welcome back to Paul’s Tech News we begin this 
week’s recap of last week’s tech news with a   terrible announcement this tech news show as we 
know it will cease to exist for nearly 3 weeks   we will have two consecutive tech newsless 
Sundays until the coming of June whereupon   the show will be reborn from its own ashes 
harder stronger and with sarcasm even less   thinly veiled than ever before but fear not for 
between now and then I’ll still be posting lots   of videos as we travel to Taipei Taiwan for 
Computex 2025 where we’ll be meeting with   vendors and checking out new hardware and 
pretending everything is normal but let’s   we’re heading into a drought so today make 
sure to drink your fill of tech news cheers and Hard Steve Unboxed after Nvidia confirmed 
that their next newest 50 series video card   the RTX 5060 Non TI edition will be launching 
on May 19th for $299 MSRP sounds like a great   deal to me so what mewling complaints could 
jilted Jay and suspect Steve possibly have   oh sorry apparently May 19th is right in the 
middle of Computex week and that might make it   hard for reviewers who are at the show and not 
at home to run benchmarks well so sorry for the   inconvenience reviewers but Nvidia probably just 
missed that little scheduling conflict when they   set the launch date i mean it’s not like Computex 
is the biggest show in the industry that happens   in late spring every year and has had Jensen 
signed up to deliver a keynote since January   these mistakes happen naturally and sure maybe 
Nvidia said that they aren’t providing drivers   to reviewers until launch day so Day Zero buyers 
will have zero idea of what kind of performance   or lack thereof to expect from the 5060 which is 
outfitted with a generous 8 GB supply of VRAM but   drivers are overrated anyway i mean they’re 
basically free right i mean you can just go   download them but do reviewers thank Nvidia for 
that no they ask “Why is Nvidia blocking reviews   and why is Nvidia being deceptive and hiding the 
5060’s performance?   because f**k you that’s why you wouldn’t even have video cards if it wasn’t for 
Nvidia so stop your bitching show some respect   and suck Nvidia’s big fat market cap if you don’t 
like it with that said one moment quick phone call   uh yeah it’s it’s done yes uh yes I told them to 
suck the uh Yeah and yeah Jilted Jay suspect Steve   just like you said so uh my family is okay right 
and okay and and the robot clones that are hunting   down and replacing my closest friends those are 
called off too okay all right yeah I agree it   is kind of a weird launch all right okay see you 
in See you in Taipei right speaking of blackmail   and skullduggery the company that has owned a 
patent on the combination pump block design for   all-in-one liquid coolers since 2005 saw that 
patent expire Tuesday which is why so many of   your friends are just now getting into DIY liquid 
cooler assembly and sales the past 20 years saw   would be AIO cooler manufacturers falling into 
three categories those who paid for licensing   or direct purchase of their OEM designs those who 
sued or settled with when they attempted to ignore   the patent and those who skirted the patent 
by relocating the pump adding an extra tube   or otherwise modifying the integrated pump and 
block design asetech was often accused of leaning   on its patent and focusing more on enforcing it 
via legal means to maintain profitability instead   of innovating with new products but if that were 
true they would probably just give up on AIO’s   entirely now that they’ve lost the advantage 
that the patent provided so it’s no surprise   that ASET says there’s a third party interested in 
buying out the cooling hardware division of their   company entirely or that they are considering 
pivoting to a focus on data center cooling   leaving the consumer market behind now that it 
has been sucked dry which likely caused the pump   to fail can’t let your pump run dry speaking of 
going in dry the RX9060 XT which has been heavily   rumored in recent weeks was spotted in a retail 
Amazon listing Friday with the horrible prices of   $520 and $450 attached to the 16 gig and 8 gig 
versions respectively now I have noted many times   before that of all pre-launch leaks retail pricing 
is the most likely to be incorrect as retailers   need to create product SKs and landing pages early 
and often use placeholder pricing while waiting   on the real pricing from Nvidia or AMD but real 
prices MSRP or whatever you want to call them are   so rarely honored at present that I’m inclined 
to give a bit more credence to these kinds of   listings because this might be what Amazon wants 
to sell the 9060 XT for and if that’s the case it   probably will be the price and it won’t matter 
when AMD’s feeble here’s the MSRP announcement   goes live because AMD clearly isn’t protecting 
consumers from predatory pricing by backing up   their MSRPs with some form of enforcement with 
retailers case in point the RX9070 and 9070 XT   which I would love to recommend at their supposed 
$550 and $600 MSRPs can’t be found for less than   about $900 here in the US which is dumb and I will 
continue to feel that way unless AMD also decides   to disappear my family i guess these listings do 
seem to confirm the previously leaked specs though   with a 3.3 GHz boost clock and now we boldly 
switch over to tech briefs because one should   never tech brief meekly intel Arc rumors are 
simultaneously the most hopeful and the biggest   letdown when they come out as there seems to be 
so much potential if Intel could just deliver   and unfortunately it does not seem like they’ll be 
delivering anything to interest gamers at Computex   a rumored 24 gig Arc GPU had some excited for 
the prospect of a B770 or B750 to follow up the   popular if only they were available at MSRP ARC 
B580 but it is not to be intel confirmed that   there’ll be new Arc Pro Battle Mage GPU series 
revealed at Computex including a 24 GB Arc Pro   B60 but they’ll use the same BMG G21 chips as 
the B580 so other than in games where 12 GB of   VRAM is a limitation the Pro model will likely 
perform the same as the regular ARC B580 the ARC   B580 was able to show itself off impressively in 
Suspect Steve’s latest GPU comparison though where   the B580 went head-to-head against Nvidia’s RTX 
5060 Ti 8 gig while the 5060 Ti is typically 20   to 40% faster than the B580 when not VRAM limited 
Steve showed it’s not tough to go beyond 8 gigs   and you don’t need to be playing at 4K or with 
max settings either there are plenty of titles   that chug or throw big frame delays up at 1440 
and in those scenarios the B580 clearly wins   hopefully Jensen stopped watching after that first 
segment and I don’t get in trouble for saying any   of that though in other Nvidia news looking for 
a bit of optimism there have been quite a few   articles like this lately indicating that in some 
regions GPU inventory has stabilized and pricing   has become almost normal if more than €2,000 for 
a GPU has become normal for you yet things still   aren’t great here in the US where tariffs are a 
factor but it does leave room for optimism that   demand may abate as more units make it to market 
leading to lower prices and another factor might   be the 5090D which was supposed to be sellable in 
China due to hardware limited AI capabilities but   has apparently also been exported as it has the 
same GPU core count and memory as the regular 5090   this is still a rumor but if true I extend my 
sympathies to gamers in that region who had   their sights set on a 5090D but it does mean that 
Nvidia will likely attempt to sell those 5090D   GPUs elsewhere which could mean more 5090 class 
GPUs on the market outside of China lastly a new   Doom launched this week The Dark Ages which 
is available on PC and console and seems to   be getting good reviews thus far 8.5s and nines 
with the game design looking appropriately dark   gory and demoninfested with a healthy array 
of melee weapons in true Dark Ages style and   reports of even more super fast and fluid FPS 
fun which the series is known for and with this   being a single player title there’s also a notably 
good story line which WCCF Tech describes as the   icing on the extremely bloody and demonic cake 
sounds delicious and now I’m all hungry so I   guess it’s time to say “So there you have it guys 
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