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everyone this is another weekly hardware news recap we have some pretty interesting ones for this week one of which is a an enclosure named the inferno always a promising name for something and then we've also got a 950 dollar case we'll be talking about and the headlining item Intel and NVIDIA working together 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 revamp to 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 very briefly before starting we have our new lightweight hoody pretty cool it's a two-tone hoody it has the GM logo on the front chest and then the teardown logo on the back and we're pretty happy about it you can check it out on the store at store dock gamers Nexus net but let's get to the first main item so the headline story is interesting primarily because it involves the silicon giants Intel and NVIDIA sort of working together it's not like they're making a product like the doorbuster news that Intel and AMD were doing but they were working together communicating with the US House of Representatives IT Subcommittee on AI deep learning machine learning and the future of AI the US House of Representatives IT subcommittee launched a hearing to increase government understanding of artificial intelligence and quote to discuss uses barriers to adoption and potential challenges and advantages of government use of artificial intelligence the end goal was to begin developing awareness of AI citing that AI is quote increasingly cited as the great fear or hope for future generations this is the US government and Vidya and Intel both expressed interest in the u.s. granting public access to taxpayer-funded datasets arguing that these would be useful for improving machine learning models and expanding deep learning Technology Development transparency and accountability were also urged with relation to AI development and that's about all we know right now so there's actually a full hour and a half long discussion it's all videoed you can watch the whole thing start to end if it really interests you there are a lot of other companies involved too not just Intel in Nvidia but they are obviously two of the biggest in the space the next one is Compu labs at new desktop which looks a little crazy and that's because it's a passive cooling solution that leverages the entire chassis to radiate heat out of the box the machine is called the air top to inferno perhaps not the best name for a cooling mechanism it's outfitted with a/c 236 motherboard and i7 7700 K and a GTX 1080 the most interesting aspect is the enclosure itself which exists only in renders right now but will come out later for what we understand the CPU can actually a cooling block to the side of the case of the left side panel and then that conducts heat and spreads away the heat load across the entire side panel surface area a triple walled side panel has three sets of aluminum fins exposed to air with the right panel supposedly responsible for syncing the GPU or some other components our understanding is that each side panel has a set of flat copper heat pipes along the panels and the air top to Inferno reportedly can sink 300 watts of heat by using these side panels as heat exchangers they are top to inferno is targeted for a June launch likely at Computex we don't have pricing yet but it looks interesting in the least in similar news of unique cooling systems you may have seen this one when Jay did his video with post Malone it's a 950 dollar case by singularity computers and this is a new division of singularity that's focusing on case manufacturing singularity computers is best known for its exorbitant high-end custom PC builds and they've been steadily expanding their brand into the landscape of PC hardware under new subsidiary singularity cases singularity is set to release their inaugural case the specter specter is a mid tower chassis not named after the exploit and it's constructed from aluminum and glass and supports up to e ATX motherboards the focal point of Spector is the custom ENC machined acrylic block that serves both a distribution manifold and as a motherboard tray this custom block is replete with channels for routing fluid it has a fill port and a drain port additionally Spectre comes with an integrated reservoir so prospective buyers need not worry about space or mounting options for cylindrical reservoirs also the Spector case includes a space to integrate a pump with a pump top and cover included users just need to procure the pump motor all d5 pumps are listed as compatible this vector also has mounting points for a second pump should tandem loops become interesting and lastly on the rear of the distribution block singularity incorporated unique channels and cable combs for routing and hiding cables Spector offers three hundred sixty millimeter radiator support in the front and top panels and it supports radiators up to 60 millimeters thick so quite large currently there are three two and a half drive inch bays supported officially but there's a separate accessory for a three and a half inch drive if you like your hard drives and in addition to this accessories can also be obtained to mount GPUs vertically and you can also mount them to the case or to a wall Spector's front IO consists of USB 3.1 connectivity and audio as a standard and again nine hundred and fifty dollars that is for shipping and availability information the first 100 cases will be shipping within four to six weeks and afterwards orders that will take 8 to 10 weeks to ship as it seems like they're going to be somewhat built to order if the price seems steep keep in mind that this is a low volume premium product that's designed obviously for one type of buyer water cooling enthusiasts the case also includes several components for a custom loop that would otherwise have to be purchased separately although it's cold products the Titan V this week received one of the only accessories that'll ever be made for it and that's the ek water blocks full coverage block which makes direct contact to the HBM and vrm alongside the expected GPU coverage the card can be made to fit a single slot configuration with the water block reducing size significantly by half which is particularly interesting for anyone who wants to cram more of these into one case EJ is selling the blocks at $130 with an extra optional back plate at $40 for the nickel version and some of our Raven Ridge coverage we talked about blue screens of death that were resultant of gpu-z and 3d mark interacting and funny ways gpu-z now has an update version two point eight point zero and that should resolve the BSOD issues on Raven Ridge processors in addition to this it's got improvements for stability and Driver crashes across just overall and it also has more support for additional components and it's got a new tab dxva 2.0 Hardware decoder information that's been added to the advanced tab and as a bit of a bonus it's got now better vram utilization logging and perf caps at sensing it for NVIDIA and and the hardware Andy has also released new updates to its software including the Radeon software and drivers a new 18 point 2 point 3 beta driver pack includes performance uplift for sea of thieves upwards of 30 to 40 percent on some AMD graphics devices at some resolutions brass tactics also got updates as did Final Fantasy 12 not to be confused with Final Fantasy 15 which is the new one that's coming out soon on PC as for resolved issues Andy has fixed free sync issues in Chrome fullscreen games and multi display setups they've also resolved some flickering when enhanced sync is enabled lighting corruption and fortnight has been resolved and they resolved some audio distortion bugs in relive some crash to desktop issues were also solved in for honor and shadow of war which really just helps us all appreciate how hard driver development is because you basically have to support every single game good luck so that driver is probably worth grabbing if you have any of those specific issues quick update there's a lot of Intel news we've had non-stop AMD news for the last year or so but we have some Intel stuff coming out now so the quick update first Intel's d GPU story so Intel put out a statement after the stories that came out around their chip that was shown at the I Triple E conference and the D GPU that was being discussed is basically as we stated a prototype I think we said that several times may never come to market it's more of a circuit design test as we sort of said however they more specifically said that the words circuit design test not just a prototype so this is actually using an integrated graphics component of Intel's existing lineup which would explain some of the frequencies and voltages that we saw however from what Intel says it doesn't necessarily have anything directly to do with DGP is despite the reporting everywhere for the last week including our own story but they have reinforced that they are working on d GPU products it's just that they don't want anyone to think that this is reflective of those so whether or not that circuit design research ends up in the d GPU stuff in the future remains to be seen certainly Intel doesn't want to talk about any of that now so even if it were being used there they wouldn't tell us but hopefully that adds some additional information on the previous story and then another Intel story they've got a 5 billion dollar investment going into a 10 nanometer production retrofit on their Israel facilities they have a facility in Israel for fabrication of silicon components this is now being adapted to fit for 10 nanometer production it'll be a 5 billion dollar investment with support from the local government and it's expected to be done by 2020 there are hopes that spending the cash infusion on retrofitting the facility will help aid with 10 nanometer production because that's been problematic for a while now for Intel and then also interestingly we talked about the g-49 xx series last week G 4920 and G 4900 those were Celeron Intel CPUs and now we're talking about the G 5000 series this would be the successors to the popular G 45 60 and long ago the g3 to 5h so the 50 550 600 are the main two processors are talking about today we have some pretty much final I expect at this point they are part of the Pentium Gold Line which is more or less the new branding for the Intel pseudo high low end products basically everything up until an i3 G 5400 is included in this and this new series of Intel Pentium CPUs should theoretically be using coffee lake architecture and will be running to core for thread configurations ranging from 3.7 gigahertz to 3.9 gigahertz with no turbo availability as they are locked from overclocking these will likely be available with the new 300 series B and H motherboards and I believe there are some rumors out there already as to the launch dates of those as speculated by the internet so that's all the news for this week as always subscribe to make sure you catch next week's recap and we have some major featured pieces coming up through the next couple days as well as always thank you for watching subscribe for more go to patreon.com/scishow missus tops out directly and store die cameras nexus net to pick up at one of our new sort of sporty hats or the hoodies that we're pretty excited about check that out on the store and i'll see you all next time who shouldn't that leverages the entire chassis to radiate heat out-of-the-box thermals