The Samsung 960 Pro 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD can convince all along the line and received our OC Dream Award ! The SSD is incredibly fast, but does not reach the limit of our ASRock test system thanks to 32Gb/s Ultra M.2 slot. Let us begin now with the delivery, price, specifications, firmware update and some SSD tips, before the fast NVMe M.2 SSD has to compete against many SSDs and SSD RAID array on following pages.
Ho, ho, hoo, today the lucky winners were drawn from our 17 Year OCinside.de Contest ! Congratulations to the lucky winner of the ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 motherboard. We had so many participants, that we’ve again decided to draw two additional winners. They won a 3DMark Steam Key and a VRMark Steam Key sponsored by Futuremark. Congrats to the lucky winner of the ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 motherboard, 3DMark Steam Key and VRMark Steam Key. We would like … Continue reading 17 Year OCinside.de Anniversary Contest Winners
Recently, the so-called router requirement is cancelled. This means that no one is forced to use equipment from his Internet service provider. So the next test candidate is us just in time. Today, we test the ASRock G10 gaming router through its paces. But why gaming router? What makes playing games different to normal Web browsing, or watching videos in our YouTube channel? We will explain this and much more in this review on OCinside.de.
Today we are reviewing the new AeroCool Project7 P7-C1 Tempered Glass Edition case on OCinside.de, convincing not only with LED effects, but also with many little gimmicks. Following this review is with a little luck this AeroCool Project7 P7-C1 or an AeroCool DS-230 chassis free of charge for a reader review !
Today, we test a new X99 motherboard on OCinside. This time we overclock and test the ASRock Fatal1ty X99 Professional Gaming i7 Intel LGA 2011-3 motherboard, which offers similar features like the recently tested excellent ASRock X99 Taichi motherboard. But in addition it offers some special gaming features. The ASRock X99 Gaming i7 has 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth v4.0, two Gigabit LAN ports with teaming support, an USB 3.1 type-C and an USB 3.1 type-A 10 Gb/s port, two ultra M.2 … Continue reading ASRock X99 Professional Gaming i7 Intel LGA 2011-3 Motherboard Review
Sudio is a relatively young company from Sweden. They want to combine high quality in-ear and earbud earphones with elegant design. We got our hands on the model Vasa Bla (the a is pronounced similar to the o in or), which are Bluetooth in-ear earphones with an integrated microphone. You can choose between 4 fashionable colors combinations, black, white, blue or pink. First two got rose gold and the latter two golden highlights.
The well-known manufacturer Aerocool released a real beast with their new Xpredator II case. With this case they are going big, not only in terms of size. With its aggressive design and the window it addresses mainly gamer and modder who want to show which hardware they have inside. Its predecessor has been available in many different color designs while the Xpredator II is only available in the classic colors white with blue fans and black with red fans as … Continue reading Aerocool XPredator II Review
This time we got our hands on the Scythe Kabuto 3, the revised version of Scythes 120mm top blow CPU cooler. The cooling concept stayed mostly the same, but design and the heatpipe construction have been reworked radically. Four of the overall six 6mm heatpipes have been replaced by three 8mm heatpipes, reducing the total number of heatpipes to five. On the next pages we show you how the new Scythe Kabuto 3 performs.
ASRock once again offers some brand new LGA 2011-3 motherboards. Today on OCinside.de we will look at the latest ASRock X99 Taichi motherboard. ASRock called the X99 Taichi a stylish all-round motherboard – we find it is much more! Of course we have again overclocked the board up to the limits, this time with the latest Intel Core i7-6900K Broadwell-E CPU. But first let us start with the very impressive basic equipment.
Today, we test the Crucial MX300 750 GB SSD on OCinside.de. With the MX300 SSD not just Micron 3D NAND is used for the first time in Crucial SSDs, but there are also new sizes at Crucial with 275 GB, 525 GB, 750 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. In the following review we will take a look at the features of the new Crucial MX300 750 GB SSD and compare benchmark results with many other SSDs from ADATA, Crucial, … Continue reading Crucial MX300 750 GB SSD Review
If you are looking for a good soldering station for beginners or semi-professionals, you often get mentioned brands like Weller, Ersa, JBC or Metcal. A brand which is, however, mentioned in the very same breath is Hakko, headquartered in Japan. Since OCinside has always also covered the area of electronics and delight our IR receiver and IR repeater manuals great popularity, we are happy to present you today the Hakko FX-888D soldering station. Whether this soldering station is only for … Continue reading Hakko FX-888D Soldering Station Review
Today we have once again something special with strong performance for the smaller purse – the Samsung SSD 850 Pro with 128 GB capacity. Nowadays many select a larger SSD to get the larger capacity and faster performance, so it is not surprising that we are testing mainly 512 GB or 1 TB SSDs. Our first test of Samsung is now more than 5 years and our last SSD test with only 128 GB is also a few years ago. … Continue reading Samsung SSD 850 Pro 128 GB Review
How about a little less? You hardly hear this question when it comes to PC hardware, especially coolers. But with cramped conditions you need to adapt sometimes. Cryorig produces a cooler with the minimalistic name C7 for these situations. Cryorig is a relatively new company which has the mission to bring in some fresh air into the cooling segment with small, but unorthodox innovations. You can check some of their products out in our previous Cryorig reviews. In this test … Continue reading Cryorig C7 Review
Today, a new reader review has been published on OCinside. This time DarkFacility takes a closer look at the Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 1070 X3 8GB graphics card. By rolling out the brand new generation, called pascal, nVidia decided to bring up two versions of the graphics card. There is the version called founders edition, which is the legacy reference design and the custom card. Those custom cards are special versions of the founders edition where manufacturers change specific parts, … Continue reading Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 1070 X3 Reader Review
In the old days there were the 5.1 sound systems from Cambridge Soundworks that brought the surround sound to the gamers. Later Logitech published i.a. the legendary Z5500 Digital System and so not only taught the postman to fear. For the past 36 years, there is also the manufacturer Teufel (devil) who has brought this new 5.1 speaker system to the market. Whether the Teufel Concept E450 Digital 5.1 speaker set can be described justifiably as devilish and scare neighbors … Continue reading Teufel Concept E 450 Digital 5.1 Review