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welcome back to the hard run box news corn another fairly typical week of news has just passed we've got some CPU related stuffs and GPU related stuff a few game related stories I'm sure will annoy some of the gamers watching this video and the usual odds and ends it's Friday weather is nice here for those that love getting our Aussie weather reports and yeah let's get into some news first topic from this week concerns Intel's latest Enterprise announcements now we don't usually cover enterprise and server grade hardware all that much because we're more of a consumer focus Channel but there are a few interesting things to point out among the announcements if you want a full breakdown of everything that was announced I'd recommend checking out an ant X comprehensive coverage what I want to look at are the service cpus specifically because these usually give an indication of where high end desktop chips are headed but with intel being unable to transition past 4 10 nanometers at least for now they're stuck doing some pretty crazy things to improve performance with their server platforms as expected intel have announced and detailed cascade Lake ap which officially becomes the xeon Platinum 9200 family the top end chip gives buyers the full 56 cores with 112 threads and 77 megabytes of level 3 cache when running at a base frequency of 2.6 gigahertz along with their presumably 3.6 gigahertz single core turbo the xeon Platinum 9282 comes with a massive 400 watt TDP this then filters down through a 48 core option at 300 watts and to 32 core options at 250 watts each CPU has 40 lanes of PCI 3.0 and 12 channel ddr4 29:33 support however these are not socketed chips Intel is producing them as BGA only and will be solved through OMS as a full server design Intel aren't talking about pricing but you can bet the CPU alone will be ridiculously expensive then we have the rest of the cascade Lake family comprising of Xeon platinum gold silver and bronze CPUs there are a ton of options here but there hasn't been much of an upgrade when it comes to specifications for example the New Zealand platinum 80 to 80 replacing 80 180 is only clocked 200 megahertz higher for both the base and Bruce clocks across 28 cores within the same 205 watt TDP considering the pricing fit entails 28 core CPUs still sits between 10 and $18,000 yeah we can expect that 56 core CPU to be significantly higher than that you'd think more than double which would make it a mid 5 figure price CPU there are a few other features here for enterprises to use but again if you're interested I suggest reading the anon tech article given it's not really our area of expertise from looking at these releases it does seem like Intel doesn't have anywhere to go with high-end desktop processors until 10 nanometers arrives I certainly don't expect them to push out fifty six cores two desktops anytime soon meanwhile we're very interesting to see how AMD goes with second generation epoch and how that translates to thread Ripper CPUs later in the year with Intel stagnating there's a big opportunity here I think speaking of AMD in what shouldn't be a surprise to anyone the company is hosting a keynote at Computex on the day before the show officially kicks off there are basically no details on what will be shown up events and vague descriptions AMD's event invite says AMD CEO dr. Lisa suit will be delivering a first-of-its-kind CEO keynote on high-performance computing technologies at Computex 2019 during the keynote dr. Lisa sue and other high-profile guests will highlight new details of upcoming products and showcase how leading-edge technologies and an open ecosystem are driving an inflection point in computing in 2019 a milestone year marking the 50th anniversary of AMD so there will be all the usual stuff more information about third-generation Rison processors would make sense probably some stuff on a embiez GPU roadmap you know the drill and all the stuff to expect we don't have any additional insights to share with you on what AMD will be showing at this stage although it does sound like the keynote will be more on the teaser slash announcement side of the scale rather than a full product launch at least going on ambe's activities at Computex at least those that we know of so far Intel are continuing to suck up talent from everywhere in the industry for their GPU division this time hiring Tom Peterson from Nvidia as originally broken I think by hot hardware and gamers Nexus Peterson moved from Nvidia to Intel at the start of April which is a pretty big coup for the blue team Peterson was involved heavily with invidious technical marketing team but also worked as an engineer on various projects so he's the sort of person that would be highly sought after by a team entering the GPU market Peterson adds to a collection of talent hired by Nvidia in recent years including Roger Cordrey and Chris hook from AMD as well as Jim Keller formerly from AMD and also Tesla get ready to rage gamers because Borderlands 3 has been announced as another timed exclusive for the epic game store the game is launching on September 13 but will only be available through epics platform with other digital store fronts getting access in April 2020 I guess only having six months of exclusivity is a bit of an improvement of this situation with other titles but it will still disappoint those that feel like epics store is lacking in features compared to the vastly more populous state Epic Games also recently backtracked on this statement about how they will eventually stop poaching games from steam CEO Tim Sweeney said that epic is open to continuing to sign funding slash exclusivity deals with willing developers and publishers regardless of their previous plans or announcements around Steam although these calls must be up to the developers and publishers from the developer and publisher side of things it certainly seems like epic is doing something right as Borderlands 3 is one of many exclusive games on the platform even publishers with their own storefront like Ubisoft are jumping ship from steam to the epic store however the lack of fundamental launcher and store features compared to steam will continue to frustrate gamers many of which think these deals anti-consumer in more annoying news for gamers EA is adding microtransactions into battlefield 5 in what is a move that shouldn't surprise anyone who knows EA the in-game currency directly tied to real-world dollars is called battlefield currency or BC a name that the development team I'm sure spent hours debating you'll be able to use BC to purchase cosmetics as well as unique elite characters and timer saver XP boosts the latter two will be introduced in future updates ea says the elite character does not grant any type of gameplay advantage so it doesn't come with any special weapons outside of a signature melee weapon meanwhile the time saver option isn't quite a pay to win scheme but something about it doesn't seem right to me for a multiplayer title I think everyone should have equal access to XP games with that pain the timing of this one also surprises me a bit given battlefield 5 is still struggling to establish itself in the multiplayer ranks sure it does have a new battle royale mode but after a poor launch I think it's still a bit too soon to be chucking microtransactions into the game interested to hear your thoughts on this though in the comments - grigor stories to round out this shorter episode of news corner first up we have the new intel Wi-Fi 6ax 200 adapter if you recall the various Wi-Fi standards were renamed a while back with Wi-Fi 6 referring to what used to be a doe 2.11 ax so this new adapter is built for the latest Wi-Fi standards it comes in an MDOT tube form factor and also has bluetooth 5.0 so will be seen in plenty of laptops plus it supports stuff like 2x2 mu-mimo and 160 megahertz wide channels with an OEM price between 10 and 17 dollars it shouldn't be too expensive to include in new laptops final topic for this week relates to more Nvidia Deception although this time it's about their entry-level laptop discreet GPUs notebook check discovered that there are surprised surprised two variants of the mx2 50 in videos new GPU that just launched into the market one is a 10 watt variant with a 1d 52 ID while the other is a 25 watt variant labeled one day 13 clock rates differ quite a bit between the models as does performance with previous MX models the 10 watt variant was about 30% slower than the 25 watt model the big issue here is that once again it's impossible for buyers to know which MX 250 they're receiving when they purchase a laptop with a GPU inside because both GPUs carry the same name how is a buy supposed to know if they will be stuck with the slow or fast models unless the OEM goes into details on GPU clock speeds which they rarely do another situation that dust isn't good enough it's time to lift your game on this one Nvidia and that's it for this week's news corner as always you can subscribe get the segment in your inbox every week consider supporting us on patreon where you can get access to our discord chat room and I'll catch you in the next one