A picture is worth a thousand words, so a video this long must be worth about a billion. And that's how you'll feel, just watching it. Like a billion dollars.  We've got Intel Oil of Snake, Monitors so flat, Stay with Windows 10 forever, and some great LogoFails.

I have no idea what any of that means, but you can check the time stamps below for the topics under discussion.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:52 Food with Josh
03:00 AMD's AI Event
13:54 Intel's embarassing snake oil presentation
23:02 AMD finally fixes Radeon 7000 idle power draw
24:09 Don't worry, you can stay on Windows 10 - for a price
26:13 (in)Security Corner
44:31 Gaming Quick Hits
52:32 A very flat 40-inch ultrawide from Monoprice
1:01:59 A USB Gen2x2 expansion card, and a PNY Elite-X Type-C flash drive
1:07:38 Chopping AMD's fastest desktop processor in half for better performance
1:18:52 Picks of the Week
1:44:06 Outro

In this special JoshTekk episode, we return from our Thanksgiving break with just over an hour of some of the best podcasting you'll ever experience in your life. Don't believe it? Watch, and be convinced.  We've got Tiny 11, OwnCloud horror show soon, Google Drive files that are disappearing, YouTube slights Firefox users, and so much more!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:13 Food with Josh
03:33 Intel to spend billions to have TSMC fab their CPUs
10:17 Tiny11 now available in 23H2 version
12:35 NVIDIA makes all the money
18:04 Build your own USB-C power delivery sniffer
20:41 The amazing disappearing Google Drive files
23:17 YouTube's continued war against adblockers
26:12 Insecurity Corner
41:08 Gaming Quick Hits
46:32 Samsung Portable SSD T5 EVO 8TB review
51:43 Picks of the Week
59:32 Outro

We won't be podcasting next week, so we encourage you to watch this week's episode repeatedly until we return. We've got SanDisk Extreme Pro with a whole-lotta failures, Intel Arc updates!, GeForce Five-Oh rumors, Gaming industry layoffs and so much more. We of course talked about several other topics, and provide you with a handy index below.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:37 Food with Josh
04:06 Intel Arc news - a minor driver update!
05:49 Josh interrupts to ponder AI or something
07:00 AMD MI300X to power new Azure VM series
08:47 Microsoft developed their own Arm superchip
11:49 Intel APO feature limited to 14th Gen CPUs only
13:29 NVIDIA rumor - GB202 to use 384-bit memory bus
15:10 Silicon Motion's 3.5 watt Gen5 SSD controller
19:54 The last Hackaday prize winners ever?
27:36 Security Corner
39:12 Gaming Quick Hits
51:10 Kingston Fury Renegade 96GB DDR5 review
58:30 Picks of the Week
1:15:51 There's sort of an outro in this section

Ryan may not be back this week, but I'm sure viewers won't tune out in droves. Right? Right?? Hello??? No one left, eh? Well, we did a podcast anyway. So much ARM, too much for ARC, and AMD Polaris / Vega is forsaken.  All that and more in the subjects below.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:03 Burger of the Week
04:29 Arc News: Get your $1949 A770-equipped Alienware today!
07:19 AMD begins retirement of Vega and Polaris
08:45 New Starfield Steam Beta brings DLSS and PC optimizations
10:56 Mac DirectX game porting
16:00 Imagination has a DX11 GPU
19:03 Arm invests in Pi
25:11 Intel killed off Cryo cooling in July and media just noticed
31:20 Security Corner
38:11 Gaming Quick Hits
50:35 Picks of the Week
1:06:46 Outro

Ryan is back! At least, this week. As a guest. But he's BACK, darn it. We talked about stuff. M3. Qualcomm.  ARM.  So much financial. More topics in the time stamps below.

Timestamps:

00:00 Cold Open
00:45 Intro
04:39 Food with Josh
07:51 Qualcomm X Elite Windows benchmarks
24:32 Apple M3 discussion
36:23 Intel financials
42:57 AMD financials
47:48 Qualcomm had financials, too
48:57 AV1 is everywhere
50:27 Ryan is lit
51:45 Security Corner
59:14 Gaming Quick Hits
1:03:30 What 5 years at Intel did to Ryan
1:04:41 Back to Gaming
1:08:41 Picks of the Week
1:16:47 Outro

It was another week of news, rumors, game releases, four-year-old GPUs becoming irrelevant thanks to Mesh Shader support requirements, the industry freaking out about arm64 and declaring the death of x86, and other things. So many security fails to wedge into 1 show and then we flavor the cast with a Loupedeck review.   Topics below!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:16 Food with Josh
05:38 NVIDIA (and AMD) to make Arm CPUs - is this the end of x86??!!
11:59 Qualcomm's mighty laptop SoC claims
24:16 Alan Wake 2, mesh shaders, and the fate of old-ish GPUs
31:46 Microsoft has questions for you if you use Edge to download Chrome
36:11 Zotac has a mini PC with active solid-state cooling
39:56 Security Corner
52:35 Gaming Quick Hits
1:10:19 Loupedeck Live S reviewed
1:17:09 Picks of the Week
1:31:17 Outro

Words flow from us at an alarming rate, but be not afraid; we are the harbingers of semi-literate PC hardware and software discussion. Also, burgers.

In this episode, we discuss the VERY EXCITING Intel 14th Gen launch, look at a very fancy Falcon Northwest Talon desktop equipped with one of these processors, and eventually talk about AMD un-launching Anti-Lag+ after it caused some mildly inconvenient bans from popular games when using the feature. There's even a very exciting back and forth on programmable remotes during the SofaBaton pick!  

The rest of the topics can be found in the time stamps below.  

Recorded October 18, 2023.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:33 Burger of the Week
02:55 Intel 14th Gen launch (and a new Talon desktop)
18:01 MSI brings the heat - 115 C to be precise
20:24 AMD removes Anti-Lag+ from drivers amid issues
24:34 Microsoft backs off on OneDrive gallery storage
27:49 Windows 11 now active on close to half a billion devices
31:47 Fanatec Clubsport DD
36:03 Security Corner
43:18 Gaming Quick Hits
47:48 Drop + xDuoo TA-84
57:13 Total War Pharoh
01:04:01 Picks of the Week
1:22:42 Outro

What is fifty-three minutes in time, and yet timeless? This episode of the PCPer podcast, of course! Yes, we made Podcast History (tm) once again this week, and did it in just under an hour. Listen again and again, savoring every moment. We can't stop you.  Enjoy the Arc, The VBScript, and the Dark Rock within.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:11 Josh did not have a burger
04:14 Intel launches Arc A580 as A750 goes on sale for $10 more
08:57 More Arc news - driver update massively improves Starfield perf
11:17 be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5 and Dark Rock Elite air coolers coming soon
13:53 Microsoft says VBScript will be removed from future Windows release
16:19 MS provides tutorial on installing Linux?
17:54 Windows 11 21H2 already going EOL
19:57 Security Corner
32:02 Gaming Quick Hits
43:01 Picks of the Week
51:48 Outro

It might appear to be a lighter news week, but we still managed to talk for well over an hour, even after liberal editing.   We've got RGB, Pi, and Arc news of course, plus FSR and some fast and interesting portable storage.

Full topic list in the time stamps below!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:57 Burger of the Week
03:59 Arc A580 may actually be released soon
05:50 Radeon 7900 XTX and XT price drops
16:47 Mobile Radeon 7900 rumor
19:26 AMD FSR 3 has been released
25:19 Microsoft ends Windows 11 activation via Win7 and Win8 keys
29:38 Windows 11 ARGB control out of beta
30:55 Raspberry Pi 5
33:54 Security Corner
41:50 Gaming Quick Hits
53:36 Crucial X9 and X10 Pro portable SSDs reviewed
1:00:22 Samsung Portable SSD T9 review
1:07:32 Picks of the Week
1:18:31 Outro

Ryan left Intel! What does this mean for PC Perspective?? Nothing, actually. Except that we get to pontificate about Ryan's future. Don't worry, we'll ask him to visit soon. It will be more interesting when he can tell us where he's going.

We also talked about Scott "Jebaited" Herkelman's pending departure from AMD. So many moves in the PC hardware industry, eh?? Oh, and you won't want to miss our CASO discussion. This might be the biggest thing to happen to gaming laptops, ever. EVAR.  Should be mention the proliferation of affordable 2.5Gb switches again?  Yes, we'll do that.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:59 Food with Josh
03:54 Ryan Shrout leaves Intel
12:20 Scott “Jebaited” Herkelman leaving AMD
14:54 Newegg now has a GPU trade-in program
20:24 No, Intel will not be offering a socketed Meteor Lake CPU
22:17 CASO makes everything better (including laptop GPUs)
30:15 Podcast sponsor - Hello Fresh
31:36 Security Corner
39:01 Gaming Quick Hits (“quick”)
54:57 Picks of the Week
1:07:40 Outro