Aorus X299 Master review – Gigabyte's cool answer to Intel's hotheads

Important preliminary remarks I admit that motherboard tests are complex and often ungrateful for the tester, because the readership remains quite manageable, as long as it is, for example, an enthusiast platform like the Socket 2066. Nevertheless, I find it very exciting to observe what would be possible and also if you as a manufacturer make a [...]


Kolink Inspire K1 – a budget case with impressive optics

At Caseking, the Kolink Inspire K1 has popped up at a bargain price of €49.99. Caseking will be available from 14. December. The K1 is a midi tower in ATX format. One side part is made of acrylic glass and the front part is made of tempered glass. In such a constellation, of course, the corresponding RGB lighting must not be missing...


Intel Core i9-9900K, i7-9700K and i5-9600K in review – Hot tightrope walk between overtaking and braking lane

Important preliminary remarks The attempted dictation, influence and also conscious avoidance of launch results by a targeted sampling or Non-sampling seems to have become a big fashion. This test was also taken together by two editors on two continents at the end, because Intels did not normally sample for us and all new CPUs had to be obtained [...]


MSI MEG Z390 Goodlike in Unboxing and First Hands-On Test | igorsLAB

The current scarcity of Intel's products in the 14nm process and the inability to realize its own 10nm process at all also strikes quite brutally on the Z390 motherboards in particular and the availability of the complete new product line in the So that the launch of the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) Z390 and the new Coffee Lake S Refresh [...]


AMD Introduces New Athlon 200GE and Ryzen Pro 2700X, 2700 and 2600

AMD today announced a redesigned Athlon 200GE with a Radeon Vega 3 graphics card. It is certainly intended for everyday PC applications and is very obviously aimed at the office-only area. In addition, AMD now also offers the second-generation Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO desktop processors for the commercial market. Combining the x86 "Zen+" [...]


GlobalFoundries resets 7nm process! Hard blow for AMD or chance for TSMC?

GlobalFoundries has now announced, somewhat surprisingly, that it intends to put the 7 nm process on hold indefinitely. The chip maker is again concentrating on the processes in 14/12 nm and promises to further perfect them. The company also stated that the majority of chip designers ultimately did not invest in the (expensive and therefore more [...]


The Crew 2 – a further test with frame times, variances, memory and CPU usage

Our French colleague Yannick Guerrini contributed a large part of the content in today's test and, as we are all on the same wavelength and also want to expand our strategic partnership in Europe, there will certainly be many more articles in the future. developed in close cooperation. I would like to put this ahead of the test, because we [...]