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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap we have some pretty major news for the last week actually including some key ek water blocks members who were in the executive team moving over to Corsair which is pretty interesting and then also Andy confirming rise into four quarter one 2018 and we've also got a couple rollouts of rx Bega cards from sapphire and MSI along with a couple of other minor news items before getting to those that this coverage is brought to you by EVGA and their 1080 T is c2 which we've recommended fairly highly for its build quality and the icx sensors which are kind of fun to play with you can check our full SC 2 review for the 1080i if you're curious to learn more or you can click the link in the description below to find the product page for the 1080i SC - speaking of minor news items our minor celebrity judges are gonna be Riley from NCIX tech tips and Steve from gamers Nexus according to Linus I was a minor judge on their tech showdown series that's airing right now and totally agree with him by the way I think he meant in celebrity status because the other judges on there included a none t IX tech tips member Riley ripped to NCIX tech tips and iJustine so I guess with that as perspective yes but yeah so we're on tech showdown I will be in probably the last episode as a judge he's already made that public and we shot this back in September when I was up there for we were up there just after packed it should be pretty fun it was definitely fun to be a judge on the show Bob Stewart and rod Rosenberg are competing against Linus and Luke to do a custom mod P seem odd that is themed like candy I guess for the holidays so Bob and rod do great work and we'll see how Linus and Luke - I'm actually I actually haven't seen how they built their system that I ended up judging so I'm really curious to see how it came together and as I said when I was there I found it more difficult to judge their finished machines than I do to judge products were reviewing I guess primarily because like they're not a massive corporation and they were standing right there and you could see every excruciating expression how minuses face as the heroes with each criticism with Bob and rod prodding him Alon and they got their own fair share of heavy criticism as well so it should be fun go check it out on his channel I think first episodes up already getting to the real news instead of the minor news we have the corsair EK management move so this one coarser acquired mark tanco and niko timid are i believe i don't know how it's pronounced from the CEO and the CTO formerly of EK water blocks who were replaced about a couple weeks ago actually and so the former EK water blocks talent is now moving to Corsair mark tanco is now the vice president and business unit general manager at corsair and then tibideaux TVR becomes the director of engineering of course there's a pretty big roles for them they had several other EK members leave with them when they left I'm not sure presently if any of them moved over to Corsair as well but we'll see what course arms up making it should be interesting because both those guys have experience in custom loops obviously so maybe coarser we'll start pushing more into that direction they showed off some custom loop products at Computex this year that were basically re badges but we'll see if they go properly custom this time next up at a recent press event AMD confirmed the second generation of rise in desktop CPUs again and noted that they are slated for first quarter 2018 the new chips will be comprised of both pinnacle Ridge and Raven Ridge apu silicon and both are based on a 12 nanometer shrink the new generation of CPUs will debut alongside the AMD 400 series chipset but will still drop into a m4 sockets and and the 300 series chipsets alike with a BIOS update so you will be able to use X 370 and its compatriots as long as you update the BIOS the new rise in CPU and apu listings will carry the 2000 series model numbers on them and the microarchitecture is still Zen not Zen too so it's it's a Zen plus basically kind of like Intel's been doing this Plus thing on their 14 nanometer plus 40 nanometer plus plus Zen plus it's coming out and that's first quarter we'll see how it does sapphire and MSI are rolling out custom RX Vega cards MSI so back when there were rumors of gigabyte allegedly not planning to make any custom or expand your cards it turned out they were planning to do it and MSI were the ones when we spoke with them who basically said we have no plans right now and they said that for probably about a month it looks like that changed they are making a custom rx Bega 64 now custom loosely here it's still a blower cooler I believe they call it a lateral blower and they make a sort of a deal about it having a copper core and a separate base plate which is what you would describe as a blow or cooler so I don't know how different that will be from reference sapphires is a bit different from reference they have a nitro plus and that's for 56 and 64 with a significantly larger cooler a bigger heatsink all that stuff so that should be interesting as well Emma sighs the latest custom offering will just basically be slightly overclocked and then blower design next news item Intel is launching Gemini Lake SOC s so these are their new Pentium silver and Celeron atom processors and built on 40 nanometer technology the seller on SOC s and Pentium will use gold mount plus architecture and they are aimed at low-power desktops and mobile so all these products won't interest really any of you or many of you anyway and it's the pentium line that gets interesting because intel's rebranded pentium now as pentium silver and pentium gold pentium gold is effectively what the g 45 60 would be or has become and pentium silver is sort of exiting our area of coverage as it gets towards lower end or turn ative products that are outside of the enthusiasts space so kind of decent changes there in terms of the product stack and the marketing the SOC is of course being an SOC or system-on-chip it's quite a bit different in what we'd be used to working with anyway it's it's not a drop-in part like you'd use for any of the socket at CPUs so that's what they've got coming out on the Intel side it's all targeted at low power the Intel's got a couple of skews for desktop that are low-power as well they are suffixed with 80 usually depending on the generation although that seems I've carried through and that's how you can identify the lower TDP parts MSI is debuting an optics series of displays so this is the optics mag and MSI is working on curved gaming displays now so they just started pushing it to displays in the past year or so and this one the mag family will have three models they've got an 1800 hour curvature display with a VA panel LED panel and native 144 Hertz refresh and that also has one millisecond great gray and free sync all the models will have the usual sort of marketing driven blue light reduction anti flicker all that stuff you could get separately if you wanted to but they have it too and they also have resolutions of 1080 1440 going from 23.62 27 inches and no word on pricing or availability but the new models are supposed to be debuting sometime this month December bit late on the holiday boat but they're trying anyway the air boost 64 by the way is the other MSI product that Vega 64 card final news item here Thermaltake is introducing the view 22 case so this is the latest mid tower from thermaltake it's a tempered glass Edition case and it's four millimeter thick panels full length PSTU cover and that shrouds the hard drive the SSD and the power supply and it's cables all like it's got a single 120 millimeter exhaust fan kind of like the core g20 one I believe had and it's got room for seven fans that one-twenty so you could put more in there and if you buy it you probably should I don't know why I mean I know why they're not shipping with better fans or more fans it's because they're trying to hit a certain price point but I mean I see better fans in there and ideally maybe to one of the front on the back anyways supports three sixty millimeter radiators at the top and the front and it ships with built-in dust filters no word on pricing or availability but the targeting low ish given the feature set and we've been including the hardware sales at the end of these episodes for the last couple weeks currently on sale there's a sea Sonic 620 watt power supply it's been around for a while now but there's a reason it's been a while around for a while it's really a decent power supply currently $30 on Amazon the u.s. anyway we would recommend it and then there are still some rise in CPU sales the kind of spotty compared to previously given the headquarter one 2018 is gonna have rise and Plus kind of makes sense that they're going on sales so much we don't know what risin plus is gonna look like for performance that said it's hard to feel bad about buying something like a 1700 for $270 or a 1600 2x or 1600 for 180 $190 really not it's not a bad deal so even if something new is around the corner if you need something today now or for the holidays or something like that it's a good pickup Intel sales have mostly ended it looks like the 7700 K isn't no longer marked down however tigerdirect did screw up temporarily Atlas hit an 8700 K for $60 six zero I don't think they're fulfilling those orders and finally there are lots of monitors that continue to go on display go on display go on sale but the displays timeout within like a day late leaves no point including them now but I will link one in the description along with links to everything else that's on sale when we post the video so you can check that if you want to see what monitor we like that's out so that's all for this one as always you can subscribe for more you go to patreon.com/scishow stop that directly we 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