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What you always wanted to know about thermal paste, but never got a verifiable answer: How does such a paste behave when heated and what happens when it is heated and cooled several times under the usual pressure? Completely different from what most people think! That’s why I want to show you today what pitfalls can lurk when testing paste [...]
“Black Myth: Wukong” is an ambitious action role-playing game from Chinese developer studio Game Science that brings the legend of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, into the modern video game world in an impressive way. The game is based on the classic Chinese tale “The Journey to the West”, which has been adapted many times [...]
As I have been asked again and again about the Thermalright T9 and TFX (i.e. quasi TF10), today there is a Thermalright special with a total of five pastes, three of which I would only recommend to a limited extent. Even though all five pastes are good in terms of price/performance ratio, I consider some of them to be highly problematic. I had [...]
The world of anime and manga continues to grow and the community here is also growing steadily. Even if some people like it and others don’t, everyone has probably watched an anime as a child. Be it Sailor Moon, Dragonball or, for today’s article, Naruto. And for those who can’t relate to it: Anime is a Japanese style of [...]
Today I’m writing about two pastes that I noticed very negatively during the database expansion because of their downright outrageous marketing and, for comparison, I’m comparing them with a cheap paste that doesn’t need such deception but has other weaknesses. But you have to ask yourself how stupid the brands think you are when [...]
With the 3500 series, Corsair rounds off its portfolio of current case series at the lower end and offers (with the NON-RGB version) a solid and compact showcase in the double-digit price range. Read today’s test to find out how the stylish tower performs in everyday use. The new 3500(X) really can’t deny its relationship to the 6500 [...]
Today we are going to take a close look at five different phase transition pads and add them to the upcoming database. With the two PCM5000 and PCM8500, I am also testing two OEM pads with a thickness of 0.2 mm, which are sometimes cheekily sold as Honeywell (AliExpress, eBay), but are pure OEM products from a third-party supplier and as such are [...]
Intel today unveiled the new Core Ultra processors for notebooks based on the Lunar Lake architecture at IFA 2024 in Berlin. They represent a significant further development of their CPU series, with a strong focus on AI capabilities, energy efficiency and an integrated system-on-chip (SoC) architecture. Here is a clear summary of the most [...]
It’s time for a new player on the monitor market. Titan Army is bringing the P2510S to Europe. That’s right, Titan Army is a Chinese manufacturer like KTC. It features a Fast IPS panel from BOE with a resolution of 2560 x 1440p on just 24.5 inches. Yes, that makes 120 ppi and that is already razor sharp. As the P2510S is a pure gaming [...]
Today I’m testing four Thermal Putty products for you, whereby these four products are examples of large companies and their products or mixed products. If I manage to organize more products, I will expand the database to include this category, because anyone who knows the circumstances when the pad thicknesses on graphics cards are not [...]
It wasn’t easy to find the right attributes for AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X and the right headline for the test article. But while I was able to pull myself out of the noose elegantly with a relatively large amount of text, AMD will probably still have to sit, sweat and make a lot of improvements. There were certainly other reasons for the [...]
Today I have the next three pastes from your wish list in the programme (many thanks to the donors from the community!) and was rather satisfied with the result (but not completely). It also lived up to expectations, because you get a lot of content for your money. The DOWSIL TC-5500 is a decent industrial paste from Dow Corning, but unfortunately [...]
The LG UltraGear 32GS95UX is one of the first – if not the first – dual-mode monitors in the world. You can either use the UHD resolution of 3840 x 2160p at up to 240 Hz or the FHD resolution of 1920 x 1080p at a full 480 Hz. Added to this are the fast OLED pixel response time, low latency and individual dimming of the pixels – [...]
Testing the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X as a harbinger of AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 series would only really be a cracker if AMD had raised the bar to completely new heights in terms of either performance or price or both. That’s not exactly the case, but the test is still very interesting because you have to look at all the charts in their entirety [...]
Today I tested three pastes from my readers’ wish list and was downright depressed by the results of the first two pastes. That was until the last paste I tested built me up a bit. I tested established pastes such as the Noctua NT-H2, the Gelid GC-Extreme (in the blue tube) and the Thermalright TF7. Now, it’s not the first impression [...]
I remember my student days in Dresden, when I used to drive up the hill behind Gorbitz with an old Soviet Junost suitcase TV, a heavy 12V car battery, a crate of beer, a barbecue and other bits and bobs together with friends in a Trabi station wagon, whenever there was an international soccer match on in the warm season, which of course could not [...]
Anyone who has been following me and my tests on igorslab.de for a while knows that whenever there is a new RAM IC on the market, I have to have it and test it immediately! After SK Hynix and Micron in particular have recently launched new memory chips on the market, Samsung is now following suit. Background and unboxing The 16 Gbit B-Die, which [...]
So-called phase change pads are currently marketed as PCM (Phase Change Materials) or, more correctly, as PTM (Phase Transition Material). They are important components in thermal management technology, which have now also arrived in the PC sector for home users and are also enjoying a certain amount of hype. These materials improve heat transfer [...]
Now the time has finally come, after Asus took over or bought the NUC product range from Intel at the end of last year, we finally have an Asus NUC in our test report. So let’s examine in detail whether and how much of the Intel NUC has remained at Asus. Or have they perhaps made something completely their own and just kept the prominent [...]
The Corsair SF1000 is one of the most powerful SFX power supplies currently available on the market. It offers top performance, high efficiency and is also ATX v3.1 compliant. Reason enough for me to once again let my friend Aris from Hardwarebusters have his say (and picture) on our site, as he has not only tested this power supply intensively [...]
The topic of the ageing of thermal conductive pastes is more topical than ever and before we get to the showdown of some phase change pads and pastes in the near future, I’m going to interpose a graphene pad by popular demand, which is not only made of carbon but also costs a lot of it. I was a little skeptical at first, but in the end [...]
In the world of digital end-time disasters, the Fallout series has established itself as an iconic companion through the radiation-infested wasteland. But while Bethesda’s shining jewel has already reduced various American locations to rubble, a huge modification is now venturing into the heart of the old empire: Fallout London. A [...]
