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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 unbox news corner normally we push these videos out on a Friday but due to a last-minute schedule change this episode is reaching you all on Saturday I hope you don't mind and hopefully no message news stories break between when I filmed this episode and it goes live fingers crossed about that one also it's super cold and windy here so hopefully none of that gets too annoying in the audio for this episode anyway this week hasn't been particularly busy with new stories but there's a few interesting things to discuss and video were briefly able to restock their GeForce graphics cards at the MSRP reports suggest Intel have suspended production of the h3 10 chipset valve has a steam link app for mobile devices in the works and more so let's get right into it the first story of the week involves Nvidia and this time it's actually not about the GeForce partner program it seems the company wants to get back on the good side of gamers after canceling the notorious GPP last week and there's no better way to do that than to release stock of GeForce graphics cards at the MSRP the stock hit invidious official online store on May 9th and depending on the region sold out pretty quickly as you'd expect in North America it appeared cards were still available half a day after the news broke on invidious twitter however a day later and a lot of cards have sold out as of the time I filmed this news episode every card Nvidia sold through the website is not available from the GTX 1080 Ti through to the GTX 1066 gigabyte it's worth noting that as in video were selling these cards directly they were only offering their founders additional versions which launched at a higher price point than the official MSRP that explains why some cars like the gtx 1066 gigabyte were available for $2.99 rather than the mythical two $49 MSRP other cards like the GT x 1080 TI and gtx 1070 TI were priced at the MSRP as their founders edition price was no different the MSRP those that were able to get a 1080 TI from nvidia were the luckiest as in video was selling them for $6.99 while the cheapest cards at retailers like Newegg currently cost $200 more than that the gtx 1070 TI and gtx 1070 were also about $50 cheaper than most cards available at third parties however due to the higher than MSRP launch price of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1066 gigabyte founders editions you weren't getting as much of a saving buying directly through Nvidia as opposed to a third party retailer selling non-reference cards at an inflated price even with invidious latest round of stock the GTX 1080 1070 and 1062 lat the MSRP for a very long time I'm not sure releasing a handful of graphics cards that quickly sell out will make gamers completely forget about the GPP but that does seem to be invidious aim here as this restocking did occur less than a week after the GPP was cancelled unfortunately it's no longer possible to get most of the cards at or near the MSRP though so invidious goodwill initiative was a bit short-lived maybe if we go back to criticizing your video for the G ppthe I have no choice but to release more GPUs in the MSRP we couldn't hurt right with that said there has been a general trend of graphics cards getting cheaper and even now many retailers have non-reference models in stock at prices that match or come reasonably close to what nvidia was offering for a few models we're not back to the MSRP just yet but we're getting there and it's worth looking around to see if you can grab a nice deal and hopefully third parties can keep their pricing in check for now let's move on to the other news stories of the week according to a video preview from PC world the hotly anticipated 4k 144 Hertz HDR g-sync monitors from ASA and a soos will be available in just two weeks nvidia did originally say these monitors were on track for an april launch a couple of months ago but that clearly didn't happen so maybe this latest tidbit from pc world's pointing to a may release is closer to the money my contacts at eights arena suits are still suggesting a June watch for these monitors so that's not quite in line with what PC world is saying both ASA and soos have been firm with their June launch window for a few months now in fact they were even saying that the time Nvidia announced an April release the whole release of these monitors has been a disaster let's not forget they were first shown off at Computex 2016 and it's taken nearly two years for launch plans to develop I'm still not convinced that they will come out in two weeks or even June like I've heard but at least the noise is growing and as for pricing it still seems we're looking in the 2,000 to 3,000 US dollar range so they're definitely not a monitor that everyone will be able to afford according to a report in the unreliable digi times Intel have suspended production of their entry-level h3 10 chipsets apparently there is a shortage of capacity at the 14 nanometer fabs used for producing these chipsets so the first model to get cut is h3 10 Intel will continue to produce the rest of the 300 series lineup including h3 70 B 360 q 360 and q 370 so at least it's only h3 10 that's affected due to the problem motherboard manufacturers have been forced to use B 360 for their bottom and motherboards instead which is a more expensive chipset apparently supply of h3 10 will resume in July at the latest considering the way 300 series motherboards are priced at the moment we probably wouldn't have recommended h3 10 boards for PC builders anyway but it will hurt Oh II M's that like to use the cheapest possible motherboards in their pre-built systems here's another rumor mill story that appeared this week according to Chinese site X preview Nvidia is preparing a three gigabyte variant of the geforce gtx 1050 if this card does exist it would sit between the current two gig model of the gtx 1050 and the 4 gigabyte gtx 1050 TI there also packs of course more CUDA cores there's no firm word on specifications though it's likely the three gig model would feature the same 640 cuda cores as the two gig model just with more gddr5 of course and possibly a cut-down memory interface from 128 bits to 96 bits is also possible this GPU will only be for the Chinese market again it's a very early rumour so let's see what happens there this story interested me a fair bit this week valve has announced a free steam link app for Android and iOS devices that will be released in the week of May 21st the we'll allow you to stream games from your gaming PC over your home network to a mobile device running iOS or Android your PC still runs the games but then it captures essentially a video stream of the game and sends that service team link app which in turn sends back control inputs to the PC valve first use the technology for PC to PC streaming and then released a standalone device called the steam link that you could hook up to a display for in-home streaming at a much cheaper price point seriously you could grab a steam link for practically nothing most of the time these days now you'll be able to do everything the steam link box does with an Android or iOS device for free which is pretty neat the steam link app will support Bluetooth game controllers including the steam controller so you won't need to bother with awful touchscreen controls and provided you have a good home network setup with strong Wi-Fi you'll hardly notice the added latency if you want to do a bit of gaming on your couch or on the toilet in other gaming related news a ton of new games were accidentally outed on the Walmart Canada website it potentially has spoiled some of the announcements we can expect at e3 next month or it could just be a big bunch of garbage the games all appeared as placeholders on the Walmart website and some of which we've heard of before including Super Smash Brothers force which the division to Beyond Good and Evil 2 and The Last of Us two others haven't been announced yet these include Just Cause for Borderlands three rage - Gears of War 5 a new Assassin's Creed game Lego DC villains and new splinter cell game and forza horizons 5 that last one seems incorrect as the preview forts a horizon game was fought so horizon 3 in any case that's a bunch of new games we might be hearing a lot more about next month at e3 samsung's new 970 pro and 970 Evo SSDs have hit stores at lower prices than their original launch prices in some cases the savings are quite large the one terabyte 970 Pro for example is a hundred and thirty dollars cheaper than the original price which is a decent 21% saving the basic 250 gig 960 Evo gets the smallest cut at just ten dollars but the entire lineup has received at least some form of cut that's pretty great news if you're planning on buying one of these brand new draw and it brings the pricing more in line with what we expect 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