- It's like there's a party in my mouth
and everyone's tech news.
- [Riley] Good.
Yeah. That doesn't make sense!
- [James] Have you been lamenting over how hard it is
to get a new graphics card?
Well, NVIDIA is releasing yet another one
that might be a little easier for you to buy: the GT 1010.
- [Riley] 10 10 10 10.
- Wait another Pascal card five years later?
NVIDIA has indeed confirmed the existence of the card,
which should absolutely thrill gamers
with its whopping 256 CUDA cores,
staggering 2 gigabytes of GDDR5,
and enormous 30-watt TDP.
So yeah, it's a really low-end card
in the same vein as the GT 1030,
which is mostly aimed at home theater PCs, servers,
and any other system that simply needs a display out.
That doesn't mean it's totally useless,
as it should still be possible
to do some very light gaming on it,
but I wouldn't expect this one to go flying off the shelves.
- [Riley] I don't know.
It's like the only one available, so...
You need one!
- I also wouldn't expect it to run "Cyberpunk."
If you're in the market for a new CPU,
we've got some new pricing information for you
for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake desktop processors.
It looks like although the top-end Core i9-11900K and KF
will be a little cheaper
than their previous-gen counterparts,
you should also note that they actually have fewer cores,
only eight of them, compared to the 10 we saw in Comic Lake.
Comic. - Comic Book.
- Comic Book Lake. - That's hilarious!
- Comet Lake. That series.
Once you start going down the product stack, though,
the prices look slightly higher than last gen,
and considering that AMD's new Ryzen 5000 series
caught some flack for being more expensive
than customers were used to,
Intel may have had an opportunity to compete on price,
but it looks like they may want to let performance
do the talking instead,
as team blue is promising IPC gains of 19%,
which is more gains than we've been getting from them lately
and frankly more than I've been getting at the gym.
- [Riley] Oh! You've been going to the gym?
- But just barely.
And in more Intel kind-of-surprising news,
they've announced that they will no longer
be making memory-only Intel Optane modules for consumer PCs.
In case you forgot, Optane was an SSD-like technology...
Is that Linus? Get outta here.
- [Riley] Just sneaking.
- He's like a pest.
- [Riley] He's a sneaky bug.
- He's a raccoon.
LTTtrash.com.
In case you forgot, Optane was an SSD-like technology
built around 3D XPoint,
which is faster than traditional NAND flash...
Okay.
- And that's it. - That's it.
I thought I was gonna say, "But slower than RAM." Whatever.
The goal was to provide consumers
with an intelligent caching option
that would speed up the performance
of their existing drives,
but the results were most pronounced on computers
that use old-school mechanical hard drives,
with the benefits of SSD-based systems far less noticeable.
Also, the memory-only Optane modules
only came in capacities up to 32 gigabytes
and couldn't replace a NAND SSD
despite the actual memory being more advanced,
factors which may have led Intel
to drop Optane like a bad habit.
- [Riley] No!
- I actually fell. I'm standing on a thing, you guys.
You don't know that. - That's funny.
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The legal slap fight between Epic and Apple,
as well as Google, has gone international,
as Epic has now filed suit
against the tech giants in the U.K.
Epic is claiming that Apple misused its market power
by not allowing Epic Games Store to be installed on iOS,
while Apple is saying that Epic broke the App Store rules.
- [Riley] Same ol', same ol.
- The lawsuit will probably drag out for a while,
and not just because the lawyers
will have to take a break from afternoon tea.
- [Riley] That will be nice though.
- That does bloat the day though.
Speaking of court battles,
there's also another suit that's been filed
against CD Projekt RED in California.
Similarly to the original suit,
this new one claims that investors were bamboozled,
pointing to the game's removal from the PlayStation Store
as well as the huge number of refunds that were offered
as proof that folks who invested in expectation of a payday
got screwed over.
Well, that's investing, guys.
I wonder if I can file a lawsuit against the guy
who sold me all the Beanie Babies 20 years ago, you know?
- [Riley] He told me the wrong information!
- They're not worth squat anymore.
- [Riley] He told me to buy high and sell low!
- Don't get at me, Beanie Baby fans
telling me that there are still expensive ones out there.
I don't care.
I keep the ones I love because I love them. (laughs)
The list of monitors belonging
to the exclusive G-Sync Ultimate club
might be getting a little longer,
as NVIDIA has reportedly dropped their requirement
for such displays to reach 1,000 nits of peak brightness.
Is this what I want? (laughs)
The moniker was used to indicate to gamers
that a display supported both G-Sync VRR as well as HDR,
but be cautioned that the new monitors with the name
may not get as bright...
That says "thought," but it's supposed to say "though."
Though it may not matter if your gaming den
resembles a dungeon.
- [Riley] The gaming dungeon!
(James growls)
- The heir to the Samsung empire is heading back to prison,
(laughs) as a court in South Korea
sentenced Jay Lee to 2 1/2 years behind bars for bribery,
part of the same controversy
that landed Korea's ex-president in prison
for more than two decades.
- [Riley] Will you stop bribing, already? Jeez!
- Lee was apologetic and swore to reform Samsung
when he's released,
while Korean authorities are trying to send a message
that large companies can't flout the law.
If only they could do something
about all the bloatware on Galaxy phones.
- [Riley] How are we gonna get to a cyberpunk dystopia
if they keep arresting people?
- Let the corruption flow, baby.
And something cool for us Canadians has just been spotted:
Xbox Canada has revealed a controller
inspired by the famous Canadian tuxedo...
("O Canada")
Which is just a denim shirt with jeans.
And a denim vest,
if you're feeling fancy. - Doug!
- The controller is covered in denim
and features a pair of belt loops, oh my god,
and another pair of pockets.
It's unclear if the controller
will actually hit the market though,
representing yet another time Canadians
have missed out on something cool
released by a major brand.
- [Riley] Still gonna frickin' send it.
- Buddy!
That's our show.
Come back on Wednesday, eh,
for more tech news der, buddy,
because we're giving people the tech news.
We are giving people very polite...
I'll get the door for you on my way out here.