Liquid Cooling is Dead. - Tech News March 3

[Music] welcome back to Paul's Tech news! good  news everyone we've made it to March 2024 and if you're following the advice that I give myself in  my head - which I've never really stated out loud so kudos for figuring it out - you've cleared as  much calendar space as possible in the next 2 to 3 months so you can finally get some goddamned  work done. no major Hardware launches are on the horizon in the immediate future so let's  all focus on getting through those backlogged projects we've bee

n forced to put off for far  too long, like wall mounting stuff on my set, geez this place is in shambles. and I know it's  hard to focus on work what with the promise of approaching Springtime and fresh air and flowers  and stuff, or alternatively the promise of a cave like computer room and week-long recreational  drug fueled video gaming binges, but wherever your Heart leads you as we Coast towards the  vernal equinox, thanks for letting your Brain stop by my channel so you can keep yourself

a  breast of the past week's PC Hardware Tech news. excellent today's video is brought to you by the  tower 300 series cases from thermaltake expanding their vertical Tower design with a stunning new  lineup available in a variety of colors the larger frame now supports Micro ATX motherboards as  well as huge gpus including the RTX 4090 without compromising air flow thanks to an abundance of  filtered ventilation panels two ct-140 fans come pre-installed and the right side can house up to  420mm

AIO radiators. finish your build off with a sold separately 3.9in LCD panel kit or even go  horizontal with a matching chassis stand for a truly unique look. for more on thermaltake's the  tower 300 series cases click the sponsor Link in the video description. it seems fitting that  amd's launch of their "latest GPU" this week, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE, was met with what I would  describe as the opposite of enthusiasm. not hatred but sort of an anemic fatigue that fittingly  mirrored the golden r

abbit edition's mediocre 7 to 10% performance uplift versus the former go-to in  this price range, the RX 7800 XT - it didn't help that the GRE already launched last year in July  2023, just only in China, so performance isn't even that much of a surprise or anything it's  just not really that big of a deal. it's like you just bought a 100ft garden hose for $100 and  the checkout guy says hey, you know we have a new 110ft garden hose that just came out. the price?  $110. but then he wants you to

get excited about it too. and while sure, some of us wouldn't mind  a bit of extra hose to play with, the increased length can get a bit unwieldy. plus you've got  to wipe it down between each use if you're taking good care of it and -- what were we talking about  again? video cards, yes. to be totally fair the aforementioned RX 7800 XT was viewed positively in  terms of value even at 500 bucks so hopefully AMD will do what they often do with radon gpus: chip  away at the gre's price a bit at a

time until it becomes a compelling value as well. hopefully AMD  will also chip away at some of the overclocking restrictions that seem to be holding the golden  rabbit back as there appears to be significant variance in the quality of review samples that  went out as well as frequency limitations that seem to limit Peak potential or as AMD calls it a  bug that they intend to fix. Steve from Hardware unboxed posted one of the more critical 7900 GRE  reviews when the secondary embargo lifted Mon

day, but he followed up with a re-test video due to  some backlash. to explain, Steve was one of the a few reviewers who tested an oem RX 7900 GRE last  year when they were only available in China and he went ahead and retested that same reference card  for his video Monday. but the newer samples going around do seem to perform slightly better than the  ones already on the market, and so he reran tests with the manufacturer overclocked Sapphire Nitro  plus and found that yes a card running at sl

ightly higher frequencies will get slightly better  test results. but it was still only a typical Improvement of about 2 to 5 frames - what was  more notable was amd's communication with Steve indicating that yes, they do see the current  OC limits as a bug so keep an eye out for them to fix the bug probably with an updated driver and  then perhaps the 7900 GRE can push its memory past about 2300 MHz or its GPU past about 2800 MHz  and then maybe that extra length of Hose will look a bit more ap

pealing. speaking of appealing  lengths of Hose, do you guys use Liquid coolers? they can look quite nice, they quite often are  excellent at cooling, but they do have downsides due to the possibility of pump failure and of  course those prices which can easily get up to $200 or even $300 for LCD enabled versions, which  is why I typically recommend air coolers for all but the highest end builds. and air cooling has  been on a bit of a tear recently mostly thanks to Thermalright, who keeps surpa

ssing themselves  with reasonably priced aftermarket offerings: first with the Peerless assassin, then the  Phantom spirit, and now the Phantom Spirit Evo, a dual fan cooler that "massacred" the competition  per Tom's Hardware's Albert Thomas in their recent review. this thing costs $43 and not only did  it outperform or match $100 air coolers like corsair's recent a115 or noctua's NH-D15s. it  easily kept up with 360 mm all-in-one liquid coolers, and quite a few of them, when measuring  average

Watts cooled while noise normalized. now don't get me wrong there's still very much a case  to be made for liquid cooling with the High Core count CPUs at the top of amds and Intel's current  product Stacks, but for anything below that gaming PC Builders will likely be much better served  by one of thermalright's new air coolers your wallet will thank you too speaking of things  that aren't worth the money msi's claw handheld gaming device made some waves when it debuted  at CES but many onlook

ers were concerned when they found out that it was an all Intel device  in terms of the CPU and the integrated GPU and those concerns were borne out when early reviews  started to pop up in mid-February. when compared to the Asus Rog Ally which is AMD zen4 and rdna3  based, performance seems to lag behind with the claw typically delivering 10 to 20% fewer frames  per second. nevertheless the claw appears to be headed towards a retail debut, with three variants  planned and msrps between $700 and

$800 - a tough sell when the Rog Ally costs 600 to 700 bucks and  the steam deck OLED is $550 to $650. the for sale date seems to be in flux though with UK stores  claiming maybe March 20th or maybe in April, while the official MSI Germany store already has  them in stock and available to order - that's just German efficiency though. but if the price, specs  and presumed performance still have you scratching your head, consider that MSI might be bringing  this to Market with some strong encoura

gement (money) from Team blue since Intel would likely  prefer that the burgeoning handheld Market not be completely dominated by AMD. let's quickly  talk about AI, but this time let's focus on an actually useful PC Hardware implementation of it  - blocking ransomware attacks. most ransomware, once deployed typically works in the same way -  encrypt as much of the data on a PC or server as possible then Force the victim to pay a ransom for  the encryption key so the data can be recovered. to fig

ht this IBM is equipping its new ssds with  ransomware detecting AI powered by their fourth generation flash core module technology. rather  than worrying about the system's compromised operating system, IBM's solution monitors data  at the I/O level on the drive and IBM says it has no impact on performance. The Flash core  module feeds IO Data to a machine learning model that determines what typical system usage looks  like which then allows it to detect anomalies indicative of the presence of

ransomware. in  testing the solution was able to detect and shut down attacks within 1 minute preventing  further encryption of data on the drive. AI is everywhere now and it can get a bit fatiguing  to hear about it all the time but it helps to be reminded that it's not just being used to make hot  dogs hotter. I'm doing Tech briefs platinum Joe, I mean I'm assuming you're going to make a super  fancy intro for it but if you don't you can use a regular Tech briefs intro, just like Hue shift  it

so instead of that gold or whatever color it is like it's more silver. or just don't do anything,  it's fine, I don't - I mean it's okay. And now we segue into a very special show finale: welcome  to Tech Briefs Platinum. please note that Tech briefs Platinum is a premium tier offering and  does require a paid membership if you did not send me money yet then you'll be redirected to a  looping video of that hot dog getting hotter which I hear is a fascinating thing to watch for poor  people - th

anks for stopping by. are they gone? what a relief, now that only my most affluent  viewers are still watching At Last I can relax and speak my mind without worrying about all those  inconvenient things I have to skate around when certain demographics are are also watching. but  I know time is money - your time especially - so let's begin with a simply Charming video posted  this week by Nada from Techtesters. she went and tested a bunch of different RTX 4080 Supers  pretty impressive stack ther

e and I know I know you already have an RTX 4090 that goes without  saying but it can be so difficult to find the right gift for your butler or your dog perhaps  and just because we're ungodly Rich doesn't mean we shouldn't look for the best performing  options available. and it turns out performance is really just about the same between all of these  cards with Acoustics and thermals being the main differentiators and as expected the most expensive  card performed the best the rog strix OC from

Asus proving once again that money can buy happiness  and the best gpus thank you so much Nada my dear, ta-ta. that's how rich people talk right? speaking  of the best gpus aren't you a bit bored of the RTX 4090 I mean sure it's the fastest by a big gap  but it's already almost a year and a half old and I think they should at least come out with a  better video card for rich people and apparently they will what a surprise the RTX 5090 even though  it's just a rumor from the internet and it migh

t be 70% faster than the RTX 4090 that's a big  boost but it's also a known fact that the RTX 4090 does not use the full size Ada love lace die  and Nvidia was may be saving room for an RTX 4090 TI or a Titan class card but if rumors are true  that's not going to happen and even as I predicted the biggest and best gpus from both Nvidia and AMD  might be getting allocated for AI GPU usage with the coming generations and while I know that we  all have the means to buy as many h100s as we want with

our pocket change and the bills we've lost in  our Italian leather sofas we can't use those gpus for gaming I guess I was wrong about money buying  happiness but at least we can all cheer ourselves up with today's Final story about helpless  9-to-5ers being being forced back to the office to work their day jobs. this time it's Rockstar  who is calling their staff back with a Monday to Friday schedule ostensibly to reel in leaks and  potential data breaches as they grow nearer to launching Grand

Theft Auto 6 but we know it's  really because those poors can't be trusted to invest the maximum amount of their time and energy  on a daily basis for the good and benefit of the company when they're lazing about at home. all for  the best I say it's high time these developers and programmers learn the value of a hard day's work  while they build a game about anarchically robbing and killing everyone and everything in your path  in the frenzied pursuit of that which makes man truly Noble: money

. I hope it launches soon I  really want to play. but there you have it guys, tech news for the week, and if you liked it,  click that like button or leave me a comment down below. While you’re down there, all of the  articles I talked about today are linked in the description if you're interested, and check out my  store at paulshardware.net for high quality merch: t-shirts, hoodies, beer sets and more.  Subscribing to my channel is always a good call too! Thanks again everyone,  and we'll see

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