Overclocking and comparison of processors. Part I: AMD Solutions – Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 3, and FX-6100

For almost a year, processors of the Zen microarchitecture have been on the market, on which AMD has high hopes. Five years of development should have finally brought the company out of the position in which it found itself after the release of Intel’s Core family solutions. A timid attempt to rectify the situation back …

The resource of modern hard drives. Longread about the sudden

Last time we looked at the stages of the struggle for dominance in the “disk” subsystem of solid state drives and traditional hard drives. In the same place, we briefly highlighted the nuances of the resource of solid-state drives. Today we will try to consider the practical reliability of hard drives. It would seem a …

SteelSeries Sensei 310 gaming mouse review

After the not-so-successful global debut of the Sensei Wireless mouse in 2014, many fans of the brand may have had the feeling that the company has decided to completely abandon this once-successful line. And the lull that followed for three years only confirmed this idea. However, at the beginning of August 2017, SteelSeries announced that …

Overview of the mechanical keyboard Ducky Channel One 2 Backlit TKL

The Taiwanese company Ducky Channel International was founded back in 1998. However, it gained wide popularity in the narrow circles of lovers of mechanical keyboards only in 2008, after creating its own brand. Unlike other firms that were focused on a wide range of “gaming products”, Ducky initially set itself with one single goal – …

Overclocking the AMD Ryzen 5 3400G processor. Comparison with Ryzen 5 2400G, Intel Core i3-9100F and 1st Gen Ryzen with Radeon RX 550

Initially, it was not planned to drag out the review on two separate materials, but AMD is one of those that will not let you get bored. During the preparation, a series of difficulties arose. It all started with memory. Surely, anyone who is interested in computer components knows that the relationship between processors built …

ASUS ROG Gladius III gaming mouse review

The ASUS ROG Gladius III mouse is the latest iteration of the company’s line of asymmetric mice, which first debuted on the market about seven years ago and, in fact, started a new page in the history of its gaming peripherals. As of now, there are two versions of this device – fully wired and …

ASUS ROG Claymore Core gaming mechanical keyboard review

ROG Claymore is a new mechanical keyboard from ASUS, named after the two-handed Scottish sword. What is the secret symbolism of the name? The fact is that Claymore is a modular keyboard, in which the numeric keypad is removable. Moreover, it can be mounted on both the right and left side of the keyboard body, …

Review mouse Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum

Logitech continues to expand its G-Series gaming portfolio towards top-of-the-line solutions. Until recently, the G502 Proteus Core manipulator was the flagship of the line, but in May 2016 it was replaced by the G900 Chaos Spectrum wireless mouse, which embodies all the best achievements of the company’s engineers. Today it finally fell into our hands, …

Review of the motherboard Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming K7 series Aorus. Exploring its capabilities when overclocking Ryzen 7 2700

In our laboratory, we visited many motherboards for AMD Ryzen processors based on the “300” series of hubs. The flagship product from Gigabyte will be a good example when studying the overclocking of the updated CPU series on “obsolete” motherboards. The top positions in the list in terms of functionality are occupied by products from …

SteelSeries Apex 7 mechanical gaming keyboard review

Since the legendary SteelSeries 6G V2 and 7G mechanical keyboards were finally discontinued, the company has begun a long period of “search for itself” in this area. The model range of keyboards was first renamed, then updated, then updated again, but nothing worthy or competitively capable appeared there. Apex M500 and Apex M800 stood out, …