May 06, 2025

Episode 346: Celestial Testing "Confirmed", RIP Budget Gaming, Usefulness Of AI & More

2 hours 10 minutes

Join The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC hardware topics. In this episode the gang covers the recent "confirmation" that Intel's Xe3 (Celestial) has begun pre-validation, how the increased prices of hardware (and even consoles) has gutted budget gaming, and we ponder about the usefulness of AI. And of course we answer your questions live!

Links:

- Evil AI: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2770385/i-saw-how-an-evil-ai-finds-vulnerabilities-its-as-scary-as-you-think.html

- Celestial: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-discrete-xe3-celestial-gpus-are-in-pre-validation

- Xbox price: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2769772/xbox-massively-hikes-prices-on-consoles-games-and-controllers.html

- RTX 5060: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/even-more-dlss-4-multi-frame-gen-games-and-updates-released/

The opening music is Rollout (MaxPC Theme) by Jeremy Williams used under a Creative Commons 3.0 attrib license. You can grab the source files at Podcast Fantastic: http://podcastfantastic.com/

Join the PC related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

Follow the crew on X: @AdamPMurray @BradChacos @MorphingBall @WillSmith

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May 06, 2025

Episode 346: Celestial Testing "Confirmed", RIP Budget Gaming, Usefulness Of AI & More

2 hours 10 minutes

Links:

- Evil AI: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2770385/i-saw-how-an-evil-ai-finds-vulnerabilities-its-as-scary-as-you-think.html

- Celestial: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-discrete-xe3-celestial-gpus-are-in-pre-validation

- Xbox price: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2769772/xbox-massively-hikes-prices-on-consoles-games-and-controllers.html

- RTX 5060: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/even-more-dlss-4-multi-frame-gen-games-and-updates-released/

The opening music is Rollout (MaxPC Theme) by Jeremy Williams used under a Creative Commons 3.0 attrib license. You can grab the source files at Podcast Fantastic: http://podcastfantastic.com/

Join the PC related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

Follow the crew on X: @AdamPMurray @BradChacos @MorphingBall @WillSmith

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Follow PCWorld!

Website: http://www.pcworld.com

X: https://www.x.com/pcworld

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