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Huge Advancements in PC Hardware and Technology Have Been Announced Recently

Huge advancements have been made in the world of PC hardware and technology, with several major companies unveiling new products and innovations. Corsair is testing its K100 RGB keyboard, specifically the ceiling, for a price that rivals that of a large non-keyboard specific company. The K-100 RGB looks set to slot in directly above Corsair's K-95 RGB Platinum itself, which was also expensive at the time. Corsair has continued its IQ evolution with the manifestation of a full-blown IQ wheel adorned at the top left corner of the board.

Corsair is also unveiling its first switch design, the Corsair OPX Optical Switches, these switches seem similar to Razer's optical switches and are rated for 150 million clicks life cycle. These switches offer a one millimeter actuation point and linear travel. Corsair is also touting its Axon technology which is responsible for the 4,000 hertz pulling and key scanning rate of the K100 RGB keyboard. The K100 GB will cost $230 and it's out now.

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The keyboard will also come with an option for Cherry MX Red switches should the optical switches not be of interest for the audience. Finally, in actual news, it's nice to have a lot of real news coming out and not just rumors. Normally when there's major GPU launches there's a lot of rumors because companies don't want to announce things and get buried by GPUs.

Innovation from Companies Like Cable Mod

So, actual news includes the announcement of Ek's Vertical GPU Bracket for Open Loops and for Air Cooling to an extent. This follows on the steps of companies like Cable Mod and its own successful vertical GPU bracket. The biggest differentiation between good and bad vertical GPU mounts is normally the spacing between the glass and the mount so a lot of people like to take numbers from our testing and other testing that show the poor performance of vertically mounted GPUs in some cases and then extrapolate it to just mean vertical mount bat but it's not that simple.

In fact, some of the cases we've tested and actually some of the mounts we've tested like Cable Mod in the past will provide often better performance as long as there's sufficient distance from the glass because you're getting it away from the motherboard too and that's a positive thing. But it's when it's right against the glass that you have an issue so as for this one, this is supposed to be positioned further from the glass from what we can see so far.

Innovative Solutions

It will be contingent upon the case as well of course. Ek's solution is aimed at both air and water but is pictured mostly with water. Ek's a water cooling company after all it's supposed to be called the Ek Loop Vertical GPU Holder. Ek says it'll work in quote any ATX PC case that has an open style rear PCIe I/O layout.

The structure's materials just steel it's 1.5 millimeters thick and it uses two motherboard standoff screws for extra stability. Ek kind of overplays its hand on claiming that the dangers of vertical amounts it's not like people really move their computers around that much certainly not really going to land parties that often anymore especially right now but.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome back to the hardware news recap for the week and this one we're talking about the official rtx 3070 delay that is not a rumor the zen three rumors uh about ryzen 5000 series but we're not going to cover all of them because there's questionable legitimacy to some of those and we'll be talking about the bios rollout for existing ryzen motherboards what some of the motherboard vendors have been putting in their bios code that's been tricking people like x590 references i will be talking about some high-end computing hpe microsoft and uh storage feature testing and ek vertical gpu mounts for water cooled and air-cooled gpus before that this video is brought to you by arctic cooling and its liquid freezer 2 line arctic is actively restocking its liquid freezer 2 coolers that rank among the top performers for cpu coolers right now including on ryzen cpus the liquid freezer 2 series is focused on high throttle performance and value featuring a blackout design and including a vrm fan mounted on top of the pump block to help provide airflow over neighboring vrm heatsinks arctic has also started selling its p-12 120 case fans learn more at the links in the description below first up is the rtx 3070 delay you may have heard of this one at this point because it's been pretty big news in the last 24 hours or so since filming anyway and this appears to be maybe an effort to mitigate the possibility of another go with disastrous or subpar if we're being a little bit less dramatic a gpu launch so nvidia has rolled back the availability date of its 37d originally we were hearing that it was supposed to be around october 15th for release and reviews would probably be we'd probably be working on one right now but instead it looks like it's going back to october 29th and that'll mark a about a two-week delay from previously and it puts it right next to amd's rx 6000 event so from nvidia's perspective this is good and bad it's bad because i can't preempt the event and try to make some initial sales before amd's cards become available or announced actually it might not be available right away it's good because from nvidia's perspective strictly it might be able to try and drown out some of the noise around amd's event we'll see how it plays out though ultimately this is probably a move to try and get at least a little bit more inventory in hand before the launch but an extra two weeks doesn't really move the needle that much when you're talking global logistics uh in its statement on upcoming availability nvidia expressly states the desire to get more cards out on launch day as well as the global board partners and it also noted that the the previous 3080 and 3090 launches were uh known to be less supply than nvidia had desired to have available to meet demand this was stated originally when it launched the cards and faced immediate backlash about availability of the products as we've covered in the past couple weeks now just inventory alone isn't the end of the world but inventory alone combined with accidental leaking of personal information through its website uh crashing issues that were mostly resolved with drivers but nonetheless issues that existed bot issues and everything else the 3000 series has run into uh it's nvidia's had a lot to contend with and this is probably a means to try and resolve that finally on this topic there's been some updates to the capacitor story as well where as you may know our 3080 ftw3 was a world record card even without liquid nitrogen it did very well just on air and then with liquid nitrogen it was briefly a world record card so that card had the uh the quote-unquote like bad capacitor arrangement and there's a few sides to this story to cover so we didn't dive too deep into this one other than covering some of the basics and the the business politics behind it why things really happened the way they did behind the scenes but in terms of testing it lined up right when we sort of walked away from the studio for a little bit to get a break so to recap everyone on what's happened in the interim uh der bauer had a really good video that we'd encourage you to check out dave bauer on youtube where he changed the capacitor array on the back of one of his rtx 30 series cards and in doing so he established that with the difference capacitor solution using like the higher end mlcc layout that he had soldered on there by hand uh he was able to increase the clock speeds by maybe 30 megahertz or so so there is a benefit to having a better capacitor solution we spoke with evga about this they were aware of roman's video actually alerted us to it originally and they saw similar things in their own testing but this is a matter of uh you can improve the parts and get a little bit better performance it was not however necessarily a direct link to the crashing issue although it's sort of a workaround where you could fix the crashing issue the real problem was as we stated a couple about a week ago in our live stream the real issue was the frequency being too high and v bios can resolve this issue so some of the board partners behind the scenes prior to reviews going up were talking with us saying you might want to wait on doing the testing because we may release a different v bios to improve stability and later that story is what developed into the capacitors are all bad so it's sort of sort of true for both but the real issue was the frequency being too high so der bauer has a great video talking about the capacitor side of things and where there actually is a meaningful difference sort of and then hardware and box did a video talking about the frequency side of things and so we'll point you to both of those coverage pieces to get the final story on all of that uh that way we can frankly we can just move on here because we've got so many other things we need to do we're doing two videos a day and live streams 20 hours of live streams over about a 10 day period so we'll leave that one to those two for the coverage if you want to learn more about it moving on uh rumors so zen three allegedly arriving as ryzen 5000 we want to start off here with the x590 notes a few people have seen that gigabytes bios update as motherboard vendors have rolled out bios updates for zen 3 support had an x590 reference in it this led the internet to scramble and say that there's going to be a new x590 chipset two hour knowledge this was once true and we've talked about this before actually about a year ago or just over amd was originally planning to do an x590 and an x570 set of chipsets and they were planning to segment the pcie support between the two of them so you'd have a higher end one for maybe like a 3950x and then one for everything else that didn't come to fruition amd ended up axing it and instead going for just a single x570 chipset solution as you all saw and so nothing ever became of x590 the fact that it has reemerged in the bios code for gigabytes bios as we understand it from asking around is actually just an artifact of that original plan where actually in bios is from the initial launch of x570 you also saw x590 references and people then thought that was going to be a board coming out shortly and obviously it wasn't it never came out so our understanding is this is old streams of text in bios that manage to creep their way back in over time with the bios updates so from what we understand today x590 and its presence in the bios updates you've seen it's not preparing for some new x590 board it's just an artifact of an old product that was killed and never came out so getting that one out of the way first because there were a lot of rumors about xo90 potentially being a new motherboard but it's to our understanding it is it is not going to be the case all right uh additionally so we should know more about amd's n3 architecture later this month actually next week we should be getting an official news event from amd that we'll be covering certainly on the day it goes up and then three cpus are supposedly skipping the 4000 series naming entirely which is we think good if it's true and launching instead of rising 5000 the reason this would be good is just because amd's naming is kind of a mess right now and it's already got 4000 series named cpus out there that are completely different architecture so it might be the right move to just completely move on to another naming scheme so hardware leaker tum underscore api sak spotted new listings and ashes of the singularity benchmarks that showed an alleged amd ryzen 7 5800x entry and the chip is listed as an eight core 16 thread processor this should be his m3 successor to the 3800x now a couple things about this first of all some of the rumors that are out there right now are pointing towards uh weird core configurations that if you look at amd's architecture and its chip design makes zero sense like for example 10 core cpus uh it doesn't really make sense with the way the ccx's are laid out so that combined with the x5 590 uh alarms that were raised about a chipset and a motherboard that don't exist and combined with the numbers we're seeing lead us to sort of go down the path of be careful of what you're reading into with rumors right now verizon because a lot of them as we've seen don't really make a lot of sense it's artifacts of old launches it's incorrect uh whatever so we'll cover this stuff and the performance as we actually get the the products in hand is what we're getting at here but in the spirit of covering some of this amd already has its line of ryzen 4000 g series devices for mobile uh components those are apu's they bear the 4000 branding and two from what we know of zen 3 so far it's likely enough of an overhaul under the hood at least to warrant a shift in the naming a leaked processor programming reference or ppr outlined a few key details about zen3 such as the changes to the ccd and ccx structure and allegedly unified 32 megabytes of l3 cache per ccx a scalable data fabric or sdf being built up to support 512 gigabytes per dram channel and this obviously doesn't mean it's going to be on desktop necessarily but could scale to their other devices as well and uh some other changes were rumored to be improved latency and coherency and further refinement of amd's mcm approach so what we'd really like to see with zen 3 or future and the ryzen iterations would be improvements in infinity fabric where there's the most limitations for the cpus currently anyway we're going to leave the numbers out of it in terms of the uh performance claims just because there's been a lot of bad information out there lately about amd's rise and stuff and we don't want to be part of it next one zen 3 motherboard supports beginning to roll out so this is all official this is not rumors uh in zen 3 land this week it seems like motherboard makers are starting to pop up support so first among the board makers to transition to zen 3 support was msi who rolled out a new firmware update for some of the existing motherboards that it has in the 500 series am4 lineup gigabyte was included as well again with the x590 reference which to be very clear here was not going to be a thing msi revealed that it's pushing out a combo pi bios v2 1.1.0.0 if you're curious about the igesa version and that's an update to 570 b550 chipset-based motherboards it also noted that the update should roll out to a520 based motherboards those are the the new low end chip sets we covered recently towards the end of october for those updates and in addition to optimizations for current ryzen processors the usual stability improvements that you see in bio stuff like that there's also an updated smu and some ddr4 overclocking fixes that will benefit you in theory if you're on a current cpu not just the new ones msi also noted support for quote future am4 socket processors not a surprise what those are that's going to be zen3 stuff and then those future socket m4 processors will be compatible with these x570 boards so that much we know right now as for whether there are new motherboards or not we don't know yet but the x570 b550 stuff based on these compatibility updates that are being put out by the motherboard makers should be compatible should remain compatible uh cornelius networks breathing new life into intel's omni path for the next story to intel's first generation omnipath interconnects or opa 100 series were meant to be intel's answer to melanox's infiniband product line which are switches and whose parent company was acquired by nvidia recently so melanox is now owned by nvidia this has been pushing intel into higher speed networking and interconnect solutions however after only one generation intel seemingly abandoned the omnipath architecture and halted development on the opa200 series however intel is now spinning out its omnipath business into an entirely separate company cornelis networks according to crn is made up of former intel employees who worked on intel's omnipath under intel previously cornelis networks announced its series a funding that brought in 20 million dollars from the likes of downing ventures and intel capital which is intel's venture capital and investment division and philippe murphy jr ceo of cornelius networks and formerly of intel stated that he and his colleagues approached intel about spinning out omnipath when it became apparent that the technology no longer aligned with intel's strategy intel apparently agreed and cornell's networks received intel's omnipath ip existing inventory and additional assets in exchange for intel capital receiving a stake in cornell's networks murphy also stated that under cornell's networks omnipath will see next generation products possibly under a new brand and cornell's networks is planning on working to support existing omnipath customers and to continue selling first gen omnipath products up next leaked windows xp source code that we talked about about a week or two ago in hardware news appears to be actually legitimate at the time we first talked about it was was not clear yet if the windows xp source code leaks were real and now it looks like that is true so while microsoft wouldn't and as of this writing still hasn't officially confirmed or denied the leak security researchers immediately began pouring over the code as expected and suggested that it was legitimate albeit incomplete if you fast forward a week or so we now know that the source code is that of windows xp and windows server 2003 according to zdnet who spoke with microsoft engineers of both past and present the code does appear to be authentic but again is lacking in its completion furthermore at least one astute user has compiled the code into a working version of the now ancient operating systems the ntdev youtube channel which focuses on windows and software successfully compiled the code both confirming its legitimacy and the fact that some components are missing quote well the reports were indeed true it seems that there are some components missing such as winlogon.exe and lots of drivers ntdev told zdnet however while the videos were briefly available to view and may have been pulled down somewhere they've since been taken down following a copyright claim from microsoft so in lieu of an official statement it seems that this basically will serve as one i think we can all take away what we need to take away from that action uh so it looks like the the leak was legitimate at this point and what that means well we'll see potentially get interesting spin-offs of open source operating systems that shouldn't exist at least by microsoft's considerations or in the worst case more security vulnerabilities for no longer supported operating systems it may be encouragement to move on from them for the companies that haven't yet although certainly plenty of factories are still running xp and 3.1 even and those machines aren't connected to anything except for whatever factory machine they're controlling so those won't really matter that much hpe announced that it will build and deliver a new supercomputer to the national nuclear security administration or nnsa for the purpose of modeling the behavior of nuclear weapons the system known as crossroads will be based on the new hpe cray-x supercomputer and the cray x fair warning googling this returns results that are not not particularly helpful nor related to cray or its ex supercomputer model the cray x is a blade based cluster built inside of a sealed liquid cooled cabinet cray is no foreigner to liquid cooling in fact some of its earliest super computers were liquid cooled and even had sort of a waterfall feature uh installed them is something that we saw the mountain view computer history museum if you're ever in that area and you want to check it out uh so while we don't have the exact specs on crossroads it's said to offer quadruple the performance of the system it's intended to replace which is called trinity and the trinity supercomputer is currently ranked at number 11 on the top 500 list of supercomputers in the world and it was rolled out in two stages and partitions uh there's the first partition that uses haswell xeons then the second partition if we can call it that anyway that uses uh the finite's landing zeon so trinity offers a peak performance of 41.4 petaflops for perspective hpe's crate x solution is largely based on crazy shasta architecture which was actually crazy first supercomputer platform aimed at exascale computing hence the x part of the name too so the shasta architecture is set to power upcoming exascale computers such as aurora which we've spoken about recently it will also power el capitan and frontier both of which we've spoken about in news videos as well and and one of which includes some amd parts at least at least one of which uh also an hpe cray-x 3000 cabinet is said to accommodate up to 64 blades it is supposed to use eight compute chassis for that support and each compute chassis can power up to those eight blades the hpe crate x 3000 supports hpe cray x425 blades which come equipped with two boards per blade and each board offers two sockets for a total of four sockets per blade the hpe cray x425 blade and their boards support amd's epic 7002 series cpus and eight dimms per socket with up to 64 gigabyte dimms at uh 3200 so while the cray x platform is built for andy's epic line crossroads will actually use intel's 10 nanometer sapphire rapid xeon cpus it's also important to remember here that the hpe krayak supercomputer is purely x86 based there's no heterogeneous cpu gpu computing design integrated that that's worth speaking up so no new information yet on how many cabinets crossroads will use or any suggested performance metrics crossroads is also scheduled to be deployed in spring of 2022 so it's a while out and will remain in service through at least 2026. crossroads also marks another notable supercomputer win for intel behind the intel-based aurora supercomputer up next is some microsoft windows news so microsoft is testing some new storage and monitoring features right now alongside the windows 10 insider preview build 20226 announcement that was posted recently microsoft also announced that it would be testing new storage monitoring features related to ssd health some of this will probably be integrated smart stat attributes for example so this should at least alert users about ssds becoming uh unhealthy which again you can derive from smart software that's out there now but many ssds ship with their own software like samsung's ssd magician as a popular example and this type of software allows users to monitor the drive for potential failures and reports on various diagnostics however not all ssds ship with such software and windows doesn't currently offer any included features for ssd health quote the feature is designed to detect hardware abnormalities for nvme ssds and notify users with enough time to act it's strongly recommended that users immediately back up their data after receiving a notification and that's from microsoft most modern hard drives and ssds will support smart systems and it may be that microsoft is testing a wind 10 feature that will report that to the user this has also been seen where microsoft has rolled out other popular monitoring features now there's actually even a gpu temperature readout in task manager and uh there are already the gpu getting included in task manager in greater detail is also somewhat new it wasn't really you didn't really get much before so now you can break it down into say cuda into 3d and to copy all those within task manager so windows is improving its monitoring feature set which is a good thing uh if you want all that stuff obviously there is third-party software that will do hardware info 64 is a great one that we can highly recommend and there's plenty of drive related smart readers out there too up next corsair is testing the ceiling with its k100 rgb keyboard specifically the ceiling for price of a keyboard built by a large non-keyboard specific company so this is a new top-end keyboard at 230 dollars corsair is again certainly testing the price consumers are willing to pay out a box for it the k-100 rgb looks set to slot in directly above corsair's k-95 rgb platinum itself a 200 keyboard that at the time was also expensive corsair's k100 rgb does offer a couple of notable evolutions over the k95 platinum but whether or not they justify an additional 30 isn't really for us to say we don't do much for keyboard reviews first corsair has continued its iq evolution with the manifestation of a full-blown iq wheel adorned at the top left corner of the board aside from the name it seems the scroll wheel could also have some convenient uses under certain circumstances perhaps for example in adobe premiere or photoshop or adjusting volume zooming in and out scrolling left and right things like that or assigning keyboard shortcuts separately second the corsair is also unveiling its first switch design the corsair opx optical switches these switches seem similar to razer's optical switches and are rated for 150 million clicks life cycle these switches offer a one millimeter actuation point and linear travel corsair is also touting its axon technology which is responsible for the 4 000 hertz pulling and key scanning rate of the k100 rgb keyboard as mentioned previously the k100 gb will cost 230 dollars it's out now we're not really planning to review it we might test some of the claims on the frequency though if we find the time the keyboard will also come with an option for cherry mx red switches should the optical switches not be of interest for the audience finally also in actual news it's nice to have a lot of real news coming out and not just rumors uh normally when there's major gpu launches there's a lot of rumors because companies don't want to announce things and get buried by gpus so actual news ek's vertical gpu bracket for open loops and for air cooling to an extent announced recently so this is following on the steps of companies like cable mod and its own successful vertical gpu bracket the biggest differentiation between good and bad vertical gpu mounts is normally the spacing between the glass and the mount so a lot of people like to take numbers from our testing and other testing that show the poor performance of vertically mounted gpus in some cases and then extrapolate it to just mean vertical mount bat but it's not that simple in fact some of the cases we've tested and actually some of the mounts we've tested like cable mods in the past will provide often better performance as long as there's sufficient distance from the glass because you're getting it away from the motherboard too and that's a positive thing but it's when it's right against the glass that you have an issue so as for this one this is supposed to be positioned further from the glass from what we can see so far it will be contingent upon the case as well of course and uh the solution is aimed at both air and water but is pictured mostly with water ek's a water cooling company after all it's supposed to be called the ek loop vertical gpu holder and ek says it'll work in quote any atx pc case that has an open style rear pcie i o layout the structure's materials just steel it's 1.5 millimeters thick and it uses two motherboard standoff screws for extra stability ek kind of overplays its hand on claiming that the dangers of vertical amounts it's not like people really move their computers around that much certainly not really going to land parties that often anymore especially right now but uh the solution does appear to be of higher structural stability and quality it's just that the the language used by ek uh emphasizing the dangers of such amount does seem like it's it's just a little bit on the over-dramatic side but anyway ecase has one to two slot designs will fit from the io shield perspective it says that height doesn't matter keep in mind that it will if you have an air cooler in there the tower uh may end up limiting the height of the gpu so make sure you map that out and overall vertical mounts just as a reminder again are not universally bad it does depend on how they are implemented and also uh cases like the sl600m you'll see better performance with a vertically mounted gpu because fans are at the bottom it's pushing air straight into the fins in most cases so that's it for this one thanks for watching subscribe for more as always you can go to store.gamersnexus.net or patreon.com gamersnexus helps directly and we'll see you all next time foreignhey everyone welcome back to the hardware news recap for the week and this one we're talking about the official rtx 3070 delay that is not a rumor the zen three rumors uh about ryzen 5000 series but we're not going to cover all of them because there's questionable legitimacy to some of those and we'll be talking about the bios rollout for existing ryzen motherboards what some of the motherboard vendors have been putting in their bios code that's been tricking people like x590 references i will be talking about some high-end computing hpe microsoft and uh storage feature testing and ek vertical gpu mounts for water cooled and air-cooled gpus before that this video is brought to you by arctic cooling and its liquid freezer 2 line arctic is actively restocking its liquid freezer 2 coolers that rank among the top performers for cpu coolers right now including on ryzen cpus the liquid freezer 2 series is focused on high throttle performance and value featuring a blackout design and including a vrm fan mounted on top of the pump block to help provide airflow over neighboring vrm heatsinks arctic has also started selling its p-12 120 case fans learn more at the links in the description below first up is the rtx 3070 delay you may have heard of this one at this point because it's been pretty big news in the last 24 hours or so since filming anyway and this appears to be maybe an effort to mitigate the possibility of another go with disastrous or subpar if we're being a little bit less dramatic a gpu launch so nvidia has rolled back the availability date of its 37d originally we were hearing that it was supposed to be around october 15th for release and reviews would probably be we'd probably be working on one right now but instead it looks like it's going back to october 29th and that'll mark a about a two-week delay from previously and it puts it right next to amd's rx 6000 event so from nvidia's perspective this is good and bad it's bad because i can't preempt the event and try to make some initial sales before amd's cards become available or announced actually it might not be available right away it's good because from nvidia's perspective strictly it might be able to try and drown out some of the noise around amd's event we'll see how it plays out though ultimately this is probably a move to try and get at least a little bit more inventory in hand before the launch but an extra two weeks doesn't really move the needle that much when you're talking global logistics uh in its statement on upcoming availability nvidia expressly states the desire to get more cards out on launch day as well as the global board partners and it also noted that the the previous 3080 and 3090 launches were uh known to be less supply than nvidia had desired to have available to meet demand this was stated originally when it launched the cards and faced immediate backlash about availability of the products as we've covered in the past couple weeks now just inventory alone isn't the end of the world but inventory alone combined with accidental leaking of personal information through its website uh crashing issues that were mostly resolved with drivers but nonetheless issues that existed bot issues and everything else the 3000 series has run into uh it's nvidia's had a lot to contend with and this is probably a means to try and resolve that finally on this topic there's been some updates to the capacitor story as well where as you may know our 3080 ftw3 was a world record card even without liquid nitrogen it did very well just on air and then with liquid nitrogen it was briefly a world record card so that card had the uh the quote-unquote like bad capacitor arrangement and there's a few sides to this story to cover so we didn't dive too deep into this one other than covering some of the basics and the the business politics behind it why things really happened the way they did behind the scenes but in terms of testing it lined up right when we sort of walked away from the studio for a little bit to get a break so to recap everyone on what's happened in the interim uh der bauer had a really good video that we'd encourage you to check out dave bauer on youtube where he changed the capacitor array on the back of one of his rtx 30 series cards and in doing so he established that with the difference capacitor solution using like the higher end mlcc layout that he had soldered on there by hand uh he was able to increase the clock speeds by maybe 30 megahertz or so so there is a benefit to having a better capacitor solution we spoke with evga about this they were aware of roman's video actually alerted us to it originally and they saw similar things in their own testing but this is a matter of uh you can improve the parts and get a little bit better performance it was not however necessarily a direct link to the crashing issue although it's sort of a workaround where you could fix the crashing issue the real problem was as we stated a couple about a week ago in our live stream the real issue was the frequency being too high and v bios can resolve this issue so some of the board partners behind the scenes prior to reviews going up were talking with us saying you might want to wait on doing the testing because we may release a different v bios to improve stability and later that story is what developed into the capacitors are all bad so it's sort of sort of true for both but the real issue was the frequency being too high so der bauer has a great video talking about the capacitor side of things and where there actually is a meaningful difference sort of and then hardware and box did a video talking about the frequency side of things and so we'll point you to both of those coverage pieces to get the final story on all of that uh that way we can frankly we can just move on here because we've got so many other things we need to do we're doing two videos a day and live streams 20 hours of live streams over about a 10 day period so we'll leave that one to those two for the coverage if you want to learn more about it moving on uh rumors so zen three allegedly arriving as ryzen 5000 we want to start off here with the x590 notes a few people have seen that gigabytes bios update as motherboard vendors have rolled out bios updates for zen 3 support had an x590 reference in it this led the internet to scramble and say that there's going to be a new x590 chipset two hour knowledge this was once true and we've talked about this before actually about a year ago or just over amd was originally planning to do an x590 and an x570 set of chipsets and they were planning to segment the pcie support between the two of them so you'd have a higher end one for maybe like a 3950x and then one for everything else that didn't come to fruition amd ended up axing it and instead going for just a single x570 chipset solution as you all saw and so nothing ever became of x590 the fact that it has reemerged in the bios code for gigabytes bios as we understand it from asking around is actually just an artifact of that original plan where actually in bios is from the initial launch of x570 you also saw x590 references and people then thought that was going to be a board coming out shortly and obviously it wasn't it never came out so our understanding is this is old streams of text in bios that manage to creep their way back in over time with the bios updates so from what we understand today x590 and its presence in the bios updates you've seen it's not preparing for some new x590 board it's just an artifact of an old product that was killed and never came out so getting that one out of the way first because there were a lot of rumors about xo90 potentially being a new motherboard but it's to our understanding it is it is not going to be the case all right uh additionally so we should know more about amd's n3 architecture later this month actually next week we should be getting an official news event from amd that we'll be covering certainly on the day it goes up and then three cpus are supposedly skipping the 4000 series naming entirely which is we think good if it's true and launching instead of rising 5000 the reason this would be good is just because amd's naming is kind of a mess right now and it's already got 4000 series named cpus out there that are completely different architecture so it might be the right move to just completely move on to another naming scheme so hardware leaker tum underscore api sak spotted new listings and ashes of the singularity benchmarks that showed an alleged amd ryzen 7 5800x entry and the chip is listed as an eight core 16 thread processor this should be his m3 successor to the 3800x now a couple things about this first of all some of the rumors that are out there right now are pointing towards uh weird core configurations that if you look at amd's architecture and its chip design makes zero sense like for example 10 core cpus uh it doesn't really make sense with the way the ccx's are laid out so that combined with the x5 590 uh alarms that were raised about a chipset and a motherboard that don't exist and combined with the numbers we're seeing lead us to sort of go down the path of be careful of what you're reading into with rumors right now verizon because a lot of them as we've seen don't really make a lot of sense it's artifacts of old launches it's incorrect uh whatever so we'll cover this stuff and the performance as we actually get the the products in hand is what we're getting at here but in the spirit of covering some of this amd already has its line of ryzen 4000 g series devices for mobile uh components those are apu's they bear the 4000 branding and two from what we know of zen 3 so far it's likely enough of an overhaul under the hood at least to warrant a shift in the naming a leaked processor programming reference or ppr outlined a few key details about zen3 such as the changes to the ccd and ccx structure and allegedly unified 32 megabytes of l3 cache per ccx a scalable data fabric or sdf being built up to support 512 gigabytes per dram channel and this obviously doesn't mean it's going to be on desktop necessarily but could scale to their other devices as well and uh some other changes were rumored to be improved latency and coherency and further refinement of amd's mcm approach so what we'd really like to see with zen 3 or future and the ryzen iterations would be improvements in infinity fabric where there's the most limitations for the cpus currently anyway we're going to leave the numbers out of it in terms of the uh performance claims just because there's been a lot of bad information out there lately about amd's rise and stuff and we don't want to be part of it next one zen 3 motherboard supports beginning to roll out so this is all official this is not rumors uh in zen 3 land this week it seems like motherboard makers are starting to pop up support so first among the board makers to transition to zen 3 support was msi who rolled out a new firmware update for some of the existing motherboards that it has in the 500 series am4 lineup gigabyte was included as well again with the x590 reference which to be very clear here was not going to be a thing msi revealed that it's pushing out a combo pi bios v2 1.1.0.0 if you're curious about the igesa version and that's an update to 570 b550 chipset-based motherboards it also noted that the update should roll out to a520 based motherboards those are the the new low end chip sets we covered recently towards the end of october for those updates and in addition to optimizations for current ryzen processors the usual stability improvements that you see in bio stuff like that there's also an updated smu and some ddr4 overclocking fixes that will benefit you in theory if you're on a current cpu not just the new ones msi also noted support for quote future am4 socket processors not a surprise what those are that's going to be zen3 stuff and then those future socket m4 processors will be compatible with these x570 boards so that much we know right now as for whether there are new motherboards or not we don't know yet but the x570 b550 stuff based on these compatibility updates that are being put out by the motherboard makers should be compatible should remain compatible uh cornelius networks breathing new life into intel's omni path for the next story to intel's first generation omnipath interconnects or opa 100 series were meant to be intel's answer to melanox's infiniband product line which are switches and whose parent company was acquired by nvidia recently so melanox is now owned by nvidia this has been pushing intel into higher speed networking and interconnect solutions however after only one generation intel seemingly abandoned the omnipath architecture and halted development on the opa200 series however intel is now spinning out its omnipath business into an entirely separate company cornelis networks according to crn is made up of former intel employees who worked on intel's omnipath under intel previously cornelis networks announced its series a funding that brought in 20 million dollars from the likes of downing ventures and intel capital which is intel's venture capital and investment division and philippe murphy jr ceo of cornelius networks and formerly of intel stated that he and his colleagues approached intel about spinning out omnipath when it became apparent that the technology no longer aligned with intel's strategy intel apparently agreed and cornell's networks received intel's omnipath ip existing inventory and additional assets in exchange for intel capital receiving a stake in cornell's networks murphy also stated that under cornell's networks omnipath will see next generation products possibly under a new brand and cornell's networks is planning on working to support existing omnipath customers and to continue selling first gen omnipath products up next leaked windows xp source code that we talked about about a week or two ago in hardware news appears to be actually legitimate at the time we first talked about it was was not clear yet if the windows xp source code leaks were real and now it looks like that is true so while microsoft wouldn't and as of this writing still hasn't officially confirmed or denied the leak security researchers immediately began pouring over the code as expected and suggested that it was legitimate albeit incomplete if you fast forward a week or so we now know that the source code is that of windows xp and windows server 2003 according to zdnet who spoke with microsoft engineers of both past and present the code does appear to be authentic but again is lacking in its completion furthermore at least one astute user has compiled the code into a working version of the now ancient operating systems the ntdev youtube channel which focuses on windows and software successfully compiled the code both confirming its legitimacy and the fact that some components are missing quote well the reports were indeed true it seems that there are some components missing such as winlogon.exe and lots of drivers ntdev told zdnet however while the videos were briefly available to view and may have been pulled down somewhere they've since been taken down following a copyright claim from microsoft so in lieu of an official statement it seems that this basically will serve as one i think we can all take away what we need to take away from that action uh so it looks like the the leak was legitimate at this point and what that means well we'll see potentially get interesting spin-offs of open source operating systems that shouldn't exist at least by microsoft's considerations or in the worst case more security vulnerabilities for no longer supported operating systems it may be encouragement to move on from them for the companies that haven't yet although certainly plenty of factories are still running xp and 3.1 even and those machines aren't connected to anything except for whatever factory machine they're controlling so those won't really matter that much hpe announced that it will build and deliver a new supercomputer to the national nuclear security administration or nnsa for the purpose of modeling the behavior of nuclear weapons the system known as crossroads will be based on the new hpe cray-x supercomputer and the cray x fair warning googling this returns results that are not not particularly helpful nor related to cray or its ex supercomputer model the cray x is a blade based cluster built inside of a sealed liquid cooled cabinet cray is no foreigner to liquid cooling in fact some of its earliest super computers were liquid cooled and even had sort of a waterfall feature uh installed them is something that we saw the mountain view computer history museum if you're ever in that area and you want to check it out uh so while we don't have the exact specs on crossroads it's said to offer quadruple the performance of the system it's intended to replace which is called trinity and the trinity supercomputer is currently ranked at number 11 on the top 500 list of supercomputers in the world and it was rolled out in two stages and partitions uh there's the first partition that uses haswell xeons then the second partition if we can call it that anyway that uses uh the finite's landing zeon so trinity offers a peak performance of 41.4 petaflops for perspective hpe's crate x solution is largely based on crazy shasta architecture which was actually crazy first supercomputer platform aimed at exascale computing hence the x part of the name too so the shasta architecture is set to power upcoming exascale computers such as aurora which we've spoken about recently it will also power el capitan and frontier both of which we've spoken about in news videos as well and and one of which includes some amd parts at least at least one of which uh also an hpe cray-x 3000 cabinet is said to accommodate up to 64 blades it is supposed to use eight compute chassis for that support and each compute chassis can power up to those eight blades the hpe crate x 3000 supports hpe cray x425 blades which come equipped with two boards per blade and each board offers two sockets for a total of four sockets per blade the hpe cray x425 blade and their boards support amd's epic 7002 series cpus and eight dimms per socket with up to 64 gigabyte dimms at uh 3200 so while the cray x platform is built for andy's epic line crossroads will actually use intel's 10 nanometer sapphire rapid xeon cpus it's also important to remember here that the hpe krayak supercomputer is purely x86 based there's no heterogeneous cpu gpu computing design integrated that that's worth speaking up so no new information yet on how many cabinets crossroads will use or any suggested performance metrics crossroads is also scheduled to be deployed in spring of 2022 so it's a while out and will remain in service through at least 2026. crossroads also marks another notable supercomputer win for intel behind the intel-based aurora supercomputer up next is some microsoft windows news so microsoft is testing some new storage and monitoring features right now alongside the windows 10 insider preview build 20226 announcement that was posted recently microsoft also announced that it would be testing new storage monitoring features related to ssd health some of this will probably be integrated smart stat attributes for example so this should at least alert users about ssds becoming uh unhealthy which again you can derive from smart software that's out there now but many ssds ship with their own software like samsung's ssd magician as a popular example and this type of software allows users to monitor the drive for potential failures and reports on various diagnostics however not all ssds ship with such software and windows doesn't currently offer any included features for ssd health quote the feature is designed to detect hardware abnormalities for nvme ssds and notify users with enough time to act it's strongly recommended that users immediately back up their data after receiving a notification and that's from microsoft most modern hard drives and ssds will support smart systems and it may be that microsoft is testing a wind 10 feature that will report that to the user this has also been seen where microsoft has rolled out other popular monitoring features now there's actually even a gpu temperature readout in task manager and uh there are already the gpu getting included in task manager in greater detail is also somewhat new it wasn't really you didn't really get much before so now you can break it down into say cuda into 3d and to copy all those within task manager so windows is improving its monitoring feature set which is a good thing uh if you want all that stuff obviously there is third-party software that will do hardware info 64 is a great one that we can highly recommend and there's plenty of drive related smart readers out there too up next corsair is testing the ceiling with its k100 rgb keyboard specifically the ceiling for price of a keyboard built by a large non-keyboard specific company so this is a new top-end keyboard at 230 dollars corsair is again certainly testing the price consumers are willing to pay out a box for it the k-100 rgb looks set to slot in directly above corsair's k-95 rgb platinum itself a 200 keyboard that at the time was also expensive corsair's k100 rgb does offer a couple of notable evolutions over the k95 platinum but whether or not they justify an additional 30 isn't really for us to say we don't do much for keyboard reviews first corsair has continued its iq evolution with the manifestation of a full-blown iq wheel adorned at the top left corner of the board aside from the name it seems the scroll wheel could also have some convenient uses under certain circumstances perhaps for example in adobe premiere or photoshop or adjusting volume zooming in and out scrolling left and right things like that or assigning keyboard shortcuts separately second the corsair is also unveiling its first switch design the corsair opx optical switches these switches seem similar to razer's optical switches and are rated for 150 million clicks life cycle these switches offer a one millimeter actuation point and linear travel corsair is also touting its axon technology which is responsible for the 4 000 hertz pulling and key scanning rate of the k100 rgb keyboard as mentioned previously the k100 gb will cost 230 dollars it's out now we're not really planning to review it we might test some of the claims on the frequency though if we find the time the keyboard will also come with an option for cherry mx red switches should the optical switches not be of interest for the audience finally also in actual news it's nice to have a lot of real news coming out and not just rumors uh normally when there's major gpu launches there's a lot of rumors because companies don't want to announce things and get buried by gpus so actual news ek's vertical gpu bracket for open loops and for air cooling to an extent announced recently so this is following on the steps of companies like cable mod and its own successful vertical gpu bracket the biggest differentiation between good and bad vertical gpu mounts is normally the spacing between the glass and the mount so a lot of people like to take numbers from our testing and other testing that show the poor performance of vertically mounted gpus in some cases and then extrapolate it to just mean vertical mount bat but it's not that simple in fact some of the cases we've tested and actually some of the mounts we've tested like cable mods in the past will provide often better performance as long as there's sufficient distance from the glass because you're getting it away from the motherboard too and that's a positive thing but it's when it's right against the glass that you have an issue so as for this one this is supposed to be positioned further from the glass from what we can see so far it will be contingent upon the case as well of course and uh the solution is aimed at both air and water but is pictured mostly with water ek's a water cooling company after all it's supposed to be called the ek loop vertical gpu holder and ek says it'll work in quote any atx pc case that has an open style rear pcie i o layout the structure's materials just steel it's 1.5 millimeters thick and it uses two motherboard standoff screws for extra stability ek kind of overplays its hand on claiming that the dangers of vertical amounts it's not like people really move their computers around that much certainly not really going to land parties that often anymore especially right now but uh the solution does appear to be of higher structural stability and quality it's just that the the language used by ek uh emphasizing the dangers of such amount does seem like it's it's just a little bit on the over-dramatic side but anyway ecase has one to two slot designs will fit from the io shield perspective it says that height doesn't matter keep in mind that it will if you have an air cooler in there the tower uh may end up limiting the height of the gpu so make sure you map that out and overall vertical mounts just as a reminder again are not universally bad it does depend on how they are implemented and also uh cases like the sl600m you'll see better performance with a vertically mounted gpu because fans are at the bottom it's pushing air straight into the fins in most cases so that's it for this one thanks for watching subscribe for more as always you can go to store.gamersnexus.net or patreon.com gamersnexus helps directly and we'll see you all next time foreign\n"