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hey Ron we were just outside of London with a quick hardware news recap for the last few days there's two graphics card news items with water blocks basically then a micron news item 3d v-nand that's pretty interesting stuff before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by i buy power and the new elements gaming PC with LED lighting underglow and a large tempered glass full window so the first news item is zotac gtx 1080 arctic storm and this is a full coverage water block on agt x 1080 as one would expect it includes the card and the water block you connect to an open loop system that you've already gotten your computer and it has all the standard fittings so you should be able to connect it with pretty much any open loop system on the market right now there's support for inner diameter tubing up to 10 millimeters and then its standard G quarter inch threaded fittings for the the actual connections the cards got a backplate I'm not clear right now if that's aluminum or another material copper for the cold plate base plate and again it's full coverage of water block and we don't have a price on it right now but it is called the zotac gtx 1080 arctic storm and connects to open loop systems also on the video card front aquacomputer now has a Titan X water block this is interesting for a few reasons that you'll see probably the next week or so from us their new products aqua computers product is a Titan X water block you by the block itself not the card you put it on your card if you already own the twelve hundred dollar solution and it's another open loop cooler so you plug it into your open liquid lube open loop liquid solution and it pumps through it's not like an all-in-one like you soothe the hybrid cards or the Seahawk the interesting thing with this aquacomputer one is it uses ten millimeter thick copper it's electrolytic copper and thermal compound applies to the vram as well as the GPU die as usual so it's got full coverage of the vram and the GPU keeps everything pretty cool you don't need the hybrid solution where you have a vrm blower fan and there are two main variants of this solution there's the copper one for a hundred euros don't have USD just yet and a nickel plated one for 115 you can also buy a passive back plate which really is just a back plate as always for 25 euros extra it's a CNC machine block and it's a jet plate with again complete coverage of the card and the last news item for today is microns at new 3d v-nand orn and for mobile devices so you've all heard of 3d NAND or v-nand as some companies call it Samsung of course one of the most prolific and the probably the originator I think of that technology on the consumer market you've heard of that for ssds this is the same idea but for mobile devices microns that new 3d NAND it goes up to 32 gigabytes making it among the largest storage solutions on the market for mobile especially it's stacked cells vertically as with any v-nand and it's also the smallest die on the market at 60 millimeters squared making it a good fit for the mobile phone market that it's targeting and this isn't microns attempt to diversify their market holdings and get away from just systems computers because obviously it is a shrinking market on consumer enthusiasts is growing to our communities defense but shrinking certainly and consumers so they're trying to diversify into mobile makes sense intel has tried it in the past and has had mixed results and microns NAND will be interesting to see sort of camera performance and other high data throughput performance applications on mobile devices because the demand is just it's going to be faster it's dense at 32 gigabytes and we'll see how that goes it's not I don't know if it'll come to consumer at all from micron but Samsung has some new 64 layers stacked and and as well we'll talk about that in the future so that's all for this quick news recap for the week or for the last few days anyway as always patreon link in the postal video if you wanna help us out directly link the description below for more information if you want to subscribe I'll see you all next time