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Does Antminer E9 as an ASIC cryptocurrency miner help against the permanent GPU shortage? New records for hash rate and efficiency

The whole cryptocurrency bubble keeps inflating and the value of many of these “currencies” has skyrocketed extremely, even if there is always a dip in between. This month alone, NVIDIA has sold $30 million worth of CMP-series cards to Hut 8 Mining Corp. for example. By then, the seizure of 300 stolen NVIDIA CMP 30HX cryptocurrency [...]


Unleashed unicorn on a flight of fancy – Shunt-Mod for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 FE and the Alphacool Eisblock GPX-N | Practice

As threatened last week, the Alphacool ice block GPX-N won’t be the only modification to my RTX 3090 Founders Edition. Today we’re going to look at the shunt resistors, the ones the GPU uses to measure how much power it’s consuming and if necessary downclocks itself if Nvidia’s limits of 350 or 400 W are reached. While [...]


be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 Review – small, quiet and inexpensive

Recently, be quiet! has given its most affordable CPU cooler a successor, which we will take a closer look at in the following article. How much cooler can you get for cheap and it is a good alternative 5 years later? Packaging and scope of delivery The box is, as typical for the manufacturer, designed in black and only the orange in the logo and [...]


MorePowerTool 1.3.4 Online – Support for Navi21 XTXH “Ultimate”

After the first versions with the new Navi21 XTXH chip appeared on the market, i.e. specially binned chips, there is also a new device ID in circulation, which we have now included in version 1.3.4 of the MorePowerTool. You need more power? Enjoy! Have fun with my overclocking and tweaking, the MPT team wishes you! RED BIOS EDITOR and [...]


Hot-headed unicorn under water – Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N for Nvidia RTX 3090 Founders Edition | Installation and Test

If you were able to purchase an RTX 3090 Founders Edition (FE) at launch for MSRP like I was, you can’t really complain. Ample performance for 144 FPS in most games even at the highest graphics settings and, if we’re being honest, the value increase of over 50%, naturally add to the appreciation. Only, as is so often the case, there [...]


Corsair K70 RGB TKL Champion Keyboard Review – With 8000Hz to victory?

And again Corsair releases new peripherals, even a completely new series. Under the name “Champion Series” you can find a new mouse and keyboard, which were tested and developed together with eSportsmen. Today we’ll first look at the keyboard, the mouse will follow shortly. Packaging and scope of delivery The box looks like any [...]


Outriders Review – Big and nice looking linear levels with co-op, crossplay, DLSS 2.0, small quirks and sporadic hangs | Performance and workaround

The polish developer studio “People Can Fly” has released the PvE Looter-Shooter “Outriders” and combines quite clever single player and co-op content for up to three players with the possibility to switch back and forth in the game quite seamlessly. There are four quite different classes and of course lots of things to [...]


The sub-zero number: Intel Core i9-11900K vs. Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero – the impossibility of the dreamed possible

The Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero is of course not a real cryo-cooling for really high loads, they don’t pretend to be, but it wants to guarantee such low temperatures in the partial load range that the highest possible boost clock rates can be run. That’s exactly what I tried to find out in a short test, because especially [...]


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Resizeable BAR on the MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM 24 GB

Yesterday the time had finally come and the first new BIOS versions with support for the extended address space went online. Now you can call it Resizeable BAR, SAM (Smart Access Memory), extended/large memory area or whatever, the system is always the same. This is nothing else than the clever handling of the Base Address Register (BAR) and [...]


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