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welcome back to another hardware news weekly recap we're going over the last week of hardware news so if you missed up is the place to be for this coverage we're looking at things like new displays some motherboard announcements coolers and open and closed loop varieties also got one peripheral a case a video card and a power supply so that's the news for the last week before that this video is brought to you by course there's that new Vengeance RGB LED Ram which ships with custom screens ICS for better overclocking performance and stability given that memory is highly relevant for performance with new rising CPUs now is a good time to do research on high performance kits start with the Vengeance RGB LED kit at the link in the description below first up LG's got a new monitor coming out this one is a production targeted monitor it has some really cool features on it like an integrated KVM or keyboard video mouse switch so that means you could plug in one set of keyboard video and mouse and have two computers feeding into the monitor so that's always a nice thing to include it is the LG 43 UD 79 - B and if you're wondering what those numbers and letters mean the 43 is rounded up from 42.5 which is the inch size of the monitor so 42.5 IPS displays a 4k panel and the 79 I have no idea what it stands for the B stands for black so that's all these new monitor this thing is targeted primarily at production as stated it's got an 8 millisecond great a great response not fantastic for gaming and other than that it does it I mean it technically has a game mode built-in which is supposed to help with input latency and things like that sometimes they help sometimes they do absolutely nothing it's just something you have to test on a per Display basis it has a black stabilizer it's got precinct so freesync is integrated now well Vegas coming out soon unfortunately up until they got when you have free sync on an expensive display it's kind of a weird setup because your choices until very recently we ran our X 480 to go with your expensive monitor and those two don't normally mix but with Vega that will change so freeze things on there it is a 60 Hertz refresh and that eight millisecond gray.gray means not particularly a gaming targeted device but there are plenty of 4k panels out there that can do high refresh coming out very soon other features include 315 it's a brightness it's got a 104 pixels per inch density one DisplayPort port that's a 1.2 a version 2 HDMI 2.0 two HDMI 1.4 USB 3.0 types C with DP alt mode which is becoming more common these days and finally there are two USB 3.0 hubs with be built-in KVM switch as stated earlier so this is LG's newest display one final side interesting note it can display image from four devices at once so you've got four picture inputs it will segment them into quadrants so you've got four quadrants each 21 by 21.5 1080p sections so pretty cool stuff not really gaming torian's but interesting nonetheless for the technology next up ACS has their new Maximus 9 extreme GT 70 board that we've seen in the past we saw some of these boards actually one of them at CES in the Donkey Kong mod build that we did a video on but the Maximus 9 extreme GT sunny board hasn't really been available widely it should be now it's finally shipping on mass it was debuted in March and most prominently the board boasts an integrated mono block in collaboration with bits power so that's the version that's seen widespread now and features a built in flow rate meter water leakage and in the outlet temperature sensors that are controllable via UEFI or Asus if an expert for utility and also included our 12 fan headers on the board eight of which are radiator fan headers and two being water pump headers which all that means really is labeling on them and other than that you've got headers for flow rates temperature and RGB lighting so this is definitely an enthusiast class open-loop targeted board it does not really belong and use for something with a CPU power cooler on it other notables include 2 m dot 2 slots support for Stata PCIe by 4 nbme or Intel octane now 8 SATA 3 ports 8 USB 3.0 and 4 USB 2.0 ports the headers and there's also your normal mix of thunder both Gigabit Ethernet HDMI all that stuff with of course to reinforce PCIe x16 slots because you need metal reinforcement on everything now apparently overclocking support is always one of the biggest features of the rog motherboards that this one has the voltage check points in a few places these are not too uncommon these days on the higher end boards so there's something you see more prevalently on stuff like a Maximus class rog board but they've got q-code LED lm2 mode jumpers slow mode switches are SPD switches retry button safefood buttons which by the way are amazing it's so good to have a safe boot button now I'm okay DRAM channel jumpers and rog extension connectors so lots of cool stuff if you're wondering what all that closed stuff costs the answer is 630 dollars so this is something targeted that more of the extreme overclocking enthusiast type of people but certainly worth looking into just because the technology is kind of neat deep cool has an updated captain e^x that's supposed to be coming out in June it is the RGB version so that's it's really that's all there is to say it's the deep cool captain IX now with RGB that is priced at $100 to the 120 X version which is obviously 120 milliliters 130 for the 240 X which is 240 millimeter and I have off camera I have a captain TX that we've been working on we're in contact with people now talking about some testing issues but this is the one that we have pre RGB the RGB version is the same just with RGB LEDs this one I believe has a white LED on the top and that's it so there's an updated version of that that supposed to come out in June after Computex TDP rating is 150 watts on the CPU so it can handle most of things out there okay though we'll let you know how to actually handle concert testing is complete Corsair this week announced a new high-end gaming mouse following the announcement from Razer and rocket the courser glaive RGB is their new aluminum frame mouse it is right-handed and you interchangeable thumb grips of which three are included the glaive uses a 16,000 dpi sensor provided by pix arts that could be adjusted from 100 to 16,000 dpi with a polling rate adjustable for lunch five 1000 Hertz the mouse buttons are made up of Omron micro switches rated for 50 million clicks these are fairly common in this type of Mouse it's nothing special and there are six programmable buttons of the mouse this is all done through Corsairs cue software which also allows for backlight zone adjustment which there are three zones on this particular Mouse you can assign macros to buttons they're stored dpi and lighting settings things like that the coarser glaive RGB should already be available I think I'm not sure if we're going to review that one it's a $70 Mouse that's sort of where the g502 sits these days that was a good Mouse when we reviewed it but we've actually mostly moved on to the G 900 at the end and the G 403 for something a bit lighter so the glaive we haven't looked at or gotten hands on yet but that's one to look out for from a Corsair liquid cooling news there's stuff from ek this week ek water blocks now offers users the opportunity to purchase the CPC quick disconnect couplings found in their predator line of AIO coolers the couplings are intended to be used with soft tubing with an internal diameter of 10 millimeters and outer diameters of 13 or 16 millimetres clamps are included for both sizes and prices are set at $33 these can be ordered through ekw B directly and are new as of this week there's a new water block for the Asus 1080p is Strix Edition that we're reviewing later this week and it is the Pacific 5 at GTX 1080i Strix transparent water block that's made in collaboration with thermal take of Pacific didn't give that away the water block will be transparent on the front side it's a full coverage block so that covers vrm components and vram and the GPU itself it's got clear acrylic top affixed to a nickel plated copper base plate and for those unaware nickel plating it's just used for the look basically there is some protection against things like galvanic corrosion it's not going to damage your cooling performance in any way but other than that the water block does come with an included four millimeter backplate it's got standard G quarter inch fittings pricing and availability currently unknown but that is the Pacific 5 GTX atti water blog from thermal taken to Asus in power supply news silverstone has added two models to their entry-level essential series a line of power supplies these are the ET 5 5 0 - b and ET 6 5 0 - b so that b 550 and 650 watts those units are 80 plus bronze certified that's where the - becomes rung if you're curious and although the cables are fixed silverstone offers a unique approach the cables are flat so they're a bit less visible they are blackout cables with no color coding for the voltages and heavy duty protections are limited just to over power protection over voltage protection and short-circuit protection cooling is handled by 120 millimetres sleeve bearing fan and both units offer an mtbf allegedly of 100,000 hours solar sun's got a 3-year warranty on those availability is limited to EU with us availability to be determined in the case department courser has taken their spec alpha case and spec oh one and shifted it to the budget market so there they basically shrunken it and change the face a bit but it's obviously the same ID so this new one is the spec of four it's a $50 enclosure the original spec I remember course are telling me when it first launched actually before launch we saw it in their facility I pointed at it and we kind of made jokes about it but it was targeted for an Asia only launch because it they knew it would sell really well there well turns out it's culturally well in the US as well so now they've got the spec o4 and that's targeted at a bit of everyone so the spec alpha we've shown in the past and PC build spec up for we have coming in and we'll be reviewing that will be a new accompaniment to the $50 line there's some radiator support I don't know that many people put 240 ml video heaters in a $50 case but you could do that with this one 120 is also supported and this is more of a clean line with kind of a bold color statement on it you can get grey yellow or I believe red for the colours it looks just kind of like a distorted version of the spec alpha if that's your thing then cool they have it for you it can fit five fans and I mean other that we'll have a review for you shortly to talk about how the actual performances in terms of thermal down acoustics but keep an eye out for that make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it finally new video card for this week can't go a week without a video card the MSI 1080 TI now gets a well there's already a Seahawk edition but now there's a Seahawk ekx edition this is similar to the previous Seahawk ekx the X means that it's pre overclocked and then Seahawk means is liquid cooled ek means it uses ek water box so it's an open-loop card rather than the Seahawk that existed prior to the ek version what's the closed-loop card using an ASA tech cooler and this has a full coverage block from ek WB as you might expect it features the msi dragon design as always and it uses the same PCB as the gaming X so we reviewed the 1080p I gaming X already and we have a full PCB analysis of it done by builds or if you're curious about what this card is like in terms of PCB vrm electoral layout all that stuff you already know you can watch our 1080i gaming x PCB analysis that is the same thing so this will be a liquid-cooled version I don't have a price for you today but it's certainly more expensive than the gaming X standalone version the stock speeds are 1569 megahertz base 1683 boost with a memory speed of 11 129 so 11.1 kickers on the memory as always that you can check link to the description below for more information just go to gamers nexus botnet to follow this stuff throughout the week patreon.com/scishow Nexus tops that directly or stored out gamers Nexus dotnet if you'd like a shirt we've got the new tri-blend graphed logo shirts in stock finally thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you