Hey Welcome to Zach's Tech Turf and Weekly Download episode number 58, which is my weekly
tech and PC gaming news series.
Today, I'm gonna be playing some For Honor while I give you this news and I'm gonna
be sipping on a Coke Cherry Zero.
Make sure you guys let me know in the comment section what you're sipping on, let's
get into it.
To start off the tech news this week, there's been some serious drama with the pricing of
AMD's new Vega 64 graphics card.
Jayztwocents actually did an entire video about his thoughts which I would recommend
checking out.
Basically AMD promised us that their Vega 64 card would launch at $499, but we saw online
retailers selling it for $599.
What AMD is saying is that they don't really have control over what e-tailers sell the
cards at, as AMD can only SUGGEST their price of 499.
I mean, every Vega 64 sold out within like a minute or two of going live so if the demand
is that high, then yea, why wouldn't they get extra money.
If those are the fact about what actually happened, then we certainly can't get mad
at AMD for other companies trying to make more money from their products, but like I
said, this only applies if AMD is telling everything truthfully, they've been pretty
vague.
We got some much needed details about Intel's newest Coffee Lake processor line this week,
and unfortunately it isn't great news.
Spotted from a zoomed in picture, we can confirm that Intel's 8th generation of CPU will
require a new motherboard as their 200 series motherboards will not be compatible.
This is honestly pretty risky because one of the huge selling points of AMD's Ryzen
processors is that they won't keep updating the required chipsets every time a new chip
comes out.
We also learned that the build in graphics will be the same Intel Graphics 630 and that
Coffee Lake for desktops should be released in the fall.
A new computer case was revealed this week and although new computer cases may not seem
that interesting, check this out.
The Aorus AC300W is a mid tower case that allows you to mount your graphics card vertically
like you can see in the picture here.
How friggen cool is that?
Our graphics cards are usually the most expensive and coolest looking part in our builds, yet
we have to basically mount them upside down and they usually don't look that great from
the side.
With the huge side window, power supply shroud, and a vertically mounted graphics card, this
case looks about as baller as it gets.
It's on sale now for $100 and I seriously think I might pick this up for my next build,
it looks sick.
And to wrap up the tech news, Samsung launched their humongous double-wide QLED gaming monitor
this week.
This monitor is a 49 inch, 3840x1080 144hz VA panel.
VA is a type of panel that's kinda in between TN and IPS, but yea, this 32:9 aspect ratio
monitor looks insane.
Although I personally do like how companies are starting to get a little crafty with their
monitors these days, I hate the fact that this is 1080p.
Obviously it would need a super powerful graphics card to push that many pixels in 1440p or
4k, but still, I don't really see that many people spending the ridiculous price that
this probably will be for just a 1080p monitor.
To start off the PC gaming news this week, we found out that Age of Empires 4 is officially
coming, which is pretty legit.
I personally played a ton of AOE 3 back in the day, and I know there are a ton of fans
that are excited for a new game.
It's currently in development by Relic Entertainment, which previously made Company of Heroes, and
other than being a Windows 10 exclusive, we know zero details about it.
They did release an announcement trailer, but it's just some artwork and voice narrative,
nothing special.
We found out during the Microsoft's Gamescom broadcast this week about a new game called
Jurassic World Evolution.
It's made from the developers of Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous, and it pretty
much looks like Planet Coaster but in the Jurassic Park setting.
It looks pretty legit and I believe it has all the actual Jurassic Park IP in it, and
obviously people are gonna go crazy about this.
We don't have any actual gameplay yet of it, but they released a pretty unexciting
trailer as well.
Also announced at Gamescom is that Final Fantasy 15 is finally coming to PC.
I actually don't know anything about this game, or the series for that matter, please
don't hate, but Square Enix said that it will support 8K resolution and Nvidia Gameworks.
Apparently Nvidia will be working tightly with the developers to make this game look
at beautiful as possible, and the game is scheduled to release early next year.
Another Gamescom announcement, Battlefield 1 is getting a more competitive game mode
in the form of 5v5 Incursions.
THey are a much more fast paced version of Battlefield but they did say that vehicles
will still play a big part in the games.
The maps will be much smaller and I believe they will still be doing their domination
style scoring system, but we shall wait and see if they add other game modes as well.
Next up, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is now a compatible game with Nvidia's Highlights.
For those that aren't aware, Nvidia's Share recording program built into GeForce
Experience allows you to set highlight settings that will automatically record your games
when specific events happen.
The games have to be on the compatible list however, as PUBG is now on the list.
Basically you can set it to automatically record your kills and then quickly edit how
much of the footage around the kill that you want which saves a ton of time editing and
storage space.
I'm curious to see if any of you use Nvidia Highlights.
I use Nvidia Share to record almost all of my footage, including the footage you're
watching now, and I've never tried Highlights, I'm gonna get on that however.
And to wrap up the PC gaming news this week, the 2011 sub par post apocalyptic first person
shooter Brink is now free to play on Steam.
I remember this game getting terrible reviews when it first launched as a Triple AAA game
I think, and I definitely remember seeing a bunch of copies in the Walmart Sale bin
shortly afterwards.
Either way, it's another free to play title that you can add to your backlog so enjoy.
Well that wraps up Weekly Download episode number 58.
Make sure you guys let me know in the comment section what your favorite tech or PC gaming
news was this week, or if I missed anything.
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