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welcome back to another hardware news recap for the week very busy week for news especially with Computex coming up in the next two weeks you'll want to make sure you catch the coverage of the show of all the newest hardware for the rest of the year AMD - announced in na'vi new is that III Intel is facing some new vulnerability concerns and there's tariff terror as manufacturers panic over the increased prices so we'll pour one out for them before that this video is brought to you by thermal grizzly and their high end thermal compounds thermal grizzly makes cryo not paste for high thermal performance and conductivity without being electrically conductive so you don't have to worry about shorting components cryo knot is particularly good for replacing stock GPU pastes as cryo knot is a non curing compound learn more at the link in the description below first news item for the show then it's very cold right now it's liquid nitrogen by the way quick thanks for watching our stream the past weekend we did two streams back-to-back and they were for extreme overclocking on the kingpin card and we have more coverage coming up of that with liquid nitrogen for some sort of practical use cases so you want to check back for that every order by the way of the sign mastering the stream has shipped at this point for the sign to mouse pad so thank you for picking those up paper is very cold the first news item Andy announcing Navi at e3 Andy already has a large event at Computex we'll be covering it live from the event and our recap of the coverage will go up shortly after the livestream concludes most likely but there's also an event at e3 and that's the next horizon gaming event where Lisa sue the CEO of AMD will be hosting an event about gaming that doesn't technically say what the products are about at present but it does say it will be upcoming products and technologies that will power gaming from PC to console to cloud for years to come so it's going to be navi basically it's what we take away from that we can easily infer here that this will include coverage of Navi on our end we'll probably be talking about it assuming that's what's there I mean it probably is because let's face it AMD has announced a lot of its previous video cards at e3 and used a very similar semi ambiguous wording as is peen used here so previous cards announced at e3 by Andy include the fury XD that would be the Radeon r9 orx 400 series for example which was teased to press a bit before that in Macau at a event just before Computex in Taiwan so based on Andy's history here hopefully it's a video card if it isn't then we're very sorry for misleading you but it probably will be PlayStation 5 will we already know we'll be using the 7 and we rise in 3000 silicon and some variants of Navi this is officially known from mark Cerny at Sony so that's not a rumor and that will likely have some more details at e3 as well so we'll keep an eye out for both of these things we intend to cover them if they are discussed but either way Andy has an event at e3 and it will discuss some kind of hardware we just don't know precisely what it is yet so stay tuned for that definitely something exciting to look out for as it'll ramp up our coverage for the year rising 3000 s the next big thing for us with Navi or hopefully around the same time but we'll see it depends on IMD's launch schedules and all we have to go off of right now are rumors from the interwebs and that's always very reliable next one tariff terror a lot of manufacturers have reached out to us in the past couple of weeks actually the past past four days specifically asking us if we're going to be covering the tariff increase and this actually affects us too GN from a manufacturing standpoint not just from a consumer standpoint so the word we've gotten is that the new tariff hike increases the already hiked tariffs from 10% to now 25% this is in the US and this affects basically every consumer electronic or component you can buy so some instances are not affected for example memory last time we talked about this was left unaffected for some reason and then various combinations of keyboard and mouse but not mouse or keyboard were unaffected by the tariff hike so those things won't change too much peripherals won't change too much but you should expect to pay more for power supplies the 25% increase will affect power supply manufacturers directly we have spoken with now four of them and the problem is that power supply manufacturing requires a special setup for the factories and you can't just snap your fingers and spawn another one so almost all these are in China right now as such the power supplies will be impacted by the new 25% tariff and you'll likely see that cost passed on to the consumer because the margin for a lot of these things is not that big already so the increase will see it depends on the margin for each company which power supply line it is some of them might be willing to make a loss leader in some instances but you should expect to see some price increases this will primarily affect the US market it will affect Canada as the u.s. is a major port of entry and then it can indirectly affect the rest of the world for component pricing because the u.s. is the largest consumer of components and is the sort of the the benchmark for where manufacturers set their baseline prices so this can affect everybody but especially the US and especially the companies in the US that are selling these products and making them as for what's impacted well other than most of the metals used to make products like cases or everything there's power supplies video cards motherboards not to our knowledge not memory that may have changed but as of now not memory and a few other things as well like coolers things made out of copper aluminum things like that so how does this go down well a couple of the factories are shifting some of their manufacturing so the a lot of the AIB partners for example make stuff in China actually all of them make something in China at some point but the final product is what matters the most for the impact of tariff where it's coming from where it was finally assembled and at least one of the AIB partners has moved effectively all of its manufacturing operations to Taiwan from China and so that board partner will dodge this tariff they will have probably a price increase because it's not as cheap to manufacture in Taiwan as China but they dodge the tariff it's still not made in the US it's made in Asia because where the entire supply chain is so this should surprise nobody but it is made in Taiwan so what you're going to see is some of the factories moving around we've heard that Vietnam is another area of interest for potential factory spin up and doing manufacturing there instead of China and other parts of Asia because they want to remain close to headquarters they want to remain close to the supply chain for small components for example a lot of them are made in China or Japan or Korea and so being close to those is beneficial and this is something that you've probably learned about in our factory tour coverage in the past couple of weeks where a lot of those factories are miles away from each other not thousands of miles away from each other so that matters too so we'll see as far as what prices are affected it'll depend on how quickly manufacturers move their manufacturing operations we know that gigabyte has a factory in Taiwan and has been shifting more and more of its production to that Factory has hired on staff there to increase the output of the Taiwan based Factory and hopefully dodge some of the tariffs as well as far as how we're impacted at gamer's Nexus our mod mats will get hit with this tariff but only when they come into the port the next time we don't have we still have some inventory so we're leaving our prices alone until that inventory is gone and we did that last time too and we also last time we didn't have to increase the prices so we took a big hit I took a big hit on the margin when the tariffs went up last time but we didn't have to increase their prices because we had enough margin left to still make a profit with this next change I haven't run the numbers yet but it's gonna be really close to 14 us to increase the prices but we are going to try and keep them as low as we can we'll probably eat some of our own margin and then might be forced to increase a couple bucks or something to balance it out but yeah it's it's not gonna be fun so that that impacts everybody keep an eye out for it it'll primarily be when people import stuff although some companies in the past have increased prices preemptively to profit from it ahead of time but we are going to wait till we run out of product to evaluate that situation hopefully the tariff will be gone by then more Intel boner abilities and ham the okay for now I think we did this in the intro but it's fun so let's pour some liquid nitrogen out researchers n to Intel have recently disclosed cold a collection of new speculative execution attacks that are known as our IDL or rogue in flight data load zombie load and fallout included with that you may have heard those names the last few days so these new potential exploits are known collectively as MDS attacks or micro architectural data sampling attacks and chips are affected ranging from the ninth generation or 9000 series which is built on eighth generation which built on you got the idea dating all the way back to CPUs from 2008 perhaps later the latest round of side-channel attacks leveraged similar techniques used in meltdown inspector and leaked otherwise secure data from CPU buffers exactly how secure these attacks are depending on who you ask Intel gives them a low to medium risk assessment per the CBS s standard based on the complexity involved of pulling them off researchers however estimate the attacks to be quite severe going as far as recommending disabling hyper-threading and calling the attacks worse than Spector media coverage is equally varied with some outlets taking an almost alarmist tone to others being a bit more passive the good news is that Intel does have mitigations in place but as with previous software were OS level based mitigations there tends to be a loss of performance and it's mostly a band-aid fix the only permanent fix to these flaws is new processors and they need the in silicon mitigations built into the actual hardware and the presently believes that due to the nature of its micro architectural design it is unaffected by these newest side-channel attacks and vulnerabilities however as is the case for as was the case with previous speculative execution attacks there is a chance that alternatives can spin off as malicious actors begin to research options so different clones or variants could and probably will surface whether those affect Andy will obviously have to be evaluated as they as they appear additionally these specific attacks rely on architectural elements unique to Intel at present for the time being there are no real-world exploits using these flaws that we're aware of nor the researchers out in the wild anyway and aside from the proof of concept you're probably safe at present still consider any and all mitigations available to you this would include things like BIOS updates for previous mitigations and Windows updates yes we know it's it's terrifying and fortunately for you or maybe not when there's probably updated in the middle of the last time you were doing something important on your computer and Vidya sued for infringement of five semiconductor patents up next so and video appears to have found itself in a legal battle with expiry and its subsidiaries who contend that Nvidia is in violation of no fewer than five of its patents for the unaware expiry Corp and its subsidiaries which would include Invensys corporation and tessera advanced technologies develop and license a wide range of intellectual properties expiry are a knowledge ease for pro audio mobile image codes and automotive invents this creates advanced packaging and interconnect IP for semiconductors which brings us to the suit with Nvidia the suit filed with Delaware federal court asserts that end videos GPUs and supercomputers are violating five of the company's patents patents and IP law are often a slippery slope but XP RIA has defended these patents before against giant chip makers like Samsung and Broadcom Xperia one on both of those accounts with both Samsung and Broadcom entering into multi-year patent license agreements with expiry we'll see how this shakes out but at this point it's doubtful and video is going to discredit the validity of the patents in question in an unusual and somewhat unprecedented move Microsoft has circled back on its long abandoned Windows XP to deliver a critical security update this is aimed at deworming the once popular OS that users won't let die and in fact we saw Windows XP on use in several of the testing environments in China and Rhetor in those factories mentioned earlier but it makes sense because if it works don't change it I guess is the mantra if it ain't broke don't fix it as part of its May 14th patch released on Tuesday Microsoft delivered a critical security update for one XP Windows Server 2003 and Windows 7 which a lot of you are still on and head off a were mobile flaw in Remote Desktop Services Microsoft decided a potential wanna cry like exploit that it was targeting the quote was today Microsoft released fixes for a critical remote code execution vulnerability CBE 2019 zero seven zero eight and Remote Desktop Services formerly known as Terminal Services that affects some older versions of Windows the Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP itself is not vulnerable this vulnerability is pre authentication and requires no user interaction in other words the vulnerability is quote were mobile meaning that any future malware that exploits this vulnerability could propagate from vulnerable computer to vulnerable computer in a similar way as the wanna cry malware spread across the globe in 2017 while we have observed no exploitation of this vulnerability it is highly likely that malicious actors will write an exploit for this vulnerability and incorporate it into their malware explains Microsoft in a blog post so the vulnerability doesn't yet affect to our knowledge publicly Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 and Beyond but anything older than that you might want to get your updates rolling despite probably not wanting to biostar outs x5 70 chipset specs and highlights power delivery for the next AMD CPUs that should be announced at Computex and these 500 series chipsets will accompany the rise in 3000h processors at CES this year we spoke with AMD at length about X 570 and its new processors and at the time Andy was still uncertain whether X 570 would come out immediately with Verizon 3000 or would wait an extra month because it just depended on motherboard manufacturers being able to get their operations online in time and depending on the chipset which was a big question mark and AMD was still working on especially with the PCIe for support and obviously speaking of that the new x5 does have any chipset marks both the arrival of PCIe 4 and Andy's departure from as media in terms of chipset designs something that we reported on in the beginning of the year with our CES coverage Biostar has revealed some details of as flagship am 4 X 570 board whether intentionally or not ahead of Computex 2019 the racing X 570 gt8 definitely looks like a bio star motherboard and that could be a good or a bad thing depending on your aesthetic preferences however the racing X 5 SOT GTA highlights a focus on vrm construction and quality as the board boasts a 12 phase power delivery system no doubt meant to accommodate and these expected higher core count CPUs the chipset itself is also actively cooled with a fan which lends credence to the theory that the addition of PCIe 4 flattens the new chipsets TDP quite a bit over and these 400 series chipsets and speaking of X 570 we're going to have a lot of motherboard coverage at Computex this year it's actually our leading story for the show it's one of the first things we'll be looking at is X 5 sony boards so make sure you check back for that but another point of interest here in this story is that the significantly higher memory frequency of ddr4 or 4000 after overclocking is supposedly going to be supported with the new platforms and CPUs memory support has been a growing pain Verizon platforms especially at launch but with X 470 revisions with BIOS updates and with the motherboard rollouts over the past year it's improved significantly we expect to see this continue to improve with X 570 so it's good to see Andy overcoming some of its earliest limitations when Rison first launched that's going to be it for this hardware news episode thank you for watching subscribe for more go to store documents X's net to helps out directly or patreon.com slash gamers Nexus to get access to behind-the-scenes videos and hopefully we're gonna use the rest of this stuff soon for some additional overclocking of the kingpin card in a practical sense you'll see more about that later I need to get rid of this so let's just let's just roll the outro