**A 49-Inch Display with a Unique Aspect Ratio**

There's a new display on the market that boasts a 32 by 9 aspect ratio, making it one of those super wide screens that are becoming increasingly popular. This particular screen is 49 inches in size and comes with USB-C connectivity, which is a nice feature to have. The price tag for this massive screen? Less than $1,100, which is still a significant amount of money, but the specs are fairly impressive.

**VA Panel and Resolution**

The display uses a VA panel with a resolution of 3840 by 1080, which technically means it's still a 1080p screen at a massive size. The pixel density may not be great, but the brightness is quite good, reaching up to 600 nits. It also supports the sRGB color space, which is par for the course these days. However, being a VA panel, it does have a very high contrast ratio, with Philips quoting an impressive 5000:1.

**Viewing Angles and Competitor**

The viewing angles are pretty good, but what's interesting is that Samson released a similar monitor earlier this year, which means that Philips is essentially playing catch-up. The competitor's screen has slightly better specs, and it's already available on the market, priced around the same as Philips' offering.

**Intel and AMD News**

Moving on to some news from Intel and AMD, there are some developments worth noting. Firstly, Intel has made it clear that their current K1 Lake series of CPUs won't be compatible with the new Z370 chipset they're releasing. This is a bit disappointing because it means users will need to buy a whole new motherboard if they want to upgrade from a lower-end CPU like the i7 8700K.

**Upgrading and Compatibility Issues**

This is a significant problem for users who may have bought a Z270 board with the intention of upgrading their CPU in the future. The concept of having a compatible chipset that allows for easy upgrades is crucial, especially since AMD's Ryzen series has been doing this successfully. Intel needs to rethink their strategy here because it's not exactly consumer-friendly.

**AMD News - Threadripper**

On the AMD front, there's been some excitement around their Threadripper processor. The initial release was met with great enthusiasm, but then rumors started circulating that the CPU had four dies (chips) on it, only two of which were active. This meant that there were two dummy dies that supposedly could be activated to create a 32-core, 64-thread consumer CPU.

**Activated Dies - A Letdown**

However, AMD has since commented on this, saying that these two dummy dies are not actually active and can't be easily turned on. They're simply placeholder bits of silicon with no connection to the rest of the chip. This is a bit of a letdown for users who were hoping for an easy upgrade path.

**Conclusion**

That's it for this week in tech news, folks! If you enjoyed the video, do like and comment below with your thoughts on future stories or content ideas you'd love to see on the channel. Don't forget to subscribe if you want more of this type of content coming up!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entech news is very important vital even to the survival of the human race yes it's important to know what the latest crap is that some politician somewhere is doing and whether or not North Korea actually does have a usable nuclear weapon but where would the world be today without a consumer-grade desk top 16 cold 32 threads see me first off some benchmarks have been leaked of Amy's new Raven ap use n DS been going on for a while about how hugely excited we all need to be about their new Raven 8 news because they're gonna have z/architecture CPU cores with vaguer graphics now sarcasm aside this is actually quite an exciting prospect and some benchmarks have been released of the risin 5 2,500 U which is a 4 core 8 thread SKU and it's been videos geek walk a geek bench benchmarks that were released and the CPU was running at 2 gigahertz and it's called three thousand five hundred and sixty one points on the single core test and it's called 9421 in the multi-core test now this is up 36% from the old generation single core performance and 48% from the multi-core performance but let's be honest it doesn't take a huge amount to outperform and in these previous generation and these are leaked benchmarks so you have to take it with a grain of salt but I have to say I'm quite excited about the idea of having a genuine option for 1080p gaming off a single chip Philips readies a curved ultra wide 4920 p8 thing it's the names a bit of a mouthful and it's all really excited because it's a 49 inch display that's 32 by 9 aspect ratio so one of those like super duper mega ultra wide screens which I don't really see the point of but anyway it's gonna come with USB C and apparently it's gonna cost less than $1,100 which is still a huge amount of money for a screen so I don't really know when they're saying that like they're bragging but it is some of the specs are fairly impressive it's gonna have a VA panel with the resolution of 3840 by 1080 so it is technically still a 1080p screen at a huge size so the pixel density isn't gonna be that great but it does have a really impressive brightness of 600 nits it supports the sRGB color space which everything does these days if it doesn't it would be a huge letdown but because it is a VA panel it's gonna have really good contrast ratio Philips is quoting five thousand to one for it but these numbers literally mean nothing and it's gonna have pretty good pretty good viewing angles it's a bit weird because Samson released this monitor pretty much earlier this year and Philips is saying that they're gonna release this halfway through next year which means that their competitor has essentially the same screen hub with slightly better specs because it's not like wanton dodging things that make for better viewing experiences of one of them and it's out already and I think it costs around the same so I don't really know why Phillips's is telling us about it now because well they've pretty much already lost that race so are they dropping the ball a bit here is there any point through a screen that wide why do men have nipples these are all really important questions and finally a quick one in two two in one story about Intel and AMD now firstly Intel has made it pretty clear that the current KB Lake series of CPUs isn't going to be compatible with the new said 370 chipset that they're releasing which is pretty disappointing and it's gonna work the other way around as well so the lake which is going to be the i7 8700 km and that kind of range of CPUs isn't going to be compatible with Z 270 which I think that way around is actually the bigger problem because why would you realistically buy a Zed 370 motherboard and put I don't know a 6700 K in it but the concept of having Z 270 board or a z170 board and then deciding that you want to upgrade from I don't know let's say something like a 6600 K which is a quad core just quad core quad thread CPU to a higher thread count CPU you want to go to the 8700 K you can't do that you have to buy a whole new motherboard which is a bit it's a bit short-sighted on intel's part because at this point AMD is hammering them right and they really need to do everything they can to show their consumer base that they don't actively hate their consumers because at this point intel really does seem as though they hate the people that buy their products and they need to do something about that and this is not the way to do it and then on the AMD front there's been a lot of excitement around around thread ripper because it was deal ended pretty much before launch and people saw that there were four dies on on the kind of huge Red River CPU and it was clear that only two of them were active which meant that there were two dummy dies which supposedly could have just been activated and then you have a 32 core 64 thread consumer CPU AMD has commented on this recently and made it clear that this is unfortunately not the case these two dummy dies are in no way active dies they're just placeholder bits of silicon they're not even connected to to the rest of the chip and it's not as simple as just activating them so that's a bit of a letdown anyway that's been it for this week in the tech news if you enjoyed the video do like and comment about suggestions about future stories or just about content that you want see on the channel and if you disliked it dislike it go for it and subscribe if you want to see more content which I've gotten a bunch more coming up on thank you for watching alrighttech news is very important vital even to the survival of the human race yes it's important to know what the latest crap is that some politician somewhere is doing and whether or not North Korea actually does have a usable nuclear weapon but where would the world be today without a consumer-grade desk top 16 cold 32 threads see me first off some benchmarks have been leaked of Amy's new Raven ap use n DS been going on for a while about how hugely excited we all need to be about their new Raven 8 news because they're gonna have z/architecture CPU cores with vaguer graphics now sarcasm aside this is actually quite an exciting prospect and some benchmarks have been released of the risin 5 2,500 U which is a 4 core 8 thread SKU and it's been videos geek walk a geek bench benchmarks that were released and the CPU was running at 2 gigahertz and it's called three thousand five hundred and sixty one points on the single core test and it's called 9421 in the multi-core test now this is up 36% from the old generation single core performance and 48% from the multi-core performance but let's be honest it doesn't take a huge amount to outperform and in these previous generation and these are leaked benchmarks so you have to take it with a grain of salt but I have to say I'm quite excited about the idea of having a genuine option for 1080p gaming off a single chip Philips readies a curved ultra wide 4920 p8 thing it's the names a bit of a mouthful and it's all really excited because it's a 49 inch display that's 32 by 9 aspect ratio so one of those like super duper mega ultra wide screens which I don't really see the point of but anyway it's gonna come with USB C and apparently it's gonna cost less than $1,100 which is still a huge amount of money for a screen so I don't really know when they're saying that like they're bragging but it is some of the specs are fairly impressive it's gonna have a VA panel with the resolution of 3840 by 1080 so it is technically still a 1080p screen at a huge size so the pixel density isn't gonna be that great but it does have a really impressive brightness of 600 nits it supports the sRGB color space which everything does these days if it doesn't it would be a huge letdown but because it is a VA panel it's gonna have really good contrast ratio Philips is quoting five thousand to one for it but these numbers literally mean nothing and it's gonna have pretty good pretty good viewing angles it's a bit weird because Samson released this monitor pretty much earlier this year and Philips is saying that they're gonna release this halfway through next year which means that their competitor has essentially the same screen hub with slightly better specs because it's not like wanton dodging things that make for better viewing experiences of one of them and it's out already and I think it costs around the same so I don't really know why Phillips's is telling us about it now because well they've pretty much already lost that race so are they dropping the ball a bit here is there any point through a screen that wide why do men have nipples these are all really important questions and finally a quick one in two two in one story about Intel and AMD now firstly Intel has made it pretty clear that the current KB Lake series of CPUs isn't going to be compatible with the new said 370 chipset that they're releasing which is pretty disappointing and it's gonna work the other way around as well so the lake which is going to be the i7 8700 km and that kind of range of CPUs isn't going to be compatible with Z 270 which I think that way around is actually the bigger problem because why would you realistically buy a Zed 370 motherboard and put I don't know a 6700 K in it but the concept of having Z 270 board or a z170 board and then deciding that you want to upgrade from I don't know let's say something like a 6600 K which is a quad core just quad core quad thread CPU to a higher thread count CPU you want to go to the 8700 K you can't do that you have to buy a whole new motherboard which is a bit it's a bit short-sighted on intel's part because at this point AMD is hammering them right and they really need to do everything they can to show their consumer base that they don't actively hate their consumers because at this point intel really does seem as though they hate the people that buy their products and they need to do something about that and this is not the way to do it and then on the AMD front there's been a lot of excitement around around thread ripper because it was deal ended pretty much before launch and people saw that there were four dies on on the kind of huge Red River CPU and it was clear that only two of them were active which meant that there were two dummy dies which supposedly could have just been activated and then you have a 32 core 64 thread consumer CPU AMD has commented on this recently and made it clear that this is unfortunately not the case these two dummy dies are in no way active dies they're just placeholder bits of silicon they're not even connected to to the rest of the chip and it's not as simple as just activating them so that's a bit of a letdown anyway that's been it for this week in the tech news if you enjoyed the video do like and comment about suggestions about future stories or just about content that you want see on the channel and if you disliked it dislike it go for it and subscribe if you want to see more content which I've gotten a bunch more coming up on thank you for watching alright