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we just landed in Boston for PAX East 2016 and before the show starts I had a couple of quick hardware news items in rapid-fire order and leading up to those though this hardware coverage is brought to you by cyber power who make the fan book that we overclocked past four gigahertz just recently so for the news items coming out of the beginning of the show here one of those is court shares new rapid-fire keyboards they've got the rapid-fire case 70k 65 and both of those come in RGB variants so there's effectively three keyboards the K 70 has a one with a non RGB and these are priced at $170 the k70 RGB rapid-fire and then a hundred and forty dollars for the case 65 RGB rapid-fire and one hundred and thirty dollars for the k 70 rapid-fire non RGB what's new with these they basically take the same housing that you're used to for the most part from the K 70 and the other series keyboards in that vengeance line and they add a new type of switch so chary as you all know make many different types of switches and one of those new ones is the Cherry MX speed a switch which activates at one point two millimeters so it's definitely an aggressive actuation depth and they actually about 40% faster than your standard Cherry MX switches which in theory anyway means that the sort of high-level pro gamers would potentially be able to see a difference where they push the key and they get just that much extra speed on the responsiveness from the key press but for folks like I would imagine most of you non pro gamers I'm certainly not one but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't exist because ultimately there's really no harm and having more switches switch field comes down to the user it's very subjective and whether or not you get a real perceptible gain out of that extra speed doesn't change the fact if you like the switch feel or not and if you like it then it's worth it looking into so that is the new MX speed switch on the Corsair k70 K 65 and K 70 with the RGB variant it now has synchronous lighting a synchronized lighting like the Logitech devices have these days so it definitely some fierce competition there from Corsair the next news item is from MSI they've got a new all-in-one computer called the Aegis and it's I guess supposed to resemble a bit of a shield that sort of looks like a shoe that Hermes might wear but it's basically a normal Tower on top of a pedestal and it's kind of a smaller form factor compact tower I don't know exactly the specs just yet because we haven't seen it in person but hope to be doing a video on it while at the show here at PAX East what I can tell you is that it's got to a 3.5 inch hard drive cages that are easily accessible on the bottom of the system it's got a 2.5 inch SSD area in the same space as the hard drive cages and those are all easily accessible in terms of form factors the video card support is effectively everything it goes up to larger 980ti zammis I certainly make some of the largest ones and they want to support those and of course the 390 extra comparable am the devices as well the last news item is from AMD we're talking about the Wraith cooler again so you may be familiar with Wraith cooler from our review but this shipped on the FX 83-70 CPU a little while ago and that was all it was available on now it's on the flagship APU and as of today and the will begin shipping the Wraith cooler with select 80 350 and 6300 series 60 350 CPUs from their FX lineup you can still buy the non Wraith version of those they're bit cheaper expect to spend about 10 dollars more on the lower end devices and about 20 to $30 more on the higher end devices with the Wraith cooler and in theory that'll drop a little bit as the market neutralizes new eggs certainly sort of is large enough to set their own prices in some regards so do stay tuned for price changes on that but the Wraith cooler is now available on more FX CPUs a little bit too little too late for me for the most part but the good news here is that the Wraith cooler is actually legitimately good it's better I think than the Intel CPU cooler we've tested them both all of them really and it's a good step in the right direction for AMD actually it's more than a step in the right direction hopefully they move this cooler to Zen and future architectures I imagine they would and if they do that it's a pretty strong starting point because generally with the NS 125 watt cooler or the Wraith cooler it's not really necessary to buy an aftermarket CPU cooler which course reduces your total build cost and that plays largely in IMD's favor as a budget targeting CPU vendor so that's all for the quick news item three news items for you before PAX East starts we're gonna be on the show floor when this video goes live which will be 9:00 a.m. on Friday and we'll have some news from several other vendors for the day including logitech gonna be talking to intel richard garriott on Friday or Saturday and a couple of other industry icons so do 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