This time it was Asus and the ears of the buyer, who had purchased an Asus RTX 4080 TUF Gaming just over a year ago. Why did I even bother with the root cause research and repair? As always, it’s a bit down to my curiosity and the fact that I find it hard to say no in justified damage situations once something has triggered me. The affected [...]
According to a leak, a first image of AMD’s next generation of Ryzen desktop CPUs has surfaced. The CPU, codenamed “Granite Ridge”, is based on the Zen 5 architecture and is said to offer 8 cores and 16 threads. The image, which was published by @ExperteVallah on Twitter, shows a standard AMD Ryzen CPU without an SKU identifier [...]
Spring has arrived and the first cherry blossoms are showing their leaves. Cherry blossom petals are particularly eye-catching due to their white-pink color and for this reason PowerColor has introduced a new Hellhound Radeon RX 7800 XT, which has been designed entirely in the sakura style. Sakura is a Japanese word and means cherry blossom. But [...]
The unexpected often happens. And perhaps an Asian graphics card manufacturer is returning to the German market, which has scored highly in the past with interesting graphics card conversions. In addition to all the gaming products, where this manufacturer has made quite a splash in Asia in recent years with its exuberant coolers and add-ons, it [...]
Further details on Intel’s next generation of mobile CPUs, Lunar Lake, have been released to the public. With 8 cores, a Battlemage “Xe2” iGPU and clock speeds of up to 3.1 GHz, Lunar Lake promises a significant leap in performance compared to the current Meteor Lake generation (as we have already reported). The Lunar Lake CPUs [...]
The PCI-SIG company announced in a new update that it is continuing to work on its new PCIe 7.0 generation and has now revealed further details about its work and development. PCI-SIG is the company responsible for the entire PCIe generations and is therefore the brains behind the whole thing. Since the announcement at the US DevCon in June 2022 [...]
For months, users have been reporting problems with some Z790 mainboards from MSI in public forums. The affected motherboards had cracks in the Platform Controller Hub (PCH), which led to system failures. YouTuber Joshi Repair recently brought the issue back into the spotlight after examining an MSI Z790 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard with such a [...]
Anyone who remembers my article on the MiniXTec M1 from January may now be experiencing a bit of deja vu. Because a lot of things here seem suspiciously familiar to me too. But it’s no secret that many “manufacturers” across the hardware market commission the same OEM to print their name on a product. But it’s actually [...]
It may sound like an April Fool’s joke at first, but it’s true. The company ASUS is launching a new Power Station for gamers that is entirely in the design of Thor’s mighty hammer Mjolnir. The whole thing was revealed on their X account and thus a new part of the Thor series has been added to Asus. Various power supplies have [...]
AMD has announced that it will release parts of its ROCm software stack and hardware documentation as open source in a future update. This is in response to community feedback requesting improvements to software and AI support for Radeon GPUs. In the past, AMD has been criticized for the lack of software support for ROCm. Companies such as The [...]
In today’s fourth part, I sacrifice my private Mo-Ra3 360 Pro from the lab in the service of science, simply because space was needed for something bigger. Yes, I admit that the working radiator, which unfortunately is no longer available to buy new, could certainly have been sold for a profit on kleinanzeigen.de. But firstly, I generally [...]
According to MyDrivers, the Chinese company Intellifusion has announced the launch of a new AI box called “DeepEye”, which is set to enter the market. The first standard version of the AI module box “Shenmu” is equipped with the company’s own DeepEdge10 Max chip. The chip has a chiplet configuration with a D2D [...]
in today’s article, we have tested 10 water blocks, on 2 platforms, with 2 pump settings, each with different mounting variants. Today is not about theoretical values, but about real performance figures that every reader can measure themselves at home with a little effort. The background to all this is, of course, the initial review of the [...]
With a groundbreaking update, Llamafile catapults the performance of AMD Ryzen CPUs with AVX-512 to a new level. The result: up to ten times faster execution of complex LLM models on local systems. By utilizing the AVX-512 instruction set, specifically designed for AI and machine learning applications, Llamafile 0.7 enables developers and data [...]
With the MSI SPATIUM M580 Frozr, the Taiwanese manufacturer has gone one better and launched a second fanless NVMe SSD with PCIe 5.0 standard, which is supposed to be a little bit faster and could therefore also reach the limits of PCIe 5.0. But does such a bolide bring any real added performance value and what is actually installed in detail? Of [...]
An entry on AMD’s website has quietly listed two new APUs that have not yet been officially announced by the company. These are based on the Zen 3 architecture and are positioned in the Ryzen 5 series. Accordingly, the APUs are the AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS, which has a 4-core and 8-thread configuration and offers a base clock of 3.2 GHz [...]
New information on the upcoming AMD RDNA 4 “Radeon RX 8000” GPUs and their performance placement has been published by Twitter user @All_The_Watts. According to this, the GPUs will comprise two different chipsets: the top-of-the-range Navi 48 chip and the mid-range Navi 44 chip. The Navi 48 chip is said to be slightly slower than the [...]
With the new Pulse Pocket Portable, Sapphire is also following the trend towards minimization and, in AMD, has the right partner for the new, so-called PP form factor. The new graphics chip is called Navi39 and is also economical enough to be powered directly from the USB port. As AMD is also allowed to participate in the new HVS program (High [...]
It is currently not easy for China to obtain state-of-the-art technology due to the sanctions imposed by the USA. There are also strict sanctions on the import of graphics cards. China is helping itself with a weaker RTX 4090 D, which can keep up with the standard version when overclocked, as HKPEC reveals. But first things first: The USA has [...]
With the MP600 Elite, Corsair sent me an SSD to test some time ago, which I couldn’t really categorize logically based on the test results and the price. The name implies a lot, but in practice it looked a lot less rosy. So I waited to see how the price developed and compared the street price with the MP600 Pro XT I had already tested. Now [...]
