Category - Practice

MSI MPG321URX QD-OLED in test – A good monitor that unfortunately puts itself completely on the sidelines in terms of price

Today we have another UHD monitor with a Samsung QD OLED panel, the MSI MPG321URX. The MPG321URX is the big brother of the MSI MAG321UPX. You read that right, there are two versions of this model, whose names are so similar that there is basically no risk of confusion. Yeah, right! I’ll explain the differences between the two monitors at the [...]


The ASUS ROG Falchion RX Low Profile in review – packed with great stuff that makes the price so expensive!

When it comes to keyboards, there are various preferences, starting with simple things like with or without cables and ending with the color. For this reason, the ASUS ROG Falchion RX Low Profile in particular is in many places only something for lovers of 65 percent keyboards who can also cope with low profile keycaps. What’s more, this [...]


Dell Alienware AW3225QF gaming monitor review – Another 240 Hz UHD QD OLED? Yes, but this time curved!

Today we have another UHD QD-OLED with 240 Hz, namely the Dell Alienware AW3225QF. The only 32-inch QD-OLED monitor with a 1700R curved panel to date. Basically, I could end the article now. Because in the end, the 32-inch monitors only differ in terms of features and fine-tuning. The centerpiece, the Samsung QD-OLED panel of the third generation [...]


Secret file thermal paste: Increasing layer thickness at high temperatures, ageing and differences in quality and their influence on benchmarks

What you always wanted to know about thermal paste, but never got a verifiable answer: How does such a paste behave when heated and what happens when it is heated and cooled several times under the usual pressure? Completely different from what most people think! That’s why I want to show you today what pitfalls can lurk when testing paste [...]


The LG 32GS95UX in test – 240 Hz UHD or rather 480 Hz FHD? | One click on the OLED panel makes it possible!

The LG UltraGear 32GS95UX is one of the first – if not the first – dual-mode monitors in the world. You can either use the UHD resolution of 3840 x 2160p at up to 240 Hz or the FHD resolution of 1920 x 1080p at a full 480 Hz. Added to this are the fast OLED pixel response time, low latency and individual dimming of the pixels – [...]


Thermal paste scandal with graphics cards? The hotspot problems on cards from various manufacturers have a common cause: greed

I have been and continue to be confronted with graphics cards from my readers whose initially good cooling performance dwindles after just a few months and whose hotspot temperatures are then well above the 100 degree mark. I have already published several articles on this topic, dealing with the symptoms and repair, but now I finally have the [...]


Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 in post-test – Firmware 1622 gives free rein to the AMD FreeSync Premium Pro pipeline with 1000 nits

Six months have now passed and Samsung has already carried out several firmware (FW) updates since then. My main criticism was that the Odyssey OLED G8 could only develop its full HDR potential – the 1000 nits peak – with an NVIDIA GPU. Despite a FreeSync Premium Pro certification. The FW updates released in the meantime have basically [...]