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

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Josh returns this week, and of course there are financials to discuss (NVIDIA is making insane money right now), plus Josh's latest burger, Josh's renovated home office, and other Josh-related content.  Where are Josh's boxes, what's in Josh's closet, what are Josh's floors made of, and who handled his 49" monitor while he was away. Oh, and we also did a show about this week in tech ... those topics are below. 00:00 Intro
01:35 Food with Josh
03:25 Josh's office update
05:06 NVIDIA is making an insane amount of money
12:55 Dan Cases and Lian Li make a micro-ATX case
14:44 Is Noctua becoming a lifestyle brand?
18:00 Big brother is watching - with the new built-in Windows screen logger
25:21 Cooler Master offers "ai" thermal paste for streamers
27:28 The demand for HBM could cause DRAMa
29:29 RescueZilla 2.5 released
31:03 (in)Security Corner
38:13 Gaming Quick Hits
45:59 Corsair 6500X case review
49:29 Picks of the Week
56:43 Outro

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Podcast #774 - NVIDIA Makes Money, DAN CASES mATX, Noctua as a Lifestyle Brand, AI Thermal Paste

While Josh might not have been with us, we certainly did mention him.  In mostly good ways.  All this while we discussed the latest AMD 8000 F-Series, Dell XPS with AMD and Snapdragon CPUs, zero day exploits for DLink routers, and even self driving vehicle hacks.  More in the list below. Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:25 AMD launches Ryzen 8000 F-Series processors
06:05 AMD Ryzen coming to Dell XPS laptops (in 2027, maybe)
07:01 Qualcomm's Snapdragon X is coming to XPS laptops
11:46 Snapdragon X Elite will offer native Linux support
14:00 VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are now FREE
15:23 AMD reportedly ends Windows 10 support beginning with Strix Point
20:54 (in)Security Corner
32:00 Gaming Quick Hits
41:12 Picks of the Week
54:28 Outro

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Podcast #773 - AMD Ryzen 8000 F-Series CPUs, Linux on Snapdragon X Elite, VMWare Goes Free, Zero Day DLink + MORE!

We recorded it early this week, due to some scheduling issues, but we still made a podcast that will live on forever as one of the greatest ever made. If you don't have high standards.  Do take the time to enjoy the discussion on generous Hackers and that your VPN probably sucks.  Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Food with Josh
05:13 Intel's baseline profile evolves into Intel Default Settings
13:38 Apple announces new iPads and the M4 processor
21:30 iOS device fingerprinting a problem?
24:47 Microsoft brings MT/s to task manager
27:37 Remembering Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM
30:59 Backblaze reports slight improvement in HDD lifespans
35:55 BASIC turns 60
37:54 (in)Security Corner
47:31 Gaming Quick Hits
57:22 Picks of the Week
1:14:15 Outro

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Podcast #772 - Intel Drops Core I9 PL2 to 188W by Default, Apple M4, MT/s in Task Manager, Basic Birthday

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

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