Category - Hardware

First facts and rumors about Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 | igorsLAB

In the last few days it was already rushing in the leaf forest, and so much information or many rumours have already been chewed extensively before, again and back. Apart from the fact that I can also confirm one of them, there are of course other things from the technical field that should be quite interesting, because you could not read them in [...]


Watercool Heatkiller IV Fullcover for the RTX 2080 Ti in review – Custom Loop Water Cooling at 380 Watt | igorsLAB

With the Watercool Heatkiller IV for RTX 2080 Ti I would like to introduce the third fullcover water block in detail, which has to face my stress test honestly. The fact that the test sample only came now is mainly due to the high demand and the fact that the parts were always sold out as a result. But at some point almost every part ends up here [...]


KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 EX in review – Price disanotomy doesn't have to be cheap, but quiet and cool | igorsLAB

The opposite of expensive does not always have to be cheap. In fact, it would also be inexpensive. This is exactly what KFA2 must have thought when the GeForce RTX 2070 EX was designed. Many things were taken over here from the larger KFA2 cards and also the cooler has a decent portiönchen hip bacon, so that nothing burns. I take a closer look at [...]


On the hard BIOS tour: manual EEPROM flash of a GeForce RTX to bypass the lock with the hardware ID at NVflash | igorsLAB

First of all, I would like to put two important things before this test report. First, such things that we will do below are certainly not prohibited on the finished product, but anything that goes beyond simply reading and writing the BIOS data is already in the grey area between healthy play instinct and reverse engineering. And it is also quite [...]


Radeon RX 590 in review – Polaris at the absolute limit

The transition to an improved manufacturing process (12nm FinFET) is also intended to breathe new life into Polaris before retirement. However, with regard to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060, the goal has been to use the newly acquired reserves exclusively for clock increases and not to increase efficiency with the same performance, which is a pity [...]


The death cocktail for Nvidia's RTX cards: a whole mix of different problems is said to be responsible for the outages | Nvidia GeForce RTX Graphics Cards Are Dying

Another Nvidia news? If you only ask long enough, the information condenses further and further and in the end everything merges into a beautiful picture. And it turns out that many are right, if only indirectly. Because the failures can not only be fixed on a single reason, but show very nicely what can happen in sum if one does not take enough [...]


Caught cold: Do SMT problems and cold soldering points lead to the failures of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE?

After initially focusing on the memory modules (also in mine) to explain the mysterious failures, especially the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition, information is now condensed to indicate the more likely cause of the problems. For example, we have already discussed at great length in the forum, which also dealt with possible soldering [...]


Ryzen CPUs from AMD as heating for an entire block of flats? Winter may come!

Our French colleagues were present on Thursday, 18 May. On 1 October, in Bordeaux, he visited an almost completed building. This is nothing special in itself, if a small detail were not completely different. And so, in the end, you face a world first, which is to provide the future inhabitants with free heating thanks to Qarnot, a French company [...]


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 [...]


Palit GeForce RTX 2070 Dual in first test

Interestingly, the GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition, which has already been tested today, is not the object on which the chip giant is focusing its new focus. In order to make the GeForce RTX 2070 quite tasty for the buyer, this time the board partners have to judge it with their not overclocked models. Nvidia's price target is an RRP of 519 [...]


MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Armor in first test

Interestingly, the GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition, which has already been tested today, is not the object on which the chip giant is focusing its new focus. In order to make the GeForce RTX 2070 quite tasty for the buyer, this time the board partners have to judge it with their not overclocked models. Nvidia's price target is an RRP of 519 [...]