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Passively cooled Radeon RX 5700 XT: Sapphire introduces GPRO X070

With the GPRO X 070, Sapphire has a new, passively cooled variant of the two-year-old Radeon RX 5700 XT presented. There is no cooler and fan on the new model, but only the relatively large heat sink with four heat pipes, which is supposed to cool all important components. The air flow must therefore be… Read more

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Intel is discontinuing pure Optane memory drives for end customers

Intel has informed its customers via Product Change Notification (PCN) that most of the SSDs for end customers will be discontinued with Optane memory. This concerns the Optane 905 P, Optane 900 P and the hybrids of Optane Memory and classic NAND the Optane H 10. Intel takes the last orders in mid-January. Only the… Read more

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Antec has given the DF700 FLUX a corrugated mesh front

The FLUX concept should ensure the best possible cooling for new Antec housings. Particularly promising in this regard is the latest FLUX model, the DF 700 FLUX. Especially with the first model, the DF 600 FLUX, Antec had sabotaged the Airflow claim itself through the restrictive front. Things already looked better in this respect with… Read more

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Thermaltake ToughDesk 500L RGB: L-shaped gaming table is height-adjustable (update)

Thermaltake presented a whole range of new products as part of its Thermaltake EXPO. The biggest novelty by far is also the most unusual: The ToughDesk 500 L RGB is an L-shaped gaming table, which can be electrically adjusted in height. Gaming furniture is no longer a new trend – but mostly it revolves around… Read more

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Qualcomm is working on a new processor for Windows-On-ARM

The introduction of Apple’s own M1 processor based on ARM a few months ago caused quite a stir and will probably have a certain influence on other CPU manufacturers in the long term and have the market in itself. Above all Qualcomm, whose attempts to establish itself in connection with Microsoft for Windows-on-ARM with its… Read more

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Corsair CX650F RGB in the test – good all-round power supply with ARGB interface

Page 1: Corsair CX 648 F RGB in the test – good all-round power supply with ARGB interface Corsair has with the CX-F RGB Series recently added an interesting range of mid-range power supplies that can come up with RGB lighting for the fan. That doesn’t sound particularly exciting, but the RGB lighting can not… Read more

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KW02 / 2021: Our articles from the last week

This week, too, numerous exciting articles went online at Hardwareluxx.de. We not only subjected the MSI MPG Sekira 30 R to a detailed practical test , but also the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 AMP Holo, the AVerMedia GC 311 Live Gamer Mini, the HP P 700 or the WD_Black SN 850 in the RAID… Read more

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AGESA ComboAM4v2PI 1.2.0.0: And the firmware update greets you every day

With all the firmware updates in the past weeks and months you can lose track of things, because with the version AGESA ComboAM4v2PI 1.2.0.0 another one has now been released, which should find its way into the BIOS versions of the mainboards in the coming weeks. The manufacturers are currently delivering updates for the AGESA… Read more

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New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger draws a comparison with Apple

Although the future CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, will not officially inherit his role until February, he held a company-wide meeting in Oregon yesterday. In it Gelsinger commented on the current situation of the chip manufacturer and found only limited words of praise. First and foremost, the meeting was about Intel’s dwindling market power, which… Read more

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Bundestag wants to ban fax machines from ministries from the coming legislative period

In the near future, the Bundestag would like to finally venture into the digital age. At least one decision by the Council of Elders in the Bundestag dated 14. January 2021 close. It says that the German Parliament wants to end the use of fax machines once and for all from the coming legislative period…. Read more

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HP S700 Pro in the test: a lot of pros, but also cons

Page 1: HP S 700 Pros in the test: A lot of pros, but also cons An SSD , which appears with the addition “Pro” in the name, basically makes you sit up and take notice. In the case of the HP SSD S 700 The IT giant can come up with solid key data… Read more

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ASUS Fanless Chromebox looks like a router

With the Fanless Chromebox, ASUS wants to appeal to users who are looking for a silent Chromebox. ASUS uses an aluminum housing with cooling fins for this. In combination with the two W-LAN antennas, the flat Fanless Chromebox has such a design that you could mistake it for a router at first glance. ASUS installed… Read more

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Bitspower Mobius: Water cooler for RTX 3080 FE gets the FE look

The GeForce RTX 2017 Founders Edition is not just a convincing graphics card , but also shows itself with a distinctive radiator construction. With the “Premium Mobius VGA Water Block for GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition”, Bitspower has a water cooler on offer that partially takes up this look . However, this also means that… Read more

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Windows 10: Security vulnerability endangers the entire NTFS file system

As it turned out, Windows gapes 10 since the version 1803 has a security hole that makes it possible to carry out attacks on the NTFS file system. This can result in the need to reinstall the operating system. For this, attackers do not inevitably have to gain access to their own computer. Executing a… Read more

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Illegal downloads: US provider has to pay a fine in the billions

When Napster was founded in the year 1999 , nobody suspected that the music exchange would turn the industry upside down. What started out as a small project quickly developed into the starting point for free music. Although the consumers liked this, the artists received nothing. So the musicians went to court and have since… Read more

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