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it is day zero of CES the show officially starts tomorrow but today is when a lot of the pre news briefings happen we've got some news items for you coming up on the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti and laptops freesync version two there's some new peripherals from Logitech and HyperX the Kingston division before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and their core p1t G Mini ITX chassis which is wall mountable like the p3 click the link in the description below for more information so at 9 a.m. yesterday while posting the Intel KB Lake 7700 K and the z2 70 motherboard reviews and Vinnie decided to push out hey before then silent announcement on the 1050 and 1050 TI in notebooks this is one that we've all been waiting for at this point because it was clearly going to happen and the 10-15-20 TI make a whole lot of sense in a notebook obviously we'll have to test it review it but on paper it sounds good so they announced this around the same time intel's kb lake products left embargo and NDA and the main news here is that like the previous desktop GPUs in a laptop these are the same GPUs it's still GP 107 just like in desktops the only difference here is that there is an increase in memory capacity so vram goes from two gigabytes on the 1050 and desktops a hard to gigabyte limit to 4 gigabytes maximally on laptops can be 2 or 4 and then the 1050 Ti is the same memory capacity but has some differences in the clock rate and that's primarily on the TI version because it goes about 200 megahertz higher than the technical reference clock of the 1050 Ti even though there were no actual reference cards to the 1050 TI clock goes up about 200 megahertz something like 1493 boost or base rather and about 1620 boost for the clock right on the 1050 Ti the 1050 is also 1493 push so it's a bit higher not as impressive as a 1050 Ti but that's what we know so far for the Nvidia new GPUs and notebooks they will be available in quarter one of 27 teens is pretty soon and all the major vendors are pushing them already we don't have hard prices for individual notebooks yet but we know that they should start start big key phrase there for any manufacturer at $700 now of course where they actually will land maybe a bit more than that but as far as laptops with a modern Pascal GPU that's certainly the cheapest out there right now as for AMD news the biggest piece right now is free sync version 2 will be meeting with Andy this week a bit later and at that point we'll be able to look at the monitors in person see what the real differences are hopefully talk about some other subjects that may be coming up during CES but for what I have right now free sync version 2 basically the GPU a radeon GPU as they've specified it can handle the tone mapping on behalf of the monitors rather than this action occurring on the display and creating some amount of latency it is now pushed and deferred to the GPU which is a bit faster at it because it's a GPU and that's kind of what it does so you reduce latency in theory we'll have to try it in person to really know but tone mapping is handled in that regard so ultimately what's going on is the GP talks the monitor gets the illuminance the color space and things like that and calculates it for it in storage News Kingston's data traveler ultimate gt2 terabyte USB key has been announced so this is not an SSD it is a USB key and this is something that they did a year or two ago with the one terabyte drive made a lot of noise then so of course they've doubled it other than that it's not too exciting this is a USB 3.1 gen2 on spec and side note here technically what we know as USB 3.0 does not really exist anymore it's now being referred to as USB 3.1 Jan 1 so this is not the 10 gigabit per second speed that you would associate usually with USB 3.1 it's the older speeds slower so it's closer to five gigabits per second so nothing special in terms of speed just capacity 2 terabytes somewhat special in its own right it's a big block we don't know the price I can tell you now that the one terabyte model is selling on Newegg for about 2 grand and on Amazon for about $2,800 so this will be a bit more than that while we're on the topic of Kinston there HyperX division or sort of a side company now at this this point has announced the pulse fire mouse they've got an updated version of the alloy keyboard that we saw a pact so that was the FPS alloy then now there's the alloy RGB you guessed it and it's got RGB LEDs so that's the keyboard that's it's just got LED isn't it the mouse will talk about more once we see it in person the RAM is kind of worth mentioning that's the predator RGB memory again big surprise but this one at least is communicating with motherboards so that is somewhat unique in that the predator RGB kit can talk to Asus gigabyte and MSI RGB boards so that would be things like the Auris boards and the mystic lighting boards from MSI and synchronize with those LEDs which is worth mentioning because kits like a vectors memory although cool and function completely independently and don't really synchronize with the LEDs on the boards and finally Logitech just today announced their g5 33 headset which if you take the g6 33 and g9 33 that we've previously covered it's basically the same thing they've made a few changes but the core heart of the headset remains the same it's the same pro geez and same wireless functionality as the g9 33 a few things here the g5 33 is a $150 MSRP so that puts its launch MSRP 50 dollars below the g9 33 is launched I'm at sarpy which sounds great because it's $50 less 150 verse 200 but if you look on any retailer right now the g9 233 is available $450 and this is a consistent problem with Logitech where they take these products that are new and maybe reimagined would be the best word but they're older products which are still perfectly fine are often available for cheaper or at least the same price we saw this with the prodigy series headsets where the G 400 series headsets were available for about $20 less than the prodigy version of those headsets what then does the g5 33 change well where most companies are taking products shoving RGB LEDs into them and calling them new products Logitech's gone the other way with the g9 33 they took the LEDs out and they created the g5 33 so it is an LED list headset we have now gone full circle and to the same sort of end there's a few other features removed there's buttons so that have been taken off of the 533 from the 933 it's been simplified overall in terms of the chassis and all the stuff that's on it that you can interact with and they now have rechargeable and swappable batteries which is probably the most significant item of difference between the two and other than that there's not a whole lot of difference between the 533 in the 933 price is the same Wireless range should be more or less the same the chassis looks a little bit different as well but we'll have to get hands-on to really figure out if that's relevant and if it's resolved some of the headset sliding forward issues that we had originally when reviewing the g6 33 so that pretty much covers the basics that's the Logitech news and all the other stuff before it if you have any questions about how this what's going on with this news for the week the link in the description below because that has our news items rounded up by Patrick Layton Ryan Greenberg Eric Hamilton everyone I was working at the site as always subscribe for the rest of the CES coverage thank you for watching I'll see you all next time