Hey Welcome to Zach's Tech Turf and Weekly Download episode number 63, which is my tech
and PC gaming news series.
As you can already see, today I'm gonna be playing some more NBA 2k18.
If you're following me on social media then you'll know how addicted I am to this game
so sorry for the lack of variety lately.
I don't have a coffee today I'm just sipping on a bottle of water, make sure you guys let
me know in the comment section what you're sippin' on, let's get into it.
Alright so to start off the tech news this week, which by the way this week is mostly
tech news and barely and PC gaming news, another website has been found with underlying code
that makes users mine cryptocurrencies for them.
The website is ShowTime which probably gets hundreds of thousands of users per hour, and
this is now the 2nd website that we are hearing about doing this, as I just explains this
in last week's episode with The Pirate Bay.
Basically as long as you have their webpage open, there's a piece of code that forces
YOUR CPU to mine crypto currencies for them until you close their web page.
Now you might be asking yourself about the CPU based crypto currencies, as we've lately
been seeing that only GPU mining is profitable.
That's still correct, CPU based mining doesn't earn that much money, as a Ryzen 7 can only
earn about a dollar per day, but when you have thousands and thousands of users mining
all at the same time without knowing it, that's a lot of money.
Since being discovered ShowTime has removed the code from their website and has yet to
make a comment about it.
I started off this week's news because this is kinda getting ridiculous in my opinion.
How many other websites do you think are out there that are abusing our hardware to make
them crypto currencies.
You guys gotta let me know what you think down in the comment section.
Next up Intel officially formally introduced their 8th Generation Coffee Lake desktop CPU's
this weekend, and as you would expect, they're doing everything they can to combat Ryzen.
They announced all sorts of specs, speeds, and gaming results that I'll have linked
down in the comment section, which is where I like everything I talk about by the way,
but the one CPU I'm personally interested in is the 8700K.
They announced that it will be a 6 core 12 thread chip and Intel even claimed it as the
best gaming desktop processor ever.
As you guys might know, Ryzen 7 released with all these cores and threads and amazing computing
performance, but despite only having 4 cores and 4 threads the Intel 7700K is still better
for gaming.
Intel has nailed down single core performance and the 8700K follows suit and will likely
beat out any Ryzen chip in terms of gaming.
Moving on, the Ataribox was just semi-revealed this week and it actually looks like a pretty
solid product.
Just a couple months ago Atari announced that they were getting back into the hardware business
and were working on something big.
Well here it is, the Ataribox will cost betwen $250-$300 and most importantly it will be
running an open Linux operating system, meaning that it'll be able to do much more than
play old Atari games.
The GM for the AtariBox project stressed that this is a completely open product and they
want you do do whatever you want with the AtariBox.
They are set to launch a crowdfunding campaign over on Indiegogo this fall and the box should
be ready to ship in spring of 2018.
As you guys know, RAM prices of DDR4 memory have pretty much doubled over the last year
which is absolutely awful, but in lighter news, DDR5 is coming, as you would expect.
A company called Rambus announced this week that they have the first ever functional DDR5
DIMM prototype.
They also expect once DDR5 comes to consumer desktops the base frequency will be around
4,800Mhz, which is only a bit faster than the higher speed DDR4 modules that we are
seeing.
They don't expect DDR5 to really be available until 2019 however, so hopefully these DDR4
prices go down before that.
AMD Vega graphics cards can finally be configured in Crossfire with AMD's latest Crimson ReLive
driver, but good luck getting your hands on even one of them, let alone 2.
Driver edition 17.9.2 supports up to 2 way multi GPU support for the Vega cards and even
new games like Project Cars 2 will immediately take advantage of it.
Just like with all multi GPU setups, every game will utilize the graphics cards differently
and some games don't support multi GPUs at all, so just be aware of that.
While I'm talking about this for all my new PC builders and gamers out there, if you're
ever debating about 2 graphics cards or 1 for your new PC build, you almost ALWAYS wanna
go with the single GPU.
For example, if you're debating about getting either 2 1060's or a single 1070 for example,
you almost always wanna go with the 1070.
I know that seems obvious for some but I see that question asked a lot.
And to wrap up the tech news, Intel has also announced this week that they have officially
killed off their Project Alloy project and will not continue it.
Project Alloy was a standalone VR headset that didn't have to be hooked up to a PC
and it was completely powered on its own.
Intel stated that they cancelled it for 2 reasons, a lack of consumer interest, and
the lack of power without a separate PC.
Go figure.
To start off the very short week of PC gaming news, I guess I gotta include all this PUBG
and Fortnite drama, even though I personally don't really care for it.
Basically the people over at PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds are upset about Fornite's
new 100 player battle royal mode as it resembles the famous PUBG gameplay a bit too much.
Turns out that they aren't quite upset with the similar gameplay as we originally thought,
but the fact that Fornite is being advertised comparing it specifically to PUBG is what
they're mad at.
I guess that makes sense, but like I said I don't really care about this kind of game
developer drama but I figured you guys wanted to hear about it.
And to already wrap up the PC gaming news this week, a Half Life mod called CAGED is
out now on steam and it's a free mod that's created by someone that actually used to work
at Valve.
It's dubbed as a short single player episode and the reviews are actually pretty high on
Steam.
You do however require a copy of Half-Life on steam and the last time I checked there
weren't any warnings of that when I was looking at it, so just be aware of that.
Have any of you guys tested this out; let me know in the comment section.
Well that wraps up Weekly Download episode number 63.
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.
Well I hope you guys enjoyed this video, please drop a like down below to help support my
channel, and as always, thank you for watching and please subscribe for more Zach's Tech
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