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welcome back to the hardware box news corner our second episode for this week coming to you on this fine Sunday afternoon a couple of interesting topics to discuss this week but first today's video has been sponsored by as rock and their new phantom gaming range of said 390 motherboards the Zed 390 phantom gaming 6 and 9 include a blazing fast 2.5 gear bits per second network interface offering gamers and content creators 2.5 times the bandwidth compared to the standard Gigabit Ethernet for more information please check the link in the video description so for the first topic in today's episode I wanted to return to the discussion of dead or dying Nvidia RT X cards which we covered as our main story in news corner earlier in the week we don't have a ton of new information to go over but we are seeing more reports of failures and issues relating to RTX cards since this news broke so it seems like I guess more people coming forward to report issues now that they know their problems perhaps weren't an unlucky one-off as we mentioned earlier the general trend to these issues appears to be at least somewhat related to the founders edition PCB as pretty much every failed card has either been a founders edition model directly from Nvidia or a board partner card that uses the founders Edition PCB design AIB cards that use a custom PCB and that's most io v cards seem to be unaffected I still want to stress though that while the founders edition PCB appears to be correlated to the failures we still aren't sure what is exactly causing the problems there is a report from Tom's Hardware suggesting GDD are six temperatures are exceeding the 95 degrees Celsius safe operating limit set by a manufacturer micron potentially due to the founders edition cooler design and the layer of the PCB disease vrm power tracks run directly under some jdd are six modules we've also heard about a potential GDD are six bidding issue with an earlier batch of r-tx cards that has been resolved with new production runs and we've also heard some reports that some users can get their cards working through underclocking the memory though this trick it doesn't appear to be working for everyone but their theme at this stage is that they are just reports there's nothing concrete linking one specific problem to the failures so with that in mind we actually want to point you all to gamers Nexus because currently longhead Steve and his crew over there are trying to get a collection of failed RTX cards on hand to try and isolate the specific issue the guys over there do a great job with these sorts of investigations so we're going to leave this one to them and wait for their findings because they'll get a definitive answer to this whole mess crucially though if any of you guys do have a failed RTX card that you haven't sent back through an RMA process yet we encourage you to get in touch with gamers Nexus and arrange for them to borrow the card so they can get to the bottom of this the more dead cards they have on hand for easier it will be to isolate the problem they've set up an email address for people to use to get in contact with them that email is dead xx atti @ gamers nexus net and they're asking you to provide information on your failed card what it's doing and what country you live in we also have links in the description below to their reddit thread and news post about their investigation so check that out for any further information and we'll leave it over to the guys at games Nexus to get back to us on what is exactly causing all these failed cards our second major topic for this week involves NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti stock as you might know we follow graphics card stock and pricing closely for our series that covers the best value GPUs on the market and we noticed a few troubling signs relating to the 1080 Ti earlier this week and I think games Nix has also found something similar in their latest news episode anyway the main story here is that the GTX 10 ATT I stock well it's nearly all gone and it's not coming back with the Arctic's 2080 in town effectively replacing the 1080 TI Nvidia has ended production for the flagship consumer Pascal part so once the final batch of cards has been sold that's it this was I guess it was always going to happen once Troon was released it was only a matter of how long before 1080 T eyes would run out and appears we're now reaching that point if you browse popular retailers like Newegg and Amazon there are far fewer 1080 TI cards available to purchase now than there were a couple of weeks ago pricing has also increased drastically in mid-october cards were available for as low as 700 u.s. dollars now the cheapest card is a gigabyte horse model for seven hundred and sixty dollars and the next cheapest card is nearly 800 with several other cards selling for around the $1,000 mark and here in Australia at our favorite retailer PC case key there is only one 1082 our models still in stock once these cards sell out the 1080 TI will no longer be available to buy new from retailers and that's really bad news for gamers who are after a high end GPU because the r-tx 20/80 that is replacing the 1080i is currently still selling for around $800 which is $100 more than the 1080 TI was selling for and in our review we found that the 2080 was only 1% faster than the 1080 TI in a 35 game average at 1440p and 4k so what's the remaining 10 LED eyes sell out gamers will basically have to spend $100 more to get the exact same performance that was available for a lower price with a previous generation product so that's pretty painful but it's really not surprising that the 1080 eyes have sold that quickly and won't be replenished and video was essentially competing with themselves they released the 2080 onto the market at a high price and it just wasn't as attractive to buy up against in videos own 1080 TI so it's no surprise that buyers flock to the 1080 TI instead going forward it makes sense that Nvidia would focus on their newer RT X cards rather than trying to sell you know Turing in Pascal at the same price points in better news for gamers Nvidia sundar Pascal cards are still in plentiful stock so you can still buy a GTX Tonelli for around four hundred and forty dollars making it a better option than the RT X 2070 at around $500 while the 2070 is 7% faster than the 1080 is 14% more expensive in a best-case scenario though like the gtx 1080i we expect GT X 1080 stock will run out at some point and buyers will only be left with the worst value 2070 as the only option at some point in the future AMD is set to host an event dubbed next horizon in just a few days on November 6th the event was posted on the Investor Relations website and was mentioned in their earnings call as well though details are still a little light on at this stage the company is only stating at this point that the event will cover innovation of AMD products and technology specifically designed with a data center on industry-leading set nanometer process technology this fits with what we've been hearing about AMD's upcoming event it's more focused on the enterprise and data center side of their business so we can expect to hear about their first seven nanometer products including second-generation epic CPUs and seven nanometer Vega GPUs I wouldn't be expecting too much on the consumer side AMD is planning to use their CES events to discuss seven animated as well in early 2019 and will almost certainly focus on consumer products like third gen rice and at that event what's unclear is where the next Horizons will be used to unveil the rx 590 which has been the subject of a ton of rumors over the past couple of weeks considering the focus on enterprise and data center launching a mid-range consumer GPU at the event but wouldn't really fit in with the rest of the content but who knows what AMD will be covering it's probably an event to keep your eye on though if you are interested in the RX 590 just in case they sneak it in there somewhere battlefield 5 system requirements have been unveiled which I guess it isn't normally news that is interesting enough to put in news corner but unlike with other games battlefield 5 implements DirectX ray-tracing and supports invidious r-tx technology so dice has listed requirements specifically for DXR this is the first time we're hearing directly from a game developer about what hardware is actually required to run ray tracing in their game so battlefield 5 requires an NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2070 or higher to run DXR which I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that's the lowest tier card that supports DirectX ray-tracing there's no word on what level of ray tracing the RT X 2070 will enable because presumably there will be you know several different levels of ray tracing that will be usable depending on which ITX card you have but at least our TX 2070 owners will be able to use ray tracing in this game just at an unknown quality level what is a little surprising is the other system requirements for DX I dice lists either are risin 720 700 or Intel Core i7 8700 as a required CPU which is much higher than the Rison 3 1300 X or Intel Core i7 4790 they are as recommended for the again they also list 60 gigabytes of RAM for DX er up from 12 gigabytes in the recommen spec's and of course you need the windows 10 October 2018 update version 1809 to support dxr that said dice didn't say what sort of resolution or framerate they are targeting for their decks our recommended requirements but considering what developers usually target which is 1080p 60fps we're looking at needing a high-end PC to get decks are running at a modest resolution again probably not a surprise considering what we saw from our TX demos earlier this year fallout 76 is looking like another typical Bethesda Game Studios title on PC and that is of course a complete mess apparently the game still Tides physics simulations to the framerate a major flaw of the terrible creation engine the game uses but to make matters worse this is a multiplayer only title so when someone runs the game with an unlocked framerate they will move much faster than everyone else in the game world running with an unlocked framerate during the beta was as easy as modifying and any file to remove the frame cap it's actually amazing to me that this issue was present in the fall at 76 beta considering that this was a known issue with past bethesda games like fallout 4 this really should have been fixed well before the beta was released but at least having a better period has allowed users to report the problem so they can fix it ahead of the full release in a few weeks there's of course if Bethesda can even fix the problem before then it seems like a fundamental issue with the game engine and may be very complicated to fix and if they don't fix it the game will be a complete disaster on PC with some players zooming around the map much faster than others other issues with fallout 76 at the moment include a complete left of 21 9 aspect ratio support another issue that was present with fallout 4 and has gone unfixed since then and apparently the optimization of the game at the moment is rather terrible so I guess Steve and I certainly going to have fun testing this game in a few weeks it sounds just fantastic Corsair has launched two new liquid coolers in their hydro series the H 100i platinum and H 115 a platinum the main changes here compared to the h1 59 and H 100 I Pro RGB models are well more RGB lighting the fans are now upgraded to use courses ml 120 or ML 140 RGB morals which have RGB lighting of course while the pump head now has a ring of sixteen addressable RGB lights as well the H 100 i Platinum costs one hundred and sixty dollars so that's forty dollars more than H 100 I pro RGB while the H 115 i Platinum is one hundred and seventy dollars up thirty dollars from the H 115 I Pro RGB final topic of this week destiny 2 is currently free to permanently keep if you download it before November 18 through battlenet on PC yep that's right all you have to do is log in to your battlenet account and download destiny 2 before that date and you can keep the game linked to your account forever the game's DLC isn't included with this offer but hey you know it's still a pretty great deal if you haven't played the game and want to give it a try that's it for this week's news : subscribe to catch the segments in your inbox every week and hit that Bell icon snoop delivers it to you properly consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord chat and monthly livestreams and we'll catch you in the next one you