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people are enjoying them so go check that out but yeah now let's get onto the news the first story I want to cover it relates to AMD's Radeon RX 5700 xt 50th anniversary edition which is quite some mouthful of a cheap you name if you remember this is aimed a special edition of the RX 5700 xt that ships with a black and gold cooler design and comes slightly factory overclocked it's set to cost 499 US dollars a $50 premium over the regular version of the card now I saw a news story this morning claiming that the 50th anniversary edition of this card will only be sold to those in the United States and China through AMD comm the source for this story seems to be the French tech site Cal Copland however in good news for those in other territories I have confirmed with AMD that the story is not true the 50th anniversary edition is still a limited additional product and it won't have wide availability for example we won't be able to buy one here in Australia but it will be available to more than just the United States and China in fact AMD provided me with the full list of countries most of European we have Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden and in kingdom and of course there's also Canada I'm sure some people will be disappointed that their country isn't in the list AMD says that they are working on expanding sales through OMB comm into other countries but it doesn't sound like this will happen for this watch still significant parts of Europe should be happy that the card isn't just restricted to the US and China like that report seemed to suggest Intel have launched a new one-click overclocking tool for their ninth gen process is called the Intel Performance Maximizer the idea of this utility is to make it easy for owners of K suffix CPUs to overclock and get the most performance with that fiddling around with the BIOS settings it works through a fairly standard method of slowly ramping up clock speeds and validating each step through a stability test when the CPU eventually crashes the software drops down to the previous stable step and tries it all again with voltage tweaks until it finds that optimal stable point all this is achieved through a single button at this stage it's only compatible with six ninth gen processes the kora 9 in 9900 K in 1900 KF the core i7 9700 k + 9700 KF and the core i5 9600 k + 9600 KF you also need an overclocking capables n series motherboard like I said 390 I'm not sure why Intel's own 9th Gen Core i3 9350 KF 4 or older coffee like 8th gen parts aren't compatible with the tool it doesn't seem like these parts shouldn't work but Intel does like to lock stuff down to encourage upgrades to the latest generation when using this tool Intel warns you that overclocking is not supported by the processors warranty and then offers you what they are calling the performance tuning protection plan for 20 US dollars this plan gives you a one-time return for any processor killed through overclocking provided you bought the processor as a boxed model from a retail store those that have tested the tool say it works well often pushing the 99 100 K up to a 5 gigahertz or Core overclock depending on the silicon lottery of course and often at relatively low voltages Intel's future plans for the tool include supporting / core overclocking for optimizing performance further and support for future CPUs including those in the H ADT line it's probably not something enthusiasts overclockers will use over manual tweaking but the tool sound promising for those with current Intel processes that can't be bothered doing all the tweaking required to get a good overclock while PCIe 4.0 is only just now rolling out with Amy's third gen rising processors and x5 70 motherboards the specification is pushing ahead to PCIe 6.0 that's right 6.0 in 2021 PCIe 5.0 has just been finalized in the last few weeks so it makes sense that the PCI special interest group is already at work on the next generation of PCIe the key improvement to PCIe 6.0 is a doubling of bandwidth once again psi a 4.0 doubled bandwidth from eight Giga transfers per second per Lane to 16 Giga transfers per second allowing for transfer speeds near 32 gigabytes per second with the time 16 device psi a 5.0 doubles it again to 32gb transfers per second which means PCIe 6.0 will bring us up to 64 Giga transfers per second so for PCIe 6.0 x 16 devices we're looking at 128 gigabytes per second of bandwidth the development of PCIe has definitely accelerated in the last few years well we've been stuck with pcie 3.0 for years now the spec was finalized in 2010 and it took until 2017 to get PCIe 4.0 so while the last spec upgrade took seven years these days in just four years we're looking at jumping up two whole revisions it typically takes manufacturers around two years to take the PCIe specification and implement it in new products psi 4.0 was released in 2017 and in 2019 we're seeing the first products to use it starting with AMD meanwhile intel has promised a piece a 5.0 chips in 2021 which is two years after the specs released this year so if a PCIe 6.0 we're looking at around 2023 for retail products with the spec being finalized in 2021 if you're after more technical details on what PCIe 6.0 is set to bring once again I'll point you to an antique who have all the relevant details they also have a great article detailing the new changes in another spec update nvm e 1.4 which I'm not going to cover here Samsung are the first company to announce a gaming monitor with a 240 Hertz VA panel the C 27 RG 50 is a 27 inch curved monitor with a 1080p resolution and an eye watering 240 Hertz refresh which is certainly going to push the capabilities of VA technology typically known for slow response times to its absolute limits I'm interested to see how this panel will fare in the testing labs and how close it gets to true 240 Hertz in reality especially as Samsung according a four millisecond response time which is just barely fast enough for 240 Hertz other specifications include support for free sync plus Nvidia g-sync compatibility it's a 1500 hour curvature 3020 contrast ratio and no HDR or wide gamut support Samsung and launching the panel mid July like a lot of new display releases and it will be priced around four hundred US dollars EA is a never-ending source for great stories just this week EA VP Kerry Hopkins fronted up to UK Parliament to discuss issues like loot boxes and gambling in video games and delivered this absolute gem of a quote if you go to I don't know what your version of target is a store that sold a lot of toys and you do a search for surprise toys you will find that this is something people enjoy they enjoy surprises it is something that has been part of toys for years whether it is kinder eggs or hatch normals or loss surprise we think the way we have implemented those kinds of mechanics and FIFA of course is our big one our FIFA Ultimate Team in our packs is quite Ithaca land quite fun it is enjoyable to people here trying to spin loot boxes is merely surprise mechanics and climbing that is quite a fickle and quite fun is definitely a new I'm not sure I'll it'll pay off for EA but hey at least they tried Intel are not outsourcing some 14 nanometer CPU production to Samsung a story did the rounds this week claiming the Intel were in negotiations with Samsung to produce 14 nanometer rocket Lake processes in Samsung's fabs for release in 2021 the reasoning behind this was supposedly to alleviate some of the strain on Intel's 14 nanometer manufacturing facilities which are well known to be at capacity and struggling to keep up with demand but as it turns out as confirmed by Tom's Hardware Intel are not negotiating with Samsung to manufacture CPUs they are in talks with the company to shift some of their less performance critical products over to Samsung's fourteen animated tech like chipset for example but CPUs are not part of this discussion and to be honest this makes a lot more sense than in telling a CPU line probably one that's been designed specifically for Intel's fab technology over to a third party Intel has already rolled some chipsets back to 22 nanometers in the wake of 40 nanometer shortages last year and has allegedly used TSMC for some outsourcing in the past any time you told users of third-party for manufacturing the deals and details that typically kept secret but the company has confirmed these sorts of agreements have been happening for some time anyway Intel's ongoing challenges with their fabs continue to be an interesting story and I'm eager to see what happens when the company can finally start shipping some chips on 10 nanometers which is supposed to happen later this year final topic for this week we have pricing information for courses upcoming MP 600 PCIe 4.0 SSD which gives us a bit of a taste of where premium high performance SSDs will sit in the market according to Cal Cal and the MP 600 in its one terabyte capacity has a price tag of 249 euros while the two terabyte model sits at 449 euros including tax this is in contrast to 160 euros for Corsairs MP 510 960 gigabyte model and 320 euros for the 1920 gigabyte model so we're looking at a 35 to 40 percent higher price which I guess isn't all that surprising given the performance Coursera promising including sequential raid speeds of up to four point nine five gigabytes per second whether or not you'll actually need this sort of performance is another question and I guess what to determine that and based it on the workloads that you guys are using that's it for this week's news corner subscribe to get this segment in your inbox every week consider supporting us on patreon Wakeham or some of our new behind the scenes videos like the video if you enjoyed it I'll catch you in the next one