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this video is brought to you by cabbies calm design your own custom snap backs and hats welcome back to the hardware on box news corner in today's episode we'll be going through Intel's new Z 390 chipset that they're officially unveiled earlier in the week news of new CPUs from Intel and AMD a few interesting monitor related stories including updates in the ongoing g-sync HDR saga and a few graphics card stories to raft it all out let's get started one of the bigger news stories from this week concerns Intel said 390 chipset we've all known this chips that has been coming for a while but early in the week Intel published its product brief document for the chipset giving us all the official details maybe until published this document early by accident or maybe it was intentional either way we can now say for sure what this chipset is providing the first of the key inclusions is native support for up to six USB 3.1 gen2 ports the ten gigabit per second port in case the USB naming scheme is confusing you like it confuses everyone said 370 had no native support for USB 3.1 gen2 while chipsets like H 370 and Q 370 did so this new said 390 chipset is simply updating Intel's highest and standard chipset with features already introduced on lower end boards said 390 also includes integrated support for Intel's Wi-Fi arrow to point to connectivity which again we already saw with Intel's lower end trips including B 360 and H 310 other than those two things there are no significant changes compared to said 370 is simply a combination of the H 370 q 370 and Zi 370 platforms into the one top-end chipset that includes nearly every feature found across those three chipsets there are of course rumors that the Zed 390 platform will support Intel's supposedly upcoming eight called coffee-like chips whereas ed 370 will not but that wasn't confirmed in the latest set of documents hopefully though eight core coffee-like is only just around the corner there were a couple of CPU related news stories this week firstly it was announced an AMD partner event that second generation thread Ripper CPUs a sampler now and should be available to all customers it seems most likely that these new thread Ripper h EDT chips will launch in q3 of this year and hopefully we will see some new motherboards supporting the platform at Computex as was previously reported it seems the Red River will launch in 3 skews the 29 50 X 29 28 and 2900 X all of which should be upgrades on the similarly named first gen parts those first gen parts launched in August of last year so I reckon we'll see second gen thread repair around the same time this year the other CPU related news story of the week concerns Intel's 10 nanometer cannon Lake line-up the first cannon like chip was spotted in a new Lenovo laptop in a Chinese retailer the IdeaPad 330 this low-end laptop included a previously unseen core i3 8121 used CPU along with very basic specs like a 1366 by 768 display on our X 540 discrete GPU and 4 gig of ddr4 later in the week Intel published an ARC page that fully details the core i3 8121 you it's a 10 nanometer coffee Lake CPU with 2 cores and 4 threads with a base clock of 2.2 gigahertz the Canterbury up to 3.2 gigahertz it also has 4 megabytes of cache and a 15 watt TDP there are no integrated graphics as this has been disabled in this particular SKU the CPU isn't exactly the kickoff to Canon Lake and 10 nanometers that Intel would have hoped for it's an even lower end chip than the kb lake core i3 8130 you built on 14 nanometers offering lower clock speeds and no integrated GPU in the same 15 watt TDP until of course has had a lot of problems with their 10 nanometer manufacturing node and they are only shipping 10 animated chips at low volume right now perhaps only the 81 21 you hopefully by the time 10 animator wraps up in 2019 we'll have better CPUs available on that node the ongoing saga of g-sync HDR monitors is continuing despite Nvidia previously stating these monitors were on track for an April release in via this we confirm that the first g-sync hgr monitors are on track for a release at the end of May if you can believe them this time this first rollout will include the 27 inch 4k 144 Hertz HDR displays that will first shown off at Computex 20:16 ahead of juicing h giles official announcement at CES 2017 so yeah we've been wave these modernist for nearly two years now the model is in question are the ASA predator X 27 and a soos ROG script PG 27 UQ although there is also an IOC model with the same specs that Nvidia didn't include in this latest announcement later in the year we are supposed to get ultra wide g-sync HDR monitors with a 34 40 by 1440 resolution and 200 Hertz refresh rates then we still have no real idea when they're coming and then there's also the big format gaming displays with 65 inch 4k 120 Hertz paddles and those currently have an unknown release date we should be seeing these panels at Computex 2018 and then hopefully you'll actually be able to buy at least there 27 inch 4k 144 Hertz models in the next month or so provided you have several thousand dollars ready to spend in other display news the first 4k 120 Hertz displays now on sale from Korean manufacturer wasabi mango yep apparently that's a real company in hang anyway they have a forty three inch monitor with the 3840 by 2160 resolution and a true 120 hertz refresh rate the display allegedly supports HDR although it has just a maximum brightness of 400 nits and there's no word on gamut although it does support 10-bit color the panel itself uses IPS technology with the 1200 to 1 contrast ratio and 5 milliseconds rated response times if he interested this panel should be available at the end of the month for $1400 unfortunately while the display does push up to 120 Hertz it doesn't support free sync or J sync and who really knows what sort of coffee he can get from a company named wasabi mango Samsung is apparently working on a bunch of new monitors with next-gen displays they have a stupidly wide 49 inch 50 120 by 1440 VA panel in the works that pushes up to 120 Hertz which should be a higher-end option than their current 49 inch 32 9 ultra wide with a 38 40 by 1080 resolution there's also a 43 inch VA panel with the 38 40 by 1200 resolution and 144 Hertz refresh in the works and a new 34 40 by 1440 VA panel with a 144 Hertz refresh slated for q3 2018 for those that enjoy 4k gaming although as a 30 1.5 inch curved 4k 120 Hertz VA panel that should be ready in July so all the cool new stuff coming from Samsung's monitor factory at the moment MSI has new Radeon graphics cards in the pipeline under the mech 2 brand we should say these officially at Computex in both an Rx 580 and rx 570 variant complete with the cooler that provides 22% more air pressure or something anyway these look like fairly standard AMD graphics cards but it is interesting that MSI are pushing out a new brand at this time on a more interesting note power color will be showing off a Radeon rx Vega 56 nano graphics card at Computex there absolutely no technical details to go off at this stage but there is a product image and looks pretty small as you'd expect from a nano card it also matches up with the prototype nano card showing off in Munich last month that some people managed to take some pictures off final news topic for the week call of duty black ops 4 will be exclusive to Activision Blizzard's battle.net platform on PC for the first time this means no Steam version instead you'll have to use the battlenet launcher and purchase a battlenet version considering steam is still the best platform out there for gaming this is pretty annoying to hear at least for me although at least the game will launch on October 12th and will support things like 4k HDR and uncapped frame rates yep apparently those features are worth mentioning as Activision did so during their by cops 4 announcement live stream a couple of days ago not the 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