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we've got a couple news items for this week's hardware news recap so everything that's happened in the past week and this is leading into Computex which means we're about to hit a period of a season where it is the most Hardware news as rapidly as possible for this past week we've got the GT 1030 to talk about which is Nvidia's response to the rx 550 and the Vegas stuff Swift tech and lots of cooling solutions and some stuff in the memory GDD our six department we'll get through all of that in today's hardware news recap before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by Corsairs new at t1 race chair which is a $350 gaming targetted chair using a bucket style race seat the chair arms have four directional movement for configuration to your liking and has a bonus they use rollerblade wheels learn more at the link in the description below start off with some Computex information before getting to the video cards and other coverage copy text is a show that as of last year we're going to regularly now so we'll be there again this year we're leaving this week within days of filming this if not sooner and we'll be covering all the newest trends and products at the show so if you're not subscribed do it now that way you can catch everything Computex is the biggest trade show it's bigger than CES for us in the hardware space and that means lots of new stuff lots of stuff that will never make it to market and prototypes and all kinds of things like that so stay tuned for that but for the last week of news is that the GT 1030 is the first thing we're going to open with so NVIDIA somewhat quietly released the 1030 and this was in response to and these rx 550 so you haven't yet reviewed but we've got one in now finally so 1030 is a response to that it is a budget card it is less than a hundred dollars they tend to be in the 70 to 80 dollar range and because of their low power output low thermal concerns all that kind of thing the GT 10 30s are capable of shipping in half Heights or smaller form factors and some of them at least one that we've seen so far are passively cooled because they aren't hot enough to really need a fan as long as case airflow is decent so that makes them really interesting for mini ITX builds small form-factor boxes HTPC it seems like that ten-thirty is pretty low power though as you would expect 384 CUDA cores on it the boost clock natively is at fourteen sixty eight megahertz without any modification two gigabyte memory so pretty limited there as well and it's mostly a it is entirely a partner launch so all AI vCard want to look out for include EVGA no.3 d MSI ACS gigabyte palette and so attack they've all got cards out already the MSI one so far is the only one we've seen that is passively cooled that's in stock so that's interesting to look at well we'll see about that otherwise half fight is really the main selling point for gaming if you're actually just gaming and that's all you care about it's better to bump out the step to something like a 560 or a 1050 if you can afford it rather than getting saving 10 20 bucks and getting in one of these because the power difference in terms of gaming ability will be tremendous the price difference doesn't necessarily make up for but if you have a specific use before something like a 1030 it's out there now we'll try and review on but it's not high on the list because it's a low in part move with that a couple of those already so stay tuned for more though last week we discussed the details of Andy's financial and analyst day or hash tag AMD F ad on Twitter we covered all of it in a separate video or well most of it anyway except for some of the radeon or Rison pro coverage but the biggest news items were the AMD vega frontier edition video card which is a data scientist targeted device and thread ripper and the epic cpus if you missed that coverage check out the video and article on that but the very basics of it to get it run up the speed vigor frontier edition was announced first it's a data scientist card that means it's not meant for gaming the gaming stuff for Vega is TBD probably July or later July or August is seeming the most realistic based on industry trends for this type of launch because they normally push enterprise business b2b type stuff first so that's the news with Vega gaming TVD that's the takeaway here there were some demos that we talked about those in the original content thread ripper it is and these likely i9 competitors the Intel I nine that we talked about last week so that's thread Ripper it will be a an enthusiast h EDT type of CPU with epic beam at EP YC being a server grade CPU and we talked about all that in that coverage Swift Tech is now offering two water blocks for the gtx 980ti found Edition card where a Ivy cards using the FE PCB both blocks are machined from a chrome plated copper and acrylic but differ in cosmetics the Komodo NV - le features an aluminum backplate with an included RGB strip while the Komodo NV eco is a more basic block without the Avocet accessories additionally Swift tech offers two new SLI crossfire bridges to be paired with the new water blocks like the blocks the bridges come in both an le and an eco option and speaking of Swift tech there's a lot of cooling news this week as seems to be the trend lately ek has a new gaming series of liquid cooling solution options in a box basically calling it a loop in a box so this is a full open loop it is sort of baby's first open loop is the goal here there's trying to set a lower price point so that it competes with the expense of CLC is something like a crack in X 62 would be in direct price competition to some of the cheaper AI or fall open loops in the gaming series from ek they've got 280 models they have a couple others as well and these kits are making use of empty five and a quarter inch of Bay's so you can install some of the components in those which is a nice use of those and snow one messes with five and a quarter anymore and they also include all of the water blocks that you would need so a universal water block which includes a m4 support they've got a plexiglass reservoir that requires two five and a quarter Bay's if you've got them which a lot of people do and two meters of clear tubing that you can cut to size based on the loop the ek gaming series includes a 100 milliliter bottle of what they call cryo fuel or basically mineral oil six compression fittings and the reservoir also has an integrated d5 pwm pump which is one of the more popular ones on the market and that cryo you'll concentrate needs to be diluted with distilled water but they've supplied everything you need to get started and the radiator size comes in to 42 ATM 360 millimeters including two or three fans depending on rad size Noctua meanwhile has announced new 200 millimeter 120 millimeter and 40 millimeter fans this week in addition to a new fan controller anti-vibration mounts and SATA power adapter the new 120 millimeter model fan is 10 millimeters thinner than a standard 120 mil fan and is designed for water cooling where space is limited the 40 millimeter fan has conversely seen its thickness increased for deployment in the high-pressure applications like routers and DVRs and the new SATA power adapter permits a four pin to SATA connection so fans can be run straight from a PSU the new controller meanwhile accommodates three four pin fins and is manually controllable you can check naktu as website for pricing and availability and more information on that building upon the existing design of the original h7 cryo rigs redesign includes an extra heat pipe as well as rearranging heat pipes to better absorb heat around the CPU hotspots the new h7 is 145 millimeters tall 98 mil deep and it should mitigate clearance issues for both the cases and RAM since a lot of the cases have a 150 millimeter height clearance and so the RAM can start bumping into things with the Z series or am4 boards the newer h7 runs a bolstered 160 watt TDP support up from the preceding models 140 watt TDP notably the h7 quad Lumi has RGB lighting with control via n z-axis cam software that's kind of noteworthy and interesting and the cooler is compatible with both Intel and AMD sockets including a m4 and will sell for about $60 in June one more quick one in the cooling Department reven will reportedly be at Computex this year they've announced at least one product a bit early and that's the new Kiran line the RGB fans will offer 11 translucent blades in conjunction with RGB lighting and fit and standard 120 millimeter fan slots these uses sleeve bearings and the fans should be priced at around 17 dollars mostly targeting the RGB craze because otherwise they're just fans and in case news Lian Li has a new case that's kind of targeted at the bench market so this is where the core p3 really shines in being a traditional case it also works in a test bench deployment the Lian Li PCT 70 ever with their friendly names and very usable letter and number amalgams the PCT 70 and PC o 12 WX are the new cases to talk about one of these is the test bench that's the t 70 and the t71 shown at CES but it's actually coming to market now should be available as of this video for the most part out of box it's an open-air bench you can buy an additional accessory which they have labeled the t71 and the t71 is what allows it to turn into a closed air bench basically more of a standard case but still somewhat accessible the PCO 12 WX meanwhile is a mid tower case a standard enclosure and it uses Lian Li is a custom aluminum and glass construction which they have basically everything because of that it's a bit more expensive aluminum and glass not really the cheapest component and it's primarily comprised of three compartments say that three times fast and they've cut effectively different component sections within the case so you can compartmentalize things which really helps more with how you're laying it out in terms of looks than anything it's not as much of a cooling or a noise concern as it is desperate looks so those are the two new lis Emily case the two seventies $190 goes back to what we said about test benches being really expensive and the PCO 12 WX is $400 so it's really that's just what they do couple more quick ones in the peripheral Department two Rockets got their new leader Mouse available for pre-order with allies sensors shipping in the mice the CES 2017 event from rocket is where we first saw that ally sensor as they call it that's a collaboration with Pixar it's one of the most prolific sensor makers right now that resulted in a modified Pixar 3360 sensor which is now called D picsArt 33 61 the sensor is shipping in three of Rockets mice the leader the cone EP and the cone pure 2017 and moreover the wireless leader is now available for pre-order at via Rockets website and that's 140 bucks so that lines up all of the new Maoist announcements that we've seen lately including Corsair razor and now rocket also in peripherals there's new Acer predator Z 35 P display that was announced and shown it's an 8-bit 35 inch and VA panel over clocked at 120 Hertz from the factory which is 100 Hertz in native the panel features an 1800 hour curvature and uses a 2500 to 1 contrast ratio to round it out the Z 35 P has a 4 millisecond great great response time 300 its brightness 100 by 100 base amount and gsync support and that display will cost $1100 and the final two news items are in the storage and memory world the first one that is probably the most interesting is SK Hynix at GDD are 6 specifications that were posted in the past week and those specs include information on the GDD r6 product stack that they have theoretically panning out for 4th quarter of 2017 for the manufacturers to start deploying in their products that may be something like Volta it could be other things as well but we'll find out closer to fourth quarter 2017 the new memory will have an 8 gigabyte capacity and it offers data rates of 14 Giga transfers per second with a 1.35 operating voltage not too different from what we've seen now but some changes overall as we roll through the rest of summer we should learn more about this memory and the new spec as G DDR 6 is still brand new and then finally Western Digital is expanding the capacity of its and that's oriented to hard drives with helium allowing them to fit more platters inside the hard drive chassis WD red and red pro series now offer a 10 terabyte option both with 256 megabytes DRAM cache the consumer-oriented WD red uses a 5400 rpm motor a 3-year warranty is offered with that and it cost four hundred ninety four dollars now meanwhile the WD red pro is 7200 RPM for the motor and has a five-year warranty so that's your primary difference with what WD calls a quote advanced vibration protection technology which is just kind of what all these drive vendors used Frenchie's they're high and low and mine's WT 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