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

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Podcast #743 - Arc A580 Appears? Radeon 7900 Discounts, RPi 5, 20 Gbps Portable SSDs, Win11 RGB, and MORE

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What's more colorful than a $100 RGB mousepad? The personalities of the PCPer podcast crew, of course!  Enjoy the banter and conversations we had between each other and our audience.  Tune in and take part next week! Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:56 Food with Josh
03:48 An extremely long segment on Intel and AMD's latest quarterly earnings
35:56 Intel responds to Core i9 instability issue
42:55 Windows patch breaks some VPNs
45:35 A new watermark for non-Ai capable Windows PCs
47:57 (in)Security Corner
55:52 Gaming Quick Hits
58:41 Jeremy reviews the Razer RGB mousepad
1:03:49 Picks of the Week
1:18:02 Outro

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Podcast #771 - Intel / AMD Earnings, Intel Response to Core i9 Stability, Razer Firefly V2 Pro

Podcast 770 is totally not a re-branded Podcast 680. It may have the same CUDA core count, but the memory is clocked slightly higher. Also, this one has a [REDACTED] that you won't want to miss! Includes Cisco Firewalls on Fire, and a really cracking story on cracking Bcrypt!  (plus use a longer password!) Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:12 Food with Josh
05:21 A very long discussion about Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 stability
21:57 Rumor points to reuse of 18 Gbps GDDR6 for RDNA 4 GPUs
25:48 Intel Arc beta driver boosts DX11 performance again
29:24 Battlemage will supposedly offer uncompressed 8K 144 Hz
30:28 Find out what October 2025 means for Microsoft product support
33:53 Windows 11 Starts to add ads
35:47 Latest builds of Windows 11 require SSE 4.2
39:58 (in)Security Corner
50:43 Gaming Quick Hits
55:34 Drop CSTM65 keyboard review
1:02:04 Picks of the Week
1:13:08 Another smooth outro

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Podcast #770 - Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 Stability, RDNA4 GDDR6 Rumor, Windows 11 Adds Ads

Are you insecure at any speed?  So why not get your dose of tech news and reviews here with us and relax. Let the our dulcet tech tones wash over you with the bits of news that caught our attention this week.  Hear why you had better get yer AMD 6000 series while you can and about that new 50w Nvidia GPU, plus Fallout talk and our review of the Eazeye Radiant LCD Touchscreen Monitor.  More below. 00:00 Intro
02:16 Food with Josh
04:28 Ryzen 8000 CPUs launch - for business (with an LLM focus)
07:17 NVIDIA launching two new RTX cards - but they are 50W workstation SKUs
12:52 HighPoint has a 56GB/s SSD RAID card
19:05 Lamptron gets caught using fraudulent AIDA64 keys
20:33 Windows 11 on Intel 11
22:56 High-end Radeon RX 6000 Series supplies are drying up
26:08 (in)Security Corner
39:35 Gaming Quick Hits
47:00 Jeremy reviews the Eazeye Radiant - a transflective LCD display
54:49 Picks of the Week
1:04:54 Outro

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Podcast #769 - Ryzen 8000 CPUs, New 50 Watt RTX Cards, High-End Radeon RX 6000 GPUs Disappearing

"We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Processors effectively on fire with default motherboard settings. We watched chipsets glitter in the dark near the Copper Pipe. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
- JoshTEKK Smith Also tune in for some Star Wars gaming news, PCIe 7 is the new Hotness, and Dump It like D-Link!  More in the timestamps beeeelooooow! Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:53 Food with Josh
03:04 The Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 Problem Escalates
15:26 Intel Gaudi 3 is an up to 900W AI chip
20:46 AMD Ryzen 9000 processors mentioned in new chipset driver
25:09 An APU faceoff at FPS Review
32:16 The first draft of PCI Express 7 is here
39:48 Roku has new tech to serve ads over HDMI
43:58 The Pi 5 vs cheap Amazon mini PCs
47:28 Security Corner
1:00:01 Gaming Quick Hits
1:06:53 Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD-OLED monitor review
1:24:12 Jeremy has a new Drop keyboard
1:26:56 Picks of the Week
1:36:10 Outro

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Podcast #768 - Intel 13th/14th Gen Core i9 Problem Escalates, Gaudi 3, Ryzen 9000 CPU Leak, Roku Ads and More!

We aren't too proud of this technological terror we've constructed, because the ability to record a podcast is insignificant compared to the power of the Schwartz.   Intel Foundry news, SSD pricing, a new RX 550?, TSMC is quaking, and a bevy of security scares! Recorded April 3, 2024. Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:09 Food with Josh
02:59 Intel Foundry lost 7 billion USD last year
12:03 TSMC assessing impact of recent earthquake
18:35 Enterprise SSD prices on the rise - consumer will be next
22:38 The biggest passively-cooled Gen5 SSD we've seen (and extended storage speed discussion)
32:36 Microsoft splits Teams and Office apps worldwide
37:24 A new low-profile RX 550 in 2024, or April Fool's joke?
44:41 (in)Security Corner (featuring the XZ backdoor story)
56:01 Gaming Quick Hits
1:00:12 Kent reviews the Thermaltake CTE C700 TG case
1:13:30 Picks of the Week
1:32:21 Outro

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Podcast #743 - Arc A580 Appears? Radeon 7900 Discounts, RPi 5, 20 Gbps Portable SSDs, Win11 RGB, and MORE

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