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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap for this week we're talking about GP and market share between AM D and Nvidia will also be talking about the upcoming age 500 P and I suppose to a lesser degree the H 500 M and we've got items on memory prices so good news their memory production should increase by 2020 we'll start somewhere I guess before that this video is brought to you by the new cable mod Pro Series cable mods new pro cables come with pre-installed closed combs for clean builds accompanied by a revamped color style and vibrance the cables are now using thicker wires and they've also added right-angled internal USB 3 extension and right angled SATA data cables by the pro series cable kits at the link below or customize it your cable set with the configurator also linked below so for the H 500 P mesh this we've already basically detailed that CES but to recap some of the newest items coming out of cooler master the case is now available for pre-order so we would recommend of course that you don't preorder computer hardware in general but it's out there so it's supposed to launch according to new AG on March 16th we should be reviewing one it will not be coming from cooler master no one is surprised at that fact but we do have a pretty special review lined up for it so make sure you subscribe and check back when the case launches will probably be a day or two behind everyone else but big changes for the H 500 people include of course the mesh front it's got also changes to the structure so the things that we opened to our review of the age 500 p width with it falling apart those have all been addressed will see how good the fixes are but basically there's a screw in the back of the top panel now which secures it to the case and the front panel is now using a tooth basically to mount it to the case as well power supply shroud has been improved and there are a couple of other changes as well like the tempered glass panel no longer wobbles according to what they told us at CES so that's all the CES video the only real news here is that it's 150 bucks for the H 500 feet mesh in white and that it will be available in mid-march basically it looks like March 16th Samsung is building another fab near PI on tech South Korea the new p2 project as it's called will be constructed next to an existing fab which broke ground in 2015 Samsung plans to have invested a total of 30 trillion korean wan or twenty seven point eight billion dollars in the existing fab by 2021 and is considering investing the same amount in the new p2 project although it's still in the planning phase a decision has not yet been made between DRAM and NAND production but onon tech points out that if rumors are correct and p2 is bigger than the previous fab it will be big enough to produce both building is intended to be complete by the end of second quarter 2019 so this decision must be made soon it'll take several years for the fab to ramp up to full capacity once construction is finished but Samsung's plan is to help alleviate current demand with additional supply of NAND and or DRAM the Hades Canyon Intel nook with AMD graphics that was shown at CES this January is intended to launch this month but Korean site play wears has already torn an engineering sample down and has posted benchmark results the bulk of the article is filled with pictures of unboxing and teardown and screenshots of everything from BIOS to driver installation but there are also a wide variety of synthetic and game benchmarks battle results can't be precisely compared across websites especially not with a product that hasn't been released yet but play wares results show 30 to 60 FPS average in most games that they tested at 1080p with very high or ultra presets they also speculate that lower graphic settings could push this higher Intel's ready for take 2 on their microcode updates these are the same updates that caused issues with crashes on Broadwell and Haswell when they were first posted which Intel more-or-less recalls from the manufacturers at that time so the patches that caused those unexpected reboots on Broadwell and Haswell have now been corrected and are being distributed to OEMs with the fixed version the fixed revision will have Micra code updates for 6th 7th and 8th generation Intel processors and that includes the latest core x-series Xeon scalable cpus and xeon d for data centers intel's also made microcode revision guidance PDF that should help OMS and manufacturers with making sure they're up to spec and providing a schedule for updates that includes planned fixes for CPUs as old as the wolf Dale family was released in 2008 EK water blocks announced its EK FC Radeon Vega block an RGB illuminated full-coverage water block for an the RX Vega graphics cards compatible with the reference PCB and VRM and partner cards that use the reference PCB being that this is a full-coverage block it'll contact the GPU HB m2 and vrm power components using a nickel plated copper cold blade underneath an acrylic window reveals that liquid will pass through the l-shaped vrm into a small set of micro fins over the GPU HB m2 and then complete the loop the micro fins are primarily located directly over the GPU and HP m2 as expected it doesn't look like a dense array of them from the photos we've seen but we'll see how it does in testing for anyone who does test it I don't know that we will for this one but notably the thermal testing we did on the air-cooled versions of the card with the reference PCB did find that stock the MOSFETs actually did really well so they don't really need a lot of help so on that side you're already in good shape and then water will just make it that much better as it usually does the water block is also capable of synchronizing with most motherboard manufacturer RGB solutions and it's compatible with 56 64 and frontier Edition and sold for $130 with back plates available additionally for 30 to 40 dollars Jon petty research released its latest report heavily focusing on crypto currency and crypto mining particularly as they pertain to GPU availability the report indicates that attachment rate of GPUs to systems has gone up to one hundred thirty six percent meaning that the average system is now equipped with multiple graphics cards and we all know that's not for SLI or crossfire overall jpr indicates a desktop GPU shipment decline of 4.8% year-over-year with fourth quarter down approximately 1.5 percent from the previous quarter the company also noted that the latter decline is somewhat seasonal and expected despite all of this JP are reports that AMD had managed to gain six point five percentage points in total market share with a company suggesting an Nvidia decline of six point five percentage points quarter-to-quarter obviously as it's a duopoly we don't know the breakdown of where I am these biggest gains are against Nvidia but crypto mining is a good bet for major growth sectors jpr reports that AMD holds thirty three point seven percent of the total GPU market discrete GPU market up from twenty seven point two percent in the previous quarter with nvidia holding sixty six point three percent down from seventy two point eight percent year-over-year however comparing the same quarters andy is up a total of four point two percentage points from their previous position with Nvidia's at stats inversely proportional obviously andy CEO lisa sue previously indicated an increase in production to sate some crypto mining demand while Nvidia's latest financial report noted an estimated two hundred twenty million dollars in board sales to crypto miners split between fiscal quarters 2 and 3 as for gamers jpr stated quote gaming has been and will continue to be the primary driver for GPU sales augmented by the demand from cryptocurrency miners we expect demands to slacken from the minors as margins drop in response to increasing utilities costs and supply and demand forces drive up AI v prices prices will not drop in the near future and quote from JP are so if that's to be believed not great news on the pricing situation the main thing that's not being factored in here is a potential new GPU release we're not presently expecting a gaming grade GPU announcement at the upcoming GTC show which is nvidia zone graphics technology conference this is something we discussed in the latest ask GN episode but at present it does not look like there will be a new gaming GPU launched at that show if there's any GPU launch at all it'll probably scientific or data center but we're really not sure because that's not that's out of our coverage spectrum so for now it does look like we'll be handing out the Pascal and Vega or Polaris for a while longer and hopefully the the supply can catch up at some point if they're not just completely slowing it down for what's coming next but anyway it looks like prices aren't going to change anytime soon if you believe the jpr statement for the final news item this one is the fractal mesh fic mini which follows a fractals trend of releasing a normal case than a mini one shortly thereafter the mesh if I see many is exactly what it sounds like it's a tiny glass paneled mesh if I see and the case fits micro ATX motherboards and it's a bit more squat proportionally but otherwise it looks identical to the larger version specifically the dark TG variety fractals website claims that the cases are identical in length and width and the website also suggests that the mini is just 41 millimeters shorter at 399 millimeters versus 440 so less than 2 inches basically although we could be missing more information there as it's not out yet the case isn't on Newegg Ramazan currently but techpowerup lists the MSRP as $90 or the same price as the normal sized mesh if I see tempered glass case the ATX version of the case which we reviewed previously so if you want to see more on that case check the channel for meso Phi and you'll find that one alongside our age 500 P measure Phi project but you want the fractal one obviously as for the H 500 people coming back to the beginning where it all started we're looking forward to that so H 500 P mesh will have a review of when it launches plus one to two days probably and we have a lot of plans for that case it should be pretty in-depth even compared to our normal case reviews so make sure you subscribe for that but as always check back for more go to patreon.com/scishow and axis helps that directly and go to store dock cameras and access net to pre-order or backorder I should say our next round of mod mats because they are on the way so we should have them shipping the end of March or early April for the next round that's it for this one I'll see you all next time