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welcome back to the hardware box news corner a slow week for hardware news but there's still a few interesting bits and pieces to go through plus I'll go into a few rumors and leaks at the end so let's get straight into it the biggest hardware news story out of this week concerns memory specifically GDD our six my phone has announced they have begun mass producing GDD are six memory joining both Samsung and SK Hynix as producers of the new memory this completes the trifecta of major memory manufacturers producing G DDR 6 so there should be plenty of supply for next generation graphics cards especially from a certain green company microns GDD are six options for the graphics market are simple OMS can either choose from 12 gigabit per second or 14 gigabit per second chips at one point three five volts with eight gigabit capacities gddr5 typically operated at one point five to one point six volts and topped out at nine gigabit per second speeds in the best bins so the top 14 gigabit per second variant of GDD are 6 provides more than 50% more bandwidth with lower power consumption even 12 gigabit per second chair ddr 6 will provide 50% more bandwidth than the widely used eight gigabit per second gddr5 GDD r 6 will also supersede gddr5 X which didn't really achieve wide adoption outside of a few high-end nvidia gpus gddr5 x topped out of 11 gigabit per second in those GPUs so 14 gigabit per second year DDR 6 will again give OMS about 27% more bandwidth to play with and there's plenty of room to grow there 16 gigabit per second chips are coming to match Samsung's announced 16 gigabit per second GT they are six at one point three five volts micron has also managed to get G DDR 6 up to 20 gigabit per second in their labs so we should be able to see generational improvements throughout the lifespan of GDD are 6 memory it's practically a certainty at this point the new GPUs will use GT dr 6 memory so when and video finally gets around to announcing them we should be seeing a nice bump to memory bandwidth without having to tap into extremely expensive HBM 2 we're approaching the launch of AMD's second generation thread Ripper CPU so it only makes sense the prices for first gen 3 Rippa hitting all-time lows with second-gen so close to launching the prospect of an entirely refreshed lineup with new 32 core and 24 core parts for those that like cutting-edge technology it's probably not the best idea to jump in now and buy a third row per CPU but the latest prices for the top-end 16 quart 1950 X in particular are quite tasty for those that want a bargain as spotted by techpowerup European prices for thread Ripper have dropped in the past few days with the 1950 ex sitting below 650 euros at the moment I quickly checked around some Us stores and found Micro Center sewing in 1950 ex purchased 630 dollars which is an absolute steal relative to its $1000 launch price you've been able to buy the 1950 x4 750 dollars since early June but this isn't even further discount on that CPU if you wanted that many cause Micro Center are also selling the 18 called 1900 X for $350 below the usual 450 dollars which is again a good deal there aren't any great deals on the 12 core 1920 X at this point though and in fact current prices are still around $700 which makes it a bad deal compared to the 1950 X and we'll get to potential threat Ripper to pricing later in this video this isn't a super news story but it is something a number of you guys have been asking me about specially now patreon exclusive discord chat PC perspective tore down this soos rog swift PG 27 uq which is one of the new g-sync HDR monitors and discovered the g-sync module inside is a bit different to the first gen g-sync module used in non HD displays in fact the new g-sync HDR board uses an alt era area 10 G X 480 FPGA alongside 3 gigabyte of ddr4 memory to process data and short adaptive sync works alongside HDR the FPGA alone is a very expensive component retailing for $2,600 in low quantities through major component retailers even if Nvidia could get a great deal on bulk purchases of the FPGA they're still looking at an estimated $500 for the chip alone plus additional costs for the rest of the g-sync module and potentially licensing fees on top of that this makes it painfully clear that a significant portion of this monitors $2000 retail price comes down to the G sync HDR module it also seems to fit the whole narrative surrounding g-sync HDR and video was struggling for a while to get HDR working through their chasing chips hence the delays for these monitors and it seems part of their final solution involved moving to a very expensive FPGA hardware solution the cost of the g-sync HDR module also widened the price gap between g-sync HDR and free sync to attr monitors AMD managed to successfully get free sync to HDR working without any additional chips similar to the original free sync so we could see a 500 plus dollar price gap between similar HDR monitors depending on which adaptive sync technology they support that does suck for NVIDIA GPU owners but Nvidia owners themselves to blame for going down the dedicated hardware path rather than sticking to open industry standards Corsair has acquired Elgato gaming the company behind a series of popular video capture devices targeting game streamers the terms of the deal were disclosed as both companies are privately owned but the deal does see Corsair gained most of all God owes key product lines specifically those around video game capture and docking Elgato will operate as a separate brand within Corsair and well it's not clear what will happen to their current product lines it seems that everything will likely remain the same Oh godoh will be keeping their smart home appliance business under the eve system's name which in itself is a large and successful division of the company and that'll operate separately too Corsair but smart appliances probably don't interest most gamers and all the game related products will now be owned by Corsair interesting to see calls to expand to these sorts of devices but they have been expanding into a lot of new areas over the last few years and this just continues that trend in other game streaming news avermedia has launched a new set of 4k HDR capable game capture devices the key device here is the live game of 4k which is a PCIe add-in card that supports 4k 60 capture and HDR and capture of up to 1440p 144 and 1080p 240 with pass-through of all those resolutions and framerates crucially it's cheaper than Elgato is competing 4k 60 pro at $300 instead of $400 while supporting HDR capture that the elgato equivalent does not support so it seems like a pretty decent device there for those that want a more portable solution avermedia also launched the live game ultra which is an external USB 3.1 gen2 on box that is limited to 4k 30 non HDR capture though it can pass through 4k 6 thdr it also supports 1440p 60 and 1080p 120 capture so half the frame rate of the PCI version the Ultra will set you back 250 dollars though if you have a desktop PC the live game 4k does seem to be the better deal as it pumps you up to you know 60fps capture in 4k if you love SD cards and just crave information on USD technologies this news story will be super exciting for the three people in the world that fit that criteria the SD Association has announced the SD 7.0 specification which paves the way for ultra-fast SD cards includes a new SD Express interface which is a combination of PCIe x 1 and nvme allowing transfer rates up to nine hundred and eighty five megabytes per second significantly faster than current gen SD cards SD 7.0 also brings a new class of cards SD ultra capacity or SBU C which supports capacities up to 128 terabytes current SDXC cards top out at 2 terabytes which were fast approaching crucially faster SD Express cards will be backwards compatible with existing SD card hosts just at lower speeds while current SD cards will also work in newer SD Express slots razer has launched two keyboards with new optomechanical switches the Huntsman and the Huntsman elite the new switches also known as Razer purple switches are basically just optical switches which we've seen before in a few other keyboards rather than using a mechanical switch to register key presses optical switches use an infrared sensor which is more durable and lightning-fast however to retain the clicky nature of mechanical keyboards Reds as opto mechanical switches also include a tactile bump during actuation similar to raise the greens with an actuation force of 45 grams and a key press registration distance of 1.5 millimeters both keyboards include RGB lighting but it's the Huntsman elite that includes the most RGB plus additional media controls and a wrist rest the Huntsman will set you back 149 US dollars and the elite 199 Ozzy pricing is absolutely outrageous as with most Razer peripherals 250 bucks for the Huntsman and a whopping 340 dollars for the elite a couple of rumors and leaks to finish this news corner off firstly we have a retail listing for the thread Ripper 2990 X which might have been put up early by a mistake or it might just be full of guesses who really knows what the sort of rumors anycase European retailers cyberport listed the 32 core thread Ripper CPU as the 2990 X which we talked about in last week's news corner alongside a 1509 euro price tag if this listing is accurate that it suggests a fifteen hundred US dollar price tag for the twenty nine ninety X which would be a great price for a 32 core CPU and put a lot of pressure on intel's h EDT lineup steve and i estimated during our Computex live stream that the 32 core cpu would be priced between 1500 and 1700 dollars so this would be on the lower end of that however there are a few concerning things about the listing that throw into question its validity the title suggests it has a 3.4 gigahertz base clock with a 4.0 gigahertz boost with the description list a 3.8 gigahertz clock speed the description also claims that 180 watt TDP even though AMD is already listed a 250 watt TDP for this processor and both a 12 nanometer and 40 nanometer process and mention when you consider these things it's likely the listing is just a placeholder for the CPU which means everything down to the pricing might just be a guess we'll certainly find out in a few months the other leaked from this week is a picture of an NVIDIA GPU engineering board which was posted to Reddit the prototyping board features 12 modules of micron G DDR 6 for 12 gigabytes in total along with 3 8 pin power connectors and what looks like an Envy link connector on the top plus a bunch of components are hidden behind several large active coolers and the GPU itself is missing as video cards points out this could be a geforce product or it could be Quadra or tesla it's hard to really say at this point but it is an interesting look at what invidious development boards look like before they eventually transition into a final product that's it for this week's news corner subscribe to get the segment in your inbox every Friday don't forget to enable the bell so you don't miss it consider supporting us on patreon at patreon.com slash hard roam boxed and I'll catch you next time