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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 box news corner not feeling quite as sick today which is good news because there's loads of news to cover including Spector hitting Intel hard once again a new GTX 1050 variant a few bits of game news and more let's talk about the new gtex 1050 variant first up because it's probably a bit more interesting than first appears the verge is being called the geforce gtx 1053 gigabyte as opposed to the original 2 gigabyte model however it differs from the original in more than just gddr5 memory capacity in fact the coup de coeur count rob count clock speeds and memory bus have all changed as well which just adds confusion to the situation so the original gtx 1050 is a cut down version of invidious GP 107 die featuring 640 cuda cores the gtx 1053 gigabyte however has 768 cuticles the same as the gtx 750ti however unlike the 1050 Ti we're looking at a 96 bit memory bus and potentially just 24 drops which is lower than the 128 bit bus and 32 Rob's you get with both the 1050 Ti and original 1050 perhaps to compensate for this the core clock speed has been raised higher than both the 1050 and 1050 Ti to 1392 megahertz with a readyboost clock of 1518 megahertz in short the three gig variant of the gtx 950 has more memory but less memory bandwidth it also has a raised core count to match the gtx 750ti and a higher clock speeds in the 1050 Ti yet fewer rocks according to Nvidia this new gtx 1053 gigabyte is roughly 10% faster than the original 2 gig model and while there's no exact price it should be available soon in the same price bracket as the 1050 and 1050 Ti now I have a problem with the gtx 1053 gigabyte it has a really stupid name and it joins a long list of graphics cards released by both nvidia and AMD in the past few years with names that just confuse customers names like the 1063 gigabyte the GT 10:30 with ddr4 the MX 151 d12 the RX 560 16 and 14 cu models all of these are really dumb often these cards mess with more than just the memory configurations listed in their names and that just makes it harder for consumers to know what they are buying it really isn't that hard for these companies to create a unique product name for each of their graphics cards that easily identifies where the cards lie in the product stack Nvidia is already using a numbered naming scheme yet they've just chosen not to use it for cars like the GTX and 53 gigabyte just annoying stuff really and it only does a disservice to buyers let's move on to talk about the latest spectre vulnerability starting with Spectre variant four or Sivir year 2018 36:39 this particular four is part of the Spectre mg family that was discovered after the original set of Spectre issues earlier this year as you might expect Spectre v4 also exploits speculative execution and through the use of a side channel an attacker could potentially read privileged data across trust boundaries the floor it's also known as speculative store bypass or SSB Spectre variant for effects most CPU vendors including Intel AMD arm and more just like with previous Spectre issues all CPU manufacturers are working on patches and mitigation for this issue and it appears Intel is the hardest hit their firmware level patch has led to a performance impact of approximately two to eight percent based on overall scores for benchmarks like sis mark 2014 ASC and speck integer rate on both client and server test systems this patch will be released through om system manufacturers and supported through OS software updates in the coming weeks AMD isn't as effective they are mitigating SSP through an operating system update for products going back to bulldozer the windows patch is in the final stages of testing and validation while Linux patches are in development early testing from fir onyx on Linux suggests these software level patches have little performance impact interestingly both AMD and Intel are recommending the patch respectively for be left disabled by default based on the difficulty to exploit this vulnerability this means that at least on Intel systems you will only experience performance if you specifically enable the patch for extra protection the other recently disco inspector flaw is dubbed variant 3a or CBE 2018 3640 otherwise known as rogue system register read or RSR ii of the two main cpu vendors AMD claims they have not discovered any products of theirs affected by this floor whereas intel are affected luckily the patch rectifying is for has no performance impact on Intel processors this story probably won't come as a surprise but Nvidia and SK Hynix have struck a deal to use G DDR 6 memory on upcoming graphics products it's not clear whether this memory will be ready in time for NVIDIA set of cards scheduled for release or later this year or whether it be used across the product stack but SK Hynix the stock did jump by 6 percent when the deal was announced currently SK Hynix offers eight gigabit GDD are six chips supporting fourteen gigabit per second at one point three five volts or twelve gigabit per second at one point two five volts the top 14 gigabit per second option is a fair bit faster than current gddr5 X memory that tops out around 11 gigabit per second considering the price of high-performance memory I reckon we'll see GDD r 6 appear first in high-end cards in place of gddr5 X and as an alternative to the extremely expensive HBM tube though you know with all these sort of rumor type stories who really knows at this point it feels like I've been covering the story of 4k 144 Hertz g-sync HDR monitors every week for the past few weeks now but hopefully this is the final time I have to mention them on this new show and that's because this week both ASA and the suits finally finally have announced these miners with a proper release date and pricing the Acer predator X 27 will ship on June 1st with a 1999 dollar price tag while the sous rog swift PG 27 u q will be available later in June also for around that two thousand dollar mark in case you're wondering about Australian pricing the sous told me their monitor will cost four thousand four hundred ninety nine dollars and yes that's not a mistake a u.s. two thousand dollar product will cost four and a half thousand dollars here which is pre outrageous but I guess Bach Institute anyway both moons is the same a Optronics 3840 by 2160 hv a panel with a 144 hertz refresh rate a thousand it's of peak brightness and 384 f a LD backlighting zones it's also quantum dot enhanced with 96% coverage of the DCI p3 gamut they support g-sync HDR as well for a combination of adaptive sync and HDR at the same time Razer this week announced a new blade laptop and a new core X Thunderbolt 3 GPU enclosure the blade in particular looks pretty cool with a refined design slimmer bezels and a whole host of new hardware the CPU is upgraded to Intel's Core i7 8750 H and on the GPU side you get either an nvidia geforce gtx 1060 max Q or a gtx 1070 max q depending on how much money you want to spend ram varies from 16 to 32 gigabytes and SSD options start from 512 gigabytes plus there's an 80 watt hour battery inside as you'd expect from a raised laptop the new blade is quite expensive it starts at 1,900 bucks for the GTX 1060 max Q braids and 2,400 bucks for the gtx 1070 max q it'll be interesting to see where the raises thermal solution has improved along with this new design it's the cooler ran a bit hot and loud on previous generations of this laptop and that was just with a four core CPU inside the razor core X is a new version of the core that comes in at a far more reasonable price point the core v2 cost a ludicrous 500 bucks for what other a GPU enclosures were offering for around 300 bucks so the new core X is priced at a much more reasonable $2.99 it has a 650 watt PSU inside up from the 500 watt unit in the core v2 so we can now support even more powerful graphics cards when they exist there's also a redesigned cooling solution that swaps out five smaller fans for just one 120 millimeter fan however you do lose USB and Ethernet connectivity in favor of just Thunderbolt three for connecting to your device of choice my previous model the graphics card is not included cryo rig is set to show up there frostbit m2 SSD cooler at Computex this is kind of this strange product considering SSDs don't typically need to be cooled but here we are with the dual heat pipe cool affair Emre two SSDs with a total dissipation capacity of 12 watts it's not an active cooler so you still need some airflow for the best cooling performance I guess choir rig thinks that some fins on an SSD are better than none and you made the design of this cooler even allows for adjustment so the cooler doesn't obstruct our graphics cut if the MDOT two slot is located near the primary PCIe slot the design also doesn't interfere with the standard mounting points for 2280 size drives anyway we'll hear more about this at Computex where cryo rig will unveil the price and availability moving into the quicker topics now and this is just a quick PSA that the steam spring sale is currently on if you want to add another 50 games to your library that you will never play now is the perfect chance next up and I'm sure a lot of you would have seen this announcement from a few days ago already EA has officially announced battlefield 5 for an October release interestingly there's a staggered launch for this game with that first coming out on Origin access on October 11 then for deluxe edition buyers on October 16 and finally for standard edition owners on October 19 it's set in world war 2 there is a woman on the cover and as a playable character which certainly rustled a few jimmies there is no premium past this time around so all map updates in the future will be free and there's also no loot boxes however there will be microtransactions for cosmetic items PC gamer has a great article the details everything announced so far about the game and there's a few interesting changes to some of the gameplay mechanics compared to battlefield 1 so if you want to know more you should just go over and check out their article more will be revealed at EA play in June NZXT has released the H 580 500 I cases the H 500 is the more basic of the two with a simple exterior and tempered glass side panel of course you can't go without tempered glass in 2018 there's a removable front bracket to make it easy to install up to a 280 mm meter radiator and you get two 120mm fans included with the case the H 500 is largely the same but it also includes NZXT smart device which is a fan and RGB lighting control hub the case comes with two pre-installed RGB LED strips and also a vertical graphics card mount which are not included with the H 500 they're a riser cable for the GP you will need to be bought separately both cases should be available in early June the H 500 price 70 bucks and the H 500 I at a hundred bucks final news topic of the week some Samsung two LED TVs from their 2018 lineup have received a firmware update that introduces free sync support if you have a q6 f NQ 7 f NQ 8 f NQ 9 FN or the Nu 8000 update the firmware version 1103 to get free sync through the game mode in the menu this will be particularly useful if you have a gaming PC hooked up to your TV or have an Xbox one which will soon be updated to support free sync that's it for this week's news corner don't forget to subscribe so you get this quick new summary in your inbox every Friday provided YouTube doesn't continue screwing around with it consider supporting us on patreon and I'll catch you in the next one you