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Purchase warning! Thermalright TF8 in the 2025 Quality Test – Fraudulent labeling with a worse paste under the same name

It is a personal concern of mine to always find the best and cheapest products for you. That’s why I regularly carry out tests, especially when I receive more and more feedback from users who are suddenly dissatisfied with the quality of a product. Unfortunately, in this context I have to withdraw the purchase award for the Thermalright TF8 [...]


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Make the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 significantly faster? A Blackwell overclocking guide (not only) for dummies

First of all, tactful greetings to all those who want something more than just an off-the-shelf card! As is customary with a new generation, here on igor’sLab I present you with some detailed tips and techniques for overclocking (OC) the latest Nvidia RTX 5000 series and so you can see that this is a guest article. This article is aimed at [...]


Special: From beginner hack to 10,000 euro premium custom hack! What are EFI-Booter, Silent Aim, ESP, Aimbot and co. actually?

The following article is intended solely to provide an objective and critical discussion of the topic of hacking software and hardware manipulation in online games. It aims to highlight the technical challenges for game publishers as well as the possible legal and moral consequences for players who use such methods. For this reason, we cannot and [...]


Is the Seasonic PRIME Noctua TX-1600 still reliable with less airflow? Thermal comparison with the standard power supply unit

I tested the Seasonic Prime Noctua TX-1600 some time ago and found it to be a good power supply. However, I was concerned by the fact that the fan was replaced without making any internal adjustments. Therefore, I decided to test it again and this time perform a full thermal analysis. For this investigation, I used a commercially purchased [...]


Myths and facts about thermally conductive pastes: roughness of the contact surfaces and required layer thicknesses, including re-evaluation of the pastes

After testing over 100 different thermally conductive pastes, of which almost 80 are already available in my online database, I was able to gather extensive experience that calls into question some common assumptions in this area. Of particular interest was the analysis of contradictions between my generalized measurement data, the frequently [...]


MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC review – The better FE with the SUPRIM inner workings and the slightly cheaper outer skin

With the MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC, MSI has slightly reduced the price of the rather serious-looking SUPRIM and is looking for a different target group (purely visually) for an otherwise pretty much identical product. If you can still say that with an RRP of 1469 euros. The SUPRIM relies on the same inner workings and will therefore have to wait [...]


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