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Air Coolers, Cooling, Hardware Reviews

Arctic P12 Slim PWM PST Review

Flat problem solver! Today on OCinside.de we are testing the new, extra slim Arctic P12 Slim PWM PST fans. The Arctic fans are only 15mm thin and can therefore be real problem solvers. Because often it is very tight especially when installing a water cooling or AIO in the PC case near the motherboard, but also in ITX and server area flat fans can be very helpful. Among other things, we will test how the 15mm fans compare to the … Continue reading Arctic P12 Slim PWM PST Review →

Air Coolers, Cooling, Hardware Reviews

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo V2 Review

Compact and affordable! Today on OCinside.de we are testing the brand new Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo V2 cooler, which is designed for AMD Socket AM4, Intel LGA 1200 and many more sockets. Among others, we test the latest Hyper 212 Evo with an Intel Core i5-10500 CPU on the ASRock Z490 Steel Legend motherboard and show thermal images, 360 degree view and of course all results in the following review.

Hardware Reviews, Intel LGA1200, Intel Motherboards

ASRock W480 Creator Intel LGA1200 Motherboard Review

After we already reviewed the motherboards of the Steel Legend series and B460, H470 and Z490 chipsets on OCinside.de, today we take a look at a motherboard for Content Creator with W480 chipset, the ASRock W480 Creator. This is mainly aimed at professional PC application areas and offers special support for Xeon processors, like the recently tested Intel Xeon W-1290. What other features it has to offer, we show in the following review.

Air Coolers, Cooling, Hardware Reviews

Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Review

Today we test on OCinside.de the elegant Arctic Freezer 34 eSports cooler in grey/white, which is designed for current AMD AM4, as well as for current Intel 1200 and Intel 2066 sockets and can also be used for some older sockets. We have tested the grey/white version with 120mm BioniX P-Series PWM fan on a current ASRock Steel Legend LGA 1200 motherboard and show all results in the following review including 360 degree view and interesting thermal images.

Links and Downloads, Overclocking Software

overclock software downloads – OC tuning programs and tools

We have updated the overclocking software page on OCinside.de again with dozens of small tools to tune, benchmark, stresstest and test PC components. New OC Software and free 3DMark06 and PCMark05 license keys! If you like to overclock, backup, or monitor your PC hardware or if you just like to check your components, this is the right place for you. There are useful older Shareware and Freeware tools, as well as the latest tweaking tools to change the CPU multiplier, … Continue reading overclock software downloads – OC tuning programs and tools →

Hardware Reviews, Intel CPUs, Processors

Intel Xeon W-1290 Review

To make sure it won’t be boring until the next Intel Rocket Lake generation, we looked at an alternative to the numerously tested Intel Core i5, i7 and i9 on OCinside.de today. We are talking about the Intel Xeon W-1290 processor, which is almost the professional counterpart to an Intel Core i9-10900. As platform we have chosen the brand new ASRock W480 Creator LGA1200 high-end motherboard with W480 chipset. If the Intel Xeon can convince and if it is even … Continue reading Intel Xeon W-1290 Review →

Air Coolers, Cooling, Hardware Reviews

Arctic Freezer 7 X Review

Today we test on OCinside.de the new Arctic Freezer 7 X cooler, which is very compact and designed for AMD as well as for current Intel sockets. Of course you can’t expect miracles from a 92mm fan on such a small heatsink and although it is multi-compatible, there may be space problems on some motherboards. How we solved this on the brand new Intel LGA1200 ASRock Steel Legend motherboards and if the extremely affordable Freezer 7 X cooler from Arctic … Continue reading Arctic Freezer 7 X Review →

Hardware Reviews, Video Cards

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE Review

With the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE, we are testing another AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card on OCinside.de today. As always, we take a look at the special features, how the card performs in benchmarks, how well it can be overclocked, what the associated Sapphire software is good for and of course there is also a video of the nice RGB lighting!

Hardware Reviews, Intel LGA1200, Intel Motherboards

ASRock H470 Steel Legend Motherboard Review

After the previous ASRock B460 Steel Legend review we are testing today on OCinside.de the current ASRock H470 Steel Legend motherboard for Intel LGA1200 processors. How the H470 motherboard performed in comparison to its counterpart with Intel B460 chipset and if you can better overclock an Intel Core i5-10500 CPU with it, we show in the following review.

Hardware Reviews, Intel LGA1200, Intel Motherboards

ASRock B460 Steel Legend Motherboard Review

Today we test on OCinside.de with the ASRock B460 Steel Legend a brand new motherboard for current Intel LGA1200 processors. The ASRock B460 Steel Legend offers a solid basic equipment including 2.5 Gigabit LAN and some features like the addressable RGB lighting at the chipset cooler and even under the motherboard. However, the inexpensive Intel B460 chipset also has disadvantages in overclocking. In the following review we will nevertheless try to get the highest performance out of an Intel Core … Continue reading ASRock B460 Steel Legend Motherboard Review →

Hardware Reviews, Video Cards

ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Phantom Gaming D 8G OC Review

With the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, AMD offers an affordable entry-level gaming graphics card. The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Phantom Gaming D 8G OC graphics card is a custom model from the premium product line of ASRock. It comes with increased clock rates, a backplate and a stylish LED lighting. Everything else we will now show on OCinside.de in this detailed review.

Hardware Reviews, Video Cards

ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC Review

With the RX 5700 series, AMD has launched 7nm graphics cards for the mid-end. ASRock has also given the RX 5700 chip their own cooling and backplate and overclocked the ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC by factory. We now show more about this in the following AMD Radeon RX 5700 test on OCinside.de!

Hardware Reviews, Unboxing and Video Reviews, Video Cards

ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Taichi X 8G OC+ Review

ASRock has been involved in the hotly contested graphics card market recently. With the new RX 5700 XT Taichi X 8G OC+ including their own OC-Tool and addressable RGB lighting, ASRock offers a fully equipped top class gaming graphics card. Instead of simply copying AMD’s reference design, ASRock provides the 7nm Navi graphics chip with a 10+1 phase power supply. The cooling is supported by three fans, which should promise highest clock rates. How much power the ASRock RX5700XT TCX … Continue reading ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Taichi X 8G OC+ Review →

Intel Overclocking, Workshop

Intel Apollo Lake and Gemini Lake OC Tutorial

Overclocking an inexpensive Intel N3450 Apollo Lake or Intel N4100 Gemini Lake CPU is officially not possible due to the locked multiplier, but we have looked into this issue in order to provide a little bit more performance for users of slower PC systems and have even written a small OC Tool. So from now on you can not only overclock a common Intel CPU, but also get some more out of a low budget Intel Apollo Lake system.