I had recently already measured it in the article “GDDR6X at the limit? Over 100 degrees measured inside of the chip with the GeForce RTX 3080 FE!” and noted, that in extreme cases temperatures of over 110 °C were reached during mining or with Furmark, which of course falls into the [...]
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Category - Reviews
After several patches Horizon Zero Dawn has hardly run stable, much smoother and finally gives you a lot of fun while playing, when the next autumnal total breakdown comes, which surely can’t even be repaired. And if you thought that after all the Crysis sequels, things couldn’t get any [...]
Latest memory chips, such as Micron’s GDDR6X modules on the GeForce RTX 3080 allow the internal protection mechanism to be used for special protection mechanisms (e.g. the clocking down) of the chip temperature Tjunction with suitable software, which is a nice addition in itself, anyone would [...]
The long awaited day has arrived and yes, there is a lot to report. Of course there are tests for 10 games in two resolutions and 17 tests for workstation applications and studio apps – that will be a lot of output for me and tons of input for you. I had threatened you weeks ago a hot autumn [...]
Already at the beginning of 2019, Corsair presented the Capellix RGB LEDs developed together with Primax at CES, the “next stage” of multicoloured component lighting. With 40% less consumption, up to 60% more brightness and 35% longer life compared to conventional SMD LEDs, the new [...]
Just before the launch of Ampere, NVIDIA is quickly unleashing two tools that can make life easier for reviewers and technology enthusiasts. In today’s article “NVIDIA LDAT – Latency Display Analysis Tool Introduced and Quite Exclusively Tested” you will learn everything [...]
The fact that you generally use the FPS, i.e. the rendered frames per second, as a benchmark for the gaming performance, is common but actually anything but target-oriented. If you know my metrics in the graphics card tests, you will have noticed that for some years now, I have been using the frame [...]
The GeForce RTX 3090 as the upcoming top dog and the RTX 3080 as the current flagship rely on the GA102 processor, which does pretty much everything differently than before. With the stated 10,496 CUDA cores, at least on paper (but not only there), an incredible number of ALUs are banged in, which [...]
The Sound BlasterX G6 looks like a G5, at least at first glance and as long as you don't look at the price tag. The 149 euros on the Creative homepage are a whopping 30 euros above the current street price of the predecessor. Of course, the legitimate question arises as to whether the whole [...]
Today’s article is actually more of a random product, because during the preparations for the Ampere launch I not only renewed and significantly expanded the test system, but also all the metrics and graphics for the evaluation. this is exactly where the whole test starts, because the depth [...]
If you take a look in the course of the articles I (Tim, not Igor!) published, you will quickly notice that my focus and the test-related feel-good corner here at igor’sLAB is on consumer cooling solutions and especially the AiO water cooling systems. For now. And not everyone can get their [...]
Gigabyte puts a B550 motherboard on the market with the B550 Vision D, which is rather poaching in the nobler upper house with currently a good 260 euro and is partly almost twice as expensive as the cheapest X570 boards. While I still had stomach aches with the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master to [...]
Out of pure personal interest I once did a little fan experiment in my own system. Cases like the Lian Li O11 Dynamic / XL, Inter-Tech C701-Panorama, MetallicGear NEO Qube and other O11 clones (although the O11 was not the first multi-chamber case) offer partly up to 9 case fans or more space [...]
We already know that cheaper products have to be produced more simply in order to be able to hit the targeted price point at all. If you take a graphics card from the lower middle class as an example, then it is definitely worthwhile to examine the consequences. Exemplary because it affects all [...]
Wavemaster has been offering a small pair of 2.0 stereo loudspeakers for some time now, which were deliberately placed below the Cube Mini Neo. And since I don't only test high-end, but also like to browse the budget area for bargains for my readers, the almost 70 Euros are actually not a [...]
The German notebook manufacturer Schenker had already presented the XMG Apex 15 some time ago, so I am not presenting a world first here, of course. Since one can fall back on socketed CPUs from AMD with the Apex 15, because a B450 board with socket AM4 is used, this notebook makes it quite [...]
Full-price games, which were also given a lot of advance praise, should actually run fairly stable at the start. Whether it’s a PS4 console port, as in the case of Horizon Zero Dawn, or something newly developed. But there are things like quality management and simple tests that ensure at [...]
ADATA is Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of flash memory and DRAM memory for computers and so it is not surprising that ADATA also offers a low-cost product to poach something in the area of beginners, upgrades and conversions. It’s interesting to note that you take a slightly different [...]
When Intel recently offered me to test the Core i5-10400F, I thought for a long time about the added value that such a single test could bring, because in the end it’s the whole package that counts. Therefore I decided to let this CPU compete against the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 which is similar in [...]
After various disposable products I am now testing 2-way in-ears with ANC in the form of the 1More True Wireless ANC. Personally, I always have a hard time with such reviews, but curiosity had finally won here, too. To have a good price by chance and to always have a customer waiting in the family [...]