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hey Ron i'm steve from gamers nexus net and we are here in las vegas for CES 2016 the Consumer Electronics Show got some news out already the show hasn't officially begun and won't until Wednesday but a lot of meetings are still going on today tomorrow all the way through the week all of our CES 2016 coverage is brought to you by I by powers revolt to small form-factor gaming PC so a couple major news items for today already would be AMD's at polaris which is the next generation GPU architecture 4am these video cards that will be effectively stepping over Fiji that's already out now on the fury X and fury nano fury devices so polaris has a new iteration of the gcn architecture or graphics core next that will be the fourth generation now in addition to this it's increasing or improving its geometry processor improving a couple of the other processors coprocessors on the GPU architecture and l2 cache is being increased we don't have specifics or numbers on any of these just yet but I hope to have them when our AMD rolls around which i think is on wednesday or thursday so check back for that content other news today includes an MLG acquisition so MLG major league gaming was bought by activision and that was a 46 million dollar acquisition most of the money is going towards paying off the debts incurred by MLG during its operating lifetime and the business will actually be shuttered going forward so MLG is effectively no more and Activision may be turning it into some sort of new esports endeavor further news from the virtual reality Department oculus rift pre-orders will be opening on wednesday no price is yet announced but there will be one on Wednesday certainly so check back for that and this is just the pre-orders for the rift the oculus touch handheld device the controller is still delayed so that is delayed until sometimes second half 2016 and we've already covered that in the channel if you click the link the description below the last major news item for day today is Corsairs spec alpha case this is the next case in their spec line so there's the spec Owens back go to some of those cases they're big in Asia in the u.s. they were rebranded as the hundred series so the 100 are was the main one and that is very similar to silver stones ps11 B which it's actually the same chassis just slightly different exterior so that has been revived in the spec alpha which uses three fans all 120 millimetres to 120 millimeters in the front do an intake and there are no optical drive cages so no obstruction there coarser calls this direct flow something rather some marketing term that frankly all it means is that the air goes straight in the front not the back it's not special but ceasing to intake fans with one exhaust fan then they've got a side window which they call a panoramic window another marketing term I wasn't too happy with because it's just a square window so by definition not panoramic and a bit overdone in the marketing because it's just a side window but that is the spec alpha some photos going through now articles already on the site if you want to read more about it and we will have video and in-person coverage of course there's booths in a couple of days so check back for that that is all for this quick recap of the news for CES 2016 pre-show and as always subscribe to the channel if you like it hit the patreon link the postural video and I'll see you all next time