I didn't want to come to the readers martial with registry hack or something like that, but it's quite annoying when you get a Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 for testing, see the Reviewers Guide with the SPECapc for Solidworks 2017 and still get yourself manually to get a little bit of performance at all. The problem is Solidworks' internal [...]
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Category - Basics
Yes, I did it again and tested something from the stack of different pads today that fundamentally differs from the material that has already been tested before. It is a phase change pad, but this time made of lightly pressed nanopolymers and electrically non-conductive. For this purpose, it is thin enough and otherwise quite flexible to handle [...]
The country needs new benchmarks! Various games in several resolutions with the emphasis on gain by subvolts or an OC with a converted Radeon VII. We evaluate everything: Frame-Times. Percentile, variances, the smoothness of the gradient and much more than bar and curve charts as an overview or individual evaluation. There is nothing more to do [...]
RTG Radeon Tweaker Group – AMD Radeon VII Mods, Tweaks, Subvolts and Overclocks Made Easy | igorsLAB
The RTG (Radeon Tweaker Group) is a group of those who have already made it their mission since AMD's Polaris and later Also Vega to make some overvoltage and unnecessarily hot Radeon what one would like as an end customer: to a faster and significantly more efficient Graphics card.
If you want to do something new and right, then the effort in the preparation is often enough more than just immense. But analyses of heat generation on and the cooling performance of motherboards are to become one of our unique selling points for the upcoming reviews. How something like that can crash the weekend, I'll show you today.
It really scares me when a few pick-up clickers in the hunt for sales trophies just ignore rules and NDAs. That's why I'm posting something now. Yes, I'll just do it now. But what I'm showing you has no one else, so it doesn't even hurt anyone. I tease the fat chip a little with the needle. Curious? Then look in!
Today's tip is quite serious, because you can collect plus points with it. What you have to keep in mind, however, I tell you in a small practice video, because it shows and explains itself faster than you could describe it in many words awkwardly.
Anyone who still remembers my article about the connections between graphics card, headphone sensitivity and motherboard layout will of course also wonder how I measure all this and what technology is behind it. Since we have no secrets and the response was also very large, Frank Schmidt ("Bigreval" in the forum) and I thought about how [...]
There are always things that fall almost from heaven into your lap and at the same time also a little on the sender's feet. However, the basic rule number one is always that as an attentive observer and tester you always remain cooperative and do not simply work out your workload indifferently. Doing better instead of moaning is the best way [...]
What would the world be without the Universal Serial Bus? In any case, i do not think that the ones we know now, that is for sure. But what could you do if you want to test a TV stick because it keeps crashing? Does it draw too much power or is it due to the software? How much "juice" does my phone still have or is the battery really [...]
The firmware of the last generations of Nvidia is relatively easy to read (not only) in terms of expected power consumption and power limits with Nvidia's NVSMI tool. This is nothing new in itself, but I have written a 1-click batch file for the more inexperienced readers, which makes the tedious hanging through the directories obsololet.
One finds again and again possibilities to further improve a product that is good in itself and to punish the supposed greed of the accountants with only a few cents of material use nonchalantly. Far more than 90°C below the memory you don't have to find really nice now, but why did the dear Lord God create the so-called thermal guide pads [...]
One knows and hates it, the beloved moment when a power supply suddenly switches off in the middle of a game, even though it is new and shows no other conspicuous features. The user’s annoyance becomes even greater when you think you have calculated the power supply size correctly. But is what the manufacturers of graphics cards or power [...]
You know and hate it, the beloved moment when a power supply suddenly switches off in the middle of the game, even though it is new and shows no other abnormalities. The annoyance of the users becomes even greater if one believes that the power supply size has also been calculated correctly. But is that enough for the manufacturers of graphics [...]
Not only are we asked again and again in the forum how we finance ourselves, where the development is going and how or how. where we will continue to see our publication in the future. Of course, these are many questions worth asking...
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two very unequal sisters The fact that the Founders Edition of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti would have particularly good chips is not only an urban legend, but complete nonsense. Clock-adjusted and provided with the same BIOS, e.g. the board of my press sample from Nvidia water-cooled also no better than e.g. the KFA2/Galax RTX 2080 Ti OC [...]
Our daily Turing give us today? I can't really hear it anymore, but I have to live with it every day, because it touches the sensitivities of all readers. You can't and must't close yourself to it and hide everything gallantly. I recently had a conversation with a distrubutor and in the end everyone involved thought that the world is [...]
If you are not yet so familiar with the subject matter, I strongly recommend to you to get started and better understand my basic article "Basics GPUs: Power Consumption, Power Supply Conflicts & Other Myths" (opens in a new tab/window), which provides the most important information for the following. In the entry article for Turing [...]