Hey Welcome to Zach's Tech Turf and Weekly Download episode number 106.
Today I'm gonna be playing some Albion Online when I give you this news, I got my cup of
coffee right there, make sure you guys let me know in the comment section what you're
sippin' on.
And yes.
This episode is mostly gonna be about Nvidia and how I preordered a 2080Ti.
Let's get into it
Alright so to start off the Nvidia announcement recap, I really don't wanna talk about anything
that has been repeated a hundred times already by the other YouTubers.
We all know that Nvidia announced the 2080Ti at 1200 bucks, the 2080 at 800, and the 2070
at 600.
All Jenson talked about on stage was how great the ray tracing is but we obviously still
know have any real benchmarks by YouTubers.
That's where I come in.
As you guys may already know, I personally preordered an RTX 2080Ti but I want you all
to know that I definitely wouldn't have done that if I wasn't trying to grow my
YouTube brand.
All of these other tech youtubers out there talking about not pre ordering them, switched
to used GPUs in 2018, etc all have valid points, but we shouldn't listen to ANy of that,
literally nothing of that until we see some actual benchmarks.
At this point in my YouTube career I'm definitely not large enough to get GPU samples sent to
me, which is why I went ahead and preorder one of them.
I don't really have a use for anything less than a 2080Ti because I currently have a 1080ti,
so that's why I picked that one.
For some of you optimists out there, I highly advise you checking out JayzTwoCents video
as he thinks the naming this generation is just off from last year, meaning that this
year's 2080Ti is really a Titan, the 2080 is really the 80Ti version etc.
Once again though, we have zero idea what any of these means and what's true or not
because we haven't seen any real benchmarks.
The ray tracing looks amazing and there's no doubt that the 20 some games that will
utilize ray tracing will look amazing with these new cards, but most importantly we need
to know what kinda FPS numbers we'll get in every other game out there to justify the
upgrade or not.
A couple days after the event Nvidia actually published some of their own benchmarks, which
certainly look promising, but we have to take them with a grain of salt.
The chart that they posted shows that the RTX 2080 is supposed to be 50 percent faster
than a 1080, which is actually a huge improvement and something that I'm personally hopeful
for.
Based off this information, technically the RTX 2080 would be an upgrade for even a 1080Ti,
meaning that the 2080Ti that I ordered will be a humongous improvement as well.
Once again for the final time though, let's hold off a few more weeks in talking about
whether these cards are worth it or not until we actually get the benchmarks.
#RantOver.
Moving on to something to make us all feel better, Zotac and Caseking collaborated and
showed off a custom PC that also functions as a coffee machine.
As you can see in the picture here, there's a little nespresso machine at the front of
the case which as you guys know, is like the greatest idea in the world to me personally.
There's not too many other details here other than that we do know that the heat dissipated
from the CPU and GPU are not the same heat that goes into brewing the coffee.
Boy that would have been neat.
Next up HTC announced on Tuesday that preorders for the Vive wireless adapter will start in
September.
The cost of this wireless adaptor kit will cost 300 bones which isn't cheap by any
means, but we shall see once and for all if wireless is the way to go for virtual reality.
I haven't tried this for myself, I only have an Oculus Rift in the studio, but I just
can't possible imagine wireless performing on par with wired in terms of latency.
Latency would play a huge factor in motion sickness and what not so this thing has to
be absolutely perfect for it to be worth it in my opinion.
And to wrap up the tech news for the week, Logitech announced yet another high end wireless
gaming mouse, the G Pro Wireless.
The mouse comes in at a hefty $150 price tag, but it is rocking a baller sensor, only weighs
80 grams, and can be used for both lefties and righties.
Logitech apparently collaborated with a bunch of esport athletes and even Hardwarecanucks
state's it's the best wireless mouse they've ever used.
Moving on to the PC gaming news for the week, some rough news came from Twitch this week
stating that the Twitch Prime benefits are getting significantly cut down which is actually
a huge bummer.
Everyone that's a Twitch Prime member should have gotten an email stating that as of October
15th, we will no longer have complete ad-free viewing on Twitch and we'll only get that
from the single streamer that we decide to give our Twitch Prime subscription to.
They however do have a Twitch Turbo subscription service which gives you universal ad free
viewing for 9 bucks a month.
No thanks.
Next up Valve rolled out that Linux update that I talked about this week which is called
Steam Play and this allows Linux users access to Windows only Steam games.
Valve basically designed a new version of the Wine Linux distribution which is called
Proton, and you can go check this out for yourself right now if you're on Linux.
As of right now during the beta Valve only opened this up to 27 games, but this is certainly
a step in the right direction for Linux gaming.
If any of you are checking this out, please let me know what you think.
In more Valve news, they also officially launched their new streaming website, Steam.tv which
is apparently their answer to Twitch dominating the streaming market.
Right now on Steam.tv you'll only find Dota 2's International tournament, but I'm
sure Valve will do everything they can to entice content creators to stream over there.
This one should be pretty interesting to watch develop over the next several months.
Once again with the Valve news, I'm sure most of you that care are aware, but just
in case you aren't, the Dota 2 International tournament is almost wrapped up and apparently
it's been a pretty heated event.
The International is basically the Super Bowl in the Dota 2 esports space and with 25 million
dollars in prize money, it's kind of a big deal so I thought I should let you guys know.
And finally to wrap up the PC gaming news for the week, Ubisoft's For Honor's starter
edition went free to play on Steam this week and it actually got surprisingly very popular
quickly.
At some point this week there were over 200,000 people playing For Honor at the same time
which are numbers that we haven't seen since it first launched.
The new Starter edition grants you the basic story mode and multiplayer modes with 3 heros
that you can choose from.
I actually kinda liked this game when I gave it a shot last year and I've heard good
things about Ubisoft turning the game around, we shall see if it's worth coming back to
I guess.
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