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everyone welcome back to another hardware news episode recapping the hardware news for the last week as you might expect we're talking Intel coffee Lake announcements and I don't know what they were leaks I guess for the desktop part so looking at some AMD driver update news because that came out right after we posted our monitor video and that's got some interesting stuff in it liquid cooling a video game info that's actually pretty cool Final Fantasies got some recommended specs or requirements out there to look through all those got a couple other things as well so all that more in this week's hardware news recap before that we partnered with LastPass to bring you this video LastPass is a password manager that helps generate random passwords for each account insuring unique passwords for every log in as fast strengthens account security so that you're no longer using the same password for multiple sites learn more at the link below starting off with coffee Lake official news for coffee Lake largely pertains to the mobile launch but a partner session in China offered more insight to 8th gen desktop SKUs of note the flagship i7 8700 K allegedly bumps up to 6 cores 12 threats the usual four core 8 thread component and carries a base frequency of 3.8 gigahertz goes into all core turbo of 4.3 single core turbo should reach 4.7 gigahertz and these numbers are compared to 4.2 base and 4.5 boosts on the 77 hard k intel's mostly increasing poor count slightly just enough to be useful in applications that can leverage it but staying low enough to keep higher frequencies and probably reduce some cost so it's an interesting strategy in opposition to rising cash is also up now they're at 12 mega bytes for l3 cache on the i7 SKUs rather than 8 megabytes well 3 previously the i-5 series is where the most interesting changes are happening that go into 6 cores 6 threads so up by two cores total two threads of course total that's headed up by the i-580 600k the new flagship SKU i5 components and the i-5 8400 9k both of which have the same cache the same core account the 80 600k will run a 3.6 gigahertz base clock and will boost the 4.1 all core with one core boost to 4.3 gigahertz the CPU is also supposed to have nine megabytes of shared recache and then what we don't know yet is the pricing so this is this is a pretty decent shift for the i-5 line bit of a shift for the i7 line it's it's like finally some movement out of Intel and whether or not this is something that they've planned since before isin the important thing is will the price be affected because that's let's just say that they had already planned to release these parts if they already had this on the plans what Rison would still have effect on is pricing so we can hope that the competition of the 1700 and the r5 marketplace will drive down costs of these six core and and and well six core and well-fed parts so that's what we're hoping for the other thing is the i3 specs chip posted by chip how so they showed an a380 250k official source from Intel at four cores four threads four gigahertz clock speed and eight megabytes of l3 cache and for the AMD news there's a driver update for the video card so we just posted that monitor video about the CF 791 and our conclusion was more or less this flickering isn't a problem in Vega it was a problem in Polaris and Fiji and if you have Vega then we basically said it's even look it's either a driver Thane or it's a chip level thing and because the issue kind of persisted on Vega Fe we thought it was more likely a driver than well it looks like there may have been some truth to that assumption so Andy's at version 17 point 8.1 drivers for the Radeon settings tool just came out and they include quote fixes for free sync displays may experience stuttering on watch in full screen video content that's been resolved and free sync of brightness or flickering issues have been resolved on a small amount of Samsung free sync enabled displays that may have been experiencing issues so there you go if you were experiencing issues here's what I want to know we don't have that monitor anymore the CF 791 so what I want to know from you anyone who has that monitor please do me a favor get me 17.8 that one drivers especially if you have polaris or an on Vega card available to you even if it's not your main one and install them and CB you see flickering in the previous video we basically talked about how it's very easy to create the flickering launch basically any game Total War or something like that will do it the most get into the range of 48 to 60 FPS with your settings and turn on ultimate engine and then observe you'll see the flickering it will be very obvious to you if you don't see that with these drivers and with the Polaris or previous cards then it looks like it's been resolved at a driver level you do see it then I don't know playing the display so yeah that's interesting but the next thing is in the game news front that's related to hardware this is Final Fantasy 15 has a Windows Edition release coming up and they've posted some recommended specs mostly for 4k gaming but this was something we saw at the GTX 1080i event probably in March and they were talking about they brought in Nvidia brought in some of the Final Fantasy folks to show off grass simulation hair work stuff and some other technologies and it looks like it's finally coming out in an actual PC version rather than just a tech test as they called it then so as for the game this was shown at Gamescom it's a square Enix title and it's got all the dlc and updates with the core game coming to PC in early 2018 it's being developed on the newest version of the luminous engine it should see partnership with Nvidia for their proprietary game where expunction zaire works turf works flow things like that and here's the recommended specs so quite steep but there's a reason for it and so it turns out that when Square Enix contacted Kotaku Hajime Tabata said that was a mistake actually that was a communications mistake something got put in a memo that shouldn't have what that is and that's the specifications that went out to press is based on the specs that we're running the demo on today at Gamescom we can say now that Final Fantasy 15 on PC supports native 4k and also up to 8k as well as HDR 10 but we haven't really revealed anything like minimum specs yet because we're developing at such a high end which means we can't really define it with current standards now at some point we will publish the recommended and minimum specs but we can't say exactly what they are at the moment so those specs that went out we're a communications mistake by square-enix it probably won't require a 1080 TI or 170 K bytes of storage but we'll see it was just for the demo systems at the show floor and the booth and along with the square Enix stuff there's also a destiny to news item to look through so the PC version is officially going to support 4k resolutions big deal it's a resolution that's kind of easy at this point we'll have uncaps frame rates on PC so that's good ultra wide support kind of interesting 21 by 9 supported and they also are saying destiny 2 will have a full suite of adjustable graphics settings that was shown at Gamescom with some kind of SLI support included as well so that's really all there to say about that one but destiny 2 comes out in the immediate future for PC once again like we've done for the last few weeks now EK has got stuff to talk about so ekw b has an ex 299 monoblock coming out and the newest one is aimed at the gigabyte X 299 motherboards or five of them it'll work with explicitly supposed to ship this week machine from acrylic and offers a redesigned cold plate to offer more mechanical support for Intel x-series CPUs the pricing on the pre-order for the EK fpga x 299 is $137 supposed to ship august 25th and it has an integrated RGB strip also in liquid cooling news alpha cools got the ice wolf 120 GPX pro which will begin shipping as an AI o solution for vega 64 card so the ice 12 120 GPX pro combines both a water block and an all-in-one or closed-loop cooler with a copper radiator the base model offers a 120 radiator but there's also a 240 option and the new CLC is also compatible with alpha cools existing ice bear expandable cooling solution which we tested previously didn't like it a whole lot to be honest but we did test it and it did in fact move liquid through the bloop but you can find our coverage on that for the I think it may have was called ice wolf I think it was called ice wolf the liquid cooling block for the video card prefilled that we hooked up to by his bear speaking of the ice bear they have a new 420 ice bear closed-loop liquid cooler which is one of the bigger ones on the market if not the biggest closed-loop solution we've seen how the cool is supposed to be offering the 420 with a pure copper radiator supposed to refillable and expandable as to include GPUs in the loop and the ice wolf GPX pro kit should also be compatible pricings about 153 dollars for the ice bear for 20 quick one here in cases the Lee Omni pcq 39 is finally making some moves so this is a new mini ITX case with liquid cooling in mind from Leon Lee it's a small form-factor case and it uses a cube shaped design with the Leon Lee chambered approach so it's kind of compartmentalized with the chamber behind the tray supporting installation of pumps and reservoirs and in front of the motherboard tray and everything else as normally the rest of it is grommets for routing tubes and cables between chambers and then there's some room for radiators up to 240 millimeters with the usual case amenities USB 3.1 type C is kind of new pricing on that suppose be $210 now this one was shown at Computex the third will take view 71 is a full tower case that's got tempered glass on all sides side panel offers a combination of thumb screws and hinges for easy access the chassis supports motherboards up to e-atx GPUs up to 410 millimeters CPU heatsinks up to 190 millimeters and it's got support from fans and radiators plenty as well because well that's what therm will take mostly makes so 9 fan locations radiator support up to four twenty millimeters pricing and availability TBD the last announcement is the asus rog Strix XG 2 7vq of monitor think we cut off some letters there to make it easier on me but that's coming out soon I guess so we're keeping an eye on this one I don't know that we're gonna review it or anything like that but it's worth keeping an eye on so this is a sixteen by nine monitor eighteen hundred our curve if you like that and 144 Hertz refresh a paltry 10 MP 1080p resolution with free sync via HDMI or DP and then they've also got an RGB circle back and logo on the back that you'll never see after you put the monitor on a desk and then also a little RGB logo emitter in case you want the ACS ROG logo in the middle of your desk in front of your keyboard all the time for eternity so that's what's coming out I don't do we have pressing that $350 I looks like an actually okay display if a bit a bit excited on the RGB stuff but that's it for this time as always you can go to patreon.com/scishow saxon stops that directly and you can subscribe for more coming out this week as always thank you for watching I'll see you all next time