HW News - Intel Ray-Tracing Woes, EK's "Not A Sham" Water Blocks, Steam Deck Booming

Episode Title: "HW News - Intel Ray-Tracing Woes, EK's "Not A Sham" Water Blocks, Steam Deck Booming"
Content: Sponsor: Linode Hosting - get $100 credit with GN (https://geni.us/UaKrUmF) Hardware news this week talks about Intel's accidental destruction of its Linux-based ray tracing performance (but they fixed it with a line of code), the Raptor Lake (13th Gen) rumors, RTX 4090 performance discussion, and the Steam Deck booming with over 4000 titles added. We also cover Windows 12 plans, EK's gold-plated blocks, and more. Grab the GN Limited CyberSkeleton Design: https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/limited-edition-foil-skeletal-cotton-t-shirt-with-pc-component-design Sources & show notes: https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3690-hw-news-intel-ray-tracing-ek-gold-blocks-steam-deck Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Recapping the Week 01:27 - GN Publishing Plans 03:25 - Intel Driver Reduces Ray Tracing Performance to 1% 06:38 - Rumor: RTX 4090 3DMark Performance 08:24 - Rumor: Raptor Lake Launch Date 11:57 - Leak: Raptor Lake Geekbench Scores 13:48 - EK Launches Gold-Plated Not-Sham 17:22 - Leak: Potential Ryzen 7 7600X Spotted 18:40 - AIDA64 Adds Zen 4 & RTX 4090 19:34 - Over 4000 Steam Deck Titles 20:40 - Windows 12 Coming in 2024 22:08 - FCC Chair Pushes Minimum Internet Speeds ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Host, Writing: Steve Burke Writing: Jeremy Clayton Video Editing: Mike Gaglione, Andrew Coleman


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