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everyone and welcome back to another episode of hardware news recapping the news for the last week this one includes some fake news and not the kind that everyone spouts when the benchmark results don't match what they wanted but actual fake news revolving around and am the slide will also be talking about Gigi dr6 memory controllers for future GPUs ek water blocks announcements a pretty interesting Jones bouquet is one of these suppliers in the case industry who provide cases to people like Roseville and Anna DS for the AI crystal for example and we've got some news about razor and a couple of sales at the end with some Metro Exodus news before that this video is brought to you by thermal Grizzly makers of the conductor not liquid metal that we recently used to drop 20 degrees off of our coffee leak temperatures thermal grizzly also makes traditional thermal compounds we use on top of the IHS like cryo not and hydro not pastes learn more at the link below so typically when people post the words fake news on hardware articles or videos they're talking about when reality doesn't match their expectations but this time it's about some slides that were sent around so if you recall about a week ago we had a viewer question that we addressed where folks were asking what we thought of the alleged 5.1 gigahertz 12 core rise in CPUs where I basically said sorry that's not happening next year it's not gonna happen for risin plus we don't think it'll happen for risin two it's possible but it seems unlikely in terms of looking at reality and then we went on to say more realistically it'd be pretty cool to see four point two to four point three gigahertz that would be a nice thing to see up to four point five X so far maybe something like that but no the slide was for five point one and 12 cores and so that slide was believe it or not fake big surprise so that slide was in fact a faked slide and was sent around the web and posted on several other Hardware outlets as news and rumors and things like that so that is in fact fake despite it being posted a lot of places most of them have now updated their stories and things like that so this kind of reminds me of a time there was a time with Korres oh if anyone remembers that launch with charisma there was a GPZ screenshot I believe or something like that a validation screenshot that was faked intentionally by some users on the overclock net forum and this was actually faked to see who would report it as fact without vetting the sources so this was a sort of interesting play because I'll put a link below if you want to read the history on it because the screenshot actually had in it some hidden characters that if he knew what you were doing you could you could pull them out you can basically unhide the characters from the slide and see that it was photoshopped not real but if you didn't know how to do that it might look like a legitimate slide and so you had sites like guru 3d reporting on this some years ago so this kind of calling back to that era but yeah the 5.1 gigahertz 12 core thing not real perhaps in the future certainly it could happen but given the current position of rising in the market there are a lot of other things that can optimize on right now jump it up a whole one gigahertz while also increasing core account seems sort of out of the immediate grasp of the architecture not to say that it couldn't do it but just that's a big jump to have from rising to rising Plus maybe it's rising 2 or 3 but certainly not the rising plus we don't think and to to probably unlikely though possible we'll leave that open for possibility I'm not gonna say it's not gonna happen next one AMD developing gdd are six memory controllers for future GPUs this isn't really much of a surprise but it's it's kind of a rumor but not really this comes from a LinkedIn profile of an AMD employee so not that much of a rumour really I believe it was removed by now the details were that this particular employee was working on developing a GD dr6 memory controller for AMD product and this would include future GPUs so all the big players now pretty much have announced GDD our six processes and fabrication plans that includes micron SK Hynix and Samsung all together and there's looming widespread availability of this new memory so no big surprise then that nvidia and AMD would be working toward memory controllers that would integrate with g GD r6 not so far-fetched and ii could definitely benefit from doing something like this in the future HBM was really sort of a necessity for Vega it's it's easy to say why did they use such an expensive memory but the reality of it is to go with gddr5 you're looking at way higher power consumption for what you're getting and Polaris and later architectures like Vega are just objectively limited in their memory bandwidth especially Vega so they're sort of forced to play the HBM to card but GD d r 6 could still be beneficial for future architectures or things like that so that's what it looks like is going to happen at least at some point maybe with Nabi or something either way it would simplify packaging PCB integration help with cost probably and prevent low yields with more exotic solutions like HP m2 interposers and packaging all on a single chip so well single interpose our solution with all the chips atop it the next one is from ek waterblock so ekw B continues to expand their liquid cooling kits this one is aimed at a loop in a box business model along with their fluid gaming line this time ek is offering the a 240 arkyd purportedly to entice users seeking a liquid-cooled RX Vega 56 or 64 GPU in conjunction with their CPU being also liquid cooled the 8 to 40 our kit will include the new ek AC radeon vega full coverage water block the ek supremacy AC CPU water block the ek a lose stream SE 240 radiator the ek Varner fans an SP c series of PWM pump and reservoir combo ek ACF pala fittings and ek dura clear tubing with some of their cryo fuel coolant this is all aluminum metals as previously so don't mix and match your metals if you to expand other loops make sure you stick with aluminum the next one is from Toshiba who announced their 14 terabyte PM our hard drives filled with helium in mechanical drive news this week Toshiba announced the mg 0 7 ACA which is their first helium-filled hard disk drive as well as the industry's first 14 terabyte hard drive so Sheba's new hard drive uses nine PMR platters up to 18 heads and advanced vibration protection and sensing Toshiba rates the new disks for 550 terabytes of annualized workloads and 2.5 million hours MTBF with a five-year warranty these new hard drives are aimed at cloud storage and exascale data centers as well as other Nearline applications this next one is a case from Jones Bo Jonesboro added their latest flagship case in the u MX series the u mx-5 the case blends steel and aluminum as well as tempered glass panels the interior also utilizes glass paneling obscuring the hard drive and PSU bays and RGB LED honeycomb adornments traversed the glass the case offers features consistent with most ATX mid tower cases like 166 millimeter CPU cooler clearance 325 millimeter video card clearance support for 240 radiators and it also ships with two 120mm fans RGB illuminated hard drive covers are present and the power supply if you look closely is missing in the photos with the full system but looking at the bottom left there's a power supply cable coming out of the back of the case which is actually routed from the inside of the case above the hard drive bays so the power supply we think is front mounted and towards the top front of the case that's a bit different the cable is then routed through the bottom of the case and uses an extension cord to put the plug out the back for normal access and Jones bow to catch everyone up so if you haven't heard of this company that's normal Jones bow is more of a supplier than anything they actually do some pretty nice cases as far as ready built and ready purchased supply goes they designed the Roseville Cullinan which you may also know as the AI Christel by an ADIZ and they've designed plenty of square mini-itx boxes that are pretty recognizable they designed the old like CW 1 series so this is something that you will probably see being sold by the likes of Roseville perhaps an ADIZ and anyone else in that boat of buying a ready-made supply item and then rebadging it may be changing the fans changing the LEDs things like that so this is their newest one it kind of looks like some of those dell systems that the thread Ripper or Rison systems that Dell was doing with the weird pseudo ventilation on the front and top that's really more of a design thing than anything definitely limited ventilation on it but it looks a bit different the power supply shroud and or lack of one and the power supply mounting are somewhat unique in this market so it's worth keeping an eye on next one razor and ignition design labs are collaborating on a portal by razor so razor partnered with ignition design labs on this project it's a Wi-Fi gaming router and the new router is mesh capable allegedly optimized for high bandwidth gaming and prioritising gaming internet traffic the new portal includes technologies like Wi-Fi autopilot and smart lanes intelligent active traffic and interference avoidance which sounds like a whole lot of marketing and more of something you put on a self-driving car either way these are aimed at finding the newest channel and mesh nodes available and avoiding crowded unreliable channels the portal by Razer is currently only available at the Razer store but it's $150 and has availability slated for first quarter 2018 how effective this will be I don't know some of this type of application like the killer networking stuff sounds a lot better than it is in reality so we'll see prioritizing gaming traffic doesn't normally do a whole lot for you you can definitely do it but you're sending bytes at a time here so next one metro Exodus this is more of game news but it's important to the hardware industry Metro has long been a mainstay in benchmarking and that started with the original metro 2033 followed through to Metro last light Redux later than that so last night we used four years we still use it sometimes for benchmarking these games provide a very reliable repeatable benchmark that when they come out is stressful and they tend to remain stressful throughout the next few architectures even the reason it's nice is because after launch they don't get a ton of updates so you have a really steady platform to look at comparative performance numbers as new products come out so you'll have to retest all the old ones from previous generations and although it ages and people stop playing it it's still a really good platform to benchmark for that specific purpose so Metro Exodus is the new one this is doing fall 2018 will come out on the Xbox one Playstation 4 and the PC and it follows the usual Metro story they've got a trailer out called the Aurora trailer and it looks like it's gonna be a good bench title so we're looking forward to that one next one here so sales of the week to point out Corsair is at k70 lux RGB rapid-fire keyboard is presently $120 marked down 50 we reviewed the original rapid-fire keyboard and found that the rapid-fire switches were not bad they're definitely something targeted at specific users though so if you know that you want that kind of switch it's on sale it might be worth looking into but they are pretty sensitive compared to some other switch types out there so make sure you actually want that kind of switch because it's a bit different than what you might be used to on something that's got a more forceful requirement to push the to actuate the button the next one these e3 70 horas gaming 5 is marked down to 150 after rebates and sales link to that in the description below along with the others there's a decent mid-range board for the easy 370 in that one if you care about looks an RGB doesn't have the greatest heatsink in the world put a fan on it it'll be okay and then on the topic of gigabyte there's also the gaming k7 which is still marked down to 160 dollars right now from the usual price of 110 this was billed Zoids primary choice and our best overclocking motherboards 4 a.m. for round up because it filled both the price and the function targets pretty well 160 dollars that is doubly true so we can definitely support that board for a m4 users that price is pretty good right now but that's all for this one as always you can subscribe for more we have some pretty cool content coming up the next few days dependent when this goes live there might even be one within 12 hours or so so make sure you subscribe you want to want to miss it you can go to store dock gamers Nexus net to think we're shirt like this one or we go to patreon.com/scishow and access to helps that directly 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