I’m writing today’s editorial because I was annoyed yesterday by an email whose impertinence is hard to top. It’s not about the manufacturer and their products, which are probably okay. It’s about the way this company, through its PR department, insults media and testers. You might think that the modern work world already [...]
I have not yet commented on the now ubiquitous investigations and explanations of the problems with Intel’s 13th and 14th generation K-CPUs, because pure speculation brings nothing but more speculation. As I also don’t use any special “OC features” from certain motherboard manufacturers in all launch reviews and also in my [...]
Update from 23.04.2024 at 09:45 am In the meantime, i.e. this morning, the outstanding amount has been validated on my bank account. You have to be fair and add that too, of course. Even though it obviously puts me at ease in this respect, my thoughts are still with my colleagues whose livelihoods depend on the outstanding wage payments. This [...]
I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I am neither a judge, nor do I have the right to write on behalf of others or to pre-judge a company. However, as I am also among those affected and find the way EKWB handles its payment obligations to be downright shabby and arrogant, Stephen Burke from Gamers Nexus has done the work for me with his 36 [...]
There are always those moments when you’d rather toss everything out and start from scratch. And no, it’s not about throwing things in, but rather throwing them out. So, no worries. As things grow, you quickly hit certain limits, and that’s precisely why, apart from the two articles, you’ve hardly seen anything from me this [...]
It’s hardly news anymore that Artificial Intelligence (AI) doesn’t always hit the mark. But now, I’ve been struck by it multiple times – always over the same subject. In a world where Artificial Intelligence is often hailed as the pinnacle of human progress, Meta – the parent company of Facebook – has taught me a valuable [...]
Because today is Boxing Day, I’m taking you to Kabale in Uganda, or rather the Kabale District, just a few kilometers from the border with Rwanda. And yes, there are people who couldn’t care less about hardware because their daily problems are completely different and some of them don’t even understand what a computer is. In my [...]
The reason I’m expressing myself in such detail today is twofold. First, it’s always important to hear all sides of a story and objectively assess and evaluate what you’ve heard. Second, the knowledge gained, as of today, is now completely different. This isn’t to excuse what could have been done earlier but wasn’t. And this [...]
Firstly, I’d like to congratulate our freelance colleague, Pascal Mouchel, on his new full-time position at Alphacool International! Especially in such turbulent times as these, for those who don’t want to just relax in the social safety net, there’s something very important to appreciate: a position in a stable company with [...]
If there’s one thing every true tech enthusiast loves, it’s the joy that comes with the launch of a new graphics card. But wait, why should we be content with just a single card when we can have a whole cascade of overlapping releases? I mean, what’s better than constantly finding ourselves in a state of technological overload [...]
It is well known that our site is bilingual and that the content must be managed in the WordPress CMS. I’ve been using Polylang for this since 2019 and Polylang Pro since 2020, which significantly simplifies the implementation and management of multilingualism. Many things are also first translated by machine and later still manually post [...]
First of all, I want to start this by saying that today’s article comes from the bottom of my nerd heart, out of love for hardware and overclocking and for having a fair competition and thus can not necessarily represent the opinion of all the editors, as not everyone is so intensively involved in it. It may not seem like anything worth writing [...]
If you want to (or have to) separate, then there are two ways to announce this: one emotionless and one where you once again seek the big stage. EVGA chose, what a coincidence, the time shortly before NVIDIA’s in-house exhibition GTC (after that, the whole thing would have gone down a bit) to drop the bombshell that wasn’t really a [...]
Intel is now set to disable “AVX-512” completely on all Alder Lake CPUs with an upcoming microcode update in new BIOS releases. Mainboard manufacturers were able to make the supposedly disabled instruction set available at launch, which resulted in a significant performance increase for the P-cores of the new CPUs. Now Intel is [...]
Amazon launches the beta phase of a new game and almost simultaneously users all over the internet report that their Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs are dying. The reasons have not yet been officially confirmed. In EVGA’s case, it’s supposedly due to a faulty fan controller, though other sources say cards from other vendors or even other GPU [...]
As some of you might have noticed, there have been less articles from me on igorslab.de the last weeks than usual. The reason for this, besides the usual fubar in my day job, was my participation in the G.Skill Tweakers Contest on hwbot.org, which I even managed to win in the “Ambient” category shortly before the end. The goal of [...]
Hi everyone, in our forums, questions such as “why is my graphics card getting so hot” are often answered with a hint towards FPS limiters. But it happened only recently that NVIDIA has finally packed this function into their own driver. Time for dedicated article on this topic from a gaming laptop brand’s point of view. But [...]
So now it has only just begun, the complete RTX’ing of the whole universe. Because if up to now either the prices for the powerhouses or the missing muscle weakness in the lower shelf area were gallantly in the way of a traced mass infection, now finally also for the small price people we will se nice amping and shading! I admit, the price [...]
I just had to write down the following now, because I neither like the usual conspiracy theories about alleged constraints (although Intel has provided enough reasons for this in the past), nor do I find many forum discussions fair, which once again show that among many forists there seem to be more experts than capable engineers in the [...]
As a trained GDR citizen, one was always faced with the dilemma of what would be better for the personal zero number: a packed shop window and an empty wallet or an empty shop window and a bulging purse. The latter was almost always the case in the East. Well, except for a few privileged people who were more valuta-doped than the aluminium chip [...]
