If you take a look at the German charts – the CPU coolers of course – then the coolers of the manufacturer Scythe with beQuiet are jostling for the top places. With 18 years of experience in the field of passive and silent cooling, the Tokyo-based company, including a branch in Germany, should be well prepared for this battle. What [...]
Of course, you’ll be amazed if, for example, three supposedly identical cards from one manufacturer have completely different temperatures or fan speeds and this is then reflected very similarly in the reviews of colleagues, which are supposedly contradictory. No, it’s not that the editors don’t know what they are doing [...]
A video recently published in Reddit with the headline “The MSI headquarters in China has apparently just gone up in flames There goes my 3080” shows a fire in an MSI plant in Kunshan. Although this is definitely not the headquarters of MSI, which would be with House 1 and House 3 in Taipei (Taiwan), where the hardware manufacturer is [...]
Since the other two AMD CPUs have arrived and I was able to get a replacement CPU for the Ryzen 9 5900X (and buy it), I have revised the whole launch article and added the missing entries. This would give us the quartet of Ryzen 5 5600X, , Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X now complete and we can ask ourselves which CPU we really need [...]
Need For Speed (NFS) looks back on 25 years of life and suffering, which couldn’t have been more varied. And since it is very trendy to simply revive old games at a reasonable price instead of creating something new, EA has also reached into the moth box a little bit. But instead of rehashing real classics like NFS Hot Pursuit 2, NFS [...]
This article is the premiere of the big topic 3D printing on IgorsLab, so I want to offer an easy start for beginners and interested people. I myself have been working with FDM printers since about the beginning of 2018 and own two different models with many tinkerings around them. What follows will be a mixture of generally important basic [...]
Since I received a Ryzen 9 5950X yesterday, which also has two Dies, I also chased it through all the benchmarks, virtually overnight. The problem with the two CCDs did not occur in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, so that one must rather assume a CPU-specific problem of the sample. What has been confirmed, however, is the blatant break-in under Ultra [...]
Currently I was able to test two of the new Ryzen CPUs with Zen3 core, which could not be more different. On the one hand, there is the Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores (24 threads) as the new, two-largest miracle product of the upper class, and on the other hand, there is the Ryzen 5 5600X with 6 cores (12 threads), which confidently removes the image [...]
The BIOS of a board partner card brings us new insights this time, especially since our MorePowerTool in the latest beta already knows how to handle the new Radeon cards. Thanks also to Patrick Schur for the newest BIOS, which allows us to find out which modes AMD has implemented in the Wattman and how the board partners can (freely) implement [...]
The idea of testing power supplies not only synthetically on the chroma, but simply once in the usual setting of a possible user, is actually not even that absurd, but usually fails because of the amount of test objects. And where do you get these power supplies after all? From the manufacturer! And in order for him to overcome exactly this step [...]
Deepcool, or their own gaming brand Gamer Storm, is perhaps better known for their cases with integrated AiO water cooling or eye-catchers like the Quadstellar, less for individual cooling solutions. But already last year they started their attack on the radiator best-lists with a series of water-cooling systems and the air-cooler giant. You can [...]
Well, that sounds more dramatic than it might be, although… The devil is in the test setup as usual. The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio (OC), MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio (OC) and MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio (OC) are tested on two different high-end systems. Of course @stock and with a maximum OC, which can be added under [...]
For the launch of the board partner designs of the smaller ampere cards with the GA 104 I have today the MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio 8GB at my disposal, which MSI also offers with a RRP of 559 Euro incl. VAT. prices. But what the trade will then really approve of will probably also depend on the availability and range of competing graphics cards [...]
A good 5 years ago, the fourth revision of the Double Data Rate memory has become the standard for the broad mass of PCs, and with first information about the market introduction of DDR5 next year, the DDR4 standard will probably soon reach the end of its life cycle again. The production techniques and products of the DDR4 manufacturers are [...]
I certainly hadn’t promised you too much – autumn (and winter) will be hot, even at the power outlet. The current presentation is finished and I have summarized the most important slides as a gallery for you. Since AMD unfortunately only provided some hand-picked media with material, this must now be done retrospectively, so I ask for [...]
Oops, I did it again… Okay, I’m not blonde and I don’t jump around the universe like a ball lightning on ecstasy, but sometimes you wonder what’s being packed together in the individual factories. Good for those who have enough pad reserves. Shall we try again? Which means that the card literally screams for it. But [...]
With today’s release of the GeForce RTX 3070 FE (Founders Edition), NVIDIA is simultaneously introducing a smaller chip, the GA104, which is smaller in area and therefore brings all the known advantages. Higher yield rate and thus better availability, improved efficiency and somewhat cheaper to produce. To what extent the GeForce RTX 3070 FE [...]
Our community member Gurdi was able to get hold of several GeForce RTX 3090s (F5 skills!) just in time for the launch and was also kind enough to invest some time to provide you with new knowledge about this map. Among other things, he devoted himself to the question of whether and how this new card could be overclocked. Many have asked themselves [...]
It’s nice to see that NVIDIA seems to be actively involved in this, or that you’ve reported on your reading of the catchy social media content, because the hotspot that I found in the launch article about the graphics card, I discussed again later: GDDR6X at its limit? Over 100 degrees measured in the chip with the GeForce RTX 3080 FE [...]
As always, you have to be careful with such benchmarks, even if the material I received yesterday seems quite plausible. Two sources, very different approaches or settings and yet in the end a certain coverage of the results – one can at least already see a certain trend. The most plausible results for me come from an Ultra-HD run [...]
