Titan is a known brand in the pc hardware and accessories scene. Not only because of their massive aluminum frame fans and various accessories. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese company also produces a wide range of CPU coolers. One of them is the Titan Fenrir Siberia Edition. We will find out in this review, if it remains just as cool as the eponymous Fenris Wolf in the far north. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the review to Marauder25 and … Continue reading Titan Fenrir Siberia Review
Today, we test the latest Crucial MX100 SSD here at OCinside.de. Just a few weeks after announcing the Crucial M550 there is again an awesome SSD from Crucial, that is currently available with capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB up to 512 GB. Despite the extremely high level of performance and brand new 16nm MLC NAND it is available for an amazing low price. The review will compare this inexpensive Crucial MX100 SSD with 512 GB capacity against the current … Continue reading Crucial MX100 512GB SSD Review
Today, we test another awesome power saving motherboard in the low-budget price segment here at OCinside.de, which could find a place in a small media player PC, NAS or office PC. Let us see how fast the approx. 60 EUR inexpensive ASRock Q1900M Bay Trail-D Micro-ATX motherboard with integrated Intel Celeron J1900 APU is and if it is as good as an AMD Socket AM1 Kabini or some other PC systems.
In order to view a summary before purchasing a AMD motherboard, a new chart comparing all the Socket AM3+, AM3, FM2+, FM2, FM1, AM2+, AM2, 939 and 754 motherboards previously tested on ocinside.de is now online. This overview is a summary of all results and also contains the most important overclocking options like e.g. multiplier, Vcore, etc.
Not for overclockers, but instead a great choice to save power with high standards, this is how you could shortly describe the latest OCinside.de review of the current AMD Socket AM1 Mini-ITX motherboard. The ASRock AM1H-ITX motherboard has one PCI Express slot, two DDR3-1600 slots, four SATA3 ports, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 sound with optical S/PDIF output, and graphics output via D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI, or DisplayPort 1.2 and offers even 4K resolution. The power connection is optimally solved, because the ASRock … Continue reading ASRock AM1H-ITX Socket AM1 Mini-ITX Motherboard Review
Who like to upgrade an Ultrabook or Tablet with a fast SSD or install a motherboard with an mSATA port, will be happy about this review. Because this time OCinside.de is testing the tiny Plextor M5M mSATA SSD board with 128 GB capacity, which is also available with 64 GB or 256 GB. The Plextor PX-128M5M SSD is based on the Marvell 88SS9187 controller and achieved in practice tests with the latest firmware 1.04 great results, which are compared in … Continue reading Plextor M5M 128GB SSD Review
Crucial has developed the new M550 SSD, which not only has a significantly better performance, but also provides more usable capacity. Fortunately, we tested all Crucial SSD generations since the first Crucial RealSSD C300 on OCinside.de and see again significant improvements at the current Crucial M550 compared to its predecessors. The Crucial M550 is available as 2.5-inch SATA, mSATA and M.2 SSD with a capacity range between 64 GB and 1 TB. The detailed review will show how fast the … Continue reading Crucial M550 512GB SSD Review
Today, here at OCinside.de we test the ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer – a brand new Socket FM2+ motherboard with special gaming features, or rather killer features. The Socket FM2+ motherboard is backward compatible with Socket FM2, so we have tested it with an AMD Richland and AMD Trinity in addition to the latest AMD Kaveri processor. Not only the compatibility has been tested, but also the performance and the overclocking options with an AMD A10-7850K, A10-6800K and A10-5800K APU on … Continue reading ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer Socket FM2+ Motherboard Review
Today, two fast Crucial m4 128GB SSDs were tested in RAID0 to get more performance. Regarding TRIM there are still weak points for a SSD RAID, but the ocinside.de review will show if this is really important. The team of 2x Crucial m4 128GB in RAID0 is compared against 1x 256GB Crucial m4 and against 1x 128GB Crucial m4. We will see who keeps one step ahead and if it is better to buy one large SSD or two smaller … Continue reading Crucial m4 128GB CT128M4SSD2 SSD RAID Review
Surely everyone wonders what it is about the star constellation. A few days ago Cooler Master has introduced the two computer mice CM Storm Mizar and Alcor. It is becoming harder to find good sounding names for computer hardware. In this case, however, Cooler Master managed to choose two names for their latest creation, arising not from imagination, because at Mizar and Alcor are two stars that are located in the constellation Big Mouse uh Ursa Major. But instead of … Continue reading CM Storm Alcor and CM Storm Mizar Review
Almost 4 years ago, we tested the Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced chassis and after some variations of the award winning Mid-Tower, the new CM 690 III is now published by Cooler Master, which we tested in this review. However it quickly became clear that this CM 690 III offers in comparison to the CM 690 II predecessor not only improvements. That is why we have decided to integrate a CM 690 III casemod guide in this review to … Continue reading Cooler Master CM 690 III Review
MSI Twin Frozr Gaming GeForce GTX 780 Ti OC Edition Video Card Review Before starting with the review of the MSI Twin Frozr Gaming GTX 780 Ti OC lets make a little time travel … A small company called 3dfx presented the Voodoo 3d accelerator card in October 1996. In addition to the introductory price of around 600 Dollar you still need to buy a standard graphic card that costs 200-300 Dollar. What has then begun holds to be persistent: … Continue reading MSI Twin Frozr Gaming GeForce GTX 780 Ti OC Edition Video Card Review
In the current OCinside.de reader review, Marauder25 tests the Samsung Pro 840 256GB SSD, created some benchmarks and gives some helpful information about using the SSD. One thing becomes clear – the Samsung Pro 840 256GB definitely does not have to hide from competition. Here is the Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD reader review.
A new reader review is published today at OCinside.de. This time the current Phanteks PH-TC14PE tower cooler is tested and the cooler made a very good impression. If you are looking for a new CPU cooler, you will literally overwhelmed by the wide selection that is available on the market. Was it in times of 386 processors still safe to use the boxed cooler, so a current CPU generates about 80-120 watts heat output, which can not be easily discharged. … Continue reading Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler Reader Review
Today, OCinside.de presents a test of the CM Storm Stryker Big Tower from Cooler Master. Who associates the word Stryker with a 8×8 multifunction armored vehicle from the U.S. Army is not so wrong. But until we get one of those to make a test, we present you a much more interesting product from Cooler Master – the CM Storm Stryker Big Tower – which received our Overclocking Dream Award 01/2014. Together with his brother CMStorm Trooper Cooler Master wants … Continue reading CM Storm Stryker Review