AMD's Financial Results Reveal Significant Growth and Shifts in Gaming Market

In AMD's latest financial results disclosure for quarter 4, 2022, several key points were revealed that shed light on the company's performance and market trends. One of the most significant takeaways is that Sony, AMD's largest customer, accounted for 16% of its revenue in 2022. This massive chunk of business translates to $3.7 billion worth of SOCs (System-on-Chip) shipped to Sony last year, which is a substantial contribution to AMD's overall revenue.

The PlayStation 5 is the primary recipient of this massive amount of hardware, with AMD powering the console's central processing unit and graphics processing unit. This partnership has been instrumental in AMD's success, as it has helped the company stay competitive in the market for high-performance computing components. The fact that Sony is now AMD's largest customer underscores the importance of gaming in AMD's business model.

AMD's Gaming Segment Brings in Record Revenue

The gaming segment was a standout performer in AMD's financial results, generating a whopping $6.8 billion in revenue. This figure surpasses the company's Data Center and Client Computing segments, which brought in $6 billion and $6.2 billion respectively. The gaming segment's dominance is not surprising, given that it has been a key driver of AMD's growth in recent years.

AMD expects Gaming Sales to Decline in 2023

According to AMD's expectations, gaming sales will decline in 2023, which may seem counterintuitive given the company's success in this area. However, several factors contribute to this forecast. Firstly, many gamers have already purchased consoles for previous generations of games, so there is a significant portion of the market that has already made its purchase. Additionally, other tech and PC hardware companies are also experiencing similar declines in gaming sales.

AMD's Margins Have Improved Significantly

During AMD's pre-Ryzen days, the company was heavily reliant on console sales to stay afloat. While this revenue stream is still significant, it is not as lucrative as it once was. The margins for console sales have likely improved significantly over time, especially since the introduction of Ryzen processors.

The Stormbreaker Magnesium Mouse: A Luxury Peripheral with Emerging Trends

In other news, a new magnesium mouse from Ownage has been announced, which promises to deliver high-performance tracking and durability. The mouse features a unique design that allows for fine-tuning of the sensor's location within its base, catering to extremely competitive players who require precision.

The Stormbreaker Mouse boasts a 2000 Hz polling rate courtesy of the receiver pyramid, which is designed to reduce latency and provide smoother input during rapid acceleration or deceleration. However, this feature comes at the expense of decreased battery life, as the mouse's magnesium components are inherently more energy-intensive than traditional plastic materials.

A Price Point That Raises Eyebrows

With a starting price point of $170 for the base version, the Stormbreaker Mouse is positioned firmly in the luxury peripheral market. This is significant, as Ownage has indicated that the production process for these mice is much more expensive than traditional plastics. However, the company remains committed to using high-quality materials, including magnesium, which provides unique benefits but also comes with drawbacks such as brittleness.

A Brief Note on Durability Concerns

There have been reports online of the Razer Viper mini signature mouse breaking at its thin points due to the use of magnesium components. This has raised concerns about durability, which is a critical aspect for luxury peripherals. However, Ownage remains confident in their product's ability to withstand normal usage, despite acknowledging that these materials may not be suitable for heavy-handed users.

A Unique Product Story

Finally, there's an interesting anecdote surrounding the use of magnesium in computer hardware. A laptop caught on fire due to a manufacturing defect related to the material, which was then partially recycled or repurposed. While this incident highlights some of the challenges associated with using magnesium, it also underscores its potential as a high-performance material for specialized applications.

In Conclusion...

The Stormbreaker Magnesium Mouse is an emerging trend in the luxury peripheral industry, and Ownage's commitment to innovative design and materials has piqued the interest of many enthusiasts. With its unique features and competitive pricing, this mouse may appeal to serious gamers who require precise tracking and durability.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign welcome to a hardware news recap for the week and this one companies accidentally leaking their own stuff or partner stuff so Microsoft either major typo or letting us all know that the RX 7800 is closer than it would otherwise appear That's in a larger story about VSR coming to AMD and Intel not just for nvidia's RTX cards and additionally Intel accidentally leaking the existence of a 20 angstrom architecture that it's working on so we'll be talking about those in additional news some of the topics include AMD Radeon drivers that can brick windows and video driver bugs that can chew through more Cycles than they should be and Intel completing the triumvirate driver bugs that are actually fixed so it's a good thing before that this video is brought to you by montex metal dt24 base this two fan Tower cooler keeps a simple black and metal look to match most build Aesthetics and it runs a six heat pipe design with two towers and two fans for a higher performance air coolant the metal dt24 Bay this can also accommodate taller memory modules because it cuts back the fin stack closest to the first dim slot the metal dt24 base uses a standard mounting mechanism and is easy to install learn more at the link in the description below I had to go back and film this first topic so first one is spicy uh there's an ad being run on YouTube that is using our iconography our logo our company name my name and likeness to promote what appears to be either a scam or a pre-built company that's posturing as if it's a different pre-built company so this happens sometimes basically people can feed whatever they want through Google AdSense and there's not much of a system for us to get rid of it we do our best I reached out to our YouTube reps and I said hey someone's using impersonating my company and me running ads for what looks like a scam with really horrible grammar in it which is honestly the most embarrassing part I wouldn't type those words that way uh and we'd like it to be removed and our YouTube rep was like oh wow you should report that and I was like I am but thanks so at this point I've handed it off to our lawyers they're going to deal with it um just so you all know there's two types of misuse of a Content Creator's content as it appears in an AdSense advertisement so the first type is when the advertiser is perhaps a legitimate company this actually happened to us years ago with gigabyte actually so gigabyte uh we did a video at their booth at a trade show it was not paid we never take money for any kind of news reporting at a trade show and that's because it's literally my job to report the news at a trade show so we went there we covered the news and gigabyte then put money behind that video I didn't get it YouTube got it and Google got it and they promoted it across YouTube basically as an advertisement and what that does is it makes it look like now we've received money when we haven't so that's bad I mean that's like basically an attack on reputation but it was unintentional that instance and it also then makes viewers think that we were paid to cover it and it actually just kind of undermines the whole coverage so that's type one type two is a scam company that links to some different website so not back to the source video we made but rather to some website where they're trying to rip people off that's obviously bad for other reasons that are very clear and don't need explanation uh so this particular company a viewer emailed us they said hey just so you know I typed in Gamer's Nexus something or other in Search and your thumbnail came up uh Gamer's Nexus came up the logo came up but it goes to some other company and when we first looked at it it appeared to be linking to a company called brainstorm Corporation the thumbnail was of a skytech pre-built review we did and uh I had our lawyers look into brainstorm corporation which is costing money now thank you very much and uh that is a holding or a parent company for skytag skytech reached out to us and skytech CTO said uh hey just so you know we saw the complaint that's not us we're not putting any AD money behind this we have no advertising accounts even open under either skytech or brainstorm we don't know what this is please help us figure it out because we're being impersonated also so I I don't know like I don't know who the source is um at this point it doesn't matter it's kind of I have people handling it uh when you see ads that are using our content to try and sell you something that we didn't we have no involvement in just don't click on them it's as simple as that anyway this is sadly pretty common this happened to most the big creators I remember line is talking about this at one point it's happened to us uh I'm pretty sure it's happened to Paul or Kyle at one point so the most common one is when an actual company puts money behind a video gives that money to AdSense again not the Creator and then promotes it as if like hey look at this great free marketing campaign we got from this Creator we don't even have to give them money to use their name and likeness all we had to do was give YouTube Pennies on the dollar to promote it which is also by the way minimally uh definitely not okay is the technical phrase for it and uh maximally potentially an illegal use of content in an unauthorized form as promotional materials which starts to cross a lot of really clear not at all blurry or fine lines between manufacturer and reviewer relations and um you start turning the reviewers into marketing without even paying them so it's like if if you're gonna set someone up to be implicated as a shill they should at least get money for it all right that's it for this time this stuff always pisses me off so it's we like to bring it up because we want to make sure everyone's really clear like don't click on scams that have our company name on it we have very few tools we could actually use on YouTube to get rid of them I've contacted YouTube it's gone into the black hole Abyss where I don't know what's going to come out the other side uh so let's move on to another topic so we did a charity drive thing with the Cramton Institute a little while ago where we gave a percentage of the store Revenue to them for a couple day period during that origin PC review we were doing and uh if you don't know they're a local organization to us we've been there several times I've met a lot of people on the team and they are awesome people really passionate about what they do knowledgeable the technology that they take in which is kind of a cool job because they have to know about things spanning today to like 30 years ago anyway what they do is specialize on technology education refurbishing components for uh basically redistribution into communities where people can make use of a generic dollar HP desktop for web browsing if they can't afford a better computer or a computer at all and then the final arm is they do E-Waste recycling which is why we know about them because I mean a lot of the stuff we work on kind of becomes E-Waste anyway the quick update is we end up writing them a check for two grand which is awesome so part of that money in there was because uh when I stopped by they had some stuff I wanted to to buy for GN for videos so we can't talk about what those ideas are yet I don't want to give it away but they had some really cool Hardware that someone locally dropped off and uh we saw it and we're like can we give you money for that and they were like uh yes please give us money for our E-Waste that we have no use for so that we can continue to fund our actual programs it's pretty good they also told me that some of our viewers have stopped by recently and one of them I think one of you bought a 1080 Ti from Cranston Institute that uh someone else had dropped off that one wasn't us but if you ever stop by or you go to their eBay store if you're not local they actually take a good amount of quality like DIY components from us when we have no more further use for them so if the case isn't nice enough to end up here and it's kind of generic but still perfectly usable uh they're a good Avenue for us to kind of get rid of it make some room and then someone else gets to repurpose it so anyway something for you to be aware of but we wanted to update you on the two thousand dollars that between the community and the stuff we picked up when we were over there pretty good contribution okay first one so Microsoft accidentally leaks the RX 7800 GPU Maybe but the bigger story here is that it's VSR coming to things other than Nvidia RTX cards so while we're in the process of making our Nvidia RTX super resolution video video uh we found out that some alternatives are quickly approaching the Horizon this story is a combined mini league from Microsoft and news about VSR if you're not familiar with VSR it's a technology that leverages your GPU to upscale videos and Chrome or Edge in real time now when we were testing it for quick recap we mostly noticed that it helps make text clearer at 480p or 720p but there's also a lot of situations it's useless you can check our video for the full details on that should be live by now probably or very soon if not and the next Contender that we know the most about is specific to Edge and Microsoft is simply calling it video super resolution so in a recent update on Microsoft Edge Insider which apparently is a thing people read the company revealed that it's introducing its own VSR as an experimental feature in the latest built Microsoft's goal looks to be exactly the same as nvidia's implementation except it's supposed to be able to run on a lot of gpus not just the 20 30 and 40 series now currently the post says at least at the time we're filming this says that it will run on the Nvidia 2030 and 40 series so it's covering those bases although it might make sense just to use nvidia's version we're not sure we haven't tested Microsoft's obviously yet um amd's gpus will be supported from the RX 5700 and up interesting choice there to not go down into lower categories and the last one is either a typo or Microsoft unintentionally leaking amd's product stack but they said it will also work up to the RX 7800 which isn't out yet just because a lot of people waiting for it it's not out yet curiously the post indicates that edges VSR will only work on videos that are at a lower resolution than 720p so like 480p they also said it won't work with DRM so no Netflix or any other service that has DRM this differs from Nvidia solution which has no such restriction it just uh don't like what I was about to say I was about to quote Jensen Juan and say it just works which is kind of true in this case but anyway uh nvidia's does in fact just work but the technology doesn't care about it has DRM or not Microsoft's well at the time of writing Edge VSR is only available to 50 of users in the canary channel uh but you can force it manually with a launch flag as well there's also another VSR coming from Intel but there's less info about this one at the time of writing so a user on the live door blog noticed that the latest build of chrome includes a new launch flag called Dash features equals Intel VP super resolution and they tried it out for themselves allegedly this version of VSR uses the igp inside of Intel CPUs from the 11th gen onward to do upscaling work the post shows a few examples of upscaled anime which should be some of the simplest video for VSR to work on we won't get into the image analysis here wait for the full release and you can check out our other video for the RTX one our speculation here is that nvidia's push into video super resolution which is something I started talking about a couple months ago at least probably have spread Microsoft and Intel into making moves on this as well it'd be cool to have a use for the igps if you don't do something that explicitly uses them so the igps actually accelerate a lot of our video rendering and Playback workloads way more than they have any business doing because we have 30 series cards in our editing machines but the igps lift a lot of the weight so to be able to use them for VSR makes a ton of sense if they're otherwise idle AMD hasn't officially announced anything here very likely they're going to soon or at least they haven't that I can recall we may have covered something but uh they don't have anything available yet and as Microsoft Intel and AMD push into their own VSR Technologies we'll probably end up doing a Roundup of all of them if people care enough after the first BSR video next one Intel accidentally leaks a new 20 angstrom architecture that it's working on so this is in another round of companies definitely not on purpose leaking their upcoming road map where Intel or specifically one of its employees updated a LinkedIn page and that employs LinkedIn page detailed and as of yet unannounced Panther Lake product and Tom's Hardware caught the leak and saved it prior to the pages revision looking at the screenshot the engineer who wrote this update noted that their current announced products they've worked on include meteor Lake and air Lake gpus battle mage gpus lunar Lake gpus Celestial gpus and Panther Lake gpus with xe3 LPG Graphics in a discrete form factor discrete in this context means video card not an igp interestingly this last one is listed as having come from Intel's architecture day 2022 which makes us wonder whether it may have been planned for announcement and got pulled or anyway there's a miscommunication internally at this point all we actually know is the name Panther Lake so you're going to start seeing that and that it will run on Intel's xe3 Graphics architecture so that's going to be Celestial at this point currently Intel's lineup includes Alchemist which is the current iteration so a770 for example battle mage is next that will be B something so for example b770 or b990 whatever they call it and then the last one that uh is anywhere near is the last deal and confusingly Tom's Hardware's News Post on this reads the following quote according to the LinkedIn profile Panther Lake and its Associated igp are set to be announced during Intel architecture day 22. if true we should know some official architectural and power specifications by then our interpretation of this is that architecture day apostrophe 22 means 2022 there's still time though there's still time for end of year 2022. it it's happening uh anyway so probably the news for this will not be at until architecture day 2022 but maybe 23 it probably got pulled and shifted uh just given Intel's history with launches announcements and kind of missing the mark on the timing lately so next one AMD Radeon drivers can brick Windows this is not a widespread issue so you don't need to panic right now and there is a specific instance where it occurs and it's typically during installation particularly when he was in the factory install button which we use all the time for all of our GPU benches and we haven't had this bug yet so I'm just trying to temper this so people don't go panic and think their computer is going to break but it's possible and it's worth covering so we already had one GPU driver Bug Story or actually we have two coming up so we'll do another one here this time the AMD adrenaline drivers starting with version 23.2.1 are the ones in the discussion it's both more serious and less common than the Nvidia bug we'll be talking about in a moment as this one can actually totally break your windows OS PC World was affected by this rare problem on one of its benchmarking systems that's unfortunate and causes delays uh we'll hit the main beats here but you should go read the PC World article for the full story because it's written in an entertaining Way by Brad over there a small number of people reported issues right away where upon installing the new drivers their PC would shut down and be unable to boot back into windows at all this is a massive issue because obviously this is probably about the worst type of driver bug you can have is one where the perception is it has corrupted your OS now uh PC World when they encountered this issue they were able to work with AMD directly on troubleshooting and provide the right information to lead AMD to the solution so PC World has been able to begin the process of Reviving its OS and it did so with a very specific uh pressing of the power button during boot which is part of the entertaining part of the story we'll leave that to their website so you can read it after many attempts to reproduce the bug AMD found the Crux of the problem the failure occurs when updating the graphics driver at the same time as silent Windows updates are taking place in the background it's not guaranteed to happen but those are the conditions required for the breakdown AMD indicated that the factory reset option plays a major part but didn't provide exact detail now to provide some helpful background here so we have been able to avoid these types of issues because we encountered stuff like this probably about a decade ago on our test benches the way we avoid them is a specific sequence of things involving disconnecting the internet when installing drivers and so part of our testing methodology that we don't talk about is the test setup so we talk about how we run the tests what types of tests we run how we wire things up for thermocouples whatever we don't normally get into the details of preparing the bench but they are extensive sometimes it takes like a day to set up a brand new bench and make sure everything's in place and working properly and one of the important steps is uh whenever you update or change drivers our steps include using ddu display driver on installer which is an awesome tool if you haven't used it and that tool can disable Windows auto updates which is important because of this exact issue you don't want windows to try and pull drivers while you are trying to install specific drivers because you don't know what Windows is pulling is some wickle update but you don't know which one necessarily and the next step is to disconnect the internet anyway just to be safe and ddu remove the drivers then install and then there's no chance of this happening so if you're worried about this happening you're like I'm going to update my drivers I don't want to lose my OS you don't need to justify that to anyone we understand the process is disconnect the Internet run ddu set the flag to disable the window those auto updates ddu will do this for you if you check it make sure you run ddu in safe mode as well and then you can do your install with no internet connect the internet after you're done reboot once maybe twice for good measure to make sure everything clicks and then you're good now in order to avoid being hit by this for the time being AMD says that users can also just avoid the factory reset button or the clean install button when doing a Radeon driver install aside from that the best thing you could do is make sure Windows is up to date before installing the driver exceedingly rare but definitely possible with how much Windows tries to update things it's just an interesting Confluence of problems where it's like you have to do two updates simultaneously and one you don't know about thanks Windows all right next one NVIDIA drivers causing a CPU usage bug this is pretty quick nvidia's driver version 531.18 which is brand new and actually brought the RTX video super resolution feature out that has a bug where there's a chance that After exiting a game or other 3D program the Nvidia container process will use an abnormally high amount of CPU time the verge's Tom Warren reported seen anywhere from 10 to 15 percent utilization by the container Nvidia says it's aware of the problem and it listed it as an open issue on its Forum Nvidia has since provided a hotfix so you should be able to go download the new version 531.26 to address the bug AMD and Intel have been picked on a lot lately for driver issues but this goes to show that Nvidia also is prone to the drivers are insanely complex now but that one's kind of bad so make sure you you update or just use the older version up next an Intel update on the 1.8 nanometer process node or 18 angstrom this comes from udn the Chinese site is jinji Rue bawang and it's also known as the economic daily Network they reported uh with some some translation errors in there they were translated from another source but they reported on an Intel official event hosted by Juan Ray from in Talley's one of the chairman over there specifically the chairman of Intel China and they broke it as recently on progress of new process nodes at Intel as a reminder Intel previously noted a nomenclature change as it moves away from nanometer branding and into angstrom branding for sizing so you could obviously infinitely break down any unit into smaller decimals but rather than saying 1.8 which maybe I mean as nanometers is misleading isometric anyway Intel has decided to just cut over now to angstrom terminology that means 18 a instead and we'll switch between udn and Toms for this story because Tom's Hardware has it written in English the udn report erroneously translates that the 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom node development is final but Intel actually confirmed specifically that this isn't true it was just a translation error more appropriately the news is that Intel is moving through its testing and r d processes for 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom notes so at this stage they're exiting the research phases for 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom process nodes and they're entering the stage of defining the product roadmap to utilize those process nodes so we're getting away from r d and into product design Intel's preparing it's it's Intel 4 process node launch which was another nomenclature change this is part of the rebranding and that one's coming out in the second half of 23 at least currently on the roadmap and 18 and 28 Parts aren't ready yet for mass production but the early research is coming to a close okay next story Corsair speeds up 24 gigabyte ddr5 sticks this is just a quick follow-up story to the one we ran last week about new ddr5 Ram kits especially from Corsair the tldrs that Corsair now has ddr5 with unusual 24 gigabyte and 48 gigabyte dimms like we said last week and one of the downsides with the original lineup was that none of the initial kits clocked very hot the company just announced though ddr5 7000 versions of the 48 gigabyte kits so it's 2x24 courser had to significantly loosen the primary timings to achieve this but we've heard from some overclock lockers that the primary timings don't matter as much as the transfer rate for ddr5 at least based on current numbers and against the past we're not sure if this higher speed bin is a response to criticism or if it was planned from the start it is extremely likely that it was planned from the start though because you don't make and spin up a whole new product in one week but they probably expected the feedback the new kits are priced at 275 dollars without RGB and 285 for RGB so we now have a price on RGB it's apparently 10 bucks regardless keep in mind that Intel 13th gen is the only current CPU with an integrated memory controller strong enough to hit this kind of transfer rate and it's capable of hitting around 8 000 Mega transfers per second given the right memory and motherboard combination amd's ryzen 7000 line tops out around 6 200 Mega transfers for most chips or 6400 if you're really lucky next in a strange coincidence both Cooler Master and Arctic have announced a new set of fans with new sets of fans and these have written blade designs that means the fan blades are few used together with solid rings at the tips of them you've definitely seen these before in video cards for example made the GPU teardowns but this gives the fan more rigidity to support higher speeds and in theory it eliminates some of the wobble and the claim is that the ability for air to escape past the end of the blade is reduced this comes at the cost of the entire blade itself way and more which typically would require a stronger motor as well in fact one of the early problems with 200 millimeter fans back in the day was when the NZXT ones would just spontaneously explode the I actually had it happen on two fans the 200 millimeter it's like the GN curse like every every thought that will ever exist in a product it's gonna happen to me I don't know why but that's how it's worked with pre-built and apparently with fan blades I was using it in a personal system one day campaign and I checked and uh it was the fan that exploded not my bulldozer CPU so I guess that part was nice but anyway the the blade fractured in those ones because the to get the 200 mils to survive in those early days they had to use a higher quality plastic than they were using because the blade is bigger and the whole thing is heavier and just over time there's stress fractures that formed and it would eventually shatter but the motor also needed to be stronger because in some of the other not NZXT ones but Cooler Master 200 mil fans that I also had the motor would die because it wasn't powerful enough to spin fans that were that heavy so some of the stuff I mean all those problems have been solved now so you don't need to worry about that with 200 mil fans today and if it happens let us know but anyway the point is these will need a potentially a bit powerful more powerful motor than they would without the extra weight completely random asides aside first up is the 120 mil Arctic p12 Max the basic shape of the fan blades is very similar to the original Peach weld with five very large steeply swept blades aside from the rain at the edge another new feature is the rubber pads on the corners for vibration damping this is very common for the fans now so Arctic is fulfilling that expectation Arctic advertises the operating range as an impressively wide 200 to 3300 RPM with a zero RPM capability at less than five percent PW app despite the improvements the price is still fairly low at 15 per fan it's not the same bargain as the six dollar per fan of the popular p125 pack but still pretty good for high performance options second is The Cooler Master Mobius 120 OC fan this is the latest addition to the company's newer Mobius line we actually saw these Mobius fans when we were at cooler Masters headquarters in Taipei in December but this this is a new colorway the new one carries a deep blue and black colorway maybe trying to cultivate a signature look similar to noctua's brown and beige changes for the new model include detachable rubber Corners again for dampen uh metal Fan Hub and a speed switch on the cable itself now that last one is a bit different so the switch if the fan is going to have some kind of speed limiting circuit fan tax and be quiet both put the switch on the fan body or the Hub so putting on the cable is a little different uh personally I prefer the switch to be on the cable because it's a little easier to get access to depending on how you route it and how you mount the fan but it is contrary and so on the highest setting the fan will spin up to 3200 RPM and it's a lot of blue so it's forty dollars per fan I guess we don't know where they came up with that price but uh most of it's probably that metal Fan Hub now we get to the complete the triumvirate of GPU driver bug stories in this news Roundup but this one's a positive one so Intel Arc has had a multi-moditor power consumption bug basically since it came out and it should be fixed now so it's it's one of the least disruptive bugs but it's very annoying and basically since launch they had high idle power consumption specifically when running multiple displays off the card and that was because the GPU wouldn't properly enter a low power State this could also cause problems the fans continuing to spin when they otherwise shouldn't so this already got fixed for single monitor configurations the idle power one but not for two and with two or more the GPU would sit at 40 to 50 watts of power consumption which is a lot it's enough for the fans to need to spin in the recent 4146 driver users with dual monitor configurations have reported Arc GPU successfully hitting sub 10 watts at idle for those of you affected by this be sure to update to the latest driver version and then follow Intel's help article from October last year next up Sony is amd's biggest customer now they're responsible for 16 percent of amd's Revenue in 2022 massive chunk for one company that makes Sony the largest out of all their customers and AMD shipped 3.7 billion dollars worth of socs to Sony last year of course if you don't know AMD power in Sony's PlayStation 5 so that's the bulk of it now 3.7 billion dollars worth of socs is a lot of chess Vibes in the console Market the PS5 far outsells the Xbox series X and the S at the moment and this information came to light as part of amd's usual Financial results disclosure for quarter 422. during the call Andy also revealed that its gaming segment brought in more money than anything else at 6.8 billion that's more than Data Center and client Computing which uh only got AMD 6 billion dollars and 6.2 looking forward AMD expects gaming sales to decline for 2023 like we said in the John Petty GPU story last week that's not surprising considering every other Tech and PC hardware company has been saying the same thing on top of that we're starting to get later in the life cycle of current generations of consoles by now a large portion of the market already has one if they wanted it selling the console makers has paid off for AMD their margins at least a while ago were probably pretty low on those sales we don't know what they are today but back when AMD was really desperate in the pre-rising days it was basically consoles that kept AMD in business at all next story or actually last one for this week uh the Stormbreaker magnesium Mouse making mice out of magnesium metal is an emerging Trend in the high-end peripheral industry the latest is the magnum opus Stormbreaker by Ownage just to get this out of the way I pronounce it Ownage because of pure Ownage which pronounced it Ownage not pwnage so Ownage is making this then it's available in five color ways as well as plain black or white magnum opus is a hell of a name uh definitely conveys what they think about the product but other than its low density the main features include the ability to adjust the sensor itself back and forth within the base and that allows you to fine tune the sensor's location if you're really picky about it compared to where your hand rests on the mouse generally speaking this is something only extremely competitive players who put hundreds or thousands of hours into a game can probably appreciate but we're curious what you think of it the Stormbreaker Mouse also has a 2000 Hertz pulling rage courtesy of the receiver pyramid in theory reducing the time between updates Smooths out the input during periods of Rapid acceleration or deceleration and this comes at the expense of decreased battery life if it's battery operated they also have a set of custom grip tape for extra stability we've read a few accounts that painted magnesium can be hard to hold on to we haven't used any of those mice here though PTFE feed comes standard but you can opt for glass replacements for an up charge this isn't the first magnesium Mouse so the final Mouse Starlight 12 and the Razer Viper mini signature came before it based on the prices for all of these at around the 200 Mark the process is a lot more expensive than traditional plastic not to mention the narrow market for these not being able to leverage economies of scale to the same extent my favorite product made out of magnesium story is one that I can't fully disclose the information of uh but the the parts I can say I guess are mostly that it was a laptop that caught on fire anyway moving on the Stormbreaker starts at 170 for the base version and it's from ages past and it goes up to 210 dollars with all of the options magnesium isn't perfect one of the drawbacks aside from cost is brittleness we've seen a few reports online of the Razer Viper mini signature breaking at the thin points of the shell so durability might be a concern we're not against the idea of fundamental usage of these types of materials it's just obviously getting into like luxury brand computer hardware which is a little bit weird but the Hobbies getting widespread now and people want to have a nice computer so let us know what you think of the moving sensor though that's the thing that I'm most interested in okay that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more go to store.com to help us out directly or patreon.com Gamers Nexus and we'll see you all next timeforeign welcome to a hardware news recap for the week and this one companies accidentally leaking their own stuff or partner stuff so Microsoft either major typo or letting us all know that the RX 7800 is closer than it would otherwise appear That's in a larger story about VSR coming to AMD and Intel not just for nvidia's RTX cards and additionally Intel accidentally leaking the existence of a 20 angstrom architecture that it's working on so we'll be talking about those in additional news some of the topics include AMD Radeon drivers that can brick windows and video driver bugs that can chew through more Cycles than they should be and Intel completing the triumvirate driver bugs that are actually fixed so it's a good thing before that this video is brought to you by montex metal dt24 base this two fan Tower cooler keeps a simple black and metal look to match most build Aesthetics and it runs a six heat pipe design with two towers and two fans for a higher performance air coolant the metal dt24 Bay this can also accommodate taller memory modules because it cuts back the fin stack closest to the first dim slot the metal dt24 base uses a standard mounting mechanism and is easy to install learn more at the link in the description below I had to go back and film this first topic so first one is spicy uh there's an ad being run on YouTube that is using our iconography our logo our company name my name and likeness to promote what appears to be either a scam or a pre-built company that's posturing as if it's a different pre-built company so this happens sometimes basically people can feed whatever they want through Google AdSense and there's not much of a system for us to get rid of it we do our best I reached out to our YouTube reps and I said hey someone's using impersonating my company and me running ads for what looks like a scam with really horrible grammar in it which is honestly the most embarrassing part I wouldn't type those words that way uh and we'd like it to be removed and our YouTube rep was like oh wow you should report that and I was like I am but thanks so at this point I've handed it off to our lawyers they're going to deal with it um just so you all know there's two types of misuse of a Content Creator's content as it appears in an AdSense advertisement so the first type is when the advertiser is perhaps a legitimate company this actually happened to us years ago with gigabyte actually so gigabyte uh we did a video at their booth at a trade show it was not paid we never take money for any kind of news reporting at a trade show and that's because it's literally my job to report the news at a trade show so we went there we covered the news and gigabyte then put money behind that video I didn't get it YouTube got it and Google got it and they promoted it across YouTube basically as an advertisement and what that does is it makes it look like now we've received money when we haven't so that's bad I mean that's like basically an attack on reputation but it was unintentional that instance and it also then makes viewers think that we were paid to cover it and it actually just kind of undermines the whole coverage so that's type one type two is a scam company that links to some different website so not back to the source video we made but rather to some website where they're trying to rip people off that's obviously bad for other reasons that are very clear and don't need explanation uh so this particular company a viewer emailed us they said hey just so you know I typed in Gamer's Nexus something or other in Search and your thumbnail came up uh Gamer's Nexus came up the logo came up but it goes to some other company and when we first looked at it it appeared to be linking to a company called brainstorm Corporation the thumbnail was of a skytech pre-built review we did and uh I had our lawyers look into brainstorm corporation which is costing money now thank you very much and uh that is a holding or a parent company for skytag skytech reached out to us and skytech CTO said uh hey just so you know we saw the complaint that's not us we're not putting any AD money behind this we have no advertising accounts even open under either skytech or brainstorm we don't know what this is please help us figure it out because we're being impersonated also so I I don't know like I don't know who the source is um at this point it doesn't matter it's kind of I have people handling it uh when you see ads that are using our content to try and sell you something that we didn't we have no involvement in just don't click on them it's as simple as that anyway this is sadly pretty common this happened to most the big creators I remember line is talking about this at one point it's happened to us uh I'm pretty sure it's happened to Paul or Kyle at one point so the most common one is when an actual company puts money behind a video gives that money to AdSense again not the Creator and then promotes it as if like hey look at this great free marketing campaign we got from this Creator we don't even have to give them money to use their name and likeness all we had to do was give YouTube Pennies on the dollar to promote it which is also by the way minimally uh definitely not okay is the technical phrase for it and uh maximally potentially an illegal use of content in an unauthorized form as promotional materials which starts to cross a lot of really clear not at all blurry or fine lines between manufacturer and reviewer relations and um you start turning the reviewers into marketing without even paying them so it's like if if you're gonna set someone up to be implicated as a shill they should at least get money for it all right that's it for this time this stuff always pisses me off so it's we like to bring it up because we want to make sure everyone's really clear like don't click on scams that have our company name on it we have very few tools we could actually use on YouTube to get rid of them I've contacted YouTube it's gone into the black hole Abyss where I don't know what's going to come out the other side uh so let's move on to another topic so we did a charity drive thing with the Cramton Institute a little while ago where we gave a percentage of the store Revenue to them for a couple day period during that origin PC review we were doing and uh if you don't know they're a local organization to us we've been there several times I've met a lot of people on the team and they are awesome people really passionate about what they do knowledgeable the technology that they take in which is kind of a cool job because they have to know about things spanning today to like 30 years ago anyway what they do is specialize on technology education refurbishing components for uh basically redistribution into communities where people can make use of a generic dollar HP desktop for web browsing if they can't afford a better computer or a computer at all and then the final arm is they do E-Waste recycling which is why we know about them because I mean a lot of the stuff we work on kind of becomes E-Waste anyway the quick update is we end up writing them a check for two grand which is awesome so part of that money in there was because uh when I stopped by they had some stuff I wanted to to buy for GN for videos so we can't talk about what those ideas are yet I don't want to give it away but they had some really cool Hardware that someone locally dropped off and uh we saw it and we're like can we give you money for that and they were like uh yes please give us money for our E-Waste that we have no use for so that we can continue to fund our actual programs it's pretty good they also told me that some of our viewers have stopped by recently and one of them I think one of you bought a 1080 Ti from Cranston Institute that uh someone else had dropped off that one wasn't us but if you ever stop by or you go to their eBay store if you're not local they actually take a good amount of quality like DIY components from us when we have no more further use for them so if the case isn't nice enough to end up here and it's kind of generic but still perfectly usable uh they're a good Avenue for us to kind of get rid of it make some room and then someone else gets to repurpose it so anyway something for you to be aware of but we wanted to update you on the two thousand dollars that between the community and the stuff we picked up when we were over there pretty good contribution okay first one so Microsoft accidentally leaks the RX 7800 GPU Maybe but the bigger story here is that it's VSR coming to things other than Nvidia RTX cards so while we're in the process of making our Nvidia RTX super resolution video video uh we found out that some alternatives are quickly approaching the Horizon this story is a combined mini league from Microsoft and news about VSR if you're not familiar with VSR it's a technology that leverages your GPU to upscale videos and Chrome or Edge in real time now when we were testing it for quick recap we mostly noticed that it helps make text clearer at 480p or 720p but there's also a lot of situations it's useless you can check our video for the full details on that should be live by now probably or very soon if not and the next Contender that we know the most about is specific to Edge and Microsoft is simply calling it video super resolution so in a recent update on Microsoft Edge Insider which apparently is a thing people read the company revealed that it's introducing its own VSR as an experimental feature in the latest built Microsoft's goal looks to be exactly the same as nvidia's implementation except it's supposed to be able to run on a lot of gpus not just the 20 30 and 40 series now currently the post says at least at the time we're filming this says that it will run on the Nvidia 2030 and 40 series so it's covering those bases although it might make sense just to use nvidia's version we're not sure we haven't tested Microsoft's obviously yet um amd's gpus will be supported from the RX 5700 and up interesting choice there to not go down into lower categories and the last one is either a typo or Microsoft unintentionally leaking amd's product stack but they said it will also work up to the RX 7800 which isn't out yet just because a lot of people waiting for it it's not out yet curiously the post indicates that edges VSR will only work on videos that are at a lower resolution than 720p so like 480p they also said it won't work with DRM so no Netflix or any other service that has DRM this differs from Nvidia solution which has no such restriction it just uh don't like what I was about to say I was about to quote Jensen Juan and say it just works which is kind of true in this case but anyway uh nvidia's does in fact just work but the technology doesn't care about it has DRM or not Microsoft's well at the time of writing Edge VSR is only available to 50 of users in the canary channel uh but you can force it manually with a launch flag as well there's also another VSR coming from Intel but there's less info about this one at the time of writing so a user on the live door blog noticed that the latest build of chrome includes a new launch flag called Dash features equals Intel VP super resolution and they tried it out for themselves allegedly this version of VSR uses the igp inside of Intel CPUs from the 11th gen onward to do upscaling work the post shows a few examples of upscaled anime which should be some of the simplest video for VSR to work on we won't get into the image analysis here wait for the full release and you can check out our other video for the RTX one our speculation here is that nvidia's push into video super resolution which is something I started talking about a couple months ago at least probably have spread Microsoft and Intel into making moves on this as well it'd be cool to have a use for the igps if you don't do something that explicitly uses them so the igps actually accelerate a lot of our video rendering and Playback workloads way more than they have any business doing because we have 30 series cards in our editing machines but the igps lift a lot of the weight so to be able to use them for VSR makes a ton of sense if they're otherwise idle AMD hasn't officially announced anything here very likely they're going to soon or at least they haven't that I can recall we may have covered something but uh they don't have anything available yet and as Microsoft Intel and AMD push into their own VSR Technologies we'll probably end up doing a Roundup of all of them if people care enough after the first BSR video next one Intel accidentally leaks a new 20 angstrom architecture that it's working on so this is in another round of companies definitely not on purpose leaking their upcoming road map where Intel or specifically one of its employees updated a LinkedIn page and that employs LinkedIn page detailed and as of yet unannounced Panther Lake product and Tom's Hardware caught the leak and saved it prior to the pages revision looking at the screenshot the engineer who wrote this update noted that their current announced products they've worked on include meteor Lake and air Lake gpus battle mage gpus lunar Lake gpus Celestial gpus and Panther Lake gpus with xe3 LPG Graphics in a discrete form factor discrete in this context means video card not an igp interestingly this last one is listed as having come from Intel's architecture day 2022 which makes us wonder whether it may have been planned for announcement and got pulled or anyway there's a miscommunication internally at this point all we actually know is the name Panther Lake so you're going to start seeing that and that it will run on Intel's xe3 Graphics architecture so that's going to be Celestial at this point currently Intel's lineup includes Alchemist which is the current iteration so a770 for example battle mage is next that will be B something so for example b770 or b990 whatever they call it and then the last one that uh is anywhere near is the last deal and confusingly Tom's Hardware's News Post on this reads the following quote according to the LinkedIn profile Panther Lake and its Associated igp are set to be announced during Intel architecture day 22. if true we should know some official architectural and power specifications by then our interpretation of this is that architecture day apostrophe 22 means 2022 there's still time though there's still time for end of year 2022. it it's happening uh anyway so probably the news for this will not be at until architecture day 2022 but maybe 23 it probably got pulled and shifted uh just given Intel's history with launches announcements and kind of missing the mark on the timing lately so next one AMD Radeon drivers can brick Windows this is not a widespread issue so you don't need to panic right now and there is a specific instance where it occurs and it's typically during installation particularly when he was in the factory install button which we use all the time for all of our GPU benches and we haven't had this bug yet so I'm just trying to temper this so people don't go panic and think their computer is going to break but it's possible and it's worth covering so we already had one GPU driver Bug Story or actually we have two coming up so we'll do another one here this time the AMD adrenaline drivers starting with version 23.2.1 are the ones in the discussion it's both more serious and less common than the Nvidia bug we'll be talking about in a moment as this one can actually totally break your windows OS PC World was affected by this rare problem on one of its benchmarking systems that's unfortunate and causes delays uh we'll hit the main beats here but you should go read the PC World article for the full story because it's written in an entertaining Way by Brad over there a small number of people reported issues right away where upon installing the new drivers their PC would shut down and be unable to boot back into windows at all this is a massive issue because obviously this is probably about the worst type of driver bug you can have is one where the perception is it has corrupted your OS now uh PC World when they encountered this issue they were able to work with AMD directly on troubleshooting and provide the right information to lead AMD to the solution so PC World has been able to begin the process of Reviving its OS and it did so with a very specific uh pressing of the power button during boot which is part of the entertaining part of the story we'll leave that to their website so you can read it after many attempts to reproduce the bug AMD found the Crux of the problem the failure occurs when updating the graphics driver at the same time as silent Windows updates are taking place in the background it's not guaranteed to happen but those are the conditions required for the breakdown AMD indicated that the factory reset option plays a major part but didn't provide exact detail now to provide some helpful background here so we have been able to avoid these types of issues because we encountered stuff like this probably about a decade ago on our test benches the way we avoid them is a specific sequence of things involving disconnecting the internet when installing drivers and so part of our testing methodology that we don't talk about is the test setup so we talk about how we run the tests what types of tests we run how we wire things up for thermocouples whatever we don't normally get into the details of preparing the bench but they are extensive sometimes it takes like a day to set up a brand new bench and make sure everything's in place and working properly and one of the important steps is uh whenever you update or change drivers our steps include using ddu display driver on installer which is an awesome tool if you haven't used it and that tool can disable Windows auto updates which is important because of this exact issue you don't want windows to try and pull drivers while you are trying to install specific drivers because you don't know what Windows is pulling is some wickle update but you don't know which one necessarily and the next step is to disconnect the internet anyway just to be safe and ddu remove the drivers then install and then there's no chance of this happening so if you're worried about this happening you're like I'm going to update my drivers I don't want to lose my OS you don't need to justify that to anyone we understand the process is disconnect the Internet run ddu set the flag to disable the window those auto updates ddu will do this for you if you check it make sure you run ddu in safe mode as well and then you can do your install with no internet connect the internet after you're done reboot once maybe twice for good measure to make sure everything clicks and then you're good now in order to avoid being hit by this for the time being AMD says that users can also just avoid the factory reset button or the clean install button when doing a Radeon driver install aside from that the best thing you could do is make sure Windows is up to date before installing the driver exceedingly rare but definitely possible with how much Windows tries to update things it's just an interesting Confluence of problems where it's like you have to do two updates simultaneously and one you don't know about thanks Windows all right next one NVIDIA drivers causing a CPU usage bug this is pretty quick nvidia's driver version 531.18 which is brand new and actually brought the RTX video super resolution feature out that has a bug where there's a chance that After exiting a game or other 3D program the Nvidia container process will use an abnormally high amount of CPU time the verge's Tom Warren reported seen anywhere from 10 to 15 percent utilization by the container Nvidia says it's aware of the problem and it listed it as an open issue on its Forum Nvidia has since provided a hotfix so you should be able to go download the new version 531.26 to address the bug AMD and Intel have been picked on a lot lately for driver issues but this goes to show that Nvidia also is prone to the drivers are insanely complex now but that one's kind of bad so make sure you you update or just use the older version up next an Intel update on the 1.8 nanometer process node or 18 angstrom this comes from udn the Chinese site is jinji Rue bawang and it's also known as the economic daily Network they reported uh with some some translation errors in there they were translated from another source but they reported on an Intel official event hosted by Juan Ray from in Talley's one of the chairman over there specifically the chairman of Intel China and they broke it as recently on progress of new process nodes at Intel as a reminder Intel previously noted a nomenclature change as it moves away from nanometer branding and into angstrom branding for sizing so you could obviously infinitely break down any unit into smaller decimals but rather than saying 1.8 which maybe I mean as nanometers is misleading isometric anyway Intel has decided to just cut over now to angstrom terminology that means 18 a instead and we'll switch between udn and Toms for this story because Tom's Hardware has it written in English the udn report erroneously translates that the 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom node development is final but Intel actually confirmed specifically that this isn't true it was just a translation error more appropriately the news is that Intel is moving through its testing and r d processes for 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom notes so at this stage they're exiting the research phases for 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom process nodes and they're entering the stage of defining the product roadmap to utilize those process nodes so we're getting away from r d and into product design Intel's preparing it's it's Intel 4 process node launch which was another nomenclature change this is part of the rebranding and that one's coming out in the second half of 23 at least currently on the roadmap and 18 and 28 Parts aren't ready yet for mass production but the early research is coming to a close okay next story Corsair speeds up 24 gigabyte ddr5 sticks this is just a quick follow-up story to the one we ran last week about new ddr5 Ram kits especially from Corsair the tldrs that Corsair now has ddr5 with unusual 24 gigabyte and 48 gigabyte dimms like we said last week and one of the downsides with the original lineup was that none of the initial kits clocked very hot the company just announced though ddr5 7000 versions of the 48 gigabyte kits so it's 2x24 courser had to significantly loosen the primary timings to achieve this but we've heard from some overclock lockers that the primary timings don't matter as much as the transfer rate for ddr5 at least based on current numbers and against the past we're not sure if this higher speed bin is a response to criticism or if it was planned from the start it is extremely likely that it was planned from the start though because you don't make and spin up a whole new product in one week but they probably expected the feedback the new kits are priced at 275 dollars without RGB and 285 for RGB so we now have a price on RGB it's apparently 10 bucks regardless keep in mind that Intel 13th gen is the only current CPU with an integrated memory controller strong enough to hit this kind of transfer rate and it's capable of hitting around 8 000 Mega transfers per second given the right memory and motherboard combination amd's ryzen 7000 line tops out around 6 200 Mega transfers for most chips or 6400 if you're really lucky next in a strange coincidence both Cooler Master and Arctic have announced a new set of fans with new sets of fans and these have written blade designs that means the fan blades are few used together with solid rings at the tips of them you've definitely seen these before in video cards for example made the GPU teardowns but this gives the fan more rigidity to support higher speeds and in theory it eliminates some of the wobble and the claim is that the ability for air to escape past the end of the blade is reduced this comes at the cost of the entire blade itself way and more which typically would require a stronger motor as well in fact one of the early problems with 200 millimeter fans back in the day was when the NZXT ones would just spontaneously explode the I actually had it happen on two fans the 200 millimeter it's like the GN curse like every every thought that will ever exist in a product it's gonna happen to me I don't know why but that's how it's worked with pre-built and apparently with fan blades I was using it in a personal system one day campaign and I checked and uh it was the fan that exploded not my bulldozer CPU so I guess that part was nice but anyway the the blade fractured in those ones because the to get the 200 mils to survive in those early days they had to use a higher quality plastic than they were using because the blade is bigger and the whole thing is heavier and just over time there's stress fractures that formed and it would eventually shatter but the motor also needed to be stronger because in some of the other not NZXT ones but Cooler Master 200 mil fans that I also had the motor would die because it wasn't powerful enough to spin fans that were that heavy so some of the stuff I mean all those problems have been solved now so you don't need to worry about that with 200 mil fans today and if it happens let us know but anyway the point is these will need a potentially a bit powerful more powerful motor than they would without the extra weight completely random asides aside first up is the 120 mil Arctic p12 Max the basic shape of the fan blades is very similar to the original Peach weld with five very large steeply swept blades aside from the rain at the edge another new feature is the rubber pads on the corners for vibration damping this is very common for the fans now so Arctic is fulfilling that expectation Arctic advertises the operating range as an impressively wide 200 to 3300 RPM with a zero RPM capability at less than five percent PW app despite the improvements the price is still fairly low at 15 per fan it's not the same bargain as the six dollar per fan of the popular p125 pack but still pretty good for high performance options second is The Cooler Master Mobius 120 OC fan this is the latest addition to the company's newer Mobius line we actually saw these Mobius fans when we were at cooler Masters headquarters in Taipei in December but this this is a new colorway the new one carries a deep blue and black colorway maybe trying to cultivate a signature look similar to noctua's brown and beige changes for the new model include detachable rubber Corners again for dampen uh metal Fan Hub and a speed switch on the cable itself now that last one is a bit different so the switch if the fan is going to have some kind of speed limiting circuit fan tax and be quiet both put the switch on the fan body or the Hub so putting on the cable is a little different uh personally I prefer the switch to be on the cable because it's a little easier to get access to depending on how you route it and how you mount the fan but it is contrary and so on the highest setting the fan will spin up to 3200 RPM and it's a lot of blue so it's forty dollars per fan I guess we don't know where they came up with that price but uh most of it's probably that metal Fan Hub now we get to the complete the triumvirate of GPU driver bug stories in this news Roundup but this one's a positive one so Intel Arc has had a multi-moditor power consumption bug basically since it came out and it should be fixed now so it's it's one of the least disruptive bugs but it's very annoying and basically since launch they had high idle power consumption specifically when running multiple displays off the card and that was because the GPU wouldn't properly enter a low power State this could also cause problems the fans continuing to spin when they otherwise shouldn't so this already got fixed for single monitor configurations the idle power one but not for two and with two or more the GPU would sit at 40 to 50 watts of power consumption which is a lot it's enough for the fans to need to spin in the recent 4146 driver users with dual monitor configurations have reported Arc GPU successfully hitting sub 10 watts at idle for those of you affected by this be sure to update to the latest driver version and then follow Intel's help article from October last year next up Sony is amd's biggest customer now they're responsible for 16 percent of amd's Revenue in 2022 massive chunk for one company that makes Sony the largest out of all their customers and AMD shipped 3.7 billion dollars worth of socs to Sony last year of course if you don't know AMD power in Sony's PlayStation 5 so that's the bulk of it now 3.7 billion dollars worth of socs is a lot of chess Vibes in the console Market the PS5 far outsells the Xbox series X and the S at the moment and this information came to light as part of amd's usual Financial results disclosure for quarter 422. during the call Andy also revealed that its gaming segment brought in more money than anything else at 6.8 billion that's more than Data Center and client Computing which uh only got AMD 6 billion dollars and 6.2 looking forward AMD expects gaming sales to decline for 2023 like we said in the John Petty GPU story last week that's not surprising considering every other Tech and PC hardware company has been saying the same thing on top of that we're starting to get later in the life cycle of current generations of consoles by now a large portion of the market already has one if they wanted it selling the console makers has paid off for AMD their margins at least a while ago were probably pretty low on those sales we don't know what they are today but back when AMD was really desperate in the pre-rising days it was basically consoles that kept AMD in business at all next story or actually last one for this week uh the Stormbreaker magnesium Mouse making mice out of magnesium metal is an emerging Trend in the high-end peripheral industry the latest is the magnum opus Stormbreaker by Ownage just to get this out of the way I pronounce it Ownage because of pure Ownage which pronounced it Ownage not pwnage so Ownage is making this then it's available in five color ways as well as plain black or white magnum opus is a hell of a name uh definitely conveys what they think about the product but other than its low density the main features include the ability to adjust the sensor itself back and forth within the base and that allows you to fine tune the sensor's location if you're really picky about it compared to where your hand rests on the mouse generally speaking this is something only extremely competitive players who put hundreds or thousands of hours into a game can probably appreciate but we're curious what you think of it the Stormbreaker Mouse also has a 2000 Hertz pulling rage courtesy of the receiver pyramid in theory reducing the time between updates Smooths out the input during periods of Rapid acceleration or deceleration and this comes at the expense of decreased battery life if it's battery operated they also have a set of custom grip tape for extra stability we've read a few accounts that painted magnesium can be hard to hold on to we haven't used any of those mice here though PTFE feed comes standard but you can opt for glass replacements for an up charge this isn't the first magnesium Mouse so the final Mouse Starlight 12 and the Razer Viper mini signature came before it based on the prices for all of these at around the 200 Mark the process is a lot more expensive than traditional plastic not to mention the narrow market for these not being able to leverage economies of scale to the same extent my favorite product made out of magnesium story is one that I can't fully disclose the information of uh but the the parts I can say I guess are mostly that it was a laptop that caught on fire anyway moving on the Stormbreaker starts at 170 for the base version and it's from ages past and it goes up to 210 dollars with all of the options magnesium isn't perfect one of the drawbacks aside from cost is brittleness we've seen a few reports online of the Razer Viper mini signature breaking at the thin points of the shell so durability might be a concern we're not against the idea of fundamental usage of these types of materials it's just obviously getting into like luxury brand computer hardware which is a little bit weird but the Hobbies getting widespread now and people want to have a nice computer so let us know what you think of the moving sensor though that's the thing that I'm most interested in okay that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more go to store.com to help us out directly or patreon.com Gamers Nexus and we'll see you all next timeforeign welcome to a hardware news recap for the week and this one companies accidentally leaking their own stuff or partner stuff so Microsoft either major typo or letting us all know that the RX 7800 is closer than it would otherwise appear That's in a larger story about VSR coming to AMD and Intel not just for nvidia's RTX cards and additionally Intel accidentally leaking the existence of a 20 angstrom architecture that it's working on so we'll be talking about those in additional news some of the topics include AMD Radeon drivers that can brick windows and video driver bugs that can chew through more Cycles than they should be and Intel completing the triumvirate driver bugs that are actually fixed so it's a good thing before that this video is brought to you by montex metal dt24 base this two fan Tower cooler keeps a simple black and metal look to match most build Aesthetics and it runs a six heat pipe design with two towers and two fans for a higher performance air coolant the metal dt24 Bay this can also accommodate taller memory modules because it cuts back the fin stack closest to the first dim slot the metal dt24 base uses a standard mounting mechanism and is easy to install learn more at the link in the description below I had to go back and film this first topic so first one is spicy uh there's an ad being run on YouTube that is using our iconography our logo our company name my name and likeness to promote what appears to be either a scam or a pre-built company that's posturing as if it's a different pre-built company so this happens sometimes basically people can feed whatever they want through Google AdSense and there's not much of a system for us to get rid of it we do our best I reached out to our YouTube reps and I said hey someone's using impersonating my company and me running ads for what looks like a scam with really horrible grammar in it which is honestly the most embarrassing part I wouldn't type those words that way uh and we'd like it to be removed and our YouTube rep was like oh wow you should report that and I was like I am but thanks so at this point I've handed it off to our lawyers they're going to deal with it um just so you all know there's two types of misuse of a Content Creator's content as it appears in an AdSense advertisement so the first type is when the advertiser is perhaps a legitimate company this actually happened to us years ago with gigabyte actually so gigabyte uh we did a video at their booth at a trade show it was not paid we never take money for any kind of news reporting at a trade show and that's because it's literally my job to report the news at a trade show so we went there we covered the news and gigabyte then put money behind that video I didn't get it YouTube got it and Google got it and they promoted it across YouTube basically as an advertisement and what that does is it makes it look like now we've received money when we haven't so that's bad I mean that's like basically an attack on reputation but it was unintentional that instance and it also then makes viewers think that we were paid to cover it and it actually just kind of undermines the whole coverage so that's type one type two is a scam company that links to some different website so not back to the source video we made but rather to some website where they're trying to rip people off that's obviously bad for other reasons that are very clear and don't need explanation uh so this particular company a viewer emailed us they said hey just so you know I typed in Gamer's Nexus something or other in Search and your thumbnail came up uh Gamer's Nexus came up the logo came up but it goes to some other company and when we first looked at it it appeared to be linking to a company called brainstorm Corporation the thumbnail was of a skytech pre-built review we did and uh I had our lawyers look into brainstorm corporation which is costing money now thank you very much and uh that is a holding or a parent company for skytag skytech reached out to us and skytech CTO said uh hey just so you know we saw the complaint that's not us we're not putting any AD money behind this we have no advertising accounts even open under either skytech or brainstorm we don't know what this is please help us figure it out because we're being impersonated also so I I don't know like I don't know who the source is um at this point it doesn't matter it's kind of I have people handling it uh when you see ads that are using our content to try and sell you something that we didn't we have no involvement in just don't click on them it's as simple as that anyway this is sadly pretty common this happened to most the big creators I remember line is talking about this at one point it's happened to us uh I'm pretty sure it's happened to Paul or Kyle at one point so the most common one is when an actual company puts money behind a video gives that money to AdSense again not the Creator and then promotes it as if like hey look at this great free marketing campaign we got from this Creator we don't even have to give them money to use their name and likeness all we had to do was give YouTube Pennies on the dollar to promote it which is also by the way minimally uh definitely not okay is the technical phrase for it and uh maximally potentially an illegal use of content in an unauthorized form as promotional materials which starts to cross a lot of really clear not at all blurry or fine lines between manufacturer and reviewer relations and um you start turning the reviewers into marketing without even paying them so it's like if if you're gonna set someone up to be implicated as a shill they should at least get money for it all right that's it for this time this stuff always pisses me off so it's we like to bring it up because we want to make sure everyone's really clear like don't click on scams that have our company name on it we have very few tools we could actually use on YouTube to get rid of them I've contacted YouTube it's gone into the black hole Abyss where I don't know what's going to come out the other side uh so let's move on to another topic so we did a charity drive thing with the Cramton Institute a little while ago where we gave a percentage of the store Revenue to them for a couple day period during that origin PC review we were doing and uh if you don't know they're a local organization to us we've been there several times I've met a lot of people on the team and they are awesome people really passionate about what they do knowledgeable the technology that they take in which is kind of a cool job because they have to know about things spanning today to like 30 years ago anyway what they do is specialize on technology education refurbishing components for uh basically redistribution into communities where people can make use of a generic dollar HP desktop for web browsing if they can't afford a better computer or a computer at all and then the final arm is they do E-Waste recycling which is why we know about them because I mean a lot of the stuff we work on kind of becomes E-Waste anyway the quick update is we end up writing them a check for two grand which is awesome so part of that money in there was because uh when I stopped by they had some stuff I wanted to to buy for GN for videos so we can't talk about what those ideas are yet I don't want to give it away but they had some really cool Hardware that someone locally dropped off and uh we saw it and we're like can we give you money for that and they were like uh yes please give us money for our E-Waste that we have no use for so that we can continue to fund our actual programs it's pretty good they also told me that some of our viewers have stopped by recently and one of them I think one of you bought a 1080 Ti from Cranston Institute that uh someone else had dropped off that one wasn't us but if you ever stop by or you go to their eBay store if you're not local they actually take a good amount of quality like DIY components from us when we have no more further use for them so if the case isn't nice enough to end up here and it's kind of generic but still perfectly usable uh they're a good Avenue for us to kind of get rid of it make some room and then someone else gets to repurpose it so anyway something for you to be aware of but we wanted to update you on the two thousand dollars that between the community and the stuff we picked up when we were over there pretty good contribution okay first one so Microsoft accidentally leaks the RX 7800 GPU Maybe but the bigger story here is that it's VSR coming to things other than Nvidia RTX cards so while we're in the process of making our Nvidia RTX super resolution video video uh we found out that some alternatives are quickly approaching the Horizon this story is a combined mini league from Microsoft and news about VSR if you're not familiar with VSR it's a technology that leverages your GPU to upscale videos and Chrome or Edge in real time now when we were testing it for quick recap we mostly noticed that it helps make text clearer at 480p or 720p but there's also a lot of situations it's useless you can check our video for the full details on that should be live by now probably or very soon if not and the next Contender that we know the most about is specific to Edge and Microsoft is simply calling it video super resolution so in a recent update on Microsoft Edge Insider which apparently is a thing people read the company revealed that it's introducing its own VSR as an experimental feature in the latest built Microsoft's goal looks to be exactly the same as nvidia's implementation except it's supposed to be able to run on a lot of gpus not just the 20 30 and 40 series now currently the post says at least at the time we're filming this says that it will run on the Nvidia 2030 and 40 series so it's covering those bases although it might make sense just to use nvidia's version we're not sure we haven't tested Microsoft's obviously yet um amd's gpus will be supported from the RX 5700 and up interesting choice there to not go down into lower categories and the last one is either a typo or Microsoft unintentionally leaking amd's product stack but they said it will also work up to the RX 7800 which isn't out yet just because a lot of people waiting for it it's not out yet curiously the post indicates that edges VSR will only work on videos that are at a lower resolution than 720p so like 480p they also said it won't work with DRM so no Netflix or any other service that has DRM this differs from Nvidia solution which has no such restriction it just uh don't like what I was about to say I was about to quote Jensen Juan and say it just works which is kind of true in this case but anyway uh nvidia's does in fact just work but the technology doesn't care about it has DRM or not Microsoft's well at the time of writing Edge VSR is only available to 50 of users in the canary channel uh but you can force it manually with a launch flag as well there's also another VSR coming from Intel but there's less info about this one at the time of writing so a user on the live door blog noticed that the latest build of chrome includes a new launch flag called Dash features equals Intel VP super resolution and they tried it out for themselves allegedly this version of VSR uses the igp inside of Intel CPUs from the 11th gen onward to do upscaling work the post shows a few examples of upscaled anime which should be some of the simplest video for VSR to work on we won't get into the image analysis here wait for the full release and you can check out our other video for the RTX one our speculation here is that nvidia's push into video super resolution which is something I started talking about a couple months ago at least probably have spread Microsoft and Intel into making moves on this as well it'd be cool to have a use for the igps if you don't do something that explicitly uses them so the igps actually accelerate a lot of our video rendering and Playback workloads way more than they have any business doing because we have 30 series cards in our editing machines but the igps lift a lot of the weight so to be able to use them for VSR makes a ton of sense if they're otherwise idle AMD hasn't officially announced anything here very likely they're going to soon or at least they haven't that I can recall we may have covered something but uh they don't have anything available yet and as Microsoft Intel and AMD push into their own VSR Technologies we'll probably end up doing a Roundup of all of them if people care enough after the first BSR video next one Intel accidentally leaks a new 20 angstrom architecture that it's working on so this is in another round of companies definitely not on purpose leaking their upcoming road map where Intel or specifically one of its employees updated a LinkedIn page and that employs LinkedIn page detailed and as of yet unannounced Panther Lake product and Tom's Hardware caught the leak and saved it prior to the pages revision looking at the screenshot the engineer who wrote this update noted that their current announced products they've worked on include meteor Lake and air Lake gpus battle mage gpus lunar Lake gpus Celestial gpus and Panther Lake gpus with xe3 LPG Graphics in a discrete form factor discrete in this context means video card not an igp interestingly this last one is listed as having come from Intel's architecture day 2022 which makes us wonder whether it may have been planned for announcement and got pulled or anyway there's a miscommunication internally at this point all we actually know is the name Panther Lake so you're going to start seeing that and that it will run on Intel's xe3 Graphics architecture so that's going to be Celestial at this point currently Intel's lineup includes Alchemist which is the current iteration so a770 for example battle mage is next that will be B something so for example b770 or b990 whatever they call it and then the last one that uh is anywhere near is the last deal and confusingly Tom's Hardware's News Post on this reads the following quote according to the LinkedIn profile Panther Lake and its Associated igp are set to be announced during Intel architecture day 22. if true we should know some official architectural and power specifications by then our interpretation of this is that architecture day apostrophe 22 means 2022 there's still time though there's still time for end of year 2022. it it's happening uh anyway so probably the news for this will not be at until architecture day 2022 but maybe 23 it probably got pulled and shifted uh just given Intel's history with launches announcements and kind of missing the mark on the timing lately so next one AMD Radeon drivers can brick Windows this is not a widespread issue so you don't need to panic right now and there is a specific instance where it occurs and it's typically during installation particularly when he was in the factory install button which we use all the time for all of our GPU benches and we haven't had this bug yet so I'm just trying to temper this so people don't go panic and think their computer is going to break but it's possible and it's worth covering so we already had one GPU driver Bug Story or actually we have two coming up so we'll do another one here this time the AMD adrenaline drivers starting with version 23.2.1 are the ones in the discussion it's both more serious and less common than the Nvidia bug we'll be talking about in a moment as this one can actually totally break your windows OS PC World was affected by this rare problem on one of its benchmarking systems that's unfortunate and causes delays uh we'll hit the main beats here but you should go read the PC World article for the full story because it's written in an entertaining Way by Brad over there a small number of people reported issues right away where upon installing the new drivers their PC would shut down and be unable to boot back into windows at all this is a massive issue because obviously this is probably about the worst type of driver bug you can have is one where the perception is it has corrupted your OS now uh PC World when they encountered this issue they were able to work with AMD directly on troubleshooting and provide the right information to lead AMD to the solution so PC World has been able to begin the process of Reviving its OS and it did so with a very specific uh pressing of the power button during boot which is part of the entertaining part of the story we'll leave that to their website so you can read it after many attempts to reproduce the bug AMD found the Crux of the problem the failure occurs when updating the graphics driver at the same time as silent Windows updates are taking place in the background it's not guaranteed to happen but those are the conditions required for the breakdown AMD indicated that the factory reset option plays a major part but didn't provide exact detail now to provide some helpful background here so we have been able to avoid these types of issues because we encountered stuff like this probably about a decade ago on our test benches the way we avoid them is a specific sequence of things involving disconnecting the internet when installing drivers and so part of our testing methodology that we don't talk about is the test setup so we talk about how we run the tests what types of tests we run how we wire things up for thermocouples whatever we don't normally get into the details of preparing the bench but they are extensive sometimes it takes like a day to set up a brand new bench and make sure everything's in place and working properly and one of the important steps is uh whenever you update or change drivers our steps include using ddu display driver on installer which is an awesome tool if you haven't used it and that tool can disable Windows auto updates which is important because of this exact issue you don't want windows to try and pull drivers while you are trying to install specific drivers because you don't know what Windows is pulling is some wickle update but you don't know which one necessarily and the next step is to disconnect the internet anyway just to be safe and ddu remove the drivers then install and then there's no chance of this happening so if you're worried about this happening you're like I'm going to update my drivers I don't want to lose my OS you don't need to justify that to anyone we understand the process is disconnect the Internet run ddu set the flag to disable the window those auto updates ddu will do this for you if you check it make sure you run ddu in safe mode as well and then you can do your install with no internet connect the internet after you're done reboot once maybe twice for good measure to make sure everything clicks and then you're good now in order to avoid being hit by this for the time being AMD says that users can also just avoid the factory reset button or the clean install button when doing a Radeon driver install aside from that the best thing you could do is make sure Windows is up to date before installing the driver exceedingly rare but definitely possible with how much Windows tries to update things it's just an interesting Confluence of problems where it's like you have to do two updates simultaneously and one you don't know about thanks Windows all right next one NVIDIA drivers causing a CPU usage bug this is pretty quick nvidia's driver version 531.18 which is brand new and actually brought the RTX video super resolution feature out that has a bug where there's a chance that After exiting a game or other 3D program the Nvidia container process will use an abnormally high amount of CPU time the verge's Tom Warren reported seen anywhere from 10 to 15 percent utilization by the container Nvidia says it's aware of the problem and it listed it as an open issue on its Forum Nvidia has since provided a hotfix so you should be able to go download the new version 531.26 to address the bug AMD and Intel have been picked on a lot lately for driver issues but this goes to show that Nvidia also is prone to the drivers are insanely complex now but that one's kind of bad so make sure you you update or just use the older version up next an Intel update on the 1.8 nanometer process node or 18 angstrom this comes from udn the Chinese site is jinji Rue bawang and it's also known as the economic daily Network they reported uh with some some translation errors in there they were translated from another source but they reported on an Intel official event hosted by Juan Ray from in Talley's one of the chairman over there specifically the chairman of Intel China and they broke it as recently on progress of new process nodes at Intel as a reminder Intel previously noted a nomenclature change as it moves away from nanometer branding and into angstrom branding for sizing so you could obviously infinitely break down any unit into smaller decimals but rather than saying 1.8 which maybe I mean as nanometers is misleading isometric anyway Intel has decided to just cut over now to angstrom terminology that means 18 a instead and we'll switch between udn and Toms for this story because Tom's Hardware has it written in English the udn report erroneously translates that the 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom node development is final but Intel actually confirmed specifically that this isn't true it was just a translation error more appropriately the news is that Intel is moving through its testing and r d processes for 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom notes so at this stage they're exiting the research phases for 18 angstrom and 20 angstrom process nodes and they're entering the stage of defining the product roadmap to utilize those process nodes so we're getting away from r d and into product design Intel's preparing it's it's Intel 4 process node launch which was another nomenclature change this is part of the rebranding and that one's coming out in the second half of 23 at least currently on the roadmap and 18 and 28 Parts aren't ready yet for mass production but the early research is coming to a close okay next story Corsair speeds up 24 gigabyte ddr5 sticks this is just a quick follow-up story to the one we ran last week about new ddr5 Ram kits especially from Corsair the tldrs that Corsair now has ddr5 with unusual 24 gigabyte and 48 gigabyte dimms like we said last week and one of the downsides with the original lineup was that none of the initial kits clocked very hot the company just announced though ddr5 7000 versions of the 48 gigabyte kits so it's 2x24 courser had to significantly loosen the primary timings to achieve this but we've heard from some overclock lockers that the primary timings don't matter as much as the transfer rate for ddr5 at least based on current numbers and against the past we're not sure if this higher speed bin is a response to criticism or if it was planned from the start it is extremely likely that it was planned from the start though because you don't make and spin up a whole new product in one week but they probably expected the feedback the new kits are priced at 275 dollars without RGB and 285 for RGB so we now have a price on RGB it's apparently 10 bucks regardless keep in mind that Intel 13th gen is the only current CPU with an integrated memory controller strong enough to hit this kind of transfer rate and it's capable of hitting around 8 000 Mega transfers per second given the right memory and motherboard combination amd's ryzen 7000 line tops out around 6 200 Mega transfers for most chips or 6400 if you're really lucky next in a strange coincidence both Cooler Master and Arctic have announced a new set of fans with new sets of fans and these have written blade designs that means the fan blades are few used together with solid rings at the tips of them you've definitely seen these before in video cards for example made the GPU teardowns but this gives the fan more rigidity to support higher speeds and in theory it eliminates some of the wobble and the claim is that the ability for air to escape past the end of the blade is reduced this comes at the cost of the entire blade itself way and more which typically would require a stronger motor as well in fact one of the early problems with 200 millimeter fans back in the day was when the NZXT ones would just spontaneously explode the I actually had it happen on two fans the 200 millimeter it's like the GN curse like every every thought that will ever exist in a product it's gonna happen to me I don't know why but that's how it's worked with pre-built and apparently with fan blades I was using it in a personal system one day campaign and I checked and uh it was the fan that exploded not my bulldozer CPU so I guess that part was nice but anyway the the blade fractured in those ones because the to get the 200 mils to survive in those early days they had to use a higher quality plastic than they were using because the blade is bigger and the whole thing is heavier and just over time there's stress fractures that formed and it would eventually shatter but the motor also needed to be stronger because in some of the other not NZXT ones but Cooler Master 200 mil fans that I also had the motor would die because it wasn't powerful enough to spin fans that were that heavy so some of the stuff I mean all those problems have been solved now so you don't need to worry about that with 200 mil fans today and if it happens let us know but anyway the point is these will need a potentially a bit powerful more powerful motor than they would without the extra weight completely random asides aside first up is the 120 mil Arctic p12 Max the basic shape of the fan blades is very similar to the original Peach weld with five very large steeply swept blades aside from the rain at the edge another new feature is the rubber pads on the corners for vibration damping this is very common for the fans now so Arctic is fulfilling that expectation Arctic advertises the operating range as an impressively wide 200 to 3300 RPM with a zero RPM capability at less than five percent PW app despite the improvements the price is still fairly low at 15 per fan it's not the same bargain as the six dollar per fan of the popular p125 pack but still pretty good for high performance options second is The Cooler Master Mobius 120 OC fan this is the latest addition to the company's newer Mobius line we actually saw these Mobius fans when we were at cooler Masters headquarters in Taipei in December but this this is a new colorway the new one carries a deep blue and black colorway maybe trying to cultivate a signature look similar to noctua's brown and beige changes for the new model include detachable rubber Corners again for dampen uh metal Fan Hub and a speed switch on the cable itself now that last one is a bit different so the switch if the fan is going to have some kind of speed limiting circuit fan tax and be quiet both put the switch on the fan body or the Hub so putting on the cable is a little different uh personally I prefer the switch to be on the cable because it's a little easier to get access to depending on how you route it and how you mount the fan but it is contrary and so on the highest setting the fan will spin up to 3200 RPM and it's a lot of blue so it's forty dollars per fan I guess we don't know where they came up with that price but uh most of it's probably that metal Fan Hub now we get to the complete the triumvirate of GPU driver bug stories in this news Roundup but this one's a positive one so Intel Arc has had a multi-moditor power consumption bug basically since it came out and it should be fixed now so it's it's one of the least disruptive bugs but it's very annoying and basically since launch they had high idle power consumption specifically when running multiple displays off the card and that was because the GPU wouldn't properly enter a low power State this could also cause problems the fans continuing to spin when they otherwise shouldn't so this already got fixed for single monitor configurations the idle power one but not for two and with two or more the GPU would sit at 40 to 50 watts of power consumption which is a lot it's enough for the fans to need to spin in the recent 4146 driver users with dual monitor configurations have reported Arc GPU successfully hitting sub 10 watts at idle for those of you affected by this be sure to update to the latest driver version and then follow Intel's help article from October last year next up Sony is amd's biggest customer now they're responsible for 16 percent of amd's Revenue in 2022 massive chunk for one company that makes Sony the largest out of all their customers and AMD shipped 3.7 billion dollars worth of socs to Sony last year of course if you don't know AMD power in Sony's PlayStation 5 so that's the bulk of it now 3.7 billion dollars worth of socs is a lot of chess Vibes in the console Market the PS5 far outsells the Xbox series X and the S at the moment and this information came to light as part of amd's usual Financial results disclosure for quarter 422. during the call Andy also revealed that its gaming segment brought in more money than anything else at 6.8 billion that's more than Data Center and client Computing which uh only got AMD 6 billion dollars and 6.2 looking forward AMD expects gaming sales to decline for 2023 like we said in the John Petty GPU story last week that's not surprising considering every other Tech and PC hardware company has been saying the same thing on top of that we're starting to get later in the life cycle of current generations of consoles by now a large portion of the market already has one if they wanted it selling the console makers has paid off for AMD their margins at least a while ago were probably pretty low on those sales we don't know what they are today but back when AMD was really desperate in the pre-rising days it was basically consoles that kept AMD in business at all next story or actually last one for this week uh the Stormbreaker magnesium Mouse making mice out of magnesium metal is an emerging Trend in the high-end peripheral industry the latest is the magnum opus Stormbreaker by Ownage just to get this out of the way I pronounce it Ownage because of pure Ownage which pronounced it Ownage not pwnage so Ownage is making this then it's available in five color ways as well as plain black or white magnum opus is a hell of a name uh definitely conveys what they think about the product but other than its low density the main features include the ability to adjust the sensor itself back and forth within the base and that allows you to fine tune the sensor's location if you're really picky about it compared to where your hand rests on the mouse generally speaking this is something only extremely competitive players who put hundreds or thousands of hours into a game can probably appreciate but we're curious what you think of it the Stormbreaker Mouse also has a 2000 Hertz pulling rage courtesy of the receiver pyramid in theory reducing the time between updates Smooths out the input during periods of Rapid acceleration or deceleration and this comes at the expense of decreased battery life if it's battery operated they also have a set of custom grip tape for extra stability we've read a few accounts that painted magnesium can be hard to hold on to we haven't used any of those mice here though PTFE feed comes standard but you can opt for glass replacements for an up charge this isn't the first magnesium Mouse so the final Mouse Starlight 12 and the Razer Viper mini signature came before it based on the prices for all of these at around the 200 Mark the process is a lot more expensive than traditional plastic not to mention the narrow market for these not being able to leverage economies of scale to the same extent my favorite product made out of magnesium story is one that I can't fully disclose the information of uh but the the parts I can say I guess are mostly that it was a laptop that caught on fire anyway moving on the Stormbreaker starts at 170 for the base version and it's from ages past and it goes up to 210 dollars with all of the options magnesium isn't perfect one of the drawbacks aside from cost is brittleness we've seen a few reports online of the Razer Viper mini signature breaking at the thin points of the shell so durability might be a concern we're not against the idea of fundamental usage of these types of materials it's just obviously getting into like luxury brand computer hardware which is a little bit weird but the Hobbies getting widespread now and people want to have a nice computer so let us know what you think of the moving sensor though that's the thing that I'm most interested in okay that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more go to store.com to help us out directly or patreon.com Gamers Nexus and we'll see you all next time\n"