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everyone welcome to another hardware news recap this one the first video that we filmed in our new space the first non moving vlog video for this week's hardware news we have Lenovo listing the 2006 r3 and R 5 CPUs AGV 104 GPU listed on a 264 for one of their updates and TSM sees fabrication plans being hit with a PC virus that actually impacted production before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view 37 case the vo 37 focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its full panoramic window and tinted front acrylic in our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the airflow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 so first bit of news is us we are now in the new studio we have a whole moving vlog series it's still going on as we continue to add to the space and improve upon it and this is the first video we're shooting here we have a lot of work to do this was built like fewer than 24 hours ago the wall behind me and we'll be talking about it more in the moving vlog series if you're curious but otherwise there are other things to talk about for this week like our products we've restocked all the stuff on the store the glass is coming very soon if you've been interested in those otherwise the mod mats and the posters are all there if you're interested store dock gamers X is thought net for those first news item so 8 is 64 the very popular monitoring and stress testing software has listed an Nvidia GB 104 as the gtx 1180 the naming of and videos new GPUs have been up for major debate it's not really clear whether it's 1100 or 2000 series also doesn't really matter but either way GB is the demarcation for Volta and if this listing is to be believed as legitimate and not just because they were testing something then final wires release of the new beta version of a 264 indicates support for a few new NVIDIA GPUs and those include GV 102 g v 102 g l GV 104 and GB 104 m additionally looking at device ID is that the device ID one e87 lists the GV 104 as the rumored gtx 1180 as for how consequential this is not really we know that there are going to be new GPUs and the name doesn't really matter a whole lot at this time none of this shows us anything about the specs we don't know the performance there's no leaf benchmarks other than what's already been out there so this is not new in that regard at all it's just naming and the literal GPU ID GV 104 or whatever it may be so if that holds then I guess we have some ideas and possible names but otherwise that's really all it is right now lenovo has revealed there are 3 and r5 series cpu containing devices desktops laptops so forth and the new ones are the 2000 series so 2000 series came out several months ago at this point but we never got the r3 and the r5 was kind of limited so their new reveals whether intentional or not show specifications are and these unreleased r3 2300 X and there are 5 2500 acts in new documents before there ThinkCentre m73 small form-factor platform these new CPUs are successors to the r3 1300 X for example and the r5 1500 X which we were never particularly fond of given the alternative 1600 which was significantly better not that much more money but these are based on Andes 12 nanometers n+ configuration so they should bring all the same improvements that AMD has brought forward for rise in 2000 C's that would include things like better power management lower latency 'z in some areas and also significantly better memory configurations on motherboards a lot of that is platform side whereby OS and firmware have improved significantly since the initial launch so that's what we know from them it's looking like r3 2,300 x and r5 2500 x not too far out at this point given lenovo is accidental leaks or potentially accidental looking at the specs though from lenovo based frequency is up about 100 megahertz with boost frequencies up a notable 300 megahertz DRAM support is also increased to ddr4 2930 three the same we saw with threader four to make sense same move to Zen plus and it's up from ddr4 2667 officially so you can clock higher than that it's just that the official JEDEC support is now twenty nine thirty three so that's a good move for and these upcoming processors tsmc fabrication plant was hit with a virus this is actually pretty significant news and it's interesting at that digit Times reported that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company halted production to clear manufacturing systems of a wanna cry variance of the virus that went around a while ago now the impact of production will set tsmc back about two percent in quarterly revenue if 2 percent doesn't sound high cue in mind the amount of volume they do means that 2 percent of its quarterly revenue equates about a hundred and seventy million dollars in downtime as a result of this wanna cry variant that affected their fabrication their systems attached to fabrication machines and fabrication technology so big hit therefore TSMC from something that is kind of unexpected for a fab plant AMD the nineteen second Jennifer we had a whole video on this you probably already know most the specs if you haven't seen it check it out we had a topological diagram showing the dye configuration where the interconnects are which dyes are active for threader for to for the higher core count 32 core CPU and for the lower core count ones as well but just to catch everyone up the availability and prices were announced this week threader for 2 is based on 12 nanometers n plus as well just like the R 3 was 4 mm series and it brings the same improvements for the most part that we saw with other 2000 series chips won't go over those again but one of them is a better volt frequency curve where you can sustain in significant ways the same given frequency at a lower voltage than you could with rise in 1000 or threader per 1000 this is much needed because thread refer to being higher core account will be higher power consumption and so having that improved volt frequency curve where you can drop the voltage for a higher frequency than previously will enable them to make some trade-offs without actually really losing much so that's that's kind of a recap what we already talked about with our threader 4 2 news post also JEDEC speeds 29:33 precision boost to and xfr to also available so for more information for topology prices launch dates see our article below or the previous video Samsung's consumer qlc SSD is next in the news we talk about SSD technology every now and then Samsung has been producing their first consumer oriented four terabytes qlc SATA based SSD qlc has been the preeminent topic in NAND news lately with micron Intel WD and Toshiba all announcing their own qlc NAND or qlc products Samsung's qlc SSD will use 64 layer one terabyte NAND with alleged performance similar to that of their TLC NAND somewhat significant here to begin Samsung will offer one terabyte 2 terabyte and 4 terabyte options of this of these SSDs based on this technology and m2 drives are slated for a later date if interested in those he'll seen and is promising to bring lower prices per gigabyte over TLC and Amal see this is kind of just how it works you're looking at voltage states per cell basically and we have a video on how NAND works if you're curious with all these acronyms mean search the channel for how it works and you should find it but more or less when you expand the amount of voltage states you have in a given cell there is a potential endurance it but it's at the increase of gigabytes per dollar so to speak so you're paying less money because you can fit more in a given area than you could with something like mlc or especially SLC but the endurance goes down as a result because you're pinning that that sector more or I should say that sell more when looking for your data so keelson and is promising those lower prices for price per gigabyte layout and they are a means bring down the cost of terabyte SSDs pushing hard drives further out of the client storage space next up pc hardware and many materials relating to the manufacturing of semiconductors or semiconductor equipment is set to raise and cost as much as 25 percent by the end of august the current administration in the u.s. is set to levy new tariffs totaling sixteen billion dollars worth of imports going into effect by august 23rd this marks the second time the US has ignored warnings from the likes of the House of Representatives and the semiconductor industry association unilaterally slapping tariffs against China and further escalating the us-china trade war if you're interested in this it's looking like it will actually if this all goes through impact the price of PC components origin PC has spoken about this there are an SI based in the US and have noted that they have concerns about increasing prices as a result of the tariffs we have in our show notes linked below a link to the all the products affected by the new tariffs if you're interested or curious about what specifically might have price changes for us as consumers and then another item here this one pretty interesting NZXT pushing its game themed custom cases they did this with pub G recently and had a new pub G case we can show that on the screen at some point so the pub G case was the start of NZXT t's push to custom paint existing lines like the H 700 in this case there's a new nuka-cola themed case and also motherboards theme to nuka-cola after the Fallout series which is times very suspiciously for the new Fallout game being recently discussed and this has a motherboard with matching theme as well available separately the case is extra it's 300 bucks so it's quite a bit over the stock 8 700 but it does have a limited quantity custom paint theme if you're really into fallout the motherboard covers are available for an extra $50 but are only compatible with the NZXT and 7 motherboard so this isn't functional it's not really a new product but we found the effort to make cases actually customized in a different way for once worth talking about and hopefully this is something that can be managed in terms of price and they can expand their licensing capabilities for popular games the flash memory summit took place this past week and there were of course many announcements emanated from the event well mention a couple of the more notable ones that'll be more likely to infiltrate the market and not be limited to just data centers or Enterprise Toshiba's 3d exile flash is one example of those newer technologies Toshiba announced their 3d exile flash and what appears to be a response to Intel's obtained 3d crosspoint and Samsung's Zenith so she was 3d Excel flash uses Toshiba's existing SLC flash and uses shorter bit lines and word lines and toshiba's new flashes aimed at high performance and low latency at the expense of capacity as such Toshiba intends to use a flash as a high-performing caching option alongside its forthcoming TLC products and potentially replacing DRAM on a hard drives SK Hynix had an announcement as well with four dean and sk hynix have named their new flash technology as 4d and which is a bit misleading Hynix isn't adding a fourth dimension to their hands chips but is instead using a combination of CTF and puck no not that one not the NZXT puck these are the charge trap flash and periphery undersell to reduce die size CTF and puck can be combined which also increases density and reduces cost while maintaining competitiveness SK Hynix intends to sample the first gen 14 and in q4 2018 in the form of 96 layered TLC one terabit dies additionally SK Hynix is readying their 4d and four qlc as well slated for 2019 finally for hardware sales for the week we saw EVGA GTX 1080 ftw2 at time of variety and available for about four hundred thirty bucks we've also regularly been seen 1080s hit sale prices of 472 480 which is a bit lower than they were supposed to be several months ago this is obviously before what many our suggestion at this point could be a GPU launch so based on all the rumor articles we've seen it makes sense that these the GPU prices are finally dropping back to roughly where they should have been for a year now of course there's k70 luxe RGB is also on sale for about 110 bucks amazon's list price often not fully accurate to reality at 160 so that's potentially dropped if you're interested in that one Corsair has a vs 550 and this is a 550 watt power supply at time of writing and filming it's available for about $20 post rebate if your answer rebates not the best but for budget builders you could do worse for $20 certainly and finally Trident Z's RGB 16 gigabyte 36 megahertz memory given the ongoing market for DRAM and the climate of DRAM isn't a terrible deal either it's still wildly over price just less so than usually this kits been signed for around 230 but it's currently 185 so that's it for this week as always links in the description below for the show notes for the hardware sales the GM store and you go to store documents access Nets pick up the mod mat or our video card teardown post or the anatomy posted I have behind me and for more subscribe as always go to patreon.com/scishow cameras axis helps out directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time