Pott-Cast #2 – Igors Super Week and a Few Insights | Video

Yes, the revamped calendar week 27 is history and it will probably remain in my memory for a long time to come. Everything was great with Super. Stressful because Nvidia simply had to put in a little disturbance. In principle, this is all kindergarten, but you have to bathe it as a reviewer or. out(chw)itzen. The Sunday exit of Navi is well known [...]


AMD Ryzen 3900X and 3700X review | igor'sLAB

With the first Generation of Ryzen, AMD has shown that end-user CPUs need to be limited to four cores and eight threads. Ryzen Gen. 2 introduced broader support for higher memory clock speeds thanks to optimized Zen architecture and gradually expanded market spread through competitive pricing. The third generation of Ryzen CPUs, at least on paper [...]


AMD Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT in review – The Raytracing-free coffin nail from Vega and up to 2.1 GHz clock under water

Introduction Three big launch items are actually impossible for a quasi-one-man show, since the double launch was already a real hurdle. But something is possible and always, so that there will be a longer article about Navi from me today, which also contains a quite exclusive part, which you will surely only be able to read here today. Because I [...]


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AMD Ryzen 9 3950X announced – with 16 cores from dream to reality

AMD CEO Lisa Su recently announced the new Ryzen 3000 series at Computex 2019, but left a single, official announcement for the Next Horizon Gaming Tech Day in Los Angeles: that of the Ryzen 9 3950X with 16 cores (32 threads) for an EIA of 749 USD. This new processor will hit the shelves in September and there were also other details about the new [...]


Radeon RX 5700XT and RX 5700 introduced – Navi materializes

AMD has carried out the long-awaited presentation of Navi as part of the E3 and has already explained the most important thing during the event. Nevertheless, some questions remain unanswered, which I will have to clarify in the coming days or weeks. Unfortunately, this also includes AMD’s (new) information policy, not having written [...]


Zombieload – Nearly all generations of Intel CPUs affected by new vulnerability since 2008 that could still top Spectre (with opinion from Intel and Google)

Intel recently had to admit another speculative error in side-channel execution in many processors. The vulnerability affects most of the company’s processor SKUs since 2008, with the exception of the 8th-ranked chips. and 9. Generation to which Intel announced that they would already include hardware implementations against this error. The [...]


What is actually safe? The "unhackable drive" eyeDisk is somehow not

We live in a world where security researchers scrutinise many complaints. Supposedly leak-proof cups are thrown around violently, allegedly unbreakable objects are catapulted against walls and supposedly indestructible devices are torn apart by security researchers every day on a trial basis. Some products keep what they promise, but Pen Test [...]