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welcome back to the harder unbox news corner in this pre CES edition we're just starting to warm up into a big week for announcements as CES kicks off in the middle of next week though there will be plenty of new products getting unveiled along with several keynotes in the days leading up to the event in this week's news corner we're going to talk a little bit about what we expect to see at the show as well as some other early product announcements and a few other interesting tidbits so the first of the major CES keynotes is happening on Sunday evening u.s. time with Nvidia CEO Jensen Wang taking this stage it's here that we expect NVIDIA to announce the GeForce r-tx 2060 which at this point well won't be much of a surprise there's been plenty of leaks all over the place for the past few weeks everything from naming to rough specifications to a few benchmarks to packaging has basically been revealed at this point we're expecting the ITX 2060 to pack 1920 cuda cores and 6 gigabytes of gddr5 in rumors of up to 6 different variants there or anything about exact launch timing or pricing we've heard some rumors about these things but you know we just don't know right now we're also not sure about reviews or anything like that in normally Nvidia cuts it pretty fine with us Australian so we're not expecting to hear anything until the very last minute we're also expecting a video to talk about new mobile GPUs not sure what form they'll take but we should be seeing a new lineup based on cheering and then there's also the GeForce 11 Series we've seen some rumors for products like the GTX 1160 but we're not sure what's going on there some sites have suggested this would be based on a cheering tu1 1:6 GPU without the RT or tensor cores but the name it does seem a little strange there it'll be interesting to see how that one plays out Nvidia also likes to talk about their data center AI deep learning and automotive products so expect to hear a lot about that stuff as well and of course we'll have our thoughts on whatever Nvidia announces shortly after the keynote the other big keynote scheduled for CES is from AMD and this one it gues has been generating the most excitement in the career I think a lot of that is because people are expecting big announcements for 3rd generation rising and Navi GPUs but as we I guess you'd have to say controversially revealed a while back neither of those product lines will be getting unveiled or announced at CES and they definitely won't be launched or released as we said in our last video on the topic we're expecting Amb to deliver some teasers and roadmap updates for Rison and Navi similar to what the company did at Computex for second generation thread Ripper but if you're expecting you know product names SKU specifications pricing and all that sort of thing I think you'd be pretty disappointed with what the keynote is going to offer a lot of people got very excited in the past week as a Russian eariy tailor posted up some listings for rise in 3000 series CPUs with clock speeds and everything however our industry sources were quick to inform us those listings well they're not even placeholders they're just full-blown rubbish basically again I think the excitement came from people assuming that if retailers you know putting up placeholders or early listings now then AMD must be just about to unveil the product stuck at say yes but as I just mentioned that's really not going to happen of course this isn't to say that ambhi's keynote will be boring or devoid of anything interesting what MD won't be announcing Rison or Navi products the way AMD tends to drip feed information through teasers you know I can reveal a lot when AMD first mentioned second gen thread Ripper at Computex we got core counts we've got a few demos other tidbits but we didn't get any actual product announcements and I think something's similar to that at CES is definitely on the cards we're also expecting at least one actual product announcement could it be a consumer 7 nanometre vega 2 part rumors of that have been heating up in the last week or so I'm also expecting plenty of discussion on data center and AI products plus the general state of seven nanometers from AMD before CES we're also set to hear more about AMD's products in the mobile space so stay tuned for that in a few days aim DS keynote at CES is only an hour long so they'll have to cram plenty of stuff in and again we'll have our thoughts on their announcements and teasers later in the day mostly because the keynote is at 4 a.m. local time for us moving on CES is also a big time for monitor announcements lots of companies usually and found that only their you know next-generation TVs at the show but also their new monitors that they'll be releasing throughout the year first up we have Samsung who have announced three new monitors without giving a whole bunch of information the biggest announcement of the bunch is the CR g9 which is a 49 inch super ultra wide display with a 50 120 by 1440 resolution and crucially a 120 Hertz refresh rate we've already seen a few 50 120 by 1440 monitors on the market but this is the first to push up to a 120 Hertz refresh rate which makes it a great monitor for gamers at least potentially at this size and resolution we're looking at the equivalent of 2 27-inch 1440p monitors side-by-side so that's you know the next step up from 38 40 by 1080 monitors that hit the market over the last year or so the CR g9 is also free Singh to HDR certified with peak brightness up to a thousand it's hopefully there's decent wide gamut and local dimming support because if Samsung gets both of those aspects right as well we could have a decent HDR product on our hands here Samsung also announced the you r59 see a 32 inch curved 4k monitor with a super slim design this isn't a gaming display it's more marketed towards content creators with support for 1 billion colors then there's also the Samsung space monitor available in both 27 inch and 32 inch sizes at a 4k resolution the key feature to the space monitor is the clamp style stand which can be positioned in a number of angles gigabyte also set to unveil their first gamma monitor possibly for a release on January 16th the company has been teasing this new display on Twitter which likely means their or ass monitor that leaked to read it a few months back is coming quite soon while the Twitter posts don't reveal a whole lot other than it will be a 10 bit display they're not sure if it's native 10 bit the leaks indicate it's a 1440p 144 Hertz IPS monitor with free sync the design is also reminiscent of ASA predator and a soos ROG monitors for better or worse then finally we have some updates to the beza display HDR specifications with the addition of three new tiers two of the tiers are specifically for older displays we have display HDR 400 true black and display HDR 500 true black these are very similar to their display HDR standard counterparts except with a few tweaks specific to all the displays to match their lower black levels and superior transition times there have been a few reports recent suggesting that we may see a small selection of OLED monitors come to market in 2019 a few companies have tried OLED monitors over the years but issues like burnin have kept them from coming I guess widely manufactured potentially that could change though especially now that there's despite HDR tears accommodating all their panels the other addition to display HDR is the display HDR 500t which is basically display HDR 600 but with a slightly lower brightness target this specification has been included for laptop vendors which may struggle to hit 600 nits with a laptop display but may otherwise hit the requirements of display HDR 600 a couple of quicker topics to round this episode out as always and videos OC scanner now supports Pascal GPUs you can access this functionality through msi afterburner version 4.6.1 previously this auto overclocking feature was unavailable for chewing GPUs but that has now been expanded to Pascal and it's a pretty neat way to get more performance out of your card without performing a full overclock though we still recommend you also overclock the memory yourself as the OC scanner doesn't touch memory some new Intel KF Series CPUs have been listed at some retailers and distributors the four models in question are the core oh nine 9900 KF - cry 7 9700 KF Core i5 9600 KF and Core i5 9400 F while the specifications haven't been officially confirmed by Intel the listings appear to show identical specs to the regular ngon F models but without an eye GPU present having these F processors would make you know a lot of senses many system builders use and discrete GPU in their PC anyway selling chips that have a non-functional GPU will allow Intel to get better yields rather than simply throwing away an ant core CPU that's otherwise fine no word on when these chips will officially launch but it sounds like it's not too far away final topic of this week Nvidia is facing a class-action lawsuit over the company's alleged failure to properly manage the cryptocurrency market decline the california-based shor law firm claims Nvidia made false and misleading statements right into the company's ability to sustain GPU sales after a cryptocurrency crash the complaint largely revolves around a specific statement in william man at an investor meeting where they said they are masters managing our channel and that a drop-off in demand among crypto miners would not negatively affect the company due to strong gaming cheap you demand however as we now know NVIDIA ended up with a significant excess of Pascal inventory and then went on to launch during which so far hasn't seen as much demand as perhaps in video would have light invidious stock price has collapsed as a result Shore law firm advises that investors who have suffered losses greater than a hundred thousand dollars and purchase shares between August 10 2017 and November 15 2018 should contact the firm before February 19 2019 and that's pretty much it for this one we'll be back over the next week with a few more news corner episodes as CES 2019 unfolds you can subscribe for more Hardware box content consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord chat and monthly livestreams I'll catch you in the next one