[Music] We’re back. We’re back in the studio. Hardware News is up now. And this one is a special episode because we’re rolling in a bunch of the extra coverage from Computex, which was the last week or so to talk about in this video where they didn’t make their own standalone videos. So that includes some clips that we shot on site and somewhere we just went and collected a bunch of information from the manufacturers, some product footage, and we’ll put together the report here. Now, in news this week, Nvidia’s AI discussion took 98% of its keynote. Yes, we calculated it. It was pretty easy actually. There wasn’t a lot to calculate against. And we also tear down a sparkle GPU in this video. We’ve condensed that into just a hardware news thing. Inwit has a case that can be activated via wand. And uh there’s new supply concerns with hard drives, NVME drives, and just storage in general facing the AI uprising is really not the right word. uh popularity that sounds less threatening and end time Z. But we also shot a ton of interviews and discussions at Computex, lots of engineering content. So if you missed some of that, we have more coming up and we’ll be publishing that over the next couple of weeks or so. Keep an eye out for that. But let’s get back into the news. Before that, this video is brought recap first. First of all, I love going to Taiwan. It is my favorite place to go. And for Computex, super fun. So, we had more engineering discussions than we’ve ever done at the show. We had several at the different booths. And then we also have some interviews coming up. So, really excited to share all that cuz I learned a lot talking to some of the people who work at the companies and engineering or CTO type roles, things like that. There’s one interesting one where Thermal Wright for as far as I’m aware the first time ever had their CEO go on camera with a Western media outlet. That was us. and we talked about some of their strategy and it was like it was the shortest simplest interview. The guy gives like fiveword answers. Sometimes you get a couple sentences but they are all very straightforward and very plain in a good way. I mean it immediately communicates what he’s trying to communicate but that’s in the thermalite video. And then we also had uh Jameson from Lean Lee the CEO of Lean Lee on. We had the Fantex CTO on Tenzin talking about fan design, Noctua. Jacob Delinger came back to talk about the thermosiphen and then we also have him coming up twice for two separate technical discussions and a lot of other people from the industry uh joined to talk about technicals. So um that was cool. It certainly is one hell of a commentary on Nvidia. I mean, I went to several booths after we published the Nvidia video and multiple companies were like, “Hey, just so you know, if you want to talk to our engineers on camera, there’s no strings attached. You can just do it.” And I was I was kind of like, “Wow, that’s exactly how it should be, but somehow very refreshing.” And so, we did that. Uh, anyway, love the show. We have a post on Patreon about how we pack for it and the gear we use if you’re curious about any of that. Just kind of like a hey, here’s the stuff we use. And we also have a special video coming up featuring Paul from Paul’s Hardware, Wendell from Level One Tech, and Labbby from Unico’s Hardware, which is a local Taiwan publication, media publication. And we worked with all three of them to go through different uh tech malls, secondhand uh computer stores, recycling places where they strip the components and figure out how to distribute them to be melted down and to new computer stores basically all around Taiwan from north to south. And that’ll be a fun video coming up. It’s just it’s kind of neat. Um, also I got to ask everyone about how the 5060s were selling and the answer was extremely poorly. Uh, so anyway, fun show, lots of stuff on the channel already. If you missed it, you can go crawl back through it all. Uh, but we have a little bit more coming up. We’re getting back to a more normal publishing cadence now where we’re coming back down from the multiple day to at most one a day video and uh, and then it’ll kind of back down from that too as soon as we get clear of all the content. And the travel team now, we’ve really got stuff dialed in. So, it’s Vitali on the A cam, Mike doing most of the editing and Bcam, and then me with them. And it’s pretty fun because we’ve actually we have time off these days during the trip where we can go explore and do stuff on at least one of the weekends. Uh, and the trip itself has gotten way more manageable. We send some stuff back home to get managed here. And it’s it it’s really working well. I I love covering the show and um as always, a lot of fun to see all the new stuff. It seemed like cooling and cases were huge this year. We had non-stop coverage of cooling and cases. Uh there was some silicon, but it was really just the news from AMD for the most part. A little bit from Nvidia. Intel, I guess, had the via max on the dual GPU B60. That was pretty cool if you haven’t seen that. Anyway, that’s it for the recap. Really quick, uh oh, I 98% AI and 2% not AI. We actually, yes, we we did that math and uh the 2% was the 5060 basically. As usual, the keynote was delivered by CEO Jensen Juan. Most of the time was spent on AI and subsequent fields. We’re going to go through all that today. And as a side note, Jensen Juan is unbelievably famous and well known in Taiwan to the extent that I was making small talk with some bakers in Taiwan, like a bakery where everyone there is a little bit older and they don’t really know a whole lot about technology from what they were telling me, but they all knew Jensen Juan’s name and we’re asking what we thought of the keynote. And one of the bakers said, uh, Janui, which is like, I I’ve heard that he likes obedient media. And I was like, oh, have I got stories for you. Anyway, let’s get it. So, AI, here’s what Jensen said. And then, of course, I promise I’ll talk about AI. And Juan, of course, also provided a few clips that we can’t promise not to revisit. Who doesn’t want that? I want that. Can you imagine one of those little ones or a few of them running around the house chasing your dogs driving them crazy? No matter the modality, every single model that we know of in the world, every application that we know of should run on this. In fact, even Crisis works on here. Okay? So, anybody who’s a GeForce gamer, there are no GeForce gamer in the room. Whether you buy completely from us, that’s fantastic. Nothing gives me more joy than when you buy everything from Nvidia. I just want you guys to know that. But it gives me tremendous joy if you just buy something from Nvidia. Now, for the Nvidia GeForce side of the keynote first, because the easiest to cover, Jensen Juan entered the stage holding an Asus RTX 5060 as well as a 5060 powered MSI laptop. Juan described how the 5060 is able to achieve such masterful performance claiming right now what you’re seeing is every single pixel is ray traced. How is that possible that we’re able to simulate photon and deliver this kind of frame rate at this resolution? Well, the reason for that is artificial intelligence. We are only rendering we’re only rendering one out of 10 pixels. So every pixel that you see only one out of 10 is actually computed. The other nine AI guessed. Does that make any sense? And it’s perfect. It’s completely perfect. It guessed it perfectly. Of course, the technology is called DLSS, neural rendering. And after two entire minutes talking about GeForce, Jensen Juan realized GeForce brought AI to the world, now AI came back and revolutionized GeForce and moved on, stating, you know, when you’re CEO, you have many children. And like children, he has favorites, and GeForce isn’t one of them. And and GeForce brought us here. And now all of our keynotes is 90% not GeForce. But it’s not because we don’t love GeForce. GeForce RTX 50 series just had its most successful launch ever. We appreciate the fame and self-awareness, but just so we’re all clear on the math here, 2 minutes out of a 100m minute keynote approximately is actually closer to 98% not GeForce, not 90% not GeForce, doesn’t sound like a big difference, but when you’ve only got 10 percentage points left to play with, it kind of is. Now, as far as calling the RTX50 series Nvidia’s most successful launch ever, maybe by whatever their metrics are, maybe by sales, but we would definitely have to disagree based on how it’s gone the last several months. Now, Nvidia also announced its RTX Pro 6000 servers and GPUs. The GPUs are already known, but each RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell server edition GPU will have four pedlops of claimed AI performance, 96 GB of GDDR7, 1.6 6 teraby per second memory bandwidth. And each RTX Pro server connects eight of these GPUs. And each RTX Pro server rack connects four of the servers, amounting to 32 GPUs per server rack. by our count. One entire RTX Pro server rack consists of 32 RTX Pro 6000 GPUs, 120 pedlops of claimed AIFP4 performance, 3 terabytes of GPU memory spread across all the GPUs, 51 terabytes per second memory bandwidth, and 256 encoders and decoders. Jensen Juan announced, “Our RTX Pro server is in volume production across all of our partners in the industry. This is likely the largest go-to market of any system we have ever taken to market. As it relates to robotics, the company announced the Jensen Thor. Wait for it. Wait for it. Oh, no, wait. Sorry. That’s Jetson. Jetson Thor. This is a robotics processor that just started production. Next, Jensen shared that Groot N1.5 is now open source. and finally announced group dreams which is a way to use AI they say to amplify the amount of data that was collected during human demonstration to train an AI model. Jensen Juan quickly moved on to discussing numerous AI related endeavors. We’ll run through a bullet list of what we felt were the most relevant announcements. Nvidia redefined its company again calling itself quote an AI infrastructure company end quote that builds so-called AI factories. Jensen announced the GB300 Grace Blackwell superchip, an upgrade to the previous GB200 that uses the same architecture. He then explained how the GB300 NVL72 is assembled using 72 Blackwell GPUs. Juan announced the DGX Spark and DGX Station to so-called personal AI computers. These are currently in production with partner models coming as well. Juan showcased the RTX Pro server and server rack, now in full production. And to wrap things up, Nvidia announced what it calls constellation, which is Nvidia’s newest office, and it’s built in uh Shuling, Taiwan. In a news report by Digit Times, the next story, Seagate is cautioning against storage demand and needs for AI data centers and servers in the industry talking about difficult to sustain manufacturing for AI processing and use cases. Seagate said at a Computex keynote that the data storage demands are outstripping supply with supply at an estimated 1 to two zetabytes annual production while the company anticipates a tripling in need for storage over the next 3 years. Seagate also underscored concerns of carbon footprint which will expand on as being especially concerning since hard drives are in particular getting cycled out for larger capacity drives in the same physical space with some regularity. According to Seagate, 200 million drives are shredded each year. Seagate and other companies have begun attempting to securely destroy data in a way that allows them to reclaim rare earth metals in a recycling process more effectively, but we’re not sure this will significantly offset the waste production. Digit Time cites a Goldman Sachs research report that projects a 165% increase in data center power demand within the next 5 years as measured against 2023’s needs. And now we’ll get back into some of the consumer stuff, starting with something that’s more fun. So, jumping over to InWin next, the company was lacking in firm details on consumer cases at Complex. It had a lot of them. It just wasn’t ready yet to talk about price release dates. It’s still kind of in the early phases of them. So, we didn’t have enough to work with to make a full video report without any of those details finalized. But, we still had some interesting stuff. And one of them is a case that is driven by a wand. So, we’ll jump over to that. So, InWin’s latest creation is the Chronommancy, which is this case. This is I guess think of it as the signature series in the past, but this one is actually for the anniversary. It’s the 40th anniversary for InWin. So, first of all, down here, gigantic gears and uh like a stepper motor as far as we understand it. So, you can see we’re hooked up here to power. And on the other side, there’s a cog that’ll turn in step with the gears to open and close it. And they’ve built this specific wand that uses IR and then basically gesture input to do opening music, things like that. Uh, and we don’t have a price. There’s supposed to be something like maybe 40 50 pieces that they’re going to make. If you’ve seen InWin stuff in the past in this series, it’s normally it’s all show pieces. It’s like flourishes of design and creativity. We’ve shown them at their offices before, so mostly it’s just kind of cool. This still has a computer in it. So, they’ve got this tower here where fan, SSD, SSD, and then we’ve got a block down here. And then the system itself is up top with a vertical GPU. And it looks like we’ve got standard ATX board up top, PCIe slots in the very top of the case, a rear fan to pull air up and out, which is really the only way it can go through. There’s a speaker on this side, which we’ll show on footage so uh we don’t open it again. And the paneling is stainless steel for this front plate. acrylic with laser engraving and then a large aluminum base uh with five pillars to it which in one has also chosen for uh making a statement. So I one interesting thing with this is the process for manufacturing the acrylic plate here where first it’s a flat sheet they laser engrave it and then they bend it into the shape and just like the other signature series cases we’ve seen in the past or the non- anniversary ones uh the manufacturing process for this I think is part of the showcase because this seems very difficult to make. So anyway that’s the chronommancy excellent name if nothing else and we’ll check out some of the more normal stuff. All right. So, first one I want to show is uh the Cube Pro. The layout for this, so it’s like a double-decker setup where power supply in the back. It can support emergency failover. The top deck is the motherboard. The uh fan layout is two 80 mil fans in the rear. There’s two 120s in the front, at least possible, and then one 120 in the bottom rear down here. There’s also this handle. Uh this is not a rack mount chassis, but it would be kind of like I guess like a home. Um, you can make a super nice NAS with this or something. And then this, so you got two hot swap two and a half inch in the front with a back plane for SATA power and data. Uh, and then the five and a quarters up here. So, Inwin was saying that these can also be swapped for these drive cage modules, giving another four drive uh, mounts to the front of the case. The coalent was interesting. So, they’re taking feedback on this right now. This case isn’t ready. This is a more standard case I’m used to covering. So, the only feedback we had was this glass side where this looks good. Unfortunately, it makes it so that these fans can’t take air in from anywhere. The next best option would be the rear side panel perforating the lower down side of it to try and pull some air through the shroud. Uh cuz otherwise it has to pull through the very bottom of the case that’s so far away that you’re going to need some really high pressure fans to do that. The case itself though has a little bit of the fractal torrent look going for it on the front. Uh so, this is plastic. they’re probably going to stick with plastic. Part of the reasoning being I mean just material cost in general. Uh the top they’re thinking aluminum, but otherwise it is just a high airflow design mesh front with the slats for some design element. We’ve seen that work really well with Fractal in the past for the Torrent side mounts. They’ve got two 140s in there currently. It can do 31 120s alternatively. The rear is a 140 and then the top currently has a 360 rad in it and then very an SSI EB board support here um with the cable management channels in the corner there. All right, so getting into stuff that we know pretty well. So this is called the shift. This is a test bench. It is one of the most intricate test benches I’ve seen. So we use typically open bench tables or the old high-speed PC ones, but there’s some small features like this. So, this is just a lever to allow you to reposition and actuate uh the fan position and the radiator mounts, which as someone who’s used a lot of test benches, that’s actually pretty nice. So, it can mount radiators on all sides. That’s what these sort of looks like it handles for. Um, currently set up with some 360s and 120s. There’s been talk of potentially supporting 140s as well, but then the other thing that the case does is rotate. So, I I will have Andy help with that. uh and just ends up standing up like that. And uh otherwise we’ll move over to some of the standard cases. So this is the Dite again to have a price. They’re thinking of doing four fans for this. It’s got aluminum accents on the sides and the front is really the only area to focus for. So it’s got this kind of like riged front panel. Parts of this remind me of the DGX, but mostly just the color and the mesh. And then this case is the it’s the view, but it’s spelled with a W at the front. Now, this just to get the message out there, this is an intentional decision, so that’s not a typo. The reason it’s the view, the W instead of the view, is because this sort of looks like a W. Um, but, uh, it’s three panes of glass. This is a mirrored finish. mirrored finish on the front and then the back is a mesh pane with two tinted glass panes to it. Uh this one’s the tactics. Mike on the team said this looks like the thing from Star Wars. We’ll put it on the screen. And now we’re demonetized. Uh and then these are the prism cases. So I did kind of like what they’re doing with this. Now downsides, less access to air through the side because you could technically pull some air through here. Uh but they’ve perforated the top which is good. I mean, this is this is nice to give access for the top fan. Uh, and then it just allows a nicer look where you’re exposing more of that fan. And especially for people who are spending tons of money on fans now, maybe this is something that’s that’s wanted. That is it for this one. We’ll jump over to the next stories. Up next, be quiet. Always sounds rude saying that company’s name. Uh, it’s actually I I’m so acutely aware of that that whenever I have to reference Be Quiet while talking to someone, especially at a trade show, I always make sure to follow it with the German manufacturer. So, uh, Be Quiet’s booth had a little bit to cover, not a whole lot. They had an experimental base for the Light Base 600 and 900, which is basically just like this structure that you stand the case up on top of. They also had some liquid coolers. So, we previously reviewed the Light Base series. We liked it. It’s a good case. The whole point of the case is that it can present a PC as sort of an old school style desktop, but the case can also be really easily inverted with its feet mounting solution. The box at the bottom that uh Be Quiet showed at Compyex is a mockup. The company is looking for consumer feedback on whether such a thing would even be desirable. So, you can leave your comments below. They actually are going to read them. And basically, it stands the case up and routes the cable through the lower channel that it creates. Now, to us, this seems like it’s trying to make the case do more than it really needs to do. It’s already a good case. It definitely makes it a lot larger, but it’s more of a personal preference rather than a technical one. So, feel free to let Be Quiet know what you think. The next section was more our speed. Be Quiet also had updated liquid coolers. The Pure Loop 3 without LEDs with the cheapest model at $95 and the Pure Loop LX with LEDs closer to $130 and above. The Be Quiet Pure Loop 3 LX is an RGB illuminated closed loop liquid cooler that’s sold as 240 millimeter and 360 millimeter. The LX uses a removable pump cap plate that retains a thin plastic film with a design on it using masking to illuminate different covers. Be quiet said that the goal was to make something cheaper than a display. The company told us that it may release files and templates in the future to allow users to create their own mask and cut it. We’re not sure how big a market is for a screen like this. I guess you can let us know, but we’d bet most of our audience is performance focused first. And unfortunately, we didn’t get much in the way of performance details here. The nonLX version of the Pure Loop 3 drops LEDs and goes cheaper at $95 to the 240 model. The cooler is otherwise the same as the LX from what we were told, just without LEDs and with a lower price. They both move the pump into the block and out of the tubes, which is no longer a worry as ASX patent protection has expired. Arctic is up next. We actually met with Arctic CEO to talk about tariffs in a video that’s coming up separately. And they also had some new stuff at the booth. The main thing that they were showing off was a case. Arctic hasn’t made a serious push in cases in a very long time. I think it’s somewhere around 10 plus or minus years at this point. Uh but they had a case to show and they’re calling it the extender, which is one hell of a name. It sounds like something you’d see in a a late night TV ad. The Arctic Extender is a gigantic rectangular box. The extender goes for glass front and side panels like many cases today and is otherwise fairly plain. The case has support for two 420 mm radiators according to Arctic and uses a glass front and side. The bottom is fully enclosed in steel, including the actual bottom of the case with the power supply sitting on bumpers internally to try and get it some distance from the floor to get it some access to air. although it’ll be coming from elsewhere within the chassis and not from outside. The case can fit two fans in the rear plus side and top mounts. There’s no intake in the bottom or the front. And the case also has an illuminated power supply shroud plate. We’ll reserve further judgment and opinion on this for if we review it. Up next is MSI. This one was a field report that we filmed, so we’ll drop it in here. This is a $600 computer case from MSI. And uh to answer the first question of should you buy it, no, absolutely not. But it’s an interesting case nonetheless. So, we’ll look at it. Uh, this is the motherboard tray. This actually comes out completely and it brings with it the back of the case where the power supply mounts in here. All the kill management’s done in here. So, this is basically the chassis of, you know, the case and then it can be used as a test bench separately. It has the four feet to go with it. So, they’re kind of playing around with that. The whole thing can rotate with a couple screws uh 90° and it can go the whole circle. So you could end up with four different orientations of this and there should be clearance in all sides for the GPU which is why they’re center mounting it. Then on each side of this there’s two 360 mounts where they currently have screens. They call these vision 12 lights for some reason or vision light 12s or something. I don’t know. It doesn’t doesn’t really matter. The names are fluid. Uh but you can fit 360s there. The board goes in the center of course and then otherwise for the rest of this they’re doing a 3160s in the bottom but these are not included unfortunately. That was majorly disappointing. And I’ll be honest, when they told me it wasn’t included cuz at like $600, uh, those should be in there cuz they’re kind of specialized fans. So anyway, um, the pricing is probably before tariffs. We’re not 100% sure. The feet and top of the case, this is aluminum. So that’s an expensive piece, both of these. And then up on top of the aluminum on the top of the case, you’ll see a gold colored sort of grill that’s punched in there. This is obviously not an airflow focused chassis. So unfortunately uh even though it’s got these huge fans in the bottom I mean they’ll brute force some amount of cooling into it but it is still there’s there’s only intake is at the very bottom which is pretty distant from these fans and the whole side it’s all this decorative paneling. Uh so this is it’s purely a showpiece case for the boards. This board itself is not new. Uh but what is is these the the lack of protruding uh legs here. So they’re calling this pin in paste or I guess it’s an existing technology an existing manufacturing technology. So pin and paste is uh different from SMT. Normally we filmed like SMT lines which is surface mount technology and for SMT lines they just they have pick and place machines. They pump down a ton of small components, send the board through the line and send it over like solder, molten solder basically to flow it all. Um, so this is a different process. I’m not familiar with it or how it works, but basically it’s just getting rid of any of the protruding parts except for things like screws and they’ve still got caps and MLCC’s and stuff like that. Controllers, things like that are still sticking out, but uh not as much as the uh the other boards. The other small thing I guess related to this MSI said is um they’re moving all the fan connectors away from the RAM slots. And I am going to give them credit. This is a really small attention to detail thing. But the reason was when they put them here uh sometimes people push the release and then jam it into their finger. So I mean I I would make fun of that mercilessly and say, “Wow, how do you know when you’ve run out of ideas for how to market your motherboard?” But I’m not going to make fun of it and say that because I have done that. I have definitely been stabbed several times by releasing those slots. So, credit to them for that. The actually interesting thing about this board is that it’s an Empower board. So, they’re bringing back this branding. It’s been a long time. This is a B series Empower board. Uh, this is a B850 and they’re going with a 12 plus two plus one layout using 60 amp power stages. It doesn’t have an active fan or anything. Doesn’t really need it. Uh, massive heat sinks here. It’s not thinned the way you’d want to see diced like that for, you know, for like the highest performing heat sink, but they do have a good amount of surface area punched through across the other way, which you can kind of see here. Um, and then, uh, otherwise it fits four M.2 devices. So, this microATX board does two Gen 5, two Gen 4. They shove a couple of them in here. There’s one that goes there. Uh, and then the backside, there’s another one that can socket right there. This does not have a price yet. They say it’s supposed to be price competitive. Apparently, it’s supposed to compete with the ASUS Apex boards. And one of the things that the Apex boards do that this is also doing is two DIM slots. So, that gives you one DPC, one DIM per channel. And uh that helps significantly with memory overclocking for people who are memory enthusiasts. And part of the reason is just eliminating the complexity of the extra slots. You get everything closer. All the trace routes are shorter and they can just run the two for maximum memory tuning potential. Top PC is still working on an overclock for that. He’s uh one of the world’s leading memory overclockers. He works for MSI, so he’s still working on that. But that’s kind of what they’re doing. They’re targeting the Apex basically. This is this is MSI’s you to ASUS and and the Apex series. They have not given us the price yet. That is the biggest key here cuz MSI says because this is B850, it should be more price competitive than the X870 boards without sacrificing too much they say. And they also have uh another case that I wasn’t too fond of, so we’ll skip that one. Um, but this one is the Maestro case. It’s the Maestro 900L. As for the other case that I didn’t particularly care for, that is called the 130 RPZ. And finally, we ran around the show floor at the end of the show to collect some additional footage. So, uh, while Vitali and I were working with a couple of the other companies on the final interviews and discussions we did, Mike ran around to collect footage of an FSP fan, a Zman cooler, and a colorful case. the brand. The case was not colorful. It was actually very plain. We didn’t get a lot of information on these items. So, as quickly as possible, FSP had this fan with a display on it. The rep at the booth didn’t know many technical details, unfortunately. Uh, so all we really know is that it has a digital display with RPM and temperature. Zelman had a modernized throwback to its old spiral copper coolers with its new ZET3, four, and five coolers. These circular coolers will be less effective than more modern shapes, but try to integrate a certain look with okay cooling in theory. We’d have to test them to know if they’re any good. Colorful had its Neptune PC on site. The strange semi-open case applies the company’s Neptune GPU styling to a case presenting the GPU vertically and on a riser with RAM protruding from the chassis shell that covers the motherboard. And finally, this one is a field report from Sparkle at Computex where we did a tearown of some of their GPUs. One was a B60, which is the new Pro Series. They used the all use G21 silicon, uh, but it was the Pro Series card. And then the other one was their new, not yet out, uh, Luna Rock OC B580. Okay, so we’ve got three cards here in front of me, plus a PCB. Uh, this is the passively cooled Arc Pro card. This is a new B580 that Sparkle’s working on. They’re bringing the EVGA names back. Uh it’s the Rock Luna OC Ultra and uh they’re also working on some new software OC software which is also good to see. So we’ll start let’s start with the water cooled card. This uh looks to be a bits power branded block. So Sparkle said it was considering trying to make a block for B580, but as you would expect cost becomes a concern. You’re gonna have like a $250 $300 card and then you’re going to put a hundred plus dollars of water cooling on it. That was quick. Okay, so it dropped off there. Uh the PCBs. So, Intel provides a reference design for the board and for the VRM. Uh the cooler designs are what the partners are changing. Now, the thing that’s jumping out at me is I Is this supposed to be a B60? Yeah, it is B60. Okay. This is supposed to be a B60. So, we’ve got uh no memory modules. This is an unfin this is a engineering board, I guess. So, there’s you can actually see the ball grid array where the solder balls would attach to the GPU. This is actually pretty cool to see. You don’t normally get to see this side of it. It’s even the the L-shaped that clearly that’s got to be for Luna, right? Did you Yeah. Oh, that’s great marketing. Lots of people will see it. White Waterlock. Yes, perhaps. Perfect. So, uh, so that’s what it should look like when it’s completed. Um, so like I said, G21 silicon memory should be dualsided, which this one is. Uh, they did, however, put the VRM on it. So, this must be basically what Intel delivers, I would assume. But looking at the block here, so nickelplated copper cold plate. It looks like the uh micro fins are screwed in separately back here. There’s thermal pads where the the MOSFET line is, where the inductors are, and of course where the memory is on at least one side. The back has thermal pads for the backside memory, which is good. That’s what we need to see for the rest of the block. Pretty standard. See the micro fins through it? There’s the gasket down there underneath. I’m not going to take all that out. Uh, but it is it is what you would expect a water block. Let’s do at least one more. Let’s do this card. This is the Sparkle B580 Rock Luna OC Ultra, which I’m going to keep saying, all right, four screws here secure the heat sink to the GPU itself. These are going through into the fin stack. Okay, looks like that’s all of them. Last one. All right. So, full white PCB across the whole thing. They’ve got a Bodgege wire here. Same as the Max on one head. Do you know what that wire was for? Oh, this is because engineering sample. Yeah. Yeah. For debugging. Oh, debug. Okay, cool. Okay, so apparently debug wire. You can see the captain tape right one side to the other. That’s kind of cool. Uh, so yeah, reference Intel VRM thermal pad on the MOSFETs of course pads on the memory. Got an RGB hookup over here so that can feed into the system and synchronize with the motherboard or the rest of the computer. Uh, they have an MCU on it. There is some kind of engineering marker up here that I don’t understand. Uh, and this one does in fact have a GPU on it. So, let’s just go ahead and finish this tear down completely and we’ll take a look at the backside too. I’ll leave the I’m going to leave the fans connected on this one. So, some attention to detail there on the white washer. That’s kind of nice small touch. That That looks like a probe point. Okay, cool. Should be free. So, back side, uh, no memory on the back of this is a B580. And then, as we saw earlier, it’s two eight pins. This does remind me though, I’ll comment on the the engineering sample pro series card here. I was telling Sparkle just some constructive feedback for their engineering sample. They could probably save like several pennies worth of solder in the future uh, on these two. And then especially on this where where we’ve bridged it. But again, this is an engineering sample which which Maxons also was. So cool. I that’s pretty much the whole board. That’s it for hardware news this week. Ton of fun as always going to the show. That I think recaps everything that we had collected and not published other than the separate pieces that we still have going up. Most of those being interviews, engineering discussions, things like that. And uh again, thanks for watching all of it. It’s been a really fun time covering it. We’re going to get into some of the reviews and technical content in addition to all the other technical content we just did, but with testing coming up over the next few weeks as soon as we clear all the discussions and uh we’ve got a couple of those planned and in the pipeline already, including a pre-built review of one that is better than we expected. So, check back for that. Subscribe for more. Go to store.camesac.net and use code idga to get 10% off and help us out directly. And we’ll see you all next