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before the reisenauer 5 reviews go live with launch tomorrow we've got a recap of the news from the last week in the tech field of note some of the items were talking about today include the Microsoft Xbox Scorpio news as looked into by digital foundry we have a couple of items from Asus including overclocking East boards and then MSI has got a new X 370 gaming pro board added to the amp or lineup before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by the 1080 FC which has a new MSRP that is it lowered with the launch of the 1080 TI series at 1080 and 1060 SC cards come with for honor or Ghost Recon wildlands which you can choose that check out learn more at the link in the description below Microsoft's mid generation console release the scorpio is our first news item for today so far what we know about this is that first of all it should be arriving by a holiday of this year so it's not too far off at this point and then in the interview is done with Eurogamer digital foundry and elsewhere it looks like the Scorpio will be using a 16 nanometer FinFET process and that's still going to be an 8 core Jaguar chip along with 4 TCU's from the Radeon Group and those will be clocked at 11 72 megahertz refined Jaguar SOC will run eight cores using x86 architecture clocked at 2.3 gigahertz and working alongside the 40 custom Radeon compute units it looks like the console should have about 6 teraflops of compute power which puts it somewhere around an R X 480 in terms of memory the scorpio also gets an upgrade to 12 gigabytes of gddr5 shared memory that is running on a 384-bit bus and that's capable of about 326 gigabytes per second of bandwidth beyond that it looks like the theta is basically geared towards 4k support as both for all of these mid generation console releases have been thus far so it's looking like 4k is kind of their marketing point 4k UHD blu-ray is possible they showed a demo with forza running at 4k theoretically 60fps as for how that 4k is being achieved we're not 100% sure yet if it's anything like it'll probably depend on the game more than anything whether they're using checkerboard rendering or other rendering techniques to permit the 4k output but other than that the only thing left of note is that the Scorpio will be using a vapor chamber for its cooling solution and then just a standard blower fan at least from what we've seen so far so that will be interesting to tear into if we're able to get our hands on one everything else is that is expected it does have an internal power supply it's still compatible with the Xbox one s and all the other current gen Xbox games and everything should remain more or less inter compatible which is an interesting thing with these mid generation launches because all you're really gaining are these increases in resolution because the game developers if they're going to retain compatibility on all of the current iterations of the console from Microsoft or from Sony that means they can't just push things like polycount they've got a push resolution as an option because it's a lot easier to upscale then to create multiple versions of your game with different visual fidelity and graphics settings so that's what we're looking at for the Xbox Scorpio and let's do some where around fall of 2017 back on am for news at which we're not going to be able to escape for a while because they m4 is active and there's a lot of stuff going on with rise and especially our 5ms I just added its ex 370 gaming the pro motherboard to the amp or lineup and this is sort of like a cheaper version of the gaming Pro carbon the RGB board we've looked at the Intel version there's also stuff on the nd side so the gaming pro the cheaper version of that it is running what looks to be two pcie 3.0 slots wired as x16 to the cpu and then one additional PCIe x16 slot for the other devices a ICS and things like that storage options include at 6 SATA 3 ports 1 m dot 2 slots and that does permit the 32 gigabits per second boosted performance which of course you are limited more by the storage device at that point not the storage interface and beyond that instead of RGB lighting that they're using static red LEDs so kind of like the keyboard market or you can buy a fixed LED for cheaper that's what we're doing on motherboards now apparently because RGB LEDs add a bit the cost and not everyone wants them but if you still want LEDs they're kind of do it anyway these are controllable through the mystic software that MSI ships with its motherboards that that things that are compatible with mystic for synchronizing the lighting will be compatible with this motherboard as well though you're limited to just red and connectivity you're looking at two USB 3.1 ports for the gaming pro non-carbon one of them is Type C which is cool news there are VR boosts USB ports we'll see if there's actually do anything in our new VR testing and then the usual HDMI and DVI D that board should be available sometime this month in April for around $150 which rounds out the x-37 the market pretty well because most the stuff we're looking at so far is sort of 200 plus range so 154 actually 70 that's not a bad spot for those to fit in right now the two storage news items here next transcend and a data both have new and two SSDs transcend has a new PCIe m2 SSD this one is running 3d mlc nand and it is based on nvm e 1.2 for the interface of m2 2280 form factor this is currently speculated to have an SMI or silicon of motion controller and alongside that will have micron components as well that's not confirmed but that's what it looks like right now in terms of advertised read/write speed transcend is suggesting that they'll be able to do a sequential readwrite respectively of 2.5 gigabytes per second and 1.1 gigabytes per second of course the more interesting thing is what is the 4k random look like especially at those lower key depths like QD 1 to 4 so that's what you'll be seeing in normal windows or application performance for the most part this also uses some thing of a pseudo SLC cache which is another major challenge in SSD benchmarking by the way that we've discovered somewhat in just in the past few months where SLC caching if you're using traditional benchmark tools a lot of times they will flood the cache in a way that doesn't happen in real life and the cache doesn't have time to purge and recover so over time you'll see numbers that if you plot them just drop really hard that's not necessarily representative of real performance so that's kind of an interesting side note where SLC caching on SSDs adds a lot of new challenges for SSD benchmarking hence the renewed focus on latency testing kinda like for enzyme testing with FPS so transcends got their new device it is the MTE 850 series and that's pretty much all the specs we have other than 128 256 and 512 gigabytes for the capacities also shipping 128 to z6 and 512 gigabyte devices is a data and that's for their new xpg SX 7000 series gotta have lots of X's and cool letters and numbers in there otherwise it's not marketable to gamers that is going to be an m2 Drive MT 2288 form factor as well we don't know who the maker of the NAND is just yet it is probably well it's it's an SMI controller so it is silicon motion just like the transcend one looks like it will be that's using the nvme 1.2 protocol over m2 for the interface as previously stated and other than that it looks like more DRAM pseudo SLC caching go on going on and advertise performance is not too far from transcends it's looking like for the 512 gigabyte model of the a data drive their advertising 1800 megabytes per second sequential read and then for the sequential writes that's the looking at 850 megabytes per second again for the flagship 512 price and availability is not known yet but they are going to be offering a five-year warranty on that device these from Asus this week includes one just kind of a side note overclocking eSports which seems kind of potentially fun for a lot of people even outside of the hardcore overclock scene where you form a team and do overclock and submit your results to different to the website and then just ranked teams versus the other team so that should be fun to look into and follow as it gets going they also have their new ROG Ariane network adapter so that is going to be an add-in card adapter and it will support 10 gigabit per second network speeds so you plug that into your PCIe slot it runs on an x-force lot and also hosts a full sized heatsink which will really be not maybe necessary but certainly desirable for a 10 gigabit switch if you are actually using 10 gigabit per second networking and have compatible switches in between that will be compatible with slower network speed so if you're running five gigabits or 2.5 or something like that you will have compatibility the availability looks like sometime later this month and basically this is something you should be interested in if you're doing any sort of intra network transfers between multiple machines so we would do that for our media production for example where you might move large files from one machine to the other on the same network internally over LAN so these cars will be potentially good for that we might look into one I'm not sure we're kind of limited on the switch which most people would be but that's from our og along with the overclocking eSports other than this news two quick things here and video have their Titan XP we already talked about that in a separate video if you're curious to learn more about it basically it is big Pascal there will not be a bigger Pascal chip as far as we can tell for this generation this looks like about the end of it it is not a geforce gtx chip which was stated in our previous content and it looks like it's being kind of targeted towards mac which is interesting because it has the mac ready drivers and it seems reasonable to expect that future apple products coming out this year might include the titan which in that case ditching the geforce gtx branding could make sense just from a marketing standpoint of apple doesn't want that on their system so that's already been detailed in our previous video $1200 card if you buy it separately g.skill meanwhile as new our RGB not rog our gb memory kits and those will be shipping in capacities up to 128 gigabytes which would be a 16 by 8 configuration the biggest condensity per stake is going to be 16 gigabytes so big sticks and then they have speeds up to 38 66 megahertz we actually have one of these that we used in our eyes and revisit to try and get the higher speeds that we were getting so 38 66 megahertz CL 18 for that to the timings on that are 18 18 18 38 that's at one point three five volts stock and that is a sixteen by two configurations at 32 gigabytes there and as for the other kind of high ish end you're looking at 3200 33 33 33 34 66 and 36 hundred megahertz speed and respectively those are CL 15 there's also a CL 14 32 hundred megahertz kit which we have a trident xenon RGB kit is 3200 CL 14 and it's really good so those are good to look out for 3333 CL 16 that's 16 18 18 38 3466 16 18 1838 as well and 3,600 is 1719 1939 all of these kids 1.35 geeks are bolts and then in terms of gigabyte capacities it's mostly 16 gigabyte sticks although they do also have 8 gigabyte sticks to bring the cost down a little bit those are optimized and approved for Z 217 X 99 you should probably expect some kind of rise in support as well officially and expected launch is May 2017 with XMP 2.0 built in there so hopefully not too much work to do pricing is unknown right now and final bit of news for folks in the US although this is interesting externally as well the SJ resolution 36 was signed into law by the President and that means that was on Monday April 3rd so that successfully nullifies the privacy framework that would have been put into place otherwise by the previous FCC group and basically prevented ISPs from mining customer data without consent we have some coverage of this on the website it's unlikely that this will change at this point without a new Congress Senate FCC leadership so that looks like it that's the way it's going to be at this point we have some coverage so Eric Hamilton wrote several articles on this and of note we have another article forthcoming that is about using VPNs how to set one up other types of private browsing advice that will be in a full feature that publishes probably sometime this week in written format on a gamer's nexus net speaking of that as always you can subscribe for more patreon.com slash canvers next without shout directly stored are gamers nice and sign out of your pen or just check back tomorrow for the r5 coverage thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you