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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus donna and today i am introducing our new gaming and hardware news series tech raid every other week i'll be putting a news roundup video online that covers all the most reason and relevant gaming hardware and gaming news the goal is to keep these short fast-paced and focused on the hardware and tech aspect we will have links in the description below if you'd like more depth on any of the topics please comment below with feedback so i can improve these videos going forward so let's jump to the episode for this episode we have seven toppings to cover including leaked specs on trinity successor richland and some very interesting cooling advancements from all the cooling companies so starting with richland in a recent leak it was revealed that and the successor to trinity's 5800 k the a-10 of course is officially at richland a10 6800 k and will operate natively at 4.1 gigahertz an increase of point 3 gigahertz and will utilize a modified HD 6000 series chip officially rebranded as the 86 70d don't let that confuse you it is not the 8000 series we've been waiting for just a rebranded 6000 series chip it should be a pretty impressive follow-up to Trinity but perhaps not as impressive as Andy's upcoming Kaveri project which also launches later this year in theory and will feature a fab drop to 28 nanometer process and should have overall better specs it looks like there's a series shift toward the integrated market definitely a lot to look out for in graphics news and vidya has announced the release of new beta drivers claiming massive gains at sli performance for crysis 3 beta and large performance jumps across the board for games launched around quarter for 2012 single card performance was also improved by these drivers and you'll find a link to the download for the drivers below as well as it's all contained in the same news article so check that out silverstone a world away from semiconductors we have news from silverstone of a unique new case fan design that aims to minimize turbulence induced high-frequency acoustics produced by throttled air between the fans blade and the case is metal mesh or filters most cases with 120 millimeter fans will exhibit some variation of this quiet but annoying noise which tends to resemble a whining sound Silverstone aims to eliminate that noise by using three different fan blade designs within the same unit you'll see here they've demonstrated to read this to reduce turbulent air caught between the fins and the mesh which reduces that annoying acoustic the resonance you get will be looking at this new fan relatively soon along with antics nude shoe quiet fans so do keep an eye out for those videos and in more cooling news coolermaster the renowned of course cooler and case manufacturer has officially launched its side on 240 millimeter and 120 millimeter closed-loop liquid coolers these were originally announced a while ago they were officially launched and they aren't your standard ace tech rebadge from what I can tell as it looks like these side on coolers use a different cold plate and mounting system from the A's tech supplied coolers these side on units are available in 240 millimeter 120 millimeter and 120 millimeter XL and are fitted with a very nice mounting mechanism that we're all used to from the high four to 12 and it even looks pretty damn good too as an aside coolermaster also has its new storm line of peripherals available and those were very promising for what we saw at CES but I don't have time to cover that right now in a completely unrelated sector of the industry the h.265 encoding standard was approved this week by ITU and what does that mean well the h.264 is the previous iteration it is the popular high efficiency video coding standard and the new iterate that's what we use by the way in many other video editors use but the new iteration h.265 aims to have bandwidth requirement for video meaning you'll be able to render out videos at higher data rate for higher quality but utilize the same bandwidth this is ideal for mobile devices and benefits everyone not just video editors as you will be able to stream the current quality video at a lower bandwidth so you won't have any stuttering or higher quality video at the same bandwidth now back to cooling in cases for a moment we recently reviewed Rose Wells armor evolution mid tower gaming case we've previously been very impressed by the quality of some of the company's cases but we're unfortunately left scarred by the poor build quality and design of this newer option despite the case really destroying in the performance side of things it did phenomenal in performance just really mediocre for quality so check out the youtube channel for that video review and finally for our last topic we look to fractal design for their new case launch the arc midi are too i know many of you are fans of fractal who have recently become famous for their high quality materials optimization for quiet cooling and sleek looks but this case aims to further all of those points the arc midi are two ships with three silent series fans a fan controller a swivel able set of drive cages if i can make up some words and heavily leans toward ease of installation features the case is targeted at a hundred ten dollars MSRP and should be available in march of this year we will try to review it for you that's it for this tech roundup please leave a comment below let let me know how you think i did if you think there should be more topics with less info or fewer topics with more info let me know let me know how frequently you would like to see these videos and the current plan is about twice a month so with that i will see you all next time peace