The Marketing Image of a Guy Editing Himself is Pretty Cool

It appears that ASRock has a marketing image of a guy on the left, who is recursively editing himself in the very same image he appears in. This is quite cool and shows creativity in their marketing efforts. On the other hand, the guy on the right seems to be ready to lay some bars or something, but we're not really sure who dresses up to play games like that and then leaves their headphones on the table. Once again, this is a silly kind of product because people typically get clear side panels in their computer, which allow them to see the parts inside. However, the idea behind this marketing image seems to be to showcase something cool on the panel.

It's actually quite bizarre to think about how this product could possibly work. Most likely, the actual use cases for it are not going to be for productivity but rather for displaying something cool on the panel that is related to the build. We are genuinely very curious about what your thoughts are on this idea and whether there are any actual use cases for it.

One thing that's definitely confusing is that ASRock is claiming to have two monitors in one without one being inside of the case on the glass. So, we're not really sure what to make of that statement. Anyway, moving on to the next topic.

Cable Mod and 12 Volt High Power Connector Angled Adapter Updates

We previously talked about Kale Mod prepping a 90-degree adapter for the 12-volt high power cables, which is obviously used for video cards running the 16-pin or the 12+4 connector. Now, there's an update that Kale Mod has delayed their pre-sale launch until sometime in the future, with no specific date stated as of yet. The website claims that this delay is due to compatibility issues with different board partners, and additional work is being done to ensure that all the adapters will be compatible.

In other news, Kale Mod has announced that they're preparing thinner 180-degree versions of their angled adapters. These new adapters will allow for the cable to be routed back towards the motherboard on either side of the card, just like with the 90-degree version. However, these adapters are in one fixed orientation and cannot be swapped.

To clarify further, Kale Mod has published a list of confirmed compatibility below each model on their landing page. This list designates whether the cable will come out on the back-plate side or the cooler side of the card. This is important because if Kale Mod were to launch these adapters without proper testing, there would likely be a lot of customers ending up with an incompatible or undesired version for their card.

For example, the connector on the video card on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) is not standardized and can run in either direction. Some cables may run towards the back of the card, while others may run towards the front of the card. This means that the position of the cable will impact how it's positioned inside the case. Additionally, the housing for the connectors on the PCB can vary between different manufacturers.

Kale Mod has taken steps to address these issues by allowing customers to sign up for one version of the adapter and switch before the general launch, which is expected to happen in four to six weeks from now. This will give customers the opportunity to try out a different adapter if needed, rather than having to purchase an entirely new product.

Finally, we have some news about Alpha Cool's open loop water cooling kits. These kits are being sold under the Core Storm and Core Wind branding, but it seems that the exact difference between them is not yet clear. The kits appear to be comprised of all the parts necessary to create an expandable CPU-only loop with radiator and fans, including a CPU block, pump, and fittings.

The kits will be compatible with one another, and some of the fittings even have quick disconnects that allow for easier future expansion without draining the coolant from the system. The prices for these kits range from €250 to €430, but no further information is available at this time.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome back to the hardware news recap for the week and this one we'll be talking about some of the Asus 7900 XT and XTX models that were announced in the past couple days we'll also be going over some unique gpus like a blower RTX 4090 that's only two slots how do they do it probably 20 000 RPM we're not sure what we'll find out soon uh additionally we have some news on water blocks for the 7900 series and we'll be going over a new GPU from a Chinese manufacturer with a completely new silicon design so let's get started before that this video is brought to you by Lian Lee's Land cool 3 case the lanco 3 has a fully meshed front good airflow that did well on our thermal testing earlier this year and it's one of the most mechanically advanced cases we've ever reviewed the land cool 3 balances the ease of installation features thermal performance and cable management in a competitive case Market learn more at the link in the description below so with the Radeon 7000 launch now behind us the Partners get their time on the stage to show their partner models of amd's new rdna 3 gpus and Asus system on the first they have a card that's in the 7900 XTX series it's similar in some ways to the tough and this particular one is at 3.63 slots of thickness that's right it won't fit in cases unfortunately that only support 3.62 slot size cards and if you have a 3.64 slot size case then it'll fit just barely so that's that's where we are with the slot sizing apparently we've decided this is in fact the way we're going to do it now and uh apparently the the point of rounding is going to be the third decibel place so there's your 3.63 slot card hopefully that fits for you for sizing for the actual length of the card don't worry they're running that at 352.9 millimeters of length once again it will not fit if you have a case that is 352.8 millimeters there's absolutely zero variance here it's exactly on the on that first decimal point every single time the cards are a triple fan design with a die cast metal frame they have a metal back plate they have a flow through area and although Asus hasn't provided pictures on the back yet we know that it's there it's just was also Keen to point out that another support stick will be included in case you had any doubts about getting your support stick for your GPU although to be fair support stick might be a trademarked name from Inno 3D or whoever it was that announced it last time although Asus does have this one for like 50 bucks on Amazon so there's that power delivery of the card is handled by three standard pcie eight pins that's one more eight pin than you saw in the reference design from AMD and that's more than sufficient for a total board power of 350 Watts on the XTX but Asus will probably be running a custom V bios we don't know how much more power it would it would allow maybe 400 or something with an overclock either way it's enough pins for all of that intern generally the tough features a 17 plus four phase brm it has unknown current handling capability at present OC editions will be available alongside the standard ones for an out of the box overclock but we don't have word on any other models like an Rog strix but the future existence of a strict 7900 XTX is basically guaranteed at this point up next there's a new low for physical games the re-release for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 not the remaster or the original Modern Warfare 2 but the second Modern Warfare 2 uh for console contains less than one gigabyte of data on the disk if you buy the physical disk for your device so it's effectively just a physical license key that requires all of the game data to be downloaded from the internet if you want to actually play it even the offline modes so this point we've come full circle from having day one paid DLC locked away on the disk along with the game they're just not having a game at all and all of that is what within the same franchise how do they do it they keep innovating every year additionally this was reported by does it play which is an organization that catalogs the playability of games right out of the box doesn't play his rank for Modern Warfare 2 the Third two uh also describes how once you actually download the game you still can't play campaign mode offline with a local account you still need a PSN account to do so play an offline multiplayer restricts you to just three maps without the ability to change the game mode or customize loadouts on top of that co-op mode doesn't work offline period when asked what to do if you want to play locally and have some friends over Activision reportedly said some some what you have what all of this renders the game literally unplayable for anyone without internet access or just you know if you want to play it on the console because it has a campaign mode even though day one patches are common now the vast majority of games will still basically function without them especially if you check does it play but that's starting to go away as we slip into our cyberpunk dystopian future of not owning anything and paying a licensing fee for literally every single thing that we use uh heated car seats as a recent example so just mark this as another run on the ladder of our Ascent to Doom next one uh right on cue EK water blocks that's a hell of a transition launches at 7900 XTX water block and this is in its Quantum Vector squared line so this one has a block available in the usual clear Plexiglas and just full on black acids Hall with nickel plated copper cold plates and EK has rotated the cooling engine as they call it or the cold blades fins 90 degrees in order to cool the gcd first and the McD's second if you didn't catch our original announcement the rx7000 series is a chiplet design with multiple chips in a single package EK said it also had the up the fin density in order to keep up with the increasing heat density that comes with the territory of smaller die sizes running at equivalent power to previous larger designs the wraparound back plate is a machined in order to get good contact with board components on the back side of the card and features captive screws for ease of assembly and disassembly there's also ek's branded magnetic terminal covers that make sure the logo is oriented correctly you know the important part up next galaxy launches its 4090 Hall of Fame card this is the closest thing we're going to get to a Kingpin this generation sadly Galax is finally letting its Hall of Fame 4090 out the doors but it isn't a limited capacity as they always do for these because they are not particularly High sellers because they're xoc focused so this one has an all-white PCB the big thing here though is aside from maybe some binning the power delivery the Hall of Fame 4090 features a monstrous 28 plus four phase vrm it dominates the board with power components on the left and the right of the GPU cord memory caps are all over the place as usual even the bet or especially the back filtering the Hall of Fame special exoc bios will allow the 490s to go well past 600 watts when the voltage is raised and under extreme cooling conditions like ln2 because of that this is the first card we've seen with two 12 volt high power connectors allowing the card to pull up to 1200 watts of power without passing any official connector radiant there shouldn't be any cable melting issues here for at least power explicit reasons and even if you did go past 600 watts on a connector it can technically take it it's just a question of the build quality of everything else in the chain so for this card the xoc BIOS is going to be the most interesting the most important aspect of it because you can't just increase the power to pull as much as the 212 pins would allow unless the xoc V bios is fully unlocked or at least mostly unlocked typically Nvidia is pretty pretty picky about what it allows board Partners to do for xoc the fact that there's two 12 volt high power connectors on here is kind of surprising honestly because we had heard previously that Nvidia was very against this and uh yeah here it is maybe they've changed their mind at this point at least one extreme overclock or ogs who works directly with Galax has started using the Hall of Fame to break single GPU World Records on a hardware bot in both Port Royal and GPU Pi under ln2 cooling the core frequencies achieved are pretty impressive it's over three and a half gigahertz in Port Royal and a crazy 3.7 gigahertz in GPU Pi which is a lighter load and doesn't quite count the same way as 3D but 3.5 is still pretty good the Hall of Fame 4090 isn't available for purchase yet we also don't know what stock cooler it's going to have but we expect it to be extremely expensive and limited in quality because that's how all of these are always for the Galaxy Hall of Fame cards up next this story is really interesting at an industry level so a Chinese company called Noir chanton is MTT in English which is more threads intelligent technology and MTT is launching its new MTT S80 gaming which is a new GPU that uses a new GPU design not made by Nvidia Intel or AMD that's the interesting part for background according to Wikipedia Moore shanton was founded by nvidia's former GM for the China region which is something that Jensen is assuredly not happy about Nvidia has the Ada architecture Intel has Alchemist AMD has rdna and the MTT gpus run on Twin ciao which from what the company claims will put it in competition with the 3060 TI for General compute performance now that doesn't necessarily mean it will compete in gaming performance uh or in really any type of workload performance but compute just as a raw number that you can calculate doesn't necessarily factor for things like drivers or software compatibility so that's one of the larger aspects here where we've seen it from Intel you can have GPU silicon and Hardware that's pretty competitive but if it's not competitive basically universally or at least mostly universally with good driver support it doesn't really matter it doesn't have quite the same weight as something from Nvidia or AMD would as the incumbents in the space at this point so anyway the gaming card was photographed with a three fan design this is all official news from MTT so it's not rumors it has a central fan that's smaller and then the data center card was shown with a simple black and white shroud the Shroud is something that Alienware would probably be jealous of given that's kind of what it's been trying to do for like a decade with its garbage r13 cases foreign data center cards are force fed error from the case so that's why there's no included fans at least that we can see on this particular design the Shroud would just butt up to an intake van on the case and that would be that the official slide for the MTT S80 says that it has 4096 Musa cores and USA and that in Chinese is from its soothy architecture but this doesn't mean anything to us and it's not comparable to Cuda or stream processors so this will only actually mean something if we have more of these to talk about in the future TV speed is 1.8 gigahertz it runs gddr6 at 16 gigabytes and has a 256-bit bus kind of narrow bus but pretty good on the capacity it's pcie Gen 5 enabled up to by 16 which makes it the first consumer class card with pcie Gen 5 rdna 3 and Nvidia Ada are both on Gen 4 but to be really clear here that's totally irrelevant because none of these things are reaching the bandwidth limitations of pcie Gen 4 by 16 especially not this thing if it's more of a 30-60 the eyeglass card so it's kind of a marketing bullet and that's about it looking at the slide for the mtts 3000 that runs at 1.9 gigahertz and it has 32 gigabytes of gddr6 it also has SRI OV support now Additionally the card also supports av1 we're not sure how like if it's encode and decode but Sports av1 they are also cognizant of their Cuda limitations where since everything's built for Cuda if it's in data center at least you have to have some kind of translation layer or compatibility layer in order to be able to use your architecture and card with Cuda if it's not a Cuda card so MTT did build a compatibility layer for Cuda optimized software that'll probably have some issues like efficiency that will never get to test but they're apparently able to adapt it this news is mostly significant because there haven't been any major new entrance to gpus over the years actually it's only shrunken with the losses of voodoo 3D and basically match rocks and only one recent addition which was Intel and they're a very large company so it's not really that impressive anyway uh we'll keep an eye on this one we don't know if they're going to go anywhere um but if if they can actually get to 3060 TI class performance with drivers that are competitive although you look at Intel a massive company with literal Decades of experience doing this and how much trouble they've had we're not really sure that that's going to happen but if they can come out the gate with a 3060 TI class card uh it'll be relevant pretty fast depending on price and availability so anyway we'll keep an eye on that one but that's all we have for that uh next one this story is not that detailed so there's a card from manly which is a it's actually the same company that launched that card with the level on it this card is a two slot blower on a 40 90. we expect that the 40 90 isn't able to be adequately cooled by the solution unless maybe it's like a 20K RPM fan and noise levels that would definitely violate OSHA more interestingly at this form factor is potentially an alternative to nvidia's Quadro cards that need to be packed in with higher density you'd be best off liquid cooling these for two slot compatibility and we wouldn't recommend the two slot blower 4090 anyway up next G skill goes over 9000 for ddr5 so G skills preparing to launch this ddr5 7800 and ddr5 8000 Trident zz5 RGB memory kits and they've been working closely with Asus with the z790 Maximus Apex in order to do some overclocking and get those over 9000 numbers now the board they're using retails for 700 and it is specifically tuned for memory overclocking with uh only two slots running close to the socket so you're only running one dim per Channel which helps a lot with getting those High memory speeds and it would be nice to see that feature move down the stack but for now it's just here other than the gene anyway while they were at it the companies wanted to see how far they could push the new Ram which resulted in a final speed of 5000 megahertz so that's ten thousand Mega transfers per second and this was done in single Channel with a case latency of 50 without special coolant that calculates to an absolute latency of 10 nanoseconds which is already attainable by existing kits but at much lower bandwidth so it's ddr5 matures it'll be interesting to see how much of an impact the higher frequency kits have on overall performance AMD is more limited by its ryzen 7000 items even Intel is topping out at 6000 to 6200 Mega transfers per second on average anyway so it's possible depending on the limitations of the application you're testing that we could see a wider Gap form between the two Brands contingent on the memory overclocking and if it's a Memory bound application there have been several ddr5 announcements at this point for Speed and they all LeapFrog each other but hitting five digits is a pretty big milestone next up ryzen Tech is bringing another one of its Morpheus GPU coolers to the market there are not many GPU coolers aftermarket ones that are available these days most of the partners have gotten it together you can basically just run those but they're kind of fun projects and they're interesting where you rip everything off the board you put something different on it instead and one of the interesting reasons to do this with Verizon tech or Arc like previously is because you're basically replacing this whole big plastic bulky shroud from your stock cooling solution with instead just a straight up fin stack and then maybe some 120 mil fans which give you immense power compared to what might be shipping stock on most of these coolers although some of the fans going up to 116 mil now so they're pretty close anyway the new cooler is called the Morpheus 8069 and we're honestly not sure where that number comes from uh Raj and Tech Updates this cooler every couple years to fit newer cards and the 8069 has support for high-end Radeon rx6000 cards maybe that's the 60 as well as nvidia's 3080 maybe that's the 80 and the 30 90. maybe that's the nine if that's actually how they constructed the product name then congratulations your insane ryzen Tech you've done it this consists of a large copper cold plate it has an aluminum fin stack that is blacked out uses six heat pipes and Horizon Tech rates it for 360 Watts for Max support with the fin stack sitting relatively high off of the surface of the card to help with compatibility but that also means that when you attach 120 mil fans with the provided Clips the total thickness will be in the same territory as 40 90s are already and then you also have to be careful to make sure there's contact to other components that might need contact like mosfets the cooler also comes with copper and aluminum heat sinks to attach to other heat producing components like power stages previous Morpheus coolers also use this approach for the vram but the 8069 has Ram coverage built into the cold plate that gives us concern about compatibility with some models that may have taller components around the dye area we actually ran into this problem fitting an ln2 pot to a 490 in our last OC live stream but we'd have to test it's really known honestly we probably won't test this one now historically these types of aftermarket coolers have mostly been good for upfitting an arrow type card where it's just a blower fan kind of like that one we were talking about earlier from manly where your rip ripping off a cheap garbage tier cooler that allowed the card to sell at MSRP and you're replacing it with something far better that's where they made the most sense there's not a lot of that right now in the market for the 40 series maybe the rdna3 stuff will have some cheaper models where it's actually worth removing the stock cooler but this would have to be adapted forward for that because it would need obviously a redesign the cold plate and it would need different whole spacing as well probably we don't know the whole spacing yet so anyway uh sites the other company that used to do these Arctic still does and that's kind of it for aftermarket Solutions next up Arctic MX-5 is dead but Arctic MX6 is coming out now the company launched its new MX6 thermal paste onto the market replacing the still relatively new MX-5 which is discontinued immediately we're not exactly sure why that is but MX-5 had some QC issues and issues off the line that have probably plagued its reputation at this point they've tried to fix it not sure if they fully fix those issues or not but either way maybe they're just looking at it as this is kind of a dead product we need to get rid of this thing and launch something new so that's what MX6 is uh the marketing is a little bit strange they say that the MX6 paste is quote simply the paste okay I wasn't expecting like LEDs in it so I'm not really sure what else we'd be going for uh it then says that there's no burn-in period which is valid technically most thermal paste have maybe like 24 hour period where uh they sort of soak and the performance changes a little bit and then it also says that the lack of expensive or precious metals like diamond powder that you find in some of these Pace obviously means it's not going to be electrically conductive only thermally conductive so for component safety you don't have much to worry about with that the new MX6 paste is aimed at being suitable for all applications with good thermal conductivity and a lawn service life they say of eight years one interesting note is that Arctic claims the viscosity of the new paste is so high that it'll prevent the pump out effect if you don't know the pump out effect is from the very minor expansion contraction that happens at the device being cooled at the cold plate where over time you get a slight pumping effect of the the two ends of what's being contacted by the Tim or the thermal interface material and over time in theory you can have that pace kind of work its way out of the area it was applied and introduce some gaps in coverage so that's what that is they're saying this resists that which is a good thing normally it's the really liquidy paste where you have pump out effect to actually be a concern R6 new paste will be in two gram 4 gram and 8 gram quantities and we expect to have many new syringes laying around the office soon for thermal paste just to be very clear about that so we'll let you know if we find anything interesting with the MX6 stop all right next one a monitor for the case side panel Yes Yes actually this is what asrock's Engineers have been hard at work with it's a monitor that goes on the side of your case we've seen a recent trend of monitors going on just about everything we've seen on water blocks video cards liquid coolers motherboards for sure power supplies I don't think we've seen it on RAM yet but it'll happen now we've got it for the case side panel so this is a 13.3 inch 60 hertz IPS 1080p display it uses that adhesive mounting brackets great that'll be good when they get hot and an embedded DisplayPort cable if you've never heard of embedded DisplayPort or you wonder how you'd connect it to a desktop without running a cable in an ugly fashion we don't blame you what they're using is a really flat implementation of the DisplayPort connector cable that's capable of delivering power as well as data and it's normally used in laptops and similarly space constrained devices as a ribbon cable the one that ships with this kit is round though and it looks a little bit handmade ASRock has been quietly adding embedded DisplayPort to some of its recent motherboards but it hasn't been clear as to why until now one thing that isn't clearly stated here is that if you're going to use embedded DisplayPort you'll need an igp in the CPU that you're using it with so anything modern for the most part but the F skews for example from Intel wouldn't work with this at least as we understand it right now Azeroth claims that its screen will quote this is an actual quote double your productivity not really sure how that works you had a 13.3 inch screen in addition to your whatever 28 inch display and you turn your head 90 degrees and look at it not sure where the doubling is coming from but once again okay also if we look at the marketing images for this it looks like a guy on the left of the stock photo is recursively editing himself in the very same image he appears in so that's pretty cool and the guy on the right is like ready to lay some bars or something we're not really sure who dresses up to play games like that and then leaves their headphones on the table but once again okay uh this is a silly kind of product because people typically get clear side panels they can actually see the parts in their computer this is covering them up it entirely defeats the purpose and transparent LCDs like the snow blind make more sense for a showcase build so this is really bizarre we are genuinely very curious what your thoughts are on this there's probably actual use cases for it uh most likely the the better ones are not going to be for productivity but for displaying something cool on the panel that is related to the build um definitely don't see the doubling here though not really sure that ASRock is where you can have two monitors without one being inside of the case on the glass uh so anyway next up cable mod and 12 volt high power connector angled adapter updates so we previously talked about kale mod prepping a 90 degree adapter for the 12 volt high power cables and this is for video cards obviously running the 16 pin or the 12 plus 4 is really what it is and now there's an update the pre-sale launch is delayed until sometime in the future nebulously stated as cable mod works on compatibility with different board Partners additionally thinner 180 degree versions are being prepared to give the option for the cable to be routed back towards the motherboard on either side of the cart just like with the 90 degree version these are in one fixed orientation and not swappable there are four total versions here kale mod is building a list of confirmed compatibility below each model on its landing page designating whether the cable will come out on the back plate side or the cooler side of the card this is important because if it were to go ahead and launch there would likely be a lot of customers ending up with an incompatible or undesired version for their card just to clarify further here so the connector on the video card on the PCB it's not standardized if it's forward or backwards it's the same as eight pins this isn't new so some of them run the sense side towards the back of the card some of it run towards the front of the card that's going to impact how the cable is positioned obviously and it would suck if it went like 180 degrees in the wrong direction and then additionally the housing for the connectors on the PCB is a little different from some runs to the next so Asus fully encases the sense and Nvidia does not for example so that's what they're working on the company says that it will allow people to sign up for one version to switch before General launch four to six weeks from now in case the customers needs change and it's also a good move because it'll just reduce a lot of issues we don't know the final pricing for the angled adapters but there does seem to be a lot of interest last first one alpha cool is launching open loop water cooling kits under the core storm and core wind branding maybe it's core wind anyway it's going to be with variously sized radiators and they're selling this to be an open loop kit which you just buy the whole kit and then you get most of the stuff out of the box not a new idea we've seen it plenty of times in the past thermaltake did it with a pretty large amount of options in the past but there's renewed interest in water cooling now which is good because the 40 series and um the Intown AMD CB is both right now they're all kind of in a in a situation where water coin is going to be the easiest way to get the noise levels down and cool everything adequately Alpha coils kits are comprised of all the parts necessary to create an expandable CPU only loop with radiator and fans CPU block pump and all the fittings and they're all compatible one of the fittings is a quick disconnect which allows easier future expansion for another GPU or a block or something or radiator without draining core wind is the lower end of course storm is the higher end there's pretty big gaps in price in between them both use only copper and brass parts from alpha cools regular DIY lines and on Alpha Cole's website they range from 250 to 430 Euros that's it for the news this week thanks for watching as always subscribe for more working on a lot of other stories right now tons of stuff going on not just follow-up benchmarking by the way check our ryzen efficiency eco mode piece it's really cool some interesting data in there but we also have some research pieces and some investigation so tune in for all that subscribe for more we'll see you all next timehey everyone welcome back to the hardware news recap for the week and this one we'll be talking about some of the Asus 7900 XT and XTX models that were announced in the past couple days we'll also be going over some unique gpus like a blower RTX 4090 that's only two slots how do they do it probably 20 000 RPM we're not sure what we'll find out soon uh additionally we have some news on water blocks for the 7900 series and we'll be going over a new GPU from a Chinese manufacturer with a completely new silicon design so let's get started before that this video is brought to you by Lian Lee's Land cool 3 case the lanco 3 has a fully meshed front good airflow that did well on our thermal testing earlier this year and it's one of the most mechanically advanced cases we've ever reviewed the land cool 3 balances the ease of installation features thermal performance and cable management in a competitive case Market learn more at the link in the description below so with the Radeon 7000 launch now behind us the Partners get their time on the stage to show their partner models of amd's new rdna 3 gpus and Asus system on the first they have a card that's in the 7900 XTX series it's similar in some ways to the tough and this particular one is at 3.63 slots of thickness that's right it won't fit in cases unfortunately that only support 3.62 slot size cards and if you have a 3.64 slot size case then it'll fit just barely so that's that's where we are with the slot sizing apparently we've decided this is in fact the way we're going to do it now and uh apparently the the point of rounding is going to be the third decibel place so there's your 3.63 slot card hopefully that fits for you for sizing for the actual length of the card don't worry they're running that at 352.9 millimeters of length once again it will not fit if you have a case that is 352.8 millimeters there's absolutely zero variance here it's exactly on the on that first decimal point every single time the cards are a triple fan design with a die cast metal frame they have a metal back plate they have a flow through area and although Asus hasn't provided pictures on the back yet we know that it's there it's just was also Keen to point out that another support stick will be included in case you had any doubts about getting your support stick for your GPU although to be fair support stick might be a trademarked name from Inno 3D or whoever it was that announced it last time although Asus does have this one for like 50 bucks on Amazon so there's that power delivery of the card is handled by three standard pcie eight pins that's one more eight pin than you saw in the reference design from AMD and that's more than sufficient for a total board power of 350 Watts on the XTX but Asus will probably be running a custom V bios we don't know how much more power it would it would allow maybe 400 or something with an overclock either way it's enough pins for all of that intern generally the tough features a 17 plus four phase brm it has unknown current handling capability at present OC editions will be available alongside the standard ones for an out of the box overclock but we don't have word on any other models like an Rog strix but the future existence of a strict 7900 XTX is basically guaranteed at this point up next there's a new low for physical games the re-release for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 not the remaster or the original Modern Warfare 2 but the second Modern Warfare 2 uh for console contains less than one gigabyte of data on the disk if you buy the physical disk for your device so it's effectively just a physical license key that requires all of the game data to be downloaded from the internet if you want to actually play it even the offline modes so this point we've come full circle from having day one paid DLC locked away on the disk along with the game they're just not having a game at all and all of that is what within the same franchise how do they do it they keep innovating every year additionally this was reported by does it play which is an organization that catalogs the playability of games right out of the box doesn't play his rank for Modern Warfare 2 the Third two uh also describes how once you actually download the game you still can't play campaign mode offline with a local account you still need a PSN account to do so play an offline multiplayer restricts you to just three maps without the ability to change the game mode or customize loadouts on top of that co-op mode doesn't work offline period when asked what to do if you want to play locally and have some friends over Activision reportedly said some some what you have what all of this renders the game literally unplayable for anyone without internet access or just you know if you want to play it on the console because it has a campaign mode even though day one patches are common now the vast majority of games will still basically function without them especially if you check does it play but that's starting to go away as we slip into our cyberpunk dystopian future of not owning anything and paying a licensing fee for literally every single thing that we use uh heated car seats as a recent example so just mark this as another run on the ladder of our Ascent to Doom next one uh right on cue EK water blocks that's a hell of a transition launches at 7900 XTX water block and this is in its Quantum Vector squared line so this one has a block available in the usual clear Plexiglas and just full on black acids Hall with nickel plated copper cold plates and EK has rotated the cooling engine as they call it or the cold blades fins 90 degrees in order to cool the gcd first and the McD's second if you didn't catch our original announcement the rx7000 series is a chiplet design with multiple chips in a single package EK said it also had the up the fin density in order to keep up with the increasing heat density that comes with the territory of smaller die sizes running at equivalent power to previous larger designs the wraparound back plate is a machined in order to get good contact with board components on the back side of the card and features captive screws for ease of assembly and disassembly there's also ek's branded magnetic terminal covers that make sure the logo is oriented correctly you know the important part up next galaxy launches its 4090 Hall of Fame card this is the closest thing we're going to get to a Kingpin this generation sadly Galax is finally letting its Hall of Fame 4090 out the doors but it isn't a limited capacity as they always do for these because they are not particularly High sellers because they're xoc focused so this one has an all-white PCB the big thing here though is aside from maybe some binning the power delivery the Hall of Fame 4090 features a monstrous 28 plus four phase vrm it dominates the board with power components on the left and the right of the GPU cord memory caps are all over the place as usual even the bet or especially the back filtering the Hall of Fame special exoc bios will allow the 490s to go well past 600 watts when the voltage is raised and under extreme cooling conditions like ln2 because of that this is the first card we've seen with two 12 volt high power connectors allowing the card to pull up to 1200 watts of power without passing any official connector radiant there shouldn't be any cable melting issues here for at least power explicit reasons and even if you did go past 600 watts on a connector it can technically take it it's just a question of the build quality of everything else in the chain so for this card the xoc BIOS is going to be the most interesting the most important aspect of it because you can't just increase the power to pull as much as the 212 pins would allow unless the xoc V bios is fully unlocked or at least mostly unlocked typically Nvidia is pretty pretty picky about what it allows board Partners to do for xoc the fact that there's two 12 volt high power connectors on here is kind of surprising honestly because we had heard previously that Nvidia was very against this and uh yeah here it is maybe they've changed their mind at this point at least one extreme overclock or ogs who works directly with Galax has started using the Hall of Fame to break single GPU World Records on a hardware bot in both Port Royal and GPU Pi under ln2 cooling the core frequencies achieved are pretty impressive it's over three and a half gigahertz in Port Royal and a crazy 3.7 gigahertz in GPU Pi which is a lighter load and doesn't quite count the same way as 3D but 3.5 is still pretty good the Hall of Fame 4090 isn't available for purchase yet we also don't know what stock cooler it's going to have but we expect it to be extremely expensive and limited in quality because that's how all of these are always for the Galaxy Hall of Fame cards up next this story is really interesting at an industry level so a Chinese company called Noir chanton is MTT in English which is more threads intelligent technology and MTT is launching its new MTT S80 gaming which is a new GPU that uses a new GPU design not made by Nvidia Intel or AMD that's the interesting part for background according to Wikipedia Moore shanton was founded by nvidia's former GM for the China region which is something that Jensen is assuredly not happy about Nvidia has the Ada architecture Intel has Alchemist AMD has rdna and the MTT gpus run on Twin ciao which from what the company claims will put it in competition with the 3060 TI for General compute performance now that doesn't necessarily mean it will compete in gaming performance uh or in really any type of workload performance but compute just as a raw number that you can calculate doesn't necessarily factor for things like drivers or software compatibility so that's one of the larger aspects here where we've seen it from Intel you can have GPU silicon and Hardware that's pretty competitive but if it's not competitive basically universally or at least mostly universally with good driver support it doesn't really matter it doesn't have quite the same weight as something from Nvidia or AMD would as the incumbents in the space at this point so anyway the gaming card was photographed with a three fan design this is all official news from MTT so it's not rumors it has a central fan that's smaller and then the data center card was shown with a simple black and white shroud the Shroud is something that Alienware would probably be jealous of given that's kind of what it's been trying to do for like a decade with its garbage r13 cases foreign data center cards are force fed error from the case so that's why there's no included fans at least that we can see on this particular design the Shroud would just butt up to an intake van on the case and that would be that the official slide for the MTT S80 says that it has 4096 Musa cores and USA and that in Chinese is from its soothy architecture but this doesn't mean anything to us and it's not comparable to Cuda or stream processors so this will only actually mean something if we have more of these to talk about in the future TV speed is 1.8 gigahertz it runs gddr6 at 16 gigabytes and has a 256-bit bus kind of narrow bus but pretty good on the capacity it's pcie Gen 5 enabled up to by 16 which makes it the first consumer class card with pcie Gen 5 rdna 3 and Nvidia Ada are both on Gen 4 but to be really clear here that's totally irrelevant because none of these things are reaching the bandwidth limitations of pcie Gen 4 by 16 especially not this thing if it's more of a 30-60 the eyeglass card so it's kind of a marketing bullet and that's about it looking at the slide for the mtts 3000 that runs at 1.9 gigahertz and it has 32 gigabytes of gddr6 it also has SRI OV support now Additionally the card also supports av1 we're not sure how like if it's encode and decode but Sports av1 they are also cognizant of their Cuda limitations where since everything's built for Cuda if it's in data center at least you have to have some kind of translation layer or compatibility layer in order to be able to use your architecture and card with Cuda if it's not a Cuda card so MTT did build a compatibility layer for Cuda optimized software that'll probably have some issues like efficiency that will never get to test but they're apparently able to adapt it this news is mostly significant because there haven't been any major new entrance to gpus over the years actually it's only shrunken with the losses of voodoo 3D and basically match rocks and only one recent addition which was Intel and they're a very large company so it's not really that impressive anyway uh we'll keep an eye on this one we don't know if they're going to go anywhere um but if if they can actually get to 3060 TI class performance with drivers that are competitive although you look at Intel a massive company with literal Decades of experience doing this and how much trouble they've had we're not really sure that that's going to happen but if they can come out the gate with a 3060 TI class card uh it'll be relevant pretty fast depending on price and availability so anyway we'll keep an eye on that one but that's all we have for that uh next one this story is not that detailed so there's a card from manly which is a it's actually the same company that launched that card with the level on it this card is a two slot blower on a 40 90. we expect that the 40 90 isn't able to be adequately cooled by the solution unless maybe it's like a 20K RPM fan and noise levels that would definitely violate OSHA more interestingly at this form factor is potentially an alternative to nvidia's Quadro cards that need to be packed in with higher density you'd be best off liquid cooling these for two slot compatibility and we wouldn't recommend the two slot blower 4090 anyway up next G skill goes over 9000 for ddr5 so G skills preparing to launch this ddr5 7800 and ddr5 8000 Trident zz5 RGB memory kits and they've been working closely with Asus with the z790 Maximus Apex in order to do some overclocking and get those over 9000 numbers now the board they're using retails for 700 and it is specifically tuned for memory overclocking with uh only two slots running close to the socket so you're only running one dim per Channel which helps a lot with getting those High memory speeds and it would be nice to see that feature move down the stack but for now it's just here other than the gene anyway while they were at it the companies wanted to see how far they could push the new Ram which resulted in a final speed of 5000 megahertz so that's ten thousand Mega transfers per second and this was done in single Channel with a case latency of 50 without special coolant that calculates to an absolute latency of 10 nanoseconds which is already attainable by existing kits but at much lower bandwidth so it's ddr5 matures it'll be interesting to see how much of an impact the higher frequency kits have on overall performance AMD is more limited by its ryzen 7000 items even Intel is topping out at 6000 to 6200 Mega transfers per second on average anyway so it's possible depending on the limitations of the application you're testing that we could see a wider Gap form between the two Brands contingent on the memory overclocking and if it's a Memory bound application there have been several ddr5 announcements at this point for Speed and they all LeapFrog each other but hitting five digits is a pretty big milestone next up ryzen Tech is bringing another one of its Morpheus GPU coolers to the market there are not many GPU coolers aftermarket ones that are available these days most of the partners have gotten it together you can basically just run those but they're kind of fun projects and they're interesting where you rip everything off the board you put something different on it instead and one of the interesting reasons to do this with Verizon tech or Arc like previously is because you're basically replacing this whole big plastic bulky shroud from your stock cooling solution with instead just a straight up fin stack and then maybe some 120 mil fans which give you immense power compared to what might be shipping stock on most of these coolers although some of the fans going up to 116 mil now so they're pretty close anyway the new cooler is called the Morpheus 8069 and we're honestly not sure where that number comes from uh Raj and Tech Updates this cooler every couple years to fit newer cards and the 8069 has support for high-end Radeon rx6000 cards maybe that's the 60 as well as nvidia's 3080 maybe that's the 80 and the 30 90. maybe that's the nine if that's actually how they constructed the product name then congratulations your insane ryzen Tech you've done it this consists of a large copper cold plate it has an aluminum fin stack that is blacked out uses six heat pipes and Horizon Tech rates it for 360 Watts for Max support with the fin stack sitting relatively high off of the surface of the card to help with compatibility but that also means that when you attach 120 mil fans with the provided Clips the total thickness will be in the same territory as 40 90s are already and then you also have to be careful to make sure there's contact to other components that might need contact like mosfets the cooler also comes with copper and aluminum heat sinks to attach to other heat producing components like power stages previous Morpheus coolers also use this approach for the vram but the 8069 has Ram coverage built into the cold plate that gives us concern about compatibility with some models that may have taller components around the dye area we actually ran into this problem fitting an ln2 pot to a 490 in our last OC live stream but we'd have to test it's really known honestly we probably won't test this one now historically these types of aftermarket coolers have mostly been good for upfitting an arrow type card where it's just a blower fan kind of like that one we were talking about earlier from manly where your rip ripping off a cheap garbage tier cooler that allowed the card to sell at MSRP and you're replacing it with something far better that's where they made the most sense there's not a lot of that right now in the market for the 40 series maybe the rdna3 stuff will have some cheaper models where it's actually worth removing the stock cooler but this would have to be adapted forward for that because it would need obviously a redesign the cold plate and it would need different whole spacing as well probably we don't know the whole spacing yet so anyway uh sites the other company that used to do these Arctic still does and that's kind of it for aftermarket Solutions next up Arctic MX-5 is dead but Arctic MX6 is coming out now the company launched its new MX6 thermal paste onto the market replacing the still relatively new MX-5 which is discontinued immediately we're not exactly sure why that is but MX-5 had some QC issues and issues off the line that have probably plagued its reputation at this point they've tried to fix it not sure if they fully fix those issues or not but either way maybe they're just looking at it as this is kind of a dead product we need to get rid of this thing and launch something new so that's what MX6 is uh the marketing is a little bit strange they say that the MX6 paste is quote simply the paste okay I wasn't expecting like LEDs in it so I'm not really sure what else we'd be going for uh it then says that there's no burn-in period which is valid technically most thermal paste have maybe like 24 hour period where uh they sort of soak and the performance changes a little bit and then it also says that the lack of expensive or precious metals like diamond powder that you find in some of these Pace obviously means it's not going to be electrically conductive only thermally conductive so for component safety you don't have much to worry about with that the new MX6 paste is aimed at being suitable for all applications with good thermal conductivity and a lawn service life they say of eight years one interesting note is that Arctic claims the viscosity of the new paste is so high that it'll prevent the pump out effect if you don't know the pump out effect is from the very minor expansion contraction that happens at the device being cooled at the cold plate where over time you get a slight pumping effect of the the two ends of what's being contacted by the Tim or the thermal interface material and over time in theory you can have that pace kind of work its way out of the area it was applied and introduce some gaps in coverage so that's what that is they're saying this resists that which is a good thing normally it's the really liquidy paste where you have pump out effect to actually be a concern R6 new paste will be in two gram 4 gram and 8 gram quantities and we expect to have many new syringes laying around the office soon for thermal paste just to be very clear about that so we'll let you know if we find anything interesting with the MX6 stop all right next one a monitor for the case side panel Yes Yes actually this is what asrock's Engineers have been hard at work with it's a monitor that goes on the side of your case we've seen a recent trend of monitors going on just about everything we've seen on water blocks video cards liquid coolers motherboards for sure power supplies I don't think we've seen it on RAM yet but it'll happen now we've got it for the case side panel so this is a 13.3 inch 60 hertz IPS 1080p display it uses that adhesive mounting brackets great that'll be good when they get hot and an embedded DisplayPort cable if you've never heard of embedded DisplayPort or you wonder how you'd connect it to a desktop without running a cable in an ugly fashion we don't blame you what they're using is a really flat implementation of the DisplayPort connector cable that's capable of delivering power as well as data and it's normally used in laptops and similarly space constrained devices as a ribbon cable the one that ships with this kit is round though and it looks a little bit handmade ASRock has been quietly adding embedded DisplayPort to some of its recent motherboards but it hasn't been clear as to why until now one thing that isn't clearly stated here is that if you're going to use embedded DisplayPort you'll need an igp in the CPU that you're using it with so anything modern for the most part but the F skews for example from Intel wouldn't work with this at least as we understand it right now Azeroth claims that its screen will quote this is an actual quote double your productivity not really sure how that works you had a 13.3 inch screen in addition to your whatever 28 inch display and you turn your head 90 degrees and look at it not sure where the doubling is coming from but once again okay also if we look at the marketing images for this it looks like a guy on the left of the stock photo is recursively editing himself in the very same image he appears in so that's pretty cool and the guy on the right is like ready to lay some bars or something we're not really sure who dresses up to play games like that and then leaves their headphones on the table but once again okay uh this is a silly kind of product because people typically get clear side panels they can actually see the parts in their computer this is covering them up it entirely defeats the purpose and transparent LCDs like the snow blind make more sense for a showcase build so this is really bizarre we are genuinely very curious what your thoughts are on this there's probably actual use cases for it uh most likely the the better ones are not going to be for productivity but for displaying something cool on the panel that is related to the build um definitely don't see the doubling here though not really sure that ASRock is where you can have two monitors without one being inside of the case on the glass uh so anyway next up cable mod and 12 volt high power connector angled adapter updates so we previously talked about kale mod prepping a 90 degree adapter for the 12 volt high power cables and this is for video cards obviously running the 16 pin or the 12 plus 4 is really what it is and now there's an update the pre-sale launch is delayed until sometime in the future nebulously stated as cable mod works on compatibility with different board Partners additionally thinner 180 degree versions are being prepared to give the option for the cable to be routed back towards the motherboard on either side of the cart just like with the 90 degree version these are in one fixed orientation and not swappable there are four total versions here kale mod is building a list of confirmed compatibility below each model on its landing page designating whether the cable will come out on the back plate side or the cooler side of the card this is important because if it were to go ahead and launch there would likely be a lot of customers ending up with an incompatible or undesired version for their card just to clarify further here so the connector on the video card on the PCB it's not standardized if it's forward or backwards it's the same as eight pins this isn't new so some of them run the sense side towards the back of the card some of it run towards the front of the card that's going to impact how the cable is positioned obviously and it would suck if it went like 180 degrees in the wrong direction and then additionally the housing for the connectors on the PCB is a little different from some runs to the next so Asus fully encases the sense and Nvidia does not for example so that's what they're working on the company says that it will allow people to sign up for one version to switch before General launch four to six weeks from now in case the customers needs change and it's also a good move because it'll just reduce a lot of issues we don't know the final pricing for the angled adapters but there does seem to be a lot of interest last first one alpha cool is launching open loop water cooling kits under the core storm and core wind branding maybe it's core wind anyway it's going to be with variously sized radiators and they're selling this to be an open loop kit which you just buy the whole kit and then you get most of the stuff out of the box not a new idea we've seen it plenty of times in the past thermaltake did it with a pretty large amount of options in the past but there's renewed interest in water cooling now which is good because the 40 series and um the Intown AMD CB is both right now they're all kind of in a in a situation where water coin is going to be the easiest way to get the noise levels down and cool everything adequately Alpha coils kits are comprised of all the parts necessary to create an expandable CPU only loop with radiator and fans CPU block pump and all the fittings and they're all compatible one of the fittings is a quick disconnect which allows easier future expansion for another GPU or a block or something or radiator without draining core wind is the lower end of course storm is the higher end there's pretty big gaps in price in between them both use only copper and brass parts from alpha cools regular DIY lines and on Alpha Cole's website they range from 250 to 430 Euros that's it for the news this week thanks for watching as always subscribe for more working on a lot of other stories right now tons of stuff going on not just follow-up benchmarking by the way check our ryzen efficiency eco mode piece it's really cool some interesting data in there but we also have some research pieces and some investigation so tune in for all that subscribe for more we'll see you all next time\n"