Hardware Luxx

Samsung Exynos 2100 at CES 2021 – competition for the Snapdragon 888?

Samsung recently published a teaser for its flagship SoC Exynos, which is expected at CES 2021 2100. The new processor will be used for the first time in the upcoming Galaxy S 21 series. This is especially interesting because the Snapdragon 888 from Qulacomm, depending on the region, in the Galaxy S 21 will be… Read more

Good, but not outstanding: Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC in the test

Page 1: Good, but not outstanding: Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC in the test The first custom models followed with the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC is now another interpretation that will sooner or later replace the popular reference design. More power and more efficient cooling are once again the main… Read more

Tenda Nova MW12 in the test: Mesh system at an attractive price

Page 1: Tenda Nova MW 12 in the test: Mesh system at an attractive price In the mesh network hardware sector, Tenda is unlikely to be a household name for many, even though the company has been active as such for some time. In the past few months there has been more attention in this… Read more

Unpacked & touched: SilverStone Fara B1 Pro – inexpensive A-RGB housing

With the Sugo 15 we recently tested a particularly elegant SilverStone case with an aluminum shell. The new Fara B1 Pro shows that SilverStone can also do very different things: Because this midi tower is supposed to attract attention above all with four A-RGB fans. Three of these illuminated 120 – mm fans sit behind… Read more

Reader test: These are the testers of the WD Red in a QNAP NAS!

At the end of November, in cooperation with Western Digital and QNAP, we called on our readers and community members to apply for our latest reader test. We were looking for two testers who wanted to test two WD REDs with 4 TB storage space each in a brand new NAS from QNAP at home… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 does not use SMT for AMD processors (update)

Apparently the REDengine-4 engine from Cyberpunk uses 2077 not the possibility to process two threads per core, as the current Ryzen processors from AMD offer. Analogous to Hyperthreading at Intel, SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) is a possibility to use the resources of a CPU core more effectively. We looked at Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing effects… Read more

Ampere Altra with 2x 80 cores are fast, economical and cheap

Ampere Computing is moving purposefully in the direction of a CPU alternative for data center use. The Ampere Altra is based on the Neoverse-N1 design from ARM and offers 80 ARM v8.2 + cores in one socket. Up to 80 cores in a power budget of 250 W should be offered to established manufacturers such… Read more

ASUS ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming WiFi in the short test: hardly better than its predecessor

Side 1: ASUS ROG Strix B 510 – XE Gaming WiFi in the short test: hardly better than its predecessor AMD’s new Ryzen – 5000 – Processors deliver a very good performance and can convince in all disciplines for the first time. So it’s no wonder that the Zen 3 CPUs are in great demand…. Read more

Reader test: These are the testers of the SpotCam Eva 2

In collaboration with SpotCam, about two weeks ago we called on our readers and community members to apply for our latest reader test. We were looking for three testers for a brand new surveillance camera from the manufacturer. We have now started selecting the participants. A copy of the SpotCam Eva 2, which was officially… Read more

NVIDIA is working on co-packaged photonics for NVLink

The keynote at the GPU Technologies Conference in China contained some interesting details about technologies NVIDIA is currently working on. In order to be able to further increase the computing power of its own HPC chips, it will be necessary for the network or better interconnect connections to become faster. Currently, NVIDIA already sees a… Read more

Sony is taking Cyberpunk 2077 off the PlayStation Store

Sony has removed Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store with immediate effect. If you have the game and want to return it, you can go to a refund page and log in there. Due to the rush for the return, problems may arise here. With this measure, Cyberpunk 2077 can no longer be found in… Read more

Alphacool offers water coolers for Red Devil cards from PowerColor

After Alphacool launched the full-cover water cooler for the reference and some other versions of the Radeon RX – 6000 series, the model for the Red Devil cards from PowerColor follows today. The Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-A Radeon RX 6800 (XT) / 6900 XT Red Devil as a full-cover water cooler covers the entire… Read more

AMD shows chic renderings of the Mercedes-AMG F1 W11 EQ Performance

AMD is one of the sponsors of the world championship team Mercedes-AMG Petronas in Formula 1. The technical support in the area of sponsorship refers to resources for supercomputing, simulation , PC and data center hardware. But potentially fast computing hardware is not only necessary from a technical point of view, but also for marketing…. Read more

Patriot releases new Viper Steel RGB memory modules

The US company Patriot has launched the new Viper Steel DDR4-RGB series under the brand name Viper Gaming presented. Said RGB series comes from the Viper Steel series and is available in the speeds 3200 MHz and 3600 MHz. Different modules are offered for capacity. The new RAM from Patriot can be purchased as an… Read more

Phanteks is celebrating its AiO water cooler debut with the Glacier One

The Dutch company Phanteks is celebrating its AiO cooler debut at the end of the year and is releasing its first complete water cooler, the Glacier One . Said AiO has a black radiator that is available in both 166 mm and in the sizes 280 mm and 360 mm is available. The white variant… Read more