HW News - Major Windows Privacy Concerns, Noctua's "New" Fan, AMD Epyc in AM5 Desktops
Summary
TLDRThis week's Hardware news recap covers IGN's acquisition of Gamer Network, AMD's new EPYC CPUs for desktops, Noctua's pricey home products, and the Montech K95 Pro case. The host also calls for community input on a GPU power cable survey to aid in their in-depth research. Other topics include a potential AI PC market entry by NVIDIA, TCL's 1,000 Hz 4K monitor, Kingpin's return to YouTube, MSI's performance improvement claims for its Claw, and concerns over Microsoft's Windows Recall feature's privacy implications.
Takeaways
- 🎮 IGN has acquired Gamer Network, which includes popular gaming outlets like Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and VG247.
- 🔍 The community is being asked to participate in a survey to provide data on GPU power cable and connector situations for a deep dive analysis.
- 💻 AMD has announced Epic CPUs for the AM5 socket, aiming to provide better performance for the price compared to Intel Xeon processors.
- 🤖 Nvidia's Jensen Huang hinted at a potential entry into the AI-PC market, suggesting that Nvidia may be working on a CPU and GPU combo for consumer PCs.
- 🖥️ TCL has showcased a 4K resolution monitor with a 1,000 Hertz refresh rate, a significant leap from current consumer market offerings.
- 🛠️ Former EVGA engineer, known as Kingpin, has resurfaced on YouTube, hinting at potential collaborations with manufacturers and showcasing his engineering skills.
- 🎮 MSI claims to have improved the performance of its Claw gaming handheld through a recent BIOS and software update, addressing previous criticisms.
- 🌬️ Noctua has launched a new line of home products, including a room fan and a multi-purpose fan set for device cooling, with premium pricing.
- 💡 Noctua's product pricing has raised concerns about the value proposition, especially considering the high cost of accessories like fan mounts.
- 👀 Microsoft has unveiled Windows Recall, a feature that takes screenshots every 5 seconds to help users recall information, raising significant privacy concerns.
Q & A
What is the main topic discussed in the video script?
-The main topic discussed in the video script is a variety of hardware news, including IGN acquiring Gamer Network, new AMD epic CPUs, Noctua home products, and other tech industry updates.
What acquisition did IGN recently make?
-IGN recently acquired Gamer Network, which includes outlets like Dicebreaker, Eurogamer, Gamesindustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun, and vg247.
What is the purpose of the survey mentioned in the script?
-The purpose of the survey is to collect data on the GPU power cable and connector situation, including experiences with failures and usage, to better understand the current state of the technology.
What is the name of the case being promoted in the video?
-The case being promoted in the video is the K95 Pro from Montech, which is a dual chamber enclosure with configurable options for storage and power supplies.
What is the significance of AMD's announcement regarding epic CPUs for the AM5 socket?
-The significance is that AMD is introducing epic CPUs for the consumer platform, which is a new entry level for the server market, offering potentially better performance for the price compared to equivalent Intel Xeon parts.
What is the new feature of Windows Recall mentioned in the script?
-Windows Recall is a feature that takes screenshots of the user's working environment every 5 seconds, allowing users to search their PC's previous browsing history and recall things they might have missed.
What concerns are raised about the Windows Recall feature?
-The concerns raised about Windows Recall include potential privacy issues, such as someone else searching up passwords or sensitive data, and the possibility of it being enabled by default.
What is the name of the new line of products launched by Noctua for home use?
-Noctua has launched a new line of home products called Noctua Home (NH), which includes a desk or room fan and a multi-purpose fan set for device cooling.
What is the price range for the new Noctua home products?
-The price range for the new Noctua home products is from $100 for the room fan to $880 for the multi-purpose fan set for device cooling.
What is the update from MSI regarding the performance of their Claw device?
-MSI claims to have improved the performance of their Claw device through a recent BIOS and MSI Center software update, which has resulted in significant performance improvements in games like Forza Horizon 5 and others.
What is the situation with EVGA's Kingpin after the slowdown of EVGA's operations?
-Kingpin from EVGA has resurfaced on YouTube, making videos in a self-made studio in the old EVGA Gaming Center space. He has hinted at discussions with manufacturers in the industry but has not announced any immediate employment.
Outlines
🎮 IGN Acquires Gamer Network and AMD's New CPUs
The video starts with the surprising news of IGN acquiring Gamer Network, which initially led to humorous thoughts of a skewed rating system. However, it turns out that the acquisition is not of the current audience's platform but still significant in the gaming media space. The host also discusses AMD's launch of new epic CPUs for desktop platforms, which is an exciting development for the tech community. Additionally, Noctua introduces a pricey set of home products, including fan frames, and the video is sponsored by Montech and the K95 Pro case, which is highlighted for its dual chamber design and extensive configurability options. The host calls for community help in understanding the GPU power cable and connector situation through a Google form survey, aiming to gather data for an in-depth analysis on the topic.
🔍 Deep Dive into GPU Power Cables and IGN's Acquisition Aftermath
Following the initial announcement of the GPU power cable survey, the host elaborates on the importance of community input for their research, emphasizing the need for a large volume of submissions to gather useful data. They discuss the process and goals of their deep dive into the GPU power situation, including interviews and lab analysis of cable mods. The host also addresses the acquisition of Gamer Network by IGN, noting the trend of media consolidation in the tech and gaming industries. They speculate on the potential changes to the newly acquired properties and the impact on SEO and ad strategies, hinting at a possible shift in content and advertising approaches.
🚀 AMD's Epic CPUs for AM5 Socket and TCL's 1,000 Hz Monitor
The host shares news about AMD's introduction of epic CPUs for the AM5 socket, targeting the entry-level server market with features like platform security and error-correcting RAM support. These CPUs offer a new option for consumers looking for better price-to-performance ratios. In another segment, the host humorously discusses TCL's unveiling of a 1,000 Hz monitor, poking fun at the fact that the human eye cannot perceive such high refresh rates, and jokingly suggests that the monitor could be used to see into the future based on refresh rate mathematics.
🛠️ EVGA's Kingpin Resurfaces and MSI's Claw Performance Update
The host reports on the re-emergence of Kingpin, a well-known figure from EVGA, who has started a YouTube series in the old EVGA Gaming Center space. Kingpin hints at potential collaborations with manufacturers and showcases his engineering skills in a fun video about claw machines. The host also discusses MSI's response to criticism of the MSI Claw's performance, noting that a recent BIOS and software update have reportedly improved the device's performance in various games. MSI provides settings recommendations to optimize the Claw's performance further.
🌬️ Noctua's Overpriced Home Products and Windows Recall Feature
Noctua launches a new line of home products, including a room fan and a multi-purpose fan set for device cooling, which the host criticizes for their high prices given their simplicity. The host also addresses Microsoft's introduction of Windows Recall, a feature that takes frequent screenshots of the user's working environment for later searchability. While potentially useful, the host raises privacy concerns about the feature, such as the risk of sensitive information being accessed by others or through device theft.
👀 Potential Linux Consideration Over Privacy and Upcoming Reviews
In light of the privacy concerns surrounding Windows Recall, the host suggests that Linux might be considered for certain systems where privacy is paramount. They also provide updates on upcoming content, including a review of the Y70 case and a Corsair case, indicating that these reviews will be available shortly.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡IGN
💡Gamer Network
💡AMD
💡Noctua
💡K95 Pro Case
💡GPU Power Cable
💡12VHPWR
💡PCIe
💡AIPCS
💡Windows Recall
Highlights
IGN acquires Gamer Network, expanding its media portfolio in the gaming space.
Introduction of a community survey to understand the GPU power cable and connector situation.
AMD announces Epic CPUs for the AM5 socket, targeting the entry-level server market.
Noctua launches a new line of home products, including a desk fan and a multi-purpose fan set for device cooling.
Nvidia and Mediatek may be collaborating on a handheld product, expanding Nvidia's reach in AI PCS.
TCL showcases a 1,000 HZ 4K monitor, a significant leap in display technology.
Former EVGA engineer 'Kingpin' resurfaces with a YouTube channel, hinting at potential collaborations with manufacturers.
MSI claims performance improvements for its Claw device through BIOS and software updates.
Noctu's new home products are criticized for their high price points, despite their engineering focus.
Microsoft introduces Windows Recall, a feature that takes frequent screenshots of the user's working environment.
Upcoming reviews include the Y70 case and a Corsair case, providing insights into new ATX and microATX cases.
A call for community engagement in filling out the GPU power cable survey for research purposes.
Details on the deep dive research being conducted on 12vt high power, including interviews and lab analysis.
The potential impact of IGN's acquisition of Gamer Network on the gaming media landscape.
Discussion on the consolidation of media publications in the tech and gaming industries.
The features and pricing of AMD's new Epic 404 series chips for the server and enterprise markets.
Speculations on Nvidia's strategy and potential entry into the AIPCS market.
The unique showcase of Kingpin's thermal paste claw machine at computex as a fun engineering project.
MSI's response to criticism and their efforts to optimize the performance of the Claw device.
Concerns raised about the privacy implications of Microsoft's Windows Recall feature.
Transcripts
[Music]
hey everyone welcome back to their
Hardware news recap for the week in this
one we'll be talking about IGN acquiring
gamer Network mainly because when I woke
up and checked the news I saw IGN
acquires GN as a title and I was like
wait wait wait what I immediately began
making plans for a 1 through 10 rating
system where we'd only use the options
of 8 through 10 and sometimes seven if
it's really bad and then I found out
that it was gamer Network and not us but
uh we'll also be talking about new AMD
epic CPUs that are for desktop platforms
actually super cool uh noctua has a
painfully priced set of noctua Home
Products
like frames for fans that are
exceedingly expensive to mount them to
Furniture before that this video is
brought to you by montech and the k95
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storage and power supplies the k95 has a
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the top back bottom side and front of
the case the front also can be mesh or
solid with the mesh running a higher
paracity for more breathability learn
more at the link in the description
below first up a call for some community
help from you all we would like some
answers for a survey to try and better
understand some of the GPU power cable
and connector situation so we've been
working on a 12vt high power deep dive
on and off for the past year or so now
because we have some remaining questions
we'd like to just kind of close the loop
on and get to the bottom of we last
looked into 12vt high power back when it
had first launched it was a very fluid
situation very fastpac there's new
information daily and now with all this
extra time in between for the situation
to really fully develop we would like to
get some insight from the audience on
what it looks like and it's time to kind
of dig deep on this so here's what we've
got going on we have a Google form that
we've created and we would like everyone
to fill it out so that includes people
who have never used 12vt high power uh
includes people with failures people who
have not had a failure but have used it
people who've had failures with pcie 6
and8 pins and again just to really
emphasize here also people who have
never had a GPU power cable failure of
any kind uh or those who haven't even
used one of the two kind of main types
of them the goal is to use this form to
collect as much neutral data as possible
we think the audience the community in
general is probably the sort of cleanest
source of information for this because
we can talk to manufacturers off or
maybe on record uh and end of the day
though I personally would just trust the
audience more to get us just the the
volume we need of answers to kind of
better understand things so this data
will only be used by GN it will be
presented in a video but it'll be an
aggregate so you're going to be a number
in a chart effectively and we'll produce
that at the end of our deep dive
research we're doing right now the
Link's in the description you can also
go to the URL we're going to put it on
the screen right now if you want to type
it in it is a genius link so it's
ge. us SL GPU pwr so genie. us/ GPU pwr
basically is what it is this deep dive
is going to take probably another couple
months so it'll be a little while we
have some time to collect answers uh
from the audience and we have time to
finish some uh conducting some
interviews we're doing some additional
failure lab analysis we've actually sent
in some uh adapters we'll talk about as
well so the form asks you a few things
it asks if you've had a GP power cable
failure ever again that includes 12vt
high power and six or8 pin it asks
follow-ups if you answer yes if you
answer no then that's it it's those two
questions you can scroll to the bottom
and submit the form there's a natural
tendency to report failures so again we
want to emphasize that we consider it
equally important for everyone with and
without a failure of some kind to answer
the survey we want as clean data as we
can get there's no way to eliminate
sample bias but hopefully by just kind
of emphasizing that repeatedly um we'll
get as close as we can to it now as for
the content so we have a lot coming up
for this it'll be another couple months
like I said uh we sent in some cable mod
adapters to a failure analysis lab to
look at how the specific adapters we
sent in fail it's really interesting
actually have some crosssections maybe
we'll show one of them in be rooll and
these were unique enough design or
manufacturing failures that cable mod
recalled them we covered that previously
so they did a US recall we wanted to
learn more about that we sent them in
story isn't only about them though
they're a part of it but we're going to
be looking at Big Picture stuff so the
ATX spec PCI Sig submissions Nvidia Dell
involvement the history of design and
hopefully uh some numbers from our
viewers we're working on this as a
completely clean slate if you please
take a few minutes to fill out that form
it's linked down below you can do it
while you're listening to the rest of
this episode and we consider this to be
one of the most important parts of our
research for the upcoming piece so we'll
leave this open for a while and we'll be
reminding you about it over the next
month or two in various news updates to
just try and get as much as we can so uh
thanks for your patience with that the
only way we can really come to any kind
of useful data here is if we have a a
large volume of submissions and answers
and we appreciate your help as we
continue on this
research piece and uh we'll be putting
it together over the next couple months
so remember again that we want to hear
about your experience with all types of
GPU power cables and I think that pretty
much Recaps it so uh looking forward to
following it up but let's move on to the
next story all right we're starting with
the big acquisition which is IGN buying
a bunch of stuff uh the tech industry
has been consolidating its media
Publications for decades now so big
names like Z Davis perch and future have
been in the game there's a couple others
out there as well and I own several the
properties on the web this is also true
of the gaming space and then of course
game development space we've been
talking about Acquisitions Microsoft
buying every Studio it can so that it
can then lay those people
off interesting strategy we'll see how
it works on May 21st IGN announced that
it had acquired gamer Network which
includes Outlets like dicebreaker
Eurogamer gamesindustry.biz Rock Paper
Shotgun which I've actually really liked
historically and
vg247 IGN notes that gamer Network quote
also holds shairs in outside Xbox
digital Foundry and hook shot which
operates Nintendo life push Square pure
Xbox and time extension when we went to
IGN's News section to learn about IGN's
acquisition we found it amusing that
IGN's subheader on IGN's story about
IGN's acquisition read quote the digital
brands have been acquired for an
undisclosed sum which makes it sound
like a thirdparty report on the
quisition how much was it for we don't
know also we bought it but uh we don't
know to be fair the writer probably
wasn't informed on that but uh IGN had
sort of their their cheeky way of saying
we're not going to tell you IGN's the
largest games media publication it's
owned by zif Davis zif Davis bought it
in 2013 and zif Davis is it's from like
the 1920s and owns just a lot of tech
hobby gaming and health Publications
it's a massive conglomerate um that
specializes and being able to sell ads
is kind of my read on it but along with
IGN the aformentioned gamer Network
Publications will also join map Genie
how long to beat and Humble Bundle at
one point Z Davis also ran 1up.com
ugo.com games spy.com probably a lot of
you remember games spy before their
respective closures so we'll pour one
out for them but in some ways the big
media conglomerates feel kind of like
automakers where uh they there's a ton
of different badges on cars but
ultimately if you kind of the traces
back up there's not that many owners of
all of those Brands and a lot of them
end up being owned by the same companies
um and so that's kind of what we're
seeing here now uh ZIP Davis also owns
PC mag Mashable and I thought this was
an interesting speed test not a media
site but an interesting one and for
reference some of the mega conglomerates
in the space aside from them include
future which is uh it previously owned
Maximum PC before that one closed it
currently owns Tom's guide PC Gamer
radar and several sites that are outside
of our space subsequently owns anitech
Tom's Hardware and then again some that
are outside of our space for that I'm
unfamiliar with generally speaking the
massive conglomerates sort of squeeze
SEO out of properties and stuff them
with as many ads as they can what we're
curious about here is if IGN does that
with its new properties because IGN I
guess if someone wants to start
cataloging rock paper shotgun and the
other Acquisitions here today and then
do it again over the next year what I'd
be curious to see is how much does the
page layout change and how do the ad
interactions change on those sites
because I don't think you you make these
huge Acquisitions unless you're trying
to find a way to change the content to
stuff it with SEO and and try to boost
it to just generate more uh more uh page
visits and AD views or if you're going
to just stuff it with more ads but keep
the content the same um I guess there's
room for in between but uh call it
cynical I guess but as an opinion when
these Mega conglomerates are involved
it's really hard to see AEM motive other
than we can make more money than they're
making now and get our investment back
because otherwise why would you do it uh
maybe a little different for the smaller
groups but this is these are all this is
huge at this point so all right big
consolidation gaming media then next one
AMD epic entry level CPUs this is
actually really cool so amd's announced
epic CPUs for the am5 socket and that
means you'll be able to get epic Parts
in a consumer platform which has some
interesting tradeoffs we aren't
well-versed in the server CPU space in
general so we're going to keep this to
as much of just the news as we can and
then what I want to do with this is link
up with Wendell from level one Tex at
hopefully compx in about two weeks or so
uh link up with him and maybe do
something talking about this or just
build a system with him when we get back
all right so the news these epic 404
series chips create a new entry level
for the server Market the Enterprise
Market generally seeks out features like
platform Security Management uh official
support for error correcting R dims
things like that they also typically
favor stability over just about anything
else for servers under the lid the new
SKS are familiar to rise and desktop
CPUs they range from four to 16 cores
with two 3D vcash variants mixed in
official AMD tdps range from 65 to 170
Watts desktop limitations such as only
having two memory channels and being
Limited to single socket configuration
still apply as right now there are no
dual socket am5 motherboards to our
knowledge but that would be one hell of
a board and uh I would want to buy it
for a video if every one is made it
seems not likely though despite these
limitations AMD thinks they'll offer
much better performance for the price
compared to equivalent Intel Zeon not a
surprise that AMD would think that anch
reported on pricing and shows that price
has range from 230 bucks for the six
core up to $700 for the 16 core
also though there's a new four core part
which is called the 4124 P that should
go for
$150 and given the general dir of four
core parts from AMD uh at least good
ones in in recent years that's kind of
on its own something that maybe we'll
buy and do a video with uh if we miss
with these though it'll likely be in
collaboration with Wendell so check P
for that love working with him on stuff
and uh a PC build sounds like a a fun
way to work with these all right next
one this is a quick but kind of fun
follow-up story to the Nvidia and
mediate Tech may be working together on
a handheld product uh that we ran last
week that was a rumor this week there's
one more breadcrumb leading to a
potential future for NVIDIA in the world
of AI
PCS yep that's what they're called now
the term was coined
recently to drive sales and uh I've even
seen it in retail establishments so it's
a thing I guess we'll all have to get
used to it now this also means that the
PC comes with neural network processing
capabilities locally and uh Bloomberg
held an interview with CEOs Jensen Juan
of Nvidia and Michael Dell of
Dell why you come to us for the news we
can put those things together also bill
mcdermit of service now where Bloomberg
posed the question Jensen
where is nvidia's place in the aipc I I
know you as gaming that's again I grew
up with the gaming side of Nvidia do you
have a place in the aipc market come
back next year there there's yeah
exactly there bunch of bunch of Nvidia
gpus and Dell PCS so that's a ominous
and kind of an indicator as to the
answer Jensen Hanan pivots the
conversation away from this to
generalities about how impactful AI will
be in gaming productivity and basically
consumer type tasks and Bloomberg then
pushed again uh asking directly if
Nvidia plans to make a CPU and GPU combo
for PCs like what it did with graze
hopper in the data center which I really
respect from the reporter to ask the
question again in as direct way as
possible uh predictably though Jensen
Juan deflected but I did think it was uh
a good way to follow up the question
here's the deflection we want to support
every CPU uh the world makes and there
there are places that want EX 86 we
support x86 there places that prefer arm
we support arm every
CPU maybe even their own is our read on
that one now it's clear that Juan wants
to keep his Poker Face pretty good at it
and doesn't want to play along with the
teasing and hinting game that Michael
Dell was maybe going for but he it looks
like they're may be doing something and
nvidia's been working with arm for a
little while now so we wouldn't be
surprised it would be potentially major
shake up in the market though it's a
sector that Nvidia hasn't yet really
capitalized on and the same way it's
done with gpus and now software uh and
when the company grows that big I guess
if they want infinite growth it makes
sense they start looking to other parts
of the market that they fill all right
TCL has a Showcase of a 1,00 HZ monitor
now the downside we we hate to inform
them of this after they've already done
all this research and development
manufacturing they have all this cost in
it but un fortunately the human eye can
only see 24 FPS it's just a known fact
it's kind of confusing why they did this
but the good news is that for every
doubling of 24 you actually can see the
future by 1 second pretty cool this LCD
features a 4K resolution screen blurb
sters.com which is a website dedicated
to displays and high refresh rate
testing reported on the Monitor and
wrote quote we had expected 1,00 Hertz
to arrive but we didn't expect it to
debut at the 4K resolution before 1080P
and 1440p so it's fantastic to go
straight to 4K they said end quote the
highest refresh rate consumer Market
monitors we're aware of go up to 540
Hertz we don't really cover monitors but
uh this would be a massive jump from 540
TCL csot is a subsidiary of TCL that
Brands itself on quote promoting the
development of Next Generation display
Technologies no word on how the company
was able to push refresh rates that high
yet from an engineering white paper
standpoint or when and how much a panel
like that might cost at least at the
time of writing but this monitor will
give a big Advantage because if you
think about it if you're able to hit
that 1,000 FPS mark on a 1,00 htz
display that means you will be able to
see
41.6 I think repeating seconds into the
future based on our earlier math of
every doubling gets you another second
into the
future that's not true before like a
bunch of before a bunch of stock Traders
go out and buy this monitor it's not
just to be really clear maybe for legal
reasons it's not how that works but or
maybe it is and I don't want you to know
that figure that one out up next Kingpin
of EVGA Fame has resurfaced and it's on
YouTube so uh evj has slowed its
operations as you all know it appears to
be in basically a maintenance state of
this point covered the story plenty and
uh as we could have predicted alongside
Jay's TUC cents and John when the three
of us broke that story it looks like evj
has mostly winded down in a lot of
capacities but there are still a few
question marks that remain for some of
the key people from evj like Kingpin now
our documentary we made following the
Slowdown showed EJ's famed RMA center
with some of the most skilled
technicians in the industry so you
should check that out if you never
watched it but in a follow-up we made to
that last year we sort of did an exit
interview documenting the departure of
evga's motherboard Engineers for uh the
BIOS and firmware programming Vince AKA
kpin recently resurfaced in a self-made
Studio it's actually occupying the old
EVGA Gaming Center space where he's
starting to make a video series about
things he's working on he hinted at
discussions with manufacturers in the
industry and speaking quote with some
more seriously than others end quote but
didn't announce any immediate employment
at any of the video card manufacturers
his most recent video is just sort of a
fun watch using his engineering
background he demonstrated how claw
machines as in the ones where the claw
drops down and you try to get something
are commonly rigged using voltage tricks
for our team having been to Taiwan over
a dozen times at this point these things
are all over the place there and it's
fun to kind of see how he gets his
multimeter out for something different
than a video card he also shows how you
can opposite rig them to always pay out
and his plan is to fill one with kpin th
paste and make it always pay out at
computex so kpin is planning to feature
his thermal paste claw machine at
computex uh if gskill gives him some
Booth space and we're hoping to catch up
with him at the show to learn more about
what he's working on in general learn
about the kpx stuff maybe some of his
video card manufacturer discussions or
just generally what he's doing today so
we'll probably have a follow up on that
but uh for my part in all of this I'm
going to bring a lot of coins to that
machine because we go through lots of
things past all right it's fun to see
him resurface go check out his channel
we'll link it if you want to see what
he's up to next one MSI claims to
improve its claw performance so when we
reviewed the MSI claw we criticized the
performance and the button
quality ew and the software the
stability and just the general handling
of it but according to MSI a recent bios
and MSI centerm softare ware update mean
that the company is able to claw back
some performance MSI says that the most
notable improvements it's tested come by
the way of Forza Horizon 5 which sees a
30% uplift going from an average FPS of
59.4 to 77.5 under their tested settings
MSI also claims that games like Suns of
the forest hell divers 2 and fortnite
have seen notable bumps improving
performance by 23 20 and 28%
respectively the latest bios is E1 t41
im. 109 which is not the name of a
monitor but it should be and MSI is
simply calling IT 109 for which we are
thankful the latest MSI Center m is
1.0.2
45401 which MSI has simplified to
24541 not that big of a change but we'll
take it and this coupling of BIOS and
MSI Center M updates have come alongside
some settings recommendations from MSI
which included resolution of 1080p uh
keeping in-game Graphics quality low
setting XS to Performance if applicable
disabling vsync and turning off FPS
limitations we definitely disagree with
some of these recommendations they are
largely uh scenario driven though so one
of them like FPS limitations enforcing
an FPS limit can be very useful for
things like battery life and likewise uh
just I don't it just having a blanket
apply these settings doesn't really work
for handhelds for a lot of reasons we've
shown but anyway MS I says that it is
quote actively working with Intel to
optimize performance of The Claw uh end
quote considering one of our major
complaints though pertains to frame time
pacing that would be the area we'd
really need to see some improvements
it's not just FPS like average FPS
improvements are great and it's likely
that the frame time uh pacing has
improved with that but uh the frame time
pacing really was one of the biggest
problems with that device so next one
nocta has just launched a new line of
products for the home and nocta has
called it the I just get the name right
here uh it's all cap so it's an acronym
they call the nocta h
m if anyone could tell us what that
stands for we'd appreciate it it the
capitalized each letter so it means
something anyway the two main products
for whatever h means are both fan one is
a desk or a room fan it's a hundred
bucks and the other one is a quote
multi-purpose fan set for device cooling
that's $880 taking a closer look at the
nvfs one room fan shows that it's one of
noct was nf12 by 25 120 mm fans in a
mount with a fan Grill attached to it
powered by an AC adapter with a large
flow amplifying guide on the front
noctua has shown this guide before at
trade shows as far back as about 2018
but it's taken until now to launch the
nvfs 2 is even less impressive it's
pretty much just some new and thicker
rubber corners and gaskets attached to
the same existing fan nocta builds this
one for adding extra cooling to devices
that don't have actual fan mounts on
them such as audio amplifiers video game
consoles routers they show them on top
of a fractal Terra and it's clear that
nocta is pumping the price on these
accessories as the Standalone 12vt DC
power supply is 30 bucks alone and the
mount is $40 oh look we're we're sure
that it's a very nice fan Mount maybe
even great it might even be the best fan
Mount but
$40 and you buy their own fan and you
strap that to the fan Mount it's a very
expensive and kind of I don't know it's
we don't see how these accessory
components can command these prices as
simple as possible it's also kind of
weird that the flow Optimizer guide
which was presumably cfd simulated it's
custom molded it's like this big special
thing that's 15 bucks but to add a
bracket to an existing fan that you
separately purchase that's $40 on its
own all right one of the things we
genuinely appreciate about nocta is that
it is engineering first so the company's
ethos is sort of dedicated to this idea
of like let's get the engineering right
timelines be damned and let's ship
something that's good and we need more
of that in the industry where companies
do take time with things but noct a bit
of constructive feedback for them here
it feels like nocta has gotten so so
stuck on the concept of delivering
Perfection that it's created an an
analysis paralysis situation not only
that but now there's such an expectation
for the next cooling product to be truly
revolutionary that anything less than
that is going to be disappointing to a
lot of their customers it's not a great
spot to be so they're going to have to
ship something killer uh as far as these
Home Products I don't really know how
you get these prices and and have it
make sense so we'll move on Microsoft up
last so at its recent build event
Microsoft unveiled Windows recall
which takes screenshots of your working
environment constantly every 5 seconds
and as the name implies it's designed to
help you recall things
or uh synonymously spy it's more than
taking a simple screenshot at regular
intervals but it allows users to search
their PC's previous browsing history
enabling to look up things like names of
products that might have been forgotten
but on screen access previously missed
links open up specific PowerPoint slid
things like that this does however pose
some privacy concerns and by some we
mean literally all of them such as
stepping away from a computer and
someone else searches up passwords or
sensitive data uh finding personal
information details useful in blackmail
or just confidential documents suddenly
laptop theft becomes a lot more
profitable than just the laptop now
Microsoft does say that quote your
snapshots are securely stored on your
PC sure the company also gives users
control over how much space they can
allocate to them so that it has a a
running limit before it just starts
overwriting and you could also disable a
feature but our concern would be if it's
on by default because that's Microsoft
has toggles to disable things and like
Windows update for example can be paused
they also have knobs that just
reenable after some time like the
pausing updates where it changes all the
time but in the past it was a 7-Day
thing I think it was three at one point
now it's like up to four weeks or
something so anyway if it's on by
default we'd be concerned about that the
company says that you can also filter
out specific websites but right now
that's the story now as a business I'll
say that we would seriously consider
Linux for certain systems like ones that
don't need access to Adobe Premiere for
example not sure how well it works or if
it works at all in Linux you can let me
know in the comments uh if this gets
rolled out in a way that's
uncontrollable this is the slow stepping
of progress though of continually
introducing Fe features disguised as
useful or maybe even in some ways
legitimately useful but which can create
massive privacy and security
concerns um I I don't we I'm pretty
opinionated on it so we'll just move on
we'll talk about that another time all
right that's it for this news episode
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