Full crew in the house tonight for all kinds of tech talk with the usual amount of off-topic banter.  It's what you deserve.  Check the full list of topics below.  Real quick though ... Ryzen 9000 testing:  You're holding it wrong.  Windows 11 installs on non-TPM machines:  Stop that.  Sonos:  Failing.  ARM:  Gaming GPUs.  And when is a 4070 not really the 4070?

00:00 Intro
02:06 Food with Josh
04:43 Ryzen 9000 X3D leaked by ASUS?
06:38 AMD says reviewers are not properly testing Ryzen 9000
10:04 AMD to buy ZT Systems for 4.9 billion USD
14:18 The new GDDR6 version of the RTX 4070 might be hard to spot
19:43 Windows 11 update closes TPM bypass loophole...
22:44 ...but FAT32 volumes up to 2TB are now supported
25:11 NVIDIA partnering with MediaTek on new G-Sync Pulsar monitors
31:00 Podcast sponsor, 1Password
32:14 Lina Li SUP01 lets you mount your GPU on the front intake
37:58 A wooden mechanical keyboard (sort of)
41:53 Sonos is not doing well (plus extended audio ranting)
54:24 Arm rumored to be developing a gaming graphics card
58:05 (in)Security Corner
1:06:55 Gaming Quick Hits
1:16:34 Picks of the Week
1:26:09 Outro

This episode is just over an hour, and probably a lot more exciting than the Ryzen 9000 launch, itself. Plus Josh had a really messy looking burger. You can't lose.

We've got Intel microcode, AMD Ryzen 9k, when is an RTX 4070 a bit less ... it's a tight show. 

Recorded August 14, 2024.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:27 Ryzen 9900X and 9950X performance
22:28 No sign of new (rumored) RX 7000 SKUs
24:04 Intel Battlemage engineering samples being tested
27:21 Update your Intel microcode, but you have to use Intel defaults
31:31 Those ai pins are being returned now, and they are e-waste
36:14 New RTX 4070 variant with slower GDDR6
37:55 (in)Security Corner
50:40 Gaming Quick Hits
54:51 Picks of the Week
1:04:58 Outro

This was a long show. Be warned! We didn't even get to (in)Security Corner until after the one hour mark! But it's so worth it!  More Crowdstrike, more Intel sadness, even the Logitech mouse-as-a-service thing.  Psst - Apple still does not like Nvidia.

Recorded August 7, 2024.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:45 Food with Josh
03:54 New Ryzen 5 and 7 coverage - the impact of 65W
19:39 Intel's financial situation
27:27 Intel extended warranty update
31:44 Podcast sponsor - Green Chef
33:27 Puget systems' totally unbiased report on CPU failures
42:11 NVIDIA Blackwell delay rumor
51:41 Has the most popular GPU on Steam been discontinued?
55:38 Google is replacing the Chromecast with a $100 ai thing
58:43 Apple still doesn't like NVIDIA
1:03:26 Logi forever mouse
1:06:24 (in)Security Corner
1:15:24 Gaming Quick Hits
1:23:29 Picks of the Week
1:37:59 Outro

Four of us gathered to discuss another week in PC hardware and software, and while Jeremy was absent (again) and Josh didn't have a burger (again), the podcast was still a podcast, and that probably means something.  AMD is touching 6Ghz, Intel is not OK, Cybertruck is a PC, and we've got so much financial news on AMD and ARM...punch it Chewy!

Recorded July 31, 2024.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:30 Food with Josh
06:27 Josh's AMD financial report
13:29 Josh's Arm financial report
16:51 Intel will not recall the 13th and 14th Gen CPUs (and further discussion)
26:58 Now might be the right time to trade in your potentially defective Intel CPU!
28:40 An update on the Ryzen 9000 delay
31:02 It may be possible to hit 6 GHz (and above) with a Ryzen 9 9950X
33:12 Windows 11 July update breaks Bitlocker
35:33 The Cybertruck PC
40:51 (in)Security Corner
53:01 Gaming Quick Hits
57:06 Picks of the Week
1:04:54 Outro

Only three of us podcasted this week, and there was an annoying "room mic" sound to deal with from a certain host, but other than that it was an okay-ish show if you like these sorts of things, am I right?
AMD is ascending, Intel is unstable, and the 7800X3D is still the king.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:13 CrowdStrike
09:20 Intel provides update on CPU instability
20:22 AMD is recalling their initial batch of Ryzen 9000 samples
28:02 Podcast sponsor - 1Password
29:31 (in)Security Corner
31:16 Gaming Quick Hits
32:50 It was at that moment they realized this was going to be a very short podcast
35:14 Picks of the Week (special extended edition)
50:38 Outro

Enjoy this podcast, recorded on July 17 - you know, before the CloudStrike thing happened. Don't worry, we will talk about that next week.

There is so much "air" in this show, you'll know it when you feel it.  Game servers switching away from Intel now, the Xbox has the cheekiest controller going.  So much more below, enjoy!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:34 Food with...Jeremy?
05:57 Kent's big air cooler roundup
31:38 Intel's growing instability problem
44:56 Snapdragon X Elite really wants to be Windows Only
47:43 Seasonic lists unreleased Radeon GPUs including 7990 XTX
49:29 ...and apparently lists RTX 50 Series wattage as well
51:39 Hello Windows Checkpoint
56:09 (in)Security Corner
1:07:55 Gaming Quick Hits
1:12:20 Picks of the Week
1:17:22 Outro

This show is one hour.

Wait. That should say "this show is one hour THAT YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS".
We've got all kinds of things, check out the topics below!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Food with Josh
03:25 HP gives up - might actually want to sell printers
05:23 AMD NTBC
08:21 AMD now has better brand recognition than Intel?
10:02 Everything is bigger on the Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED
16:16 Ryzen keyboard PC!
20:13 Google's free VPN is gone but anyone can use their dark web monitoring
22:11 Better battery life (not AI) driving Copilot+ PC sales
26:00 Endgame Gear OP1 8K mouse
29:33 Mac shipments grew 6 percent year-on-year
30:52 (in)Security Corner
40:48 Gaming Quick Hits
46:30 Picks of the Week
59:42 Outro

It took a couple of days to get to the editing and posting (due to the July 4 holiday) but the wait will be 100% worth it, we assure you. Josh even had a burger.  Including Z890, Gigabit forever, Win10 death and all your content belong to AI now.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:35 Food with Josh
03:51 Intel Z890 chipset leak
05:21 When will the industry stop using Gigabit?
09:38 More on the upcoming Intel parts
13:23 New Breaking Limit GPU benchmark is out
15:13 NVIDIA 72-core Grace CPU gets close to 96-core Threadripper
18:02 Will death of Win10 ignite PC market?
20:05 Microsoft CEO of AI says anything published online is free to use
24:38 AMD Ryzen 8000G processors discounted
29:41 Podcast sponsor - Green Chef
31:11 (in)Security Corner
47:44 Gaming Quick Hits
56:09 Picks of the Week
1:12:24 Outro

You will be pleased to learn that we did indeed get together on Wednesday night (at 10 Eastern) to podcast this week. Here is the edited version of that podcast recording session.  Within you find side-quests, insights, food, camera lens talk - and tech.  Lots of tech talk on such things like Microsoft making terrible decisions, bad security theater, and idle data.  Join us.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Food with Josh
03:29 XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air (false start)
06:08 The review actually begins here
17:21 Boring camera lens talk
19:31 Microsoft makes OneDrive backups automatic
22:40 Microsoft hides the local account option even more
23:31 PSA: you don't actually have to use Windows
26:46 The great Optane 905P fire sale of 2024
30:30 Amazon moves Alexa to a subscription model
33:19 Seagate opens official eBay store for refurb HDDs
37:26 Most stored data is never accessed again
41:28 (in)Security Corner
44:33 We interrupt (in)Security Corner to talk about seamless integration
46:12 Back to (in)Security Corner
54:27 Gaming Quick Hits
1:03:08 Picks of the Week
1:18:16 Outro

Five of us entered, but only one survived. This is one episode you won't want to miss!

In addition to all that, we discussed SFF specs, Copilot updates, the Fractal Mood, ARM speculative execution, and Intel CPU stability!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:34 Food with Josh
03:00 We react to Snapdragon X Elite reviews
10:17 Intel issues microcode fix for 13th/14th Gen stability issues
16:02 NVIDIA's new SFF-Ready GPU standard
18:37 An ITX-sized RTX 4070 with a pink PCB
19:54 Windows 10 update brings "Open With" dialog box bug
21:23 ID-Cooling has a 360mm AiO with no RGB for only 60 bucks
24:48 (in)Security Corner begins
33:00 AMD data breach
35:41 Gaming Quick Hits
42:10 Fractal Mood mITX case review
59:12 Picks of the Week
1:11:07 Outro