Fractal Design North Review

Combination of design and technology! The Swedish manufacturer Fractal Design presents us with the North PC case not only a technical component, but also a designer object that can be integrated discreetly and elegantly into the living room like a piece of furniture as hardly any other PC case before. Our following review of the Fractal North Charcoal Black with mesh side panel and Fractal North Chalk White TG Clear with tempered glass side panel reveals whether the North just … Continue reading Fractal Design North Review

Crucial 32GB DDR5 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 RAM Review

Today on OCinside.de we are testing the 32GB Dual Channel memory kit with 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 CL46 modules. This kit is focused on efficiency and compatibility, because the speed and the operating voltage comply with the JEDEC specification. So this is not a high-performance overclocking memory kit. We will reveal how much faster this DDR5-5600 memory kit is compared to a standard kit with DDR5-4800 in our following review.

Icy Dock MB104U-1SMB and MB031U-1SMB EZ-Adapter Review

Use an M.2 SSD on the fly! We have already tested several removable frames from Icy Dock, which make life easier around the HDD or SSD and these two novelties are definitely one of them. If you want to access a SATA, M.2 SATA or M.2 NVMe SSD on your PC, notebook or even your tablet or smartphone, you can do this easily with a proper EZ-Adapter. Today, we are testing the Icy Dock MB104U-1SMB USB 3.2 Gen 2 docking … Continue reading Icy Dock MB104U-1SMB and MB031U-1SMB EZ-Adapter Review

Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 Rev. 3 Review

Just in time for today’s launch of the new Arctic CPU water cooler, we took a close look at the 420mm AIO at OCinside.de! But not only the large radiator with three 140mm fans is new, also the mounting for AMD systems has been revised. What has been improved in detail on the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 Rev. 3 water cooler and of course a performance check including overclocking is presented in the following review.

Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 Rev. 2 Review

We have received the updated version of the Liquid Freezer II CPU water cooler series from Arctic, which was introduced as first revision at the end of last year. This time we had the chance to test the powerful 360mm version with 3 fans extensively and took a close look at the differences between the revision 2 and the original Liquid Freezer II cooler. One thing in advance, fortunately there was no cost reduction at the expense of cooling performance! … Continue reading Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 Rev. 2 Review

Enermax Liqmax III 240 RGB Review

Today we test on OCinside.de the all-in-one water cooling Liqmax III 240 RGB from Enermax. It is technically nearly identical to the recently tested Enermax Liqmax III 120 RGB, the difference is the larger radiator with two fans. We will see how much the difference in size of 240 compared to 120 is noticeable in practice on the same test system.

AMD and Intel CPU Tweaking in egg boiler

Overclockers, watch out! Recently we have shown on OCinside.de how to tweak with liquid metal PC and notebook, but today we show an even simpler method. We explain in the following tutorial how you can overclock your CPU in the egg boiler and even repair a defective CPU! There is only one catch, because the already very high demand for egg cookers at Easter could drive up the prices for the magic devices even higher. Edit 2nd April 2019 – … Continue reading AMD and Intel CPU Tweaking in egg boiler

Barrow LTYK3-04 Review

Today we look at a water cooler from the Asian company Barrow, which is less popular in Europe. Can it keep up with the local top dogs of well-known brand manufacturers? Are there any disadvantages and how does it overclock? Also this time there is the test including a new OCinside YouTube channel video of the whole system with the Barrow LTYK3-04, Enermax NEOChanger, Intel Core i7-7700K, ASUS ROG Maximus IX Code, ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, G.Skill … Continue reading Barrow LTYK3-04 Review

Arctic Freezer 33 eSports One Review

Today we are testing the brand new Arctic Freezer 33 eSports One cooler, which Arctic offers in red, white, green and yellow. Of course the cooler is eSports compatible, but the price is even more sporty, because at the moment the new Arctic Freezer 33 eSports One CPU cooler is even significantly lower than the recently tested Arctic Freezer 33 Plus. We test the air cooler with an Intel Core i9-7900X system in different scenarios and show what to consider.

Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 Review

Last year, we have tested the MasterLiquid Pro cooler from the company Cooler Master. Today is following the review of the new budget-friendly Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 variant without the addition Pro. Both models have received a new revision to be fit for the latest AMD socket AM4.