Kolink Inspire K1 – a budget case with impressive optics

At Caseking, the Kolink Inspire K1 has popped up at a bargain price of €49.99. Caseking will be available from 14. December. The K1 is a midi tower in ATX format. One side part is made of acrylic glass and the front part is made of tempered glass. In such a constellation, of course, the corresponding RGB lighting must not be missing...


Efficiency comparison between AMD Radeon RX 590 and RX 580 with interesting insights in sub-voltage | igorsLAB

I had already teased this follow-up in the launch article for the Radeon RX 590 and thus also promised the readers, only such a cluster of never-ending measuring series then takes a little longer than expected. After a few hours, I stopped counting how many times I was subvolting towards the desktop or the Back/Greyscreen i crashed. But in the end [...]


Skyroam Solis the second: WiFi hotspot finally with fair use policy against data capping, with new app and more flexible data models

Does anyone remember my first test of this bright orange online WiFi box, which you find as Skyroam Solis in well-stocked online retail? I mean, good friends like to forgive some weaknesses and also my little, faithful travel companion was not without. But at least so far, he has patiently and brazenly endured everything that an annoyed editor [...]


On the hard BIOS tour: manual EEPROM flash of a GeForce RTX to bypass the lock with the hardware ID at NVflash | igorsLAB

First of all, I would like to put two important things before this test report. First, such things that we will do below are certainly not prohibited on the finished product, but anything that goes beyond simply reading and writing the BIOS data is already in the grey area between healthy play instinct and reverse engineering. And it is also quite [...]


Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme in Review – Lost in RGB | igorsLAB

RGB lettering on top? Has everyone. A nice RGB logo in the backplate? Yawn. Illuminated RGB fans? There are already. But what about real light effects on the rotor blades? Some people who are looking for the ultimate difference and would like to be paralyzed by the stroboscope effect will now sharpen their ears. At least that's what she must [...]


Radeon RX 590 in review – Polaris at the absolute limit

The transition to an improved manufacturing process (12nm FinFET) is also intended to breathe new life into Polaris before retirement. However, with regard to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060, the goal has been to use the newly acquired reserves exclusively for clock increases and not to increase efficiency with the same performance, which is a pity [...]


The death cocktail for Nvidia's RTX cards: a whole mix of different problems is said to be responsible for the outages | Nvidia GeForce RTX Graphics Cards Are Dying

Another Nvidia news? If you only ask long enough, the information condenses further and further and in the end everything merges into a beautiful picture. And it turns out that many are right, if only indirectly. Because the failures can not only be fixed on a single reason, but show very nicely what can happen in sum if one does not take enough [...]


Caught cold: Do SMT problems and cold soldering points lead to the failures of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE?

After initially focusing on the memory modules (also in mine) to explain the mysterious failures, especially the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition, information is now condensed to indicate the more likely cause of the problems. For example, we have already discussed at great length in the forum, which also dealt with possible soldering [...]


Reader Short Test: DeLock 42600 – External M.2 NVMe SSD

After I was able to test the Toshiba Tecra X40 (reader test) at the beginning of 2018, I replaced the existing 240GB M.2 SSD with a 1TB M.2 SSD. As a result, the Samsung PM961 240GB M.2 NVMe SSD was virtually over and should not be uselessly "rumoxidizing". So For a while I was looking for a solution to be able to use the SSD externally [...]