of processors from AMD and Intel. First of all, there are signs of the imminent launch of the Intel Rocket Lake processors, as more and more samples are apparently in circulation. Intel has already officially announced this for the first… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus C700 Glass: Striking full tower with many A-RGB LEDs

Gigabyte is adding a new case to its range with the Aorus C 700 Glass, which proves to be a large flagship model turns out. The striking design with the mainboard tray tilted back and numerous lighting elements is particularly striking. Gigabyte manufactures the housing from steel, aluminum, plastic and glass. The mainboard tray, which… Read more

Xiaomi Mi 11: Snapdragon 888 and 120 Hz display for around 500 euros

Qualcomm has its new SoC top model Snapdragon 888 at the beginning of December introduced – and it was clear early on that Xiaomi would use the SoC for its Mi 11 will use. Now this upper class model has been officially presented in China. Not only does the high-end computing heart of this model… Read more

Case FAQ: What you should know about PC cases (Update 2021)

Page 1: Case FAQ: What you should know about PC cases (Update 2021) In cooperation with be quiet! The housing is available when a new PCs are usually way down the list. It is one of the most durable components and therefore deserves a certain amount of attention. However, there are some pitfalls when choosing… Read more

NVIDIA: Introducing the Next Generation Lovelace GPU

NVIDIA has not yet fully rolled out the current generation of amps, when the first rumors about the successor generation are already making the rounds. Once again, the early information comes from twitterer @ kopite7kimi, who was also able to come up with (mostly) correct information quite early on for the ampere generation. For a… Read more

The Epic Games Launcher uses a lot of power in the background

After a new update in the Epic Games Launcher, some players seem to have problems with excessive CPU usage when the game platform is running in the background. According to reports from some users on Reddit, the problem seems to occur particularly on computers equipped with an AMD Ryzen processor. The site Hothartware.com, for example,… Read more

The next manufacturer is trying to make faceplates for the Playstation 5

Not every player likes the design of Sony’s new Playstation 5. Many fans on the internet repeatedly express the desire to have the option of replacing the white side panels with other color variants. Plain black seems to be particularly popular. Sony does not officially offer any alternative panels for replacement at the moment, and… Read more

Seagate Exos X18 in review: 18 TB of unbridled enterprise power

Page 1: Seagate Exos X 18 in the test: 18 TB of unbridled enterprise power With the Seagate Exos X 18, 18 TB, Seagate brings out the next size of capacity with the already known technology. When testing the Exos X 16 we actually assumed that Seagate would already use HAMR, the long-awaited, new recording… Read more

KW52 / 2020: Our articles from the last week

Once again, numerous exciting articles went online on Hardwareluxx.de during Christmas week. We not only have the ASUS ROG Strix B 320 – XE Gaming WiFi or the Tenda Nova MW 12 put to the test in detail, but also the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC, the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro… Read more

The Hardwareluxx-Webwatch: The articles from our partners from KW52 / 2020

Published on: Saturday, 26. December 2020 at 15: 00 of Andreas Stegmüller

Fast and quiet – the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + in the test

Page 1: Fast and quiet – The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + in the test After we already got the Radeon RX 6800 Nitro + will be followed today by the XT model with the medium-sized Big Navi GPU. There will also be a Radeon RX 300 XT Nitro +, but we will… Read more