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welcome back to the hard round box news corner big week of news has just occurred lots of topics to get through in what is a bit of a surprise given April tends to be one of the slowest months of the year also you might have noticed a few items slowly disappearing from the back of my set here that's because I'm moving house which means this set does need to be deconstructed if you're interested in getting a behind-the-scenes look at that process and new boxing boxer series we'll be running over the next few weeks on our patreon behind-the-scenes channel so check that out if you are a patreon member anyway let's get on with the show so one of the bigger news stories to emerge this week concerns the PlayStation 5 now we aren't a console gaming channel and really don't care what Sony or Microsoft are doing with the next-gen consoles for the most part but an exclusive published in why this week has revealed a few tidbits about the PS 5 that are relevant for us PC gamers out there it's no surprise that the PS 5 will have an AMD chip insight I think most people assume this would be the case it's also not surprising that the CPU side will be using AMD Zen 2 architecture built on 7 animators and in fact there will be 8 cores however the small tidbit here that is getting PC gamers excited concerns the GPU Sony is using a custom variant of radians Navi family and that GPU will support ray tracing we don't know a whole lot about Navi in fact we know basically nothing because Amb hasn't even begun teasing the technology but this reveal could hint at what is in store for PC gamers Navi for desktop PCs might support ray tracing unfortunately we really are stuck with just saying it might support ray tracing because at the end of the day nothing has been confirmed even if this GPU supports ray tracing on consoles this functionality might not be present in the desktop GPUs given sony is specifically using a custom navi variant ray tracing on consoles could also involve some special software or even separate Hardware tricks which might not be available on PC it definitely is exciting that Navi in some form will support ray tracing and that could make the jump over to PC but we just want to temper expectations given we still have so little information in fact this teaser for the PS 5 doesn't reveal any other interesting specifications relating to the GPU so we don't know how powerful it will be the only thing mentioned was Navi and ray-tracing with more to be revealed down the line the second story is one that quickly blew up and generated a lot of discussion in our patreon exclusive discord community MSI are not going to support AMD Xen two processes on their 300 serious motherboards at least this was the story that was generated on reddit from an email thread from one of MSI's customer service representatives if this story were true it would of course be very disappointing as the whole premise of AMD's a m4 platform was that the socket would be supported for several generations up to 2020 so people could comfortably buy a 300 series motherboard knowing that they can upgrade to a more powerful CPU in a few years time without needing to replace the motherboard this upgrade path has been a huge selling point for Rison and its motherboards and something we've talked about a lot luckily for MSI 300 series owners the story was basically a load of crap MSI issued a clarification stating that actually Xen - will be supported as expected on most of MSI's 300 and 400 series motherboards it's not clear if every board will be supported MSI say they are still performing extensive testing on our existing lineup of 300 and 400 series and 4 motherboards to verify potential compatibility for the next-gen AMD rise and cpus and the list of boards with confirmed support for zen - doesn't have every single board on the market however most boards are on the list including all the major ones or high-end ones and all the popular ones including be 350 boards so I think there shouldn't be much concern about support moving forward in another story related to AMD it appears as though the company is preparing a collection of 50th anniversary products to of course celebrate the company's 50th birthday however it doesn't appear as though these products are anything new so nothing's n2 or na'vi based instead they're just special editions of existing products one retailer shot BLT personally listening for a Rison 720 700 X 50th anniversary edition CPU with a higher price than the regular version of this CPU the listing has since been pulled down unfortunately we don't know anything about specs or whether this special 2700 X will be any different from other 2700 X's although we'd expect the 50th anniversary model to include especially engraving on the heat spreader I doubt though we'll see any changes to specs sapphire also appear to be readying a gold version of their rx 519 Nitro+ GPU we're not sure if this is in fact related to amy's 50th anniversary celebrations or whether sapphire has just felt like making a gold variant but either way you should be able to get this product soon final ambi story before moving on to other things right now you can get a risin 5 1600 processor for a super cheap price of just $120 through Amazon and Newegg or just $80 in store at Micro Center the CPU has briefly appeared at $120 for a few days last month but it's never been available for $80 making it a bit of a steal right now considering it's still a very capable CPU I'd expect to see more of these types of discounts as we get closer to ambe's risin 3000 series launched in the next few months tsmc has unveiled a new manufacturing process they're calling 6 nanometers or CLM 6ff this new node is focused primarily on providing higher transistor density than their 7 nanometer node offering 18% higher density without any significant improvements to performance or power consumption to achieve this the company is using new capabilities in extreme ultraviolet lithography you might be wondering why would tsmc develop 6 nanometers alongside 7 nanometre plus their other node that's 6 8 7 animators when seven animated plus provides higher transistor density as well as performance and power improvements you think that most companies wouldn't bother with 6 nanometers and just go from 7 nanometers to 700 meters plus however 6 nanometers uses many of the same design rules of 7 nanometers so a company that already has a design for seven nanometer should be able to transition it to six nanometers at a reasonably low cost at least lower than what it would take to bring that design to set a nanometer plus this could be beneficial to customers that are targeting density over other improvements and I want to achieve this at the lowest possible development cost 6 nano meters will begin risk production in the first quarter of 2020 and should be available for a broad range of applications according to TSM C and in other foundry news samsung has completed development on their 5 nanometer technology which like most leading-edge processes uses extreme ultraviolet lithography samsung says that compared to seven nanometers five nanometers brings a 25% increase in logic area efficiency with either 20% lower power consumption or 10% higher performance so that's a pretty decent game samsung also says that the transition from seven nanometers to five nanometers should be pretty easy as it reuses a lot of IP moving into monitor news now and we have four new interesting displays from Acer that were announced this week the lineup is a little confusing but there are lots of attractive hi and display C that I think will interest gamers the first one is the ace of Predator CG 437 K which despite receiving predator branding is actually just a freesync MOA though these are now compatible with NVIDIA GPUs anyway so this is a 43 inch 3840 by 2160 v a display with a 144 hertz maximum refresh rate 90% coverage of DCI p3 and peak brightness of 1000 nits its display HDR 1000 certified as a result there's no word on specific local dimming capabilities but it has to include at least some form of dimming to be displayed hgl 1000 certified this sounds like a pretty compelling large monitor for gamers and it will be available for thirteen hundred US dollars around August to September next up we have the ASA concept D cm 7 3 2 1 K which is a 32 inch 4k IPS display with mini LED backlighting this monitor should be quite similar to the seuss models we talked about last week and that it has 1152 local dimming zones peak brightness of 1000 nits and 99% Adobe RGB coverage positioned is more of a content creation display it is only 60 Hertz it has factory calibration to adult a of less than 1 and lots of creative specific features it will also have a pro grade price of $3,000 when it launches in September then we have the ace of concept DCP 7 to 7 1k addressing ultimate display that's designed for both content creators and gamers it has a 27 inch 4k panel and up to 144 Hertz with display hgl 1000 certification so again it will have local dimming and ASA says it supports a 93% DCI p3 coverage this monitor will cost two thousand dollars and will be available in July then finally we have the concept DCP 3 to 7 1 K another 27 inch 4k 1/4 four Hertz monitor again designed for content creation with battery calibration to a delta a of less than one as well as gaming with that high refresh rate and adaptive sync however this isn't as high end of a monitor as the CP 7-2 7-1 K so it lacks local dimming and is only certified for display HDR 400 no word on pricing or launch date for this one gigabyte are expanding into yet another market with their horas branding this time CPU coolers with the ATC 800 a beefy tower core with dual 120 millimeter RGB fans and six six millimeter nickel plated copper heat pipes weighing in at a little over one kilogram the cooler is good for up to 200 watt loads and support sockets including AM for LGA 2066 and LGA 1150 X no word on pricing or release date just yet I think we'll see more of this at Computex and we're going to round this one out with the latest set of gtx 1650 rumours from video cards they're claiming the nuturing based graphics card will pack 896 CUDA cores four gigabytes of gddr5 memory on a 128-bit bus and will be clocked at fourteen eighty five megahertz base and sixteen sixty five megahertz boost allegedly the card is launching April 23rd for 149 dogs we haven't seen specs for this card just yet but everything here sounds about right and it shouldn't be too long until we learn how invidious rx 570 competitor will fare that's if this week's news corner hope everyone is enjoying their Easter break here in Australia we have best be a four-day public holiday in the Miss Anzac Day next week as well so definitely lots of breaks enjoy that time off subscribe to get this segment in your inbox every Friday consider supporting us on patreon to catch some behind the 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