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a short-lived effort by asrock allowed temporary unlocked overclocking of the multiplier for i3 and i5 cpus which were not case Q Intel CPUs and as you all know only the 6600 k and 6700 k of the sky lake CPUs are meant for overclocking and this bios update allowed you to go in there and increase the multiplier beyond stock so you get multiplier times base clock or bcl k equals the operating frequency asrock explicitly removed its sky OC feature from bios in a recent patch and it looks as if it may be thanks to pressure from intel as rock isn't the only motherboard makers supporting non k overclocking though asus gigabyte and msi also offers guy like overclocking but it appears that these big three manufacturers still have the feature available so if they're receiving pressure they haven't responded to adjust yet get it while it's hot i suppose with this overclocking feature because the new bios updates coming out have removed it from asrock boards epic games made big news this week with its VR editor for Unreal Engine 4 which allows developers to make their games with in Virtual Reality while wearing the oculus or other relevant headsets it all looks a bit silly in the footage where we see epic game CEO Tim Sweeney and technical director Mike frikar flailing around to demonstrate the VR building experience but to be fair everyone look silly in VR the difference between what epics showing and what everyone else has done so far is pretty critical as Epic Games allows a full six degrees of freedom for interface management using VR controllers object placement object transforms and rotation and full immersion with the VR environment the tool appears that most useful for developers of VR games as it would allow more accurate representations of the user experience the Unreal VR editor should be further demonstrated at marches GDC 2016 which will be in attendance for us to check the channel for more on that Andy hasn't reasonably updated its FX processors in a number of years now but that hasn't stopped the company from releasing refreshes along the way including a new Wraith CPU cooler for the AMD FX 83 and that was released just this week we just reviewed Andy's new wraith cooler showing that it's cooling to noise ratio has improved substantially over the old stock cooler and the new faith is available on the FX 8370 and doesn't impact the units price which is still a firm 210 dollars but 83 70s with old coolers can be purchased now over ten dollars less so that's a bit of a difference but not much of one if you're going with aftermarket coolers then you could probably forgo the new wraith unit if not then you must get the 83 70s at new wraith cooler because it's just that much quieter though the argument for the 8370 is pretty weak at this point and we generally recommend intel or waiting till Zen because these FX processors are pretty aged architecture now as you'll see in our full review japan-based Sony broke news this week with entering the SSD market place what is making consumer SSDs starting with the SL w em series of drives going up to 480 gigabytes in total capacity the SSD is advertised to be using the Phi's on s10 controller which has grown in popularity as San force has lost market presence with its aged 2281 controllers the SL WM SSDs are advertised by Sony as running at 560 megabytes per second sequential read and 530 megabytes per second sequential write 4k speeds which are more interesting the gamers are not yet known and neither is pricing or other further information this week was also covered pretty heavily already on our channel and website including the Corsair 400 see review am these wraith cooler which we just mentioned and the iWeb power revolt to PC and we have reviews of all of that I'd strongly recommend checking out the 400 see because that's fairly big news even came out a little bit ago we tested several cooling configurations on the case which educates everyone as to how these fans interact with tower coolers on motherboards ACS this week unveiled what is probably the most hideous or near it anyway keyboard we've ever seen it as a mechanical keyboard called the Horus gk 2000 to be fair to acs there is worse competition out there but from a high-profile manufacturer this is pretty bad it does though arrival asus is at gaming routers that have basically a fortress of solitude of antennas built up around them although it looks like plastic from the photos and what you're looking at here the new horse keyboard actually uses a cnc three millimeter thick aluminum casing for the top of the keyboard which is very expensive and the board also sports a massive wrist rest that if you used it would take up nearly the entirety of any normal humans desk space it's running Cherry MX red switches red LEDs with individual key lighting and borrow some ideas from Corsair with a brushed metal faceplate unfortunately it's covered up by the wind atrocity at the top and massive wrist rest at the bottom so it's not on a room for this type of thing we don't yet know the price or the launch date of the keyboard but there's still hope that the latter answer is never that's it for this week's hardware news recap check the channel 4 news on gaming including some mass effect battlefield and titanfall news that we post just yesterday and as always hit the patreon link lapel video for Ana helps out directly and subscribe to the channel I'll see you all next time