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MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Super Saved from the Scrap Heap: When the Used Market Makes the Screwdriver Attractive Again

SimpoCubic Keycaps Review: High-Quality PBT Keycaps with Multiple Language Layouts and ANSI/ISO Support

Cooler Master HAF II 500 Review – Old Airflow Virtues, Reinterpreted

Beelink ME Pro 4 NAS Review – More Space, More Performance and FygoOS

Agent ASUS ROG GR70 Mini PC with a License to Think – Surprisingly Much AI in a Small Space, with Gaming in the Evening

GeForce RTX 5090: When even the partially enabled chip becomes too valuable for gamers (Analysis)

AWTPI: Why a good thermal paste needs more than just a high W/mK value (basics)

CORSAIR SABRE v3 PRO Ultralight Wireless Ergo Review – Revolutionary Aim Calibration with CORSAIR and Aimlabs’ PureVector Technology

Fractal Design Refine 2 Review – Ergonomic Refinement or a Consistent Evolution?

t.bone SC420 USB Microphone Review – When Twice the Performance Costs Only Slightly More Than Half (Editor’s Tip)

Corsair RM1200e 1200 Watt (2026) Review: New Technology, Quiet Operation, and PinProtect as Genuine Graphics Card Protection

Local AI with Different Language Models and Hardware in Practice – Comparing Three Performance Tiers and LLMs

PHP2Shell: A Storm in a Teacup or a Stroke Risk for the Internet? A Technical and Decidedly Critical Postmortem

CORSAIR SABRE v2 PRO Ultralight Wireless – Ultralight Gaming Mouse with 8,000 Hz and 33,000 DPI Reviewed

Investigated: Sound Blaster AE-X under GPU Load and the Limits of Additional Shielding [Practical Test]

Intel and Altera Develop an FPGA Sensor Bridge for Edge AI, Robotics, and Real-Time Processing

AMD EPYC Embedded 9006: Zen 6 with up to 256 cores, PCIe 6.0 and seven years of product availability

ASRock replaces problematic Radeon VBIOS: ASRVBFlash 1.0.6 released without changelog

AMD GFX13 Arrives in Linux Driver: First Kernel Patches Likely Prepare for RDNA 5

Siemens Plans to Acquire Lauterbach: TRACE32 Debugging to Bring Chip Development and Verification Together

Infineon Produces Functional SiC Power Semiconductors on 300 mm Wafers for the First Time

NVIDIA once again disputes EOL rumors: GeForce RTX 5090 to remain in production

Linux 7.5: New AVX-512 Optimization Nearly Doubles ChaCha Throughput on AMD Zen 5

RTX PRO 6000: Damage to Seasonic-Noctua Cables Discovered in Dual-GPU System

Mitsui Chemicals Acquires JSR for $11.6 Billion: Japan Strengthens Its Position in Semiconductor Materials

Google expands TPU generation: 8tx with AMD EPYC for confidential AI and 8i Max with double memory bandwidth

GPU Taskman Shows VRAM Usage per Process and Even Breaks Down Local AI Models

RTINGS Finds “Edge Red” in 14 of 16 Tested WOLED TVs

Diamond Foundry Presents 200-mm Single-Crystal Diamonds: New Material Could Change AI Hardware Cooling

Intel Razor Lake-S reportedly set to arrive in 2028 and continue using LGA1954

MIFCOM offers custom ASUS agent PCs for local AI

NZXT Expands Its Cooling Lineup and Introduces a PCIe 5.0 Graphics Card Support Bracket: New Single-Frame Fans, Kraken Plus with Asetek Gen9, and a More Affordable Riser Kit

NZXT Refreshes H5 and H7: Panoramic Glass, New Airflow, and More Room for High-End Hardware

CHUWI GameBook Max: 18-inch laptop with RTX 5060 and HX processors [Advertorial]

Alphacool Apex 1 AM5: CPU Water Cooler Now Available in White

ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG259QWS Ace: 720 Hz OLED Monitor with DisplayPort 2.1 Is Now Available

Cooler Master Introduces the MasterFrame 400 and Atmos II Pro Gold Edition

MSI MEG CORELIQUID E15 360 launches with curved 2K AMOLED display

ASUS Ascent GX10: New 64GB Version Aims to Make Local AI Development More Accessible

ACEMAGIC Retro X3 Quick Review: Mini PC with Retro Design and Ryzen 7 H 255

Halnziye HY2612 V2 Thermal Putty now also available in Germany at Watercool

Thermaltake Arcus 380 TG ARGB: Curved Glass, Five Fans, and Room for Eleven 120 mm Fans

Cooler Master QUBE 540 SPECIAL: Stainless Steel Case with 8K Mirror Polish and Modular Design Unveiled

Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra II: Premium Controller with TMR Sticks and up to 8,000 Hz Unveiled

Creality Falcon A1C: Compact Class 1 Laser with Interchangeable Modules and Optional AI Camera

Creative Sound Blaster AE-X Review: How Much Internal Sound Card Does a Modern PC Still Need?

There was a time when a Sound Blaster was almost an essential part of any properly equipped PC. Creative played a major role in shaping that era, from the early ISA cards and the large PCI generations to the later X-Fi models. Back then, dedicated audio processors, hardware acceleration and the most comprehensive possible range of connections were [...]

Sennheiser Profile USB Microphone Review: Good Sound, Questionable Details, and a USB Problem That Can Even Freeze the Computer

A microphone should really be one of the least complicated components connected to a computer. You set it up, connect it to the computer, adjust the recording level and can then speak without having to worry about the technology any further. At least in theory. In practice, the USB microphone market is now crowded with devices vying for attention [...]

When the RTX 5090 Fails: A Reader’s Account of Thermal Paste, Warranty, and the Value of a Refund

A graphics card costing 2,700 euros is not an ordinary PC purchase. If such a model fails or shows unusual temperatures, the issue is not just the technical cause, but also what a warranty claim is actually worth. One of my readers at  igor’sLAB documented the condition of his INNO3D card, examined the thermal contact between the GPU and the [...]

Lofree Flow 2 84 Keyboard for Mac Review: Low-Profile Mechanical Keyboard in an Aluminum Chassis with Surfer Switches

Anyone who regularly works on a Mac is familiar with the particular characteristics of Apple keyboards. Flat keys, short actuation distances and a familiar function-key layout are part of the everyday working experience. However, the typing feel of classic Apple keyboards is not to everyone’s liking. In particular, frequent typists often want more [...]

Fractal Summit Review – Scandinavian Design for High-Performance Gaming PCs

A PC case is no longer solely about accommodating as much hardware as possible and reliably supplying it with fresh air. In the higher price segment in particular, manufacturers are increasingly trying to combine technology with living spaces. The Fractal Summit takes this approach particularly consistently. Instead of opting for aggressive gaming [...]

The Truth Emerges After the First Hour: Why Graphene Pads Last Longer and Thermal Paste Doesn’t Automatically Lose Out

What are we doing today? A long-term test with the TTV10 Analyzer Next has shown us how much application thickness, thermal cycles and the actual contact area can change the results. The second graphene sheet remains stable after more than 9,300 evaluated cycles. A thick application of Thermal Grizzly Duronaut Pro can certainly impress, whereas a [...]

Intel fixes years-old OpenCL bug: Arc A770 and Arc PRO B70 up to 3.9x faster in MrH benchmark

Sometimes neither new hardware nor additional compute units are needed to dramatically increase a graphics card’s performance. Occasionally, all it takes is for the driver to finally do what it should have been doing for years. That is exactly what can now be observed with Intel. With the new graphics driver 32.0.101.9150, Intel appears to have [...]

Optical HDMI Cables in Practice: What AOC Cables Like the OREI AOC-8K-100 Can Do and Where Physics Hits Back

You know how it is: cables are the most thankless topic in all of consumer electronics. Nobody gets excited about a new HDMI cable, but everyone curses when the projector mounted on the ceiling suddenly goes black at 4K and 120 Hz, or the Atmos audio from the TV to the soundbar cuts out in time with the handshakes. At around five metres, copper is [...]

KIOXIA EXCERIA G3 4 TB Review: How Much SSD Is Behind PCIe 5.0?

There are SSDs where you can tell as soon as you unpack them where costs have been cut. With the 4 TB KIOXIA EXCERIA G3, however, it is worth taking a closer look, because the combination of high capacity and PCIe 5.0 initially tells only the more appealing half of the story. The packaging lists sequential read speeds of up to 10.000 MB/s, the [...]

Chilkey SF60 HE Diamond Edition Review: Compact 60-Percent Board with Hall Effect and 8,000 Hz

With the SF60 HE, Chilkey brings a compact Hall Effect keyboard to market that combines gaming technology with several features from the custom keyboard segment. The 60-percent layout has 64 keys and omits a separate number pad, a function-key row and a conventional navigation cluster in favor of compact dimensions. At the same time, Chilkey uses [...]

MIFCOM offers custom ASUS agent PCs for local AI

AI agents are not just meant to answer individual questions, but to independently handle tasks across multiple steps. MIFCOM is promoting custom Powered by ASUS systems for routine work, content creation, and programming tasks. The offering is aimed at businesses, developers, creatives, and self-employed professionals who want to integrate AI into [...]

NZXT Expands Its Cooling Lineup and Introduces a PCIe 5.0 Graphics Card Support Bracket: New Single-Frame Fans, Kraken Plus with Asetek Gen9, and a More Affordable Riser Kit

NZXT is expanding its hardware lineup with two unlit single-frame case fans, a revised Kraken Plus 360 RGB, and a new Vertical GPU Mounting Kit with PCIe 5.0 support. While the F360Q and F420Q each control three fan rotors via a shared PWM connector, the Kraken Plus gets an Asetek Gen9 pump with a coolant temperature sensor and a larger LCD. For [...]

NZXT Refreshes H5 and H7: Panoramic Glass, New Airflow, and More Room for High-End Hardware

NZXT is fundamentally redesigning its H5 and H7 case series, replacing the previous mesh front with a continuous, curved glass panel that connects the front and left side. While the more compact H5 offers 47 liters of interior volume and room for graphics cards up to 420 millimeters long, the larger H7 provides considerably more space for [...]

Onsemi halts billion-dollar project in Czechia: Planned SiC expansion worth up to two billion dollars canceled

Europe wants to strengthen its semiconductor production, become less dependent on international supply chains and, above all, catch up in strategically important technologies. Onsemi now shows that such plans cannot be realized through political support alone. On November 6, 2026, the American semiconductor manufacturer announced together with the [...]

ROG Ally and Ally X: ASUS graphics driver temporarily disappears from support pages

There is currently confusion surrounding the latest official AMD graphics driver for the original ROG Ally and the ROG Ally X. Version V32.0.31007.6002, released in June, was temporarily no longer listed on the US support pages, while only the March version V32.0.23027.3001 appeared to be available. Other regional ASUS pages, however, still list [...]

ASRock Rack DMRD16-2L+: Diamond Rapids Board Packs Up to 4 TB of DDR5 into a 12 × 13-Inch Form Factor

ASRock Rack showed a motherboard for Intel’s upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeons at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, fitting 16 memory channels onto an EEB board measuring just 12 × 13 inches. The DMRD16-2L+ supports up to 4 TB of DDR5 on a single processor, while completely foregoing conventional PCIe CEM slots. Instead, ASRock Rack uses MCIO connectors for [...]

IBM Quantum System Two launches in Chicago: Nighthawk processor with 120 qubits and 218 couplers

120 qubits may not sound particularly impressive on paper when compared with the core counts of modern processors or the enormous compute units of current AI accelerators. However, a quantum computer works in a fundamentally different way from a classical computer system. On November 6, 2026, IBM and the University of Chicago officially [...]

Xbox app for Windows set to launch up to 60 percent faster

Microsoft is revamping the Xbox app on PC and promising significantly shorter load times. The new version has been rolling out to Xbox Insiders since November 5. According to Microsoft’s own measurements, the app launches up to 60 percent faster, while key pages such as Home, Store, and Game Pass are supposed to load up to 50 percent faster [...]

AMD brings FSR Upscaling 4.1 to Xbox Series X and Series S

AMD is expanding FSR Upscaling 4.1 to current Xbox consoles. In the official announcement, Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet confirms that the technology is intended for Xbox Series X and Series S. AMD has not yet given a specific release date, however. The version designation is also important: the official primary source refers to FSR Upscaling 4.1, not [...]

NVIDIA reportedly to invest billions in additional CoWoS capacity: SPIL becomes a key partner for AI accelerators

Modern AI accelerators are often discussed in terms of billions of transistors, enormous computing power and ever-faster HBM memory. A key production step often fades into the background: someone ultimately has to connect these components into a functioning package. That is increasingly becoming a bottleneck. According to a Reuters report dated [...]

LeakWatch Week 45/2026: Attacks on Germany’s hardware retailers, 81 million leaked email addresses and new leads on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA

Anyone who, like me, received a warning email from a hardware retailer this week had to read carefully by the second sentence. Notebooksbilliger confirms that unauthorized parties accessed customer records. Mindfactory confirms an attack on its own systems but has not said whether the attackers were also able to view personal data. The [...]

YMTC Plans NAND Factory with Up to 70 Percent Chinese Manufacturing Technology and More Than 300 Memory Layers

China has been investing substantial resources for years to become less dependent on foreign semiconductor technologies. A recent report on memory manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) shows how far these efforts have come. According to Reuters on November 6, 2026, the company is planning its fourth NAND factory in Wuhan and intends to [...]

TSMC explores entry into 3D DRAM: NVIDIA reportedly sparked development of novel memory chips

The fact that TSMC in particular could also produce DRAM memory in the future is likely to cause quite a stir in the semiconductor industry. After all, the Taiwanese foundry makes most of its money manufacturing high-performance logic chips for companies such as NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple. But the ongoing AI boom apparently is changing the thinking [...]

GeForce RTX 5070 with GB203 instead of GB205: NVIDIA reportedly repurposing the larger Blackwell chip

NVIDIA is reportedly preparing another variant of the GeForce RTX 5070, using the significantly larger GB203 instead of the existing GB205. The tip comes from leaker Hongxing2020 and was published on September 8. NVIDIA has still not officially confirmed it. Even if the variant does actually reach the market, that does not necessarily mean it will [...]

CUDA 13.5 Makes Vera Rubin Production-Ready: NVIDIA Expands Scheduling and Multi-GPU Communication

NVIDIA has released CUDA 13.5, upgrading support for the upcoming Vera-Rubin platform from Early Access to General Availability. This enables developers to prepare production software for Rubin with a regularly supported CUDA version. At the same time, NVIDIA is expanding resource control through Multi-Process Service and introducing direct multi [...]