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everyone this is a hardware news roundup for the past week of hardware launches including some new stuff today kind of from e3 and then a lot of stuff from Computex some that we didn't get a chance to see at the show items of note include logitech new wireless charging mouse and mouse pad which is basically a it's a magnetic resonance charger the cryo reg CPU coolers are also on our list we're talking about some of the other cooling solutions at Computex alpha cool FSP and so on and then PCIe 5.0 in the industry section of the news roundup before that this content is brought to you by custom backplate makers at v1 tech comm v1 tech build GPU back plates to order with their online customization tool making it easy to theme upcoming PC build back plates cost $25 and up and are installed via magnet and can be seen in some shots of the cards reviewing that lately used code gamers Nexus 5 for $5 off your order or click the link below starting with Logitech's announcement at e3 today the company is putting out a new series of products there's the G 703 mouse and g9 o 3 Mouse both of these mice have the same weight cartridge or container in the bottom of the mouse but it's actually functional now it's not just a 10 gram weight or whatever it may be the weight cartridge now can contain a unit that I think they're calling a Power Core or power module and that is used to make contact with basically a second mouse pad so there's a power play pad they call it which is a charging station for the mouse and that sits underneath the mouse mat the normal mat it's about 2 millimeters thick so it's not too much taller than normally and that is able to provide enough current to the mouse just via USB 2.0 in order to power both the receiver the wireless receiver and power the charging to a level that you could charge and slightly trickle charge the mouse while using it or if you wanted to you could plug it in for a faster charge we'll have a lot more detail on this in the article below but the basics of it are just tuned in mice the G 903 is the G 900 but now compatible with this power play set up the mat is about 100 bucks so if you wanted to add the wireless charging support it would be $100 more it is not the most efficient way to charge a product this never has been inductive charging is a bit more efficient but also not nearly as efficient as plugging something in but it's a way to remove the mouse from the cable to the mouse so if you want to do that this is really the only way to achieve that without ever having to plug it in between use or something like that we'll look at this in more depth and review it properly but for now it's USB 2.0 so it can deliver 500 milliamps at 5 volts we don't know how much current is actually transferred to the device during use we'll talk to them more about that it the base underlying base creates a an e/m field that charges the mouse from a radius out of the center of the pad the powerplay mat and towards the edges it will be weaker but hopefully not over towards the edges anyway works via magnetic resonance not the same as course there's new wirelessly charge Mouse that you may have seen at copy text which I believe uses the Qi charging setup so it's a bit different than that this power play mat because of the way it's designed means it won't work if you have a metal table or other large metal objects like a metal mouse pad on top of it but it will work with normal Mouse pads of some kind of fabric so again more information on that in the article below but moving on now is a cryo rig on top of launching the new Taku K is currently on Kickstarter cryo rig has a new series of CPU coolers so they have an update to the CPU power series that would include the cryo reg c7 and the r5 and the new coolers some of them will have variants that include copper for the thin stack rather than aluminum this is interesting for a few reasons now one thing coppers heavier it's more expensive so that'll be reflected in the price and in support for how large the cooler can be before it starts posing a problem for the socket spec for mounting force and weight but it also has a lot greater thermal conductivity although because of the way copper works with its specific heat capacity versus aluminum you end up with a situation where thermal conductivity is far greater but it also will take longer to heat up and cool down so this is interesting because it makes it act sort of like a liquid cooling radiator where you see those longer soak times where the cooling device takes longer to to soak the temperature so like with a liquid cooler you end up with a more even fan curve over time the fan ramping speed should be a little bit slower hard to say just how much without actually testing it we have asked them for both aluminum and copper units to test that so fan ramp will be a bit slower and other than that once you at steady state the difference probably won't be huge maybe a couple degrees but we'll look into all that hopefully if we can get one of each cooler and that will be coming out the c7 comes out first and on the r5 will come out later this year and other than that it's it's priority coolers as normal also at combi Tech's FSP demonstrated a new liquid cooled power supply which is an interesting mixture of things to have in a power supply $700 price for this one it looks like it should be called the FSP hydro PTM plus 80 plus platinum RGB LEDs of course and again liquid cooled now a few things about this liquid cooling a power supply for our type of system builds enthusiast audience isn't really necessary you can passively cool a lot of power supplies if you have the money to pay for it these days and you still need to have a fan active anyway so liquid coin and power supplies is very much a bling factor type of thing there may be some functional adds to it that are not covered in our use cases or for our audience but for our audience this is it's just so you could say you have a liquid cooled power supply that's probably the start in the end of it so something to look out for personally speaking I don't know that I want a liquid cooled power supply in my system liquid cooling in general is fairly safe and if there is some sort of leak maybe it goes into the back of the video card and you kill a video card worst case scenario but certainly not not a power supply so I'm very interested to hear more from FSP about how the power supply works how they've insulated things first if the it you would think it has to be done and how how the liquid actually impacts performance for a longer up time at a higher load but we look into all that more as with all this other stuff from Computex times need the rest of this year alpha cool is the next in cooling news so they have new CPU and GPU blocks that were shown at Computex as well and they also have new helix reservoirs they're called in addition to the water blocks the helix reservoirs and the RGB illumination at the head of the show alcohol also has a new 420 millimeter ice bear a i/o cooler or CLC if you prefer and their Aurora HT lighting accessory which is used for illuminated tubing and coolant and then they've also got a custom cable modding kit so they're branching out of it this year the company's new water blocks by the way will be using nylon so that's a bit different alpha cool notes this has been more resistant to cracking and warping over time also in accessories news that Sapphire has new add-ons for their nitro series of video cards primarily colorized back plates and shrouds so you can add some color to the existing nitro video card lineup and they also showed off mini ITX cards and an external GPU adapter which seems to be increasingly popular last year we saw a lot of them and that trend has died off a bit this year but it's still continuing for external GPUs moving on to industry topics now SK Hynix is at 72 layer nand is on track to ship this year and the memory maker has made it known that they are currently working on noon and with 96 and 128 layers respectively this will allow for 512 gigabits and one terabytes die capacity and for one tear of it that's actually a hundred twenty eight gigabytes on a single die which is really dense data storage micron and Toshiba are working on 64 layer 3d man now as well though that should ship a bit sooner than the multi-year project that SK Hynix is currently developing now one of the more interesting news topics for this week although we don't have a ton of data on it right now the PC is IG board is working on developing its spec for PCIe 5.0 4.0 of course not being out yet 4.0 it looks like it's supposed to start being used some level anyway in 2018 and 5.0 should have the spec finalized and released to manufacturers in 2019 that does not mean they'll start using it in 2019 just means they're going to have it just like the PCIe 4.0 specs been available for a little while now but isn't actually on boards yet for for any of our markets so PCIe 5 it looks like it should offer over 32 gig transfers per second for a single lane and to put that into perspective that's the speed we get today for pcie 3.0 by 4 so four lanes of 3.0 gets you the same as a single lane of 5.0 at 32 gig of transfers per second with PCIe 4.0 being in between the two and shipping sooner probably next year for some of its initial appearances and as we move towards more big data applications it looks like PCIe might be getting a bit of a fast-track as the interface needs to develop to keep pace with other products video cards and adding cards and accelerators and all that stuff so keep an eye on the PC is IG board going forward but for now PCIe 5.0 is the item to talk about and I'm looking at Intel's lineup Canon Lake and ice Lake have a bit more information out Intel's pushing ever onward with their seemingly Ackerson 10 nanometer production however in a recent celebratory tweet by Intel the company's how did reaching a milestone with 10 nanometers Canon Lake is on track for shipping in the second half of 2017 and ice Lake is taped out or in the final stages of design development and so forth before hitting the fab Intel's 440 nanometer chips Coffee Lake is still expected to ship this year as well so they're gonna have a busy final half of the year and speaking of Intel the company's products were used to set new overclocking world records last week at Computex with the i7 77 40k and X $2.99 platform MSI gigabyte and g.skill were all applauding overclocking records this past week achieved on that platform and gigabyte and their teams of overclockers that burned through $20,000 of liquid helium to hit a 7.5 gigahertz clock on the new i7 CPU while ln2 is used to push a presumably new memory kid from g.skill to 5.5 gigahertz or 50 500 megahertz ddr4 we covered both of these beats and a bit more depth over on the website if you want to check those articles out and just for some perspective on that cost we were speaking with their Bauer at the g.skill booth when we did that deal it in video with him and I asked how much does it cost you when you start using liquid helium and where he is his region of the world it's about four point four dollars per second is that it's open just to put that $20,000 number into its perspective so definitely a lot more expensive than ln2 or you might pay something like $1 maybe $2 per liter big difference there finally there were some displays there's a whole lot of miscellaneous news for this past week but for display news we tend to include a bit of this towards the end Samsung's got a new cue LED and HDR gaming monitor lineup including some that are in the 40 plus inch range if that's something you're interested in of these they announced the VA panels that are HDR enabled the screens are curved that's a thing now and they feature the same 1800 hour curvature you see everywhere else so curved screens are kind of like tempered glass at this point where you seen it everywhere but depending on how big the monitor is it can actually be useful speaking from experience the modders are looking at 144 Hertz refresh rates on some of them freesync to will be supported so that was announced at CES and is finally getting implementation and prices range from $600 to $1500 asus has new rog swift PG 27 UQ monitors coming out as well and these will also be HDR displays quantum dot enabled and will be a 4k twenty-seven inch IPS panel also with a refresh rate of 144 Hertz so that pretty much covers us for the last week and news plenty of smaller stuff at the show and stuff that we just didn't get to for example and our max max Titan power supplies if power supplies interest you guile has an nvme SSD EK water blocks has an MSI X 370 X power titanium mono block coming out and then there's also the Apple iMac Pro I guess so that covers everything as always you can you can subscribe for more information and go to patreon.com/scishow and Rezai selves head 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