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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap nothing happened in the past week other than the first GPU architecture announcement in about two or three years so we've got Turing to talk about again already went through most of that of course the board partners and their absorption of left over ten series cards is pretty big topic right now there's also the new leak that Intel for the thousandth time might or probably will be soldering their new CPU is the ninth well the 9000 series CP is if you can't call them a generation and then also Intel backpedaling on it's no benchmark rule that they added to the end-user License Agreement for their micro code update before that this video is brought to you by the Thermaltake level 20 VT micro ATX case the level 20 VT takes the high quality at level 20 design and makes it more affordable and shrinks it down to a micro ATX form factor at that with fully modular paneling it's possible to rearrange this case into whatever configuration you prefer for a micro ATX case that can be a discussion piece in a home theater system click the link in the description below quick GN news before getting into the rest of the industry news coming back from Germany we were able to finish up most of our office so the set is now more or less complete as you can see we have a few more things to tweak but it's gotten there it's pretty much done at this point and the audio is sounding pretty good in this room now so that was pretty big for us and then we also just restocked this shirt so the full GN logo design front and back design it's the original gamers Nexus shirt that we made years ago the first one first design we had that's been fully restocked in both cotton and tri-blend and we also have our two-tone Raglan hoodies still available in most sizes if you want a lightweight zipper hoody for a cooler weather that's coming around the corner pretty soon for most of you so let's get into the news for the first one this news item is a follow-up to the Tom's Hardware r-tx discussion several former Tom's Hardware senior editors have reached out to gamers Nexus to discuss concerns pertaining to the Tom's Hardware us divisions handling of the situation in one such instance Igor Wallace ech former senior contributing editor of Tom's hardware notified us that he purchased an independent license for the german-speaking area and foley independently operates Tom's Hardware Germany or Toms Harbor de Malo SEC has done excellent work on GPU testing in the past and now runs Tom's de with full independence from the US office he also posted a forum response in the Tom's Hardware us thread about avram pillages flawed article that we recently ranted about in his post igor said quote for me this article is damaging to my business because it all so seriously destroys the name and reputation that all reviewers have built up over a long time period including my reputation not everybody knows that I'm independent from the US does anyone wonder why there were no reviews of the latest AMD Vega cards on Tom's Harbor us the argument is lack of necessary budget I tested it all wrote in-depth reviews about the cards but nothing was moved over and that's from the Tom's Germany to the Tom's us site egor was issued a 100 year ban for his post and his posting was deleted although quoted segments are still visible in the threat others former senior editors have also voiced concerns about the just buy it article as it was titled and some of them have faced similar actions to igor's ban and post the leadings this is all following a purchase of Tom's Hardware the US branch will move to future publishing from perch soon perch presently owns an attack as well and the current editor-in-chief averin pilch of Tom's Harbor us the author of the just by RT X article is up for renewal or termination as his contract is an impermanent one so we'll see a lot of shifting around at Tom's for the time being at least but in the very least who wanted to let you know that Igor is running that Tom's Hardware de or Tom's Hardware Germany independently from the US branch and is still doing the full in-depth testing over there that he's always done for the old version of Tom's us board partners potentially getting stuck with 10 Series GPUs from Nvidia leading into the twenty series launched with r-tx cards so in a new report from digit times the Taiwanese semiconductor market experts analyzed Nvidia's quarter two revenue earnings which they claim are backed by massive contracted GPS shipments to board partners interest the report claims that quote more than 10 graphics card makers have no choice but to swallow contracted shipments released by Nvidia to deplete its inventories and chiefly listed here Asus MSI and gigabyte are among those who are suspected to be absorbing all that 10 series inventory and videos likely left with a large surplus of the 10 series GP is from the cryptocurrency mining bubble burst and digitized report seems to suggest that Nvidia is stronger than expected quarter to earnings are resultant of forcing AIB partners to absorb the leftover inventory additionally the report claims that AIB partners had to absorb contracted shipments quote in order to secure that they can be among the first batch of customers to get sufficient supply quotas of new generation of GPUs that be turing at this point and we think that this is partly why Nvidia's prices for the twenty series might be a bit higher than what the market expected it would have to bear so this will allow the ten series to continue shipping alongside the twenty series cards without either them encroaching on the other space the 1080i and the twenty-eight eti can exist simultaneously in occupy actually very different market spaces further the naming r-tx would also allow for gtx to continue to exist in the very least for now as the 10 series 1080i 1080 and so forth clears its inventory so for now the pricing situation does seem like it allows for the 10 series to continue to exist as a favorable option and clear out all that inventory I mean at the end of the day Nvidia makes both 10 and 20 Series GPUs so to some extent what do they care RTX branding will allow the two markets to exist somewhat simultaneously and we're also kind of I'll go ahead and speculate this right now this isn't really confirmed in any way just speculating here but we've been talking about the idea that the GTX of branding might come back even in the 20 series perhaps for something more like a 20 60 or 20 50 or something that even with Turing architecture it just wouldn't have enough processing power to do any real-time ray tracing in any meaningful way so might not get the r-tx branding might stick with GTX and may even be something like a rebranded Pascal GPU so Jeff speculation not confirmed or not even a rumor just something we've been thinking about and speaking of that the landmark news announcement for the past week was the twenty atti twenty eighty and twenty seventy announcement we have several pieces covering this in great depth so if you really want the DS he'll go back and watch those but to quickly recap it for you and videos marketing focus here is on real-time ray tracing RT x indicates that RT x doesn't just mean ray tracing it's a whole suite of tools that nvidia is pushing out via its usual sdk channel so it does more than just ray tracing but that is the focal point and then GD d are six memory is the biggest change here in that the memory subsystem is now shifting over from g5 and g 5x 2 GD d r6 and also h PM to not making an appearance in any of the immediately discussed cards and again we have a lot more detail in our launch coverage if you want more information on these products next up is a rumor so leaked slides indicate solder for the ninth gen or 9000 series or whatever we end up calling it once it launches the new Intel KS q CPUs so an alleged leak indicates that Intel is using stem or solder thermal interface material on the looming ninth generation or 9000 series coffee like refresh 10 M up in the air what we're calling it because it's going to be 9000 series but it's still coffee Lake so is it really a generation at that point I think is the question the solder dye chest will be limited to the case cube parts as far as the rumors and leaks indicate today and if the information is to be believed this is at least the second a somewhat substantial rumor that we've seen regarding Intel using a soldered IHS for this series of CPUs so it's still up in the air whether or not Intel will actually do this they are rumors but there are a couple of rumors now confirming the same thing so hopefully it happens because a soldered IHS while it might be bad for business for liquid metal makers or something would be better overall for the product and if it helps Intel compete with AMD and hopefully that's what they're looking at at this point cuz AMD is real competition now can't just play around anymore then hopefully they'll do it so anyway that's the rumor really hoping it happens Intel backpedaling on its no benchmark you will a rule so this while we were flying back from Gamescom we encountered this interesting controversy that Intel found itself in the center of and the controversy was with a micro code update a blog post by Bruce parens originally discovered that the micro code updates EULA makes a very very specific statement against publishing benchmarks and the statement said you will not and will not allow any third party to truncate a bit here use the software on your products other than those included in the Intel hardware products or software identified in the software or publish or provide any software benchmark or comparison test results so upon seeing this we emailed Intel and asked what the heck what's your statement on this this is weird and they said we are updating the license now to address this and we'll have a new version available soon as an active member of the open-source community we continue to welcome all feedback and that comes from Intel to gamers next it's not sure if they shared that with anyone else but that's what they sent us and then as of filming today anyway this was a bit old by the time you see this the license has completely been updated to remove you know benchmark clause in its entirety and the only thing we're left with is whether or not that affects all versions of the license or if it's just kind of the public license does it also affect enterprise server data center type users but either way they've removed that no benchmark clause that gave people pause and made everyone a bit concerned about what Intel was trying to do next up a Logitech G pro Wireless Gaming Mouse Logitech has announced their newest wireless gaming mouse aimed specifically at eSports players eSports players historically refrain from using wireless peripherals as they often assert that such devices come at the cost of weight input lag and response time Logitech though has long labored to change that misapprehension and the Logitech G pro wireless gaming mouse is their latest testament to what they think is a wireless eSports ready gaming device the Logitech G Pro Wireless is an ambidextrous Mouse with removable left and right side buttons and uses a lot of text latest iteration of their hero sensor capable of up to 16,000 dpi and 400 IPS we talk about most of stuff in the past so if you've seen our coverage of Logitech's wireless mice it's been a little while now we don't eat too much of it anymore but the g9 auditor was the last big one we did if you've seen that same overall technology inside of it the wireless functionality works just fine it is in fact faster in terms of input latency and responsiveness than a lot of the wired mice even so that that kind of becomes a bit of a misconception that Wireless is slower especially when you're talking about 100-150 plus dollar mouse Dell announced to gaming displays adding to their Dell gaming line of monitors both of Dells new displays are based on TN panels overclockable up to 155 Hertz they offer AMD freesync and a one millisecond response time the biggest differentiators are panel size and resolution the s 2 4 1 9 HGF yeah the names are still monitored names it's a 24 inch monitor running 1080 resolution while the S 2 7 1 9 DGF offers a 27-inch screen running 2560 by 1440 for the resolution 24 inch model beat 320 bucks while the larger 27 inch variant will be 550 availability begins end of month August 28th or so so a bit on the high end especially for the resolution but they might offer features you want and can't get otherwise Corsair teasing the hydro ax series of coarser has been somewhat over in declaring their custom liquid cooling ambitions from TV and rebranded aqua computer fittings and accessories at Computex last year to take you on a former EK WV CEO and CTO mark tank oh and Nico tivat our earlier this year it would seem for all the time in trouble that course here finally has some form of DIY enthusiast liquid cooling to bring to market as their website indicates that the hydro X series launch is imminent the teaser shows what appears to be rigid pet G tubing in an X formation filled with purple coolant and the captions just add water and coming soon so I guess it's finally happening for Corsair hopefully we'll look at these we might have a liquid cooling and open-loop I'm set up by the time we come out finally hardware sales clearly the GTX 10 series quite a steal right now how compared to the last few months and that's with the launch of the RT X card so finally end videos 10 series has some competition it just happens to be Nvidia made the competition so 1080i and 1080p repeatedly over the last few weeks as partners have been forced to absorb the inventory vaguer cards just to be clear here with the joke Vega 56 was a really good car beat we really enjoyed that car a lot of fun to work with lots of fun to overclock it's easier to modify them 10 G's cards are pretty locked down but it hasn't gone on sale in any meaningful way yet we've kept an eye on it because when we worked on Vega the 56 was a card that we actually really liked it was it was just fun to work with and that's because it was so easily modified but alas pricing has not been the best so we're keeping an eye on it for you if it ever does end up dropping either way though 1080i 1080s are on sale we'll link one of them below that's a better price than some of the others if you carry or if you want to pick one out team t4 is Vulcan 16 gigabytes of RAM ddr4 3000 megahertz is also available at one of the better deals for RAM lately given Ram prices and then also there's a Samsung 28 inch 4k monitor that's available on Amazon will link that below too because it's been marked down a bit so that's it for this week as always go to store documents nexus net to pick up one of our products if you want one of our shirts the mod matt is 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