Tech Show BUT Friendly

By Hardware Sugar

A podcast about tech (mostly computer hardware but also mobile and consoles) made for non techy people. We won't use jargon or assume you know why a GT1630 is a horrible GPU or that it's a big deal th... more

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May 04, 2023 Bye Bitwit 😢 How NOT to burn up your AMD 7000 CPU 🔥 Not even a Jedi can make a good console port 😩 How Canada's new streaming law affects YOU 😲
Starting the show with Bitwit's announcement that he's moving on.
At the 4:30 mark we talk about how to make sure your shiny new 7000 AMD CPU doesn't blow up.

At 13:43 we talk about why it's ok to wait for Jedi Survivor to be discounted.

And finally at 21:15 we fill you in on how a Canadian law can possibly affect YOU - even if you're not Canadian.
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April 27, 2023 The PNP got HACKED 👮 AND I DON'T BLAME THEM 🕵️ Latest fire hazard AMD's 7800X3D MIXED with Asus X670E mobos 🔥 YES there is a 3060TI SUPER , NO you can't buy it 😔
existence of a non-password protected database containing over 1.2 million records.records to be related to individuals who were employed or applied to work in law enforcement in the Republic of the Philippines, and could be broadly categorized into:Documents relating to individuals who either applied for law enforcement roles (“Applicant Records”) or had been employed to work in law enforcement roles (“Employee Records”) in the Republic of the Philippines; andAncillary documents relating to the affairs and administration of law enforcement agencies in the Philippines.These Applicant Records and Employee Records contained highly sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). I saw scans of official documentation such as passports, birth and marriage certificates, drivers’ licenses, academic transcripts, security clearance documents, and many more.It is crucial to emphasize that the information in question was readily accessible to individuals with an internet connection.Due to the amount of time from when the exposure was discovered, reported, and finally closed it is unclear exactly how long the database was publicly accessible or if anyone else may have accessed it. I can validate that the data was exposed for a minimum of 6 week
https://www.vpnmentor.com/news/report-philippine-police-breach/

"It was not a hack. It was a data leak," DICT Secretary Ivan Uy told ANC's "Headstart"."A cybersecurity researcher... happened to find a site where there was no security. It was just open to the public," he added.Based on DICT's investigation, the data leak came from the online recruitment portal of the Philippine National Police. "It's an employment portal or recruitment portal. The uploaded documents were the ones that were exposed," Uy said.The PNP's IT department did not have knowledge about its recruitment page, he said.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/25/23/no-hacking-dict-says-data-leak-was-from-pnp-portal

7800X3D burned out on an Asus ROG Strix X670E
take it apart to find the 7800X3D bulged out and took the socket with it
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/12tlk7s/7800x3d_just_killed_itself_and_my_mobo/

MSI is pulling the RTX 3060 Ti Super 3X graphics card series in China at the request of Nvidia.
https://www.pcgamer.com/msi-just-had-to-unlaunch-its-rtx-3060-ti-super-3x-because-its-not-actually-super/
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April 20, 2023 Gamers are starting to see NVIDIA's RTX light 💡My problem with new hardware features 😩 The April Fools Joke which WAS NOT A JOKE 🤡
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-reveals-high-adoption-rates-for-ray-tracing-and-dlss-with-launch-of-geforce-rtx-4070.html
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-reportedly-takes-time-with-ada-lovelace-ramp

https://www.gadgetpilipinas.net/2023/04/asus-rog-ally-preview/
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21min
April 13, 2023 FAILED launch of a new product 💥 and NO we're not talking about Nvidia's 4070
We got our Silver Play button from YT! Listen in on what we plan to do with it.
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April 07, 2023 Pro Thai player says Filipino players are CANCER and Filipinos say "YES!" 💩 BEST GAMING CPU goes to the 7800X3D 🥇 Has gaming gotten TOO big? 🎮
23Savage, after he claimed in one of his gaming streams that he did not wantto play on a team full of Filipinos again, adding that “Filipinos spread likecancer.”
The player made his comment in the midst of a game in which he suspected that aplayer on the opposing team was stream-sniping him, which is when somebody usesan opponent’s live stream to gain an advantage in the game.the Thai player said that he suspected the sniper was Filipino and launchedinto a rant about how “Filipinos spread like cancer” in professional e-sports.
“If I were to manage a team and choose players, I will only allow oneFilipino player in my team at most,” he said.
https://coconuts.co/manila/news/thai-dota-2-star-player-23savage-says-he-doesnt-want-to-play-on-filipino-filled-team-says-filipinos-spread-like-cancer/

"We have always believed, and still believe, that the Competitive Balance Tax was lawful, andit did not have an adverse impact on player salaries," it added.
Under the settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge, Activision agreed to refrain from putting any caps or limits on salaries of esports players or teams, thedepartment said.https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-activision-blizzard-2023-04-03/
The AMD Ryzen CPU, equipped with 8 cores, 16 threads, and a whopping 104MB cache (32 MB CCD, 64 MB V-Cache + 8 MB L2), is the perfect choice for gamers.It has a base clock of 4 GHz, which may be at least 500 MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X, but has a boost clock of 5.0 GHz, ~400 MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Unlike other processors in the 3D V-Cache series, AMD used just one chiplet to add an additional 3D V-Cache layer. The dual chiplet design of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D causes an imbalance as they switch between non-V-Cache and V-Cache CCD, depending on the load. However, AMD's algorithm addresses this issue for the bigger part.As a result, the operating system must make decisions on thread prioritization. However, since the 7800X3D processor only has one die activated, there is no need for software dependency. This eliminates the inconvenience mentioned in our 7950X3D review and results.
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/ryzen-7-7800x3d-processor-review,1.html

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March 30, 2023 How Linus got hacked is SCARY 👨‍💻 Filipino Celeb visits Spain, suddenly posts gaming related content 📸 Counterstrike is back! 🎯 Sony ports are terrible but I still watch the Last of Us on HBO 🧟 Hardware Sugar is NOT AFRAID of AI taking our jobs 🦾
1. Linus gets hacked, again
2. Filipino Celeb visits Spain, suddenly posts gaming related content
3. CS 2 – new way of dealing with recording actions in real time, new smoke, flash
bang, graphics, old skins are being ported over
Summer 2023
F2P
4. Last of Us Part 1 PC Port is terrible, buggy, optimized, meme about sony –
mention show
5. We are not afraid of AI https://www.tomshardware.com/news/newegg-chatgpt-pc-builder
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23min
March 23, 2023 Our most viral video has a mistake which almost ruined our Youtube channel 😱 or a short oral history of the long way we took to get to 100,000 Youtube subs
Forgive me if this episode is a touch egoistical but as we've just breached the 100k sub mark on YT I thought it would be a good time to look back, reflect and ponder just how close everything came to falling apart.
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57min
March 16, 2023 Philippine EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK at the Deepcool AK Digital Air Cooler 🧐 2022 was the WORST YEAR EVER for GPU sales - and that's GOOD NEWS for you 📉 More good news, SSD prices are falling like a rock 📉📉
On the Deepcool AK400 Digital: At least I think it's the first look for a PH tech channel; haven't seen it from anyone else.
Nvidia's latest driver, version 531.18, appears to have a bug that causes high CPU usage after exiting games.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-latest-drivers-increase-cpu-usage-after-closing-games

For the whole year 2022, AMD, Intel, and Nvidia sold around 37.86 million graphics processors for desktop AIBs, down sharply from approximately 49.15 million units in 2021, according to Jon Peddie Research. In fact, 37.86 million units is an all-time low for discrete graphics desktop graphics boards. To add some context, sales of standalone graphics cards for desktop PCs peaked at 116 million units in 1998, based on JPR data. With 30.34 million desktop discrete graphics processors sold in 2022, Nvidia maintained rather strong unit shipments and grabbed market share away from AMD.In fact, the company's desktop GPU unit sales in 2022 exceeded its shipments in pre-pandemic 2019, but 2022 was not a particularly good year from unit shipments point of view. By contrast, sales of AMD's Radeon add-in-boards dropped to 6.76 million units, their lowest point ever.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-maintains-lead-as-sales-of-graphics-cards-hit-all-time-low-in-2022-jpr
The price of SSDs is in rapid decline. Anyone who has been following the market for the last few months should not be surprised. We've long known that a glut of NAND flash memory and lowering manufacturing costs are now being passed along to the consumer, with typical reductions of 15 to 30 percent in just the last 60 days.Back in October, analysts predicted that, by mid-2023, the price of drives woulddrop by 50 percent. At the time, major suppliers such as Kioxia and Micronannounced that they would reduce the production of NAND to keep supplies lower.However, there's only so much that a memory manufacturer can do to limit outputbefore they are losing money by maintaining idle production facilities.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-prices-falling-march-2023
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March 09, 2023 Is it ok to CHEAT to CATCH a cheater? ⚠️ Fans of hyper realistic shooter Tarkov are reeling from a viral YT video showing cheating in their game. Can the game survive this and what does it mean for other FPS where cheating is rampant. Looking at you COD 👀
Filipino streamer RamenStyle, who has been streaming Tarkov for almost 5 years now, helps us explore the game and the consequences of this blatant demonstration of cheating.
RamenStyle on YT
RamenStyle on IG
Fascinating discussion - tbh I don't even play Tarkov but I find watching the game really engrossing.
(Taking a break from our news format with a deep dive with our first ever guest. If you find this format refreshing please let us know - and let us know who else you would like us to have on the show!)
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29min
March 02, 2023 Why did this Filipino tech youtuber stop posting? 🤨 BEST GAMING CPU shifts to AMD with its 7950X 3D 👑 But AMD doesn't make its money from PC gamers 🤑
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ukraine-requests-an-end-to-atomic-heart-sales.html

According to Eurogamer, the developer of Atomic Heart is backed by Anatoliy Paliy's investment firm Gem Capital, who used to work for the state-controlled energy company Gazprom.Bornyakov has raised concerns that revenues from the game's purchases couldpotentially be used to finance the war against Ukraine.In addition, there have been allegations of data collection by Mundfish, with their website privacy policy reportedly disclosing collected data to Russian authorities. However, thedeveloper has marked this data protection declaration obsolete and sinceremoved it. Despite these controversies, the game has garnered significantattention from gamers and enthusiasts alike.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/mindfactory-researchthe-cost-of-a-graphics-card-increased-by-a-factor-of-two-between-2020-and-2023.html

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sony-becomes-largest-customer-of-amd

Sony became AMD's largest customer last year, accounting for 16% of the company's revenue as its PlayStation 5 increased its lead over competitors. Sravan Kundojjala, a semiconductor industry analyst, noted that if Xilinx results are excluded, Sony accounts for 20% of AMD's revenue, probably making it the company's largest customer in recent history. Indeed, the gaming business unit was AMD's largest revenue generator, which indicates that sales of system-on-chips for Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S consoles were also strong. AMD sold Sony some $3.776 billion worth of chips for PlayStation 5 game consoles in 2022,which accounted for 16% of the company's revenue for the year, according to thecompany's filing with the SEC.
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The podcast currently has 62 episodes available.