Hardware Reviews

Here you’ll see tests and overclocking suitability of the following hardware components …

Sapphire GearBox Review

Today we have on OCinside.de a review of the Sapphire Gearbox eGPU with Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT. Today we are testing the Sapphire Gearbox, which allows to run fast PCIe graphics cards via Thunderbolt 3 externally on Apple MacBook, Mini-PC or Laptop with Thunderbolt. For this purpose we install a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT in the Sapphire Gearbox and replace a GTX 970M, for example to breathe new gaming life into an old gaming laptop.

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

Cooler Master MH650 Review

The Cooler Master MH650 USB Gaming Headset features RGB lighting, virtual 7.1 sound, multi-platform compatibility and high-quality sound to be your next headset choice. We took a close look at the Cooler Master MH650 Gaming Headset on OCinside.de and of course put it on the previously tested Cooler Master GS750 headphone stand. Thanks for the support … Thanks for the support to swedeken and the manufacturer Cooler Master. Cooler Master has kindly provided us a Cooler Master MH650 headset. The … Continue reading Cooler Master MH650 Review

devolo Magic 2 WiFi next Multiroom Kit Review

Today we are testing the Magic 2 WiFi next Multiroom Kit, a very special powerline set from devolo. Surely everyone has had bad WLAN reception at some location in their apartment, house, basement or garden and has been looking for a simple solution to improve their WLAN performance. Often WLAN repeaters are used, but they usually halve the WLAN bandwidth. In the following devolo Magic 2 WiFi next review on OCinside.de, we will show you how this works more elegantly … Continue reading devolo Magic 2 WiFi next Multiroom Kit Review

HP Omen 15 Gaming Laptop Review

Today we are testing the brand new HP Omen 15 2020 gaming laptop with the extremely powerful AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor, GeForce GTX 1650 TI graphics card and 144Hz IPS display at OCinside. With Full-HD resolution and 4GB GDDR6 VRAM, HP tries to create the balancing act between smooth gaming experience and low purchase price. If this is possible with the HP Omen 15 laptop, we will show in the following review.

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!

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

Crucial P5 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

With high performance and high capacity, the brand-new Crucial P5 2TB NVMe SSD will delight enthusiasts! After the Crucial P1 NVMe SSD and the Crucial P2 NVMe SSD, we are today looking at the latest Crucial P5 M.2 NVMe SSD series on OCinside.de and test the highest P5 capacity of 2000GB.

Arctic Freezer 13 X Review

Shortly after the launch, we are today testing the Arctic Freezer 13 X, a very compact tower cooler from Arctic, which would like to offer an inexpensive alternative to the boxed cooler. To be more precise, we take a look at the Arctic Freezer A13 X, where the A stands for the AMD variant and there is also an Intel counterpart with the Arctic Freezer i13 X. We also show a 360 degree view and of course the cooling results.