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everyone welcome back to another hardware news episode we actually have another hardware news episode coming up shortly because it's on a specific topic that's under embargo presently this week that we're talking about a lot of AMD news talking about New York the state booting an ISP and we've got some other items as well including a semi custom console solution from AMD provided to a fami clone company as they're known on the web so all that and more for this week's Hardware news before that this video is brought to you by thermal Grizzly's high-end thermal paste and liquid metal thermal Grizzly's cryo knot is an affordable high quality thermal compound that doesn't face some of the aging limitations of other pastes on the market cryo knot has a thermal conductivity of 12.5 watts per meter Kelvin focuses on endurance is easy to spread and isn't electrically conductive making it safe to use on GPU dies thermal grizzly also makes conductor not liquid metal which we've used to drop 20 degrees off some temperatures than our dee-lighted tests by a tube at the link in the description below first of all quick thanks to all of our supporters as we make our move into a new office the movies been really expensive we knew it'd be expensive just to furnish it and uproot a 10 year old business and move it somewhere else but having the patreon support from all of you who are patreon backers on patreon.com slash gamers Nexus and the store support especially has been tremendous and offsetting a lot of our costs and making it much less stressful than it would have been otherwise so thank you very much for your support and on that note this shirt I'm wearing now the GN Graff logo shirt has finally been restocked after like a month out of stock so a lot of them in stock on the store you can get them in tri-blend or cotton go to store documents access dotnet to pick up one of our graph logo shirts using the average 1% and point 1% bars on the shirt design just like we do in our graphs and mod bats are going fast the current round will be gone pretty soon based on current inventory levels we've ordered more but there'll be a little while till they get in so if you want one order a mod mat soon on the store first real news item here AMD's second generation threader purse queues have been showing up on the web this has been known for a while but AMD is looking to launch threader for two in August this month and several the SKUs for the second gen have serviced online and these website was one of the accidental sources of this where reddit users discovered several models for second gen thread Ripper CPUs on a and these websites including what appears to be the flagship 32 core 64 thread 2990 WX and also a Canadian retailer briefly listed this CPU on their website for roughly eighteen thirty five dollars USD or thereabouts so being that AMD has doubled the core and thread count from the previous nineteen fifty acts that debuted at $1000 that price isn't altogether startling we have independently confirmed that gamers Nexus that the twenty nine ninety WX is in fact a thirty-two core sixty four thread part so the they're not really rumors anyway but the leaks that you saw our legitimate we've also confirmed that its frequency is 3.0 gigahertz base and 4.2 boost not sure how exif are is working on this one just yet and pricing should be about eighteen hundred dollars on that part just like was seen on that website so all that information is accurate we have confirmed it independently with multiple sources will post the rest of the information on embargo list which is August sixth and technically just like with the rise in 2000 launch we're not really included in this embargo we're not under embargo for this product we do have all the information but just like last time we're holding it and the remainder of the news just out of respect for our peers in the space we'll post our our news story with everyone else on embargo lifts and about a day after this video goes live next news item still Andy Andy issued a press release stating that they've worked on a semi custom SOC or system-on-chip for a Chinese company Zhongshan sue bore to be sold in a gaming pc available later this month and a gaming console later this year so this is kind of interesting both are going to use the same hardware the PC and the console same hardware different operating systems console will be available later on and will have a customized operating system as the company claims see war is currently most known for making fami clones or knockoff Famicom's and knockoff consoles in general just cheap consoles overall built-in games but the SRC created for them by Andy is a pretty significant step up from that status so this is a move to use an SRC that will have four core 8 threads for the CPU running at 3.0 gigahertz peak operating frequency while the Vega GPU has 24 C use or compute units each CBC U has 64 stream processors in it if you want to do that math but it's basically about half of what you'd get in a Vega 56 roughly so they're running up thirteen hundred megahertz to the GPU it's using eight gigabytes of gddr5 big change from the Vega GPUs typically seen with HP M of course and it makes it competitive on a hardware level with the ps4 pro and xbox 1x whether or not that's leverages in the same way remains to be seen programming has a lot to do with it the semi custom SOC uses a 256 bit interface for its gddr5 memory and includes other vegas specific features like our PM a rapid packed math next one asus outs its own z 390 roadmap for intel's upcoming 8 core launch so an Anandtech reader spotted that issues had outed at z3 19 motherboards ahead of launch these boards will support intel's upcoming 8 core cpus likely names the 9900 k and also likely one of the first to launch presumably these have a the boards have a stronger power delivery setup than the current generation boards out there and that is a requirement by the new cps the extra two cores will impact current requirements quite a bit as you'd expect a Seuss's list of boards includes some heavy weights in the rog family that we don't yet know the specifications on the boards or if they've actually changed the vrm on the boards meant for eight core CPUs so the company aims to ship its full listing of Maximus 11 boards ROG Strix boards tough gaming boards and prime motherboards along with AZ 390 dragon which is meant for the China market sold probably never seat here in the US Asus has already published its BIOS updates for existing motherboards it to support eight core CPUs from Intel and that gives by the way just some lead time so if you ever wonder why motherboard vendors push very obvious BIOS updates ahead of a launch that even say support for new generation processors it's because they have to make sure that as the channel clears of existing stock which is doing now the boards that are getting restocked need to have updates so that as people invariably buy the new CPUs hopefully it'll actually work and they won't need things like boot kits next news item is a combination of AM DNA C's so Asus is working on a retrofit kit for cooling on their ex 399 motherboards this is meant to upgrade existing ex 399 boards to better support overclocking on thread refer to which will have significantly greater power requirements particularly and primarily when overclocked Asus is launching 40 millimeter fans at ten millimeter height for its existing ex 399 boards including SOC and V core vrm brackets to mount those fans above the prm's that are on the motherboards that are already out we don't yet know if Asus will be working on any new x 399 motherboards it doesn't presently look that way but they are outfitting the existing boards with optional on request cooling kits if you did want to put right over to it's one of those boards an overclock it again these are on request so they will not be coming in the boxes for any of the existing motherboards out there next up is non AMD and non Asus news but very interesting this is the state of New York booting and ISP recently the state of New York's Public Service Commission banned ISP charter communications who operates as spectrum from operating in the state in 2016 Charter merged with Time Warner to become the second biggest ISP in the country the state of New York approved the merger based on several contingencies these contingencies included building the network out to 145 thousand homes and businesses and underserved and rural areas and increasing statewide broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second by the end of 2018 at this point perhaps unsurprisingly to those of us who have the internet in our homes Charter has failed to deliver on every performance metric required in the deal so every single performance goal failed by Charter Communications much like basically everything they ever do so New York cites a poor track record fraudulent claims and many instances of misconduct on a support level in the decision to revoke their approval of the 2016 merger and subsequently banned charter from the state charter has been previously accused of throttling speeds for Netflix and even league of legends of all things with a 2017 lawsuit containing data that demonstrates decreased internet speeds for League of Legends players up to the point where Riot Games paid spectrum for increased connection speeds additionally Charter is accused of false advertising stemming from their failure to increase internet speeds as promised and they also continued to advertise that they were delivering higher speeds which were not actually available so one of many offenses charter has 60 days to design a and file a transition plan with the states while operating uninterrupted while a successor is planted in their place New York has also issued a three million dollar fine and referred the case to the state Supreme Court this isn't strictly hardware news but it does kind of underpin a pretty serious issue that affects all of us in the gaming or just technology audience which is that internet providers in general need to have some more competition so a lack of choice and competition among ISPs as I can tell you sign in office and getting Internet in there it's causing problems in New York action New York's actions against a massive provider are mostly unprecedented but definitely warranted given these considerations thousands of consumers are still left without knowing what might happen to their internet access next if one is P doesn't work out one might have a second choice but almost certainly not a third choice of ISP almost ever in your region unless they just piggyback off of existing lines from AT&T or charter so that's kind of the trouble that we're in and I'll probably talk about this more as we've been working on our own Internet issues with the new office I have quite a lot to say about that so we'll probably get into this talk a bit more fun well I'll save most of but basically for equivalent speeds an hour at least two residential you're paying about ten times or more what you'd pay in residential for a business line and actually you don't get any better service despite them promising that you often do so I'll talk about that more in a separate piece but let's move on AMD back inland here's needed a quick intermission there and they announced it's be 450 chips I had a motherboard announcements this isn't really news at this point it's been a week but we've been moving so didn't really talk about it basically before 50 chipsets out it's a lower power successor to the be 350 chipset it's got memory profile updates like X 470 had over X 370 and CPU vrm specifications are improved on some boards but clearly not all of them X of our two supported precision boots supported all that stuff rise in 2003 supported out-of-the-box and that's more or less it we have not done any serious p450 content yet but as we finalize our move we'll probably get into it just couldn't get around to it with the craziness going on right now last news item for hardware sales NZXT acquired forge so NDRC announced that they acquired forge which is a company known for software capturing and sharing gameplay footage this is a continued bid in NZXT stake in software development something they've really wanted to get into with cam and later improvements to cam hopefully and this announcement echo is the one from Corsair who recently purchased el gato as you might recall and is highlighting a trend of PC hardware makers showing an increased interest in the streaming market certainly a good thing NZXT like Corsair shared few details of their plans but both NGC and Corsair have undertaken serious software initiatives on their own and both need a bit of help on their own proprietary software NZXT ease cam and courses IQ would be the most directly comparable here it could be that NZXT plans to leverage forges software expertise to expand their capabilities with Cam going forward to potentially include gameplay streaming and capturing and Corsair could end up doing the same with IQ or some similar software so that's it for the news quick hardware sales notes and these have been interesting to me as we've been buying a lot of stuff for the office so Andy is still purging last gen if you need some kind of processor and you don't care if it's the latest and greatest you just want something that's good and about a year old and these still got their rise in 1000 series and as in the desktop parts and the original threader for series at purge prices at this point we would encourage you to wait for thread or two to launch because we don't actually know how much of an upgrade that is it's certainly an upgrade just like Rison 2 is an upgrade whether or not it's relevant to you kind of depends on what you would want to use thread over for and whether or not the price differential makes a difference for you because with threader for one on fire sale right now depending on the rest of threader for two's pricing which we'll talk about in about a day it might still be a worthwhile purchase if you don't need the absolute best and you just need something for like say a video transcoding box in the corner or something like that so anyway we'll link a couple of hardware sales below we also saw a monitor in algae 34 you see 79 G - B 34 inch ultra wide monitors 2560 by 1080 144 Hertz and freesync and that was marked down pretty significantly at time of filming the video will link both of those below as always thank you for watching and again seriously thank you for supporting us via patreon via the Gion store the merch store both of those avenues have made this move way more feasible I mean we're to give you an idea of the difference the support there means that we can buy for example all the furniture that we want to fully furnish the space from the start rather than buying stuff later and that means that we can just 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