Podcast #829 - NVIDIA's Trillions, CarFax for PCs, XFX Mercury RX 9070 XT Magnetic Air Review, CUDA everywhere + MORE!

The RX 6500 XT is 4GB or 64bit mobile GPU wrapped in a PCIe desktop card.  It behaves accordingly.  Review of the Thinkpad P15 Mobile Workstation review, TSMC expanding, Nvidia CPU time, and Samsung finally reveals the EXYNOS 2200. Plus Microsoft is looking to buy Activision / Blizzard, and they discontinued the Xbox One a while ago, and welcome to Sysjoker!  The next cross-platform hack.  And more, see belowTimestamps00:00 Prologue00:22 Intro05:03 Burger of the Week06:58 Radeon RX 6500 XT Excitement24:56 Microsoft Buying Activison Blizzard for $68.7 BILLION31:40 SYSJOKER Runs on Anything!34:04 Samsung's Exynos 2200 with RDN2 GPU Announced38:18 TSMC Has FABulous Plans for 202245:57 NVIDIA Hiring for CPU R&D in Isreal48:10 What Supply Chain Shortage? (PC Sales in 2021)52:69 Microsoft Discontinued ALL Xbox One Consoles! In 2020!54:26 Linux and Apple Support for Humble Bundle Ends February 1st58:35 Forever Skies (looks a bit like Subnautica up in the air)01:00:11 Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen 2 Mobile Workstation Review1:11:31 Picks of the Week1:19:48 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

22 Jan 20221h 20min

Post-CES is generally pretty light for a few weeks, but not this year! Josh was out sick but Kent stepped in and we had a low-key discussion of the topics of the evening.  The 3080 12GB, a 2000w PSU, the Intel NUC 12 will have LGA socket, Nvidia latest resolution dance with DLDSR, the RX 6500 XT is only x4 for PCIe, the Intel i9 is hitting 5.5Ghz OOTB?  More below!Timestamps:00:00 Intro02:07 NVIDIA introduces a 12GB version of the RTX 308007:50 NVIDIA's latest driver brings another scaling tech: DLDSR11:12 Does it matter that AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT is limited to a x4 interface?13:55 Intel's 5.5 GHz Core i9-12900KS announced15:40 NUC 12 Extreme uses DESKTOP processors, has standard LGA socket20:14 Podcast Sponsor: Linkedin Jobs21:17 Samsung has apparently delayed the Exynos 2200 with RDNA2 graphics23:21 PCI Express 6.0 announced24:53 Norton-owned Avira Antivirus wants you to mine ETH28:45 Canon's copy-protected ink component shortage forces workaround31:20 SilverStone's 2050W PSU35:59 Half Life gets ray traced38:14 NVIDIA updating all Shield devices to Android 1139:45 Picks of the Week49:45 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

15 Jan 202250min

First show of 2022, and we cover announcements and new tech from some of the top names in the industry.  Plus have a good discussion on OLED TV's.   And you still probably cannot buy a GPU at the price they should be sold at.Timestamps00:00 Intro02:28 Burger of the Week03:37 AMD Ryzen 6000 Mobile Processors Announced08:54 First 3D V-Cache CPU is the Ryzen 7 5800X3D15:32 Radeon RX 6500 XT Announced21:56 NVIDIA GPUs Announced - RTX 3050 and Mobile 3070 Ti / 3080 Ti25:38 One more thing... the RTX 3090 Ti30:36 Alder Lake Goes Mobile: 12th Gen H-Series CPUs36:57 Phison E26 PCIe Gen5 SSD Controller Specs (and a look at Ryan's Gen5 SSD video)45:37 Can the ASUS ROG DDR5 to DDR4 adapter be a real product?50:09 NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs are probably faster than your NIC54:33 LG's 16:18 Monitor59:20 Picks of the Week1:13:49 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

8 Jan 20221h 18min

Alder Lake NonK pricing, Spectra Hack, Final Fantasy VII update, Windows 11 continues shuffling control panels, Games updates, and DDR4 vs DD5. It's our final show of 2021, and we DID NOT do a year in review! Instead, enjoy the usual nonsense for about an hour, if you can make it that long.Timestamps:00:00 Intro02:53 Non-K Alder Lake CPU Pricing Leaked05:15 Another DDR4 vs. DDR5 Discussion08:24 FFVIIR Intergrade PC Launch Issues13:21 Microsoft Shuffles Windows 11 Settings15:21 RTX 2050 Excitement17:48 Podcast Sponsor: TextExpander18:55 Another Week, Another Vulnerability22:08 The "audiophile" SSD31:45 A Case Made From Two Pieces of Curved Metal34:03 Halo Infinite is Rather Demanding39:22 An Infusion of Enfusion42:01 Games of the Week46:34 Picks of the Week55:59 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

26 Des 202156min

It's our pre-pre-holiday show, wherein we talk about the few stories of interest from the week that was, and get derailed quite a bit. Don't miss it. Or do. But if you don't watch, why on earth are you reading this?Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:06 Burger of the Week02:41 Final Fantasy VII Remake Comes to PC06:04 New Radeon Driver Improves Halo Infinite Performance10:05 Android 10, Teams, and 91113:44 Log4J and Log4Shell18:28 Podcast Sponsor: LinkedIn Jobs19:19 SteamOS Slims Down21:08 SK Hynix Sampling 24Gb DDR5 Chips22:13 Seagate's 20TB Hard Drives25:14 You think 20TB is big? How about 30TB (next year, maybe)!27:16 Games of the Week33:18 Podcast Sponsor: VPLS34:31 Picks of the Week47:40 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

17 Des 202150min

Some of the news that's fit to talk about.  Includes Microsoft Browser and Start Menu "fixes", the upcoming 3090ti, the N-Gauge rides again?, Roku and YouTube don't break up, and the Intel Alder Lake issues with games and DRM is getting better and M1 Macs are getting along with external displays better.Presented for your perusal is a plethora of topics from another week of tech news. And a burger.Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:22 Burger of the Week02:46 Qualcomm N-Gages Their Mobile Gaming Platform09:13 Intel Alder Lake DRM Issue Down to Three Games12:31 Microsoft Decides Win11 Users Can Change Their Default Browser After All14:35 RTX 3090 Ti Rumors17:39 RTX 2060 12GB is Real!22:50 The M1 iPadMac Doesn't Have Good External Display Support27:02 YouTube Isn't Leaving Roku30:49 Games of the Week38:17 SilverStone ALTA G1M Case Review47:31 ASUS and Noctua's Very Large, Very Brown RTX 307048:58 Picks of the Week57:35 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

11 Des 202158min

After a week away to eat regrettable amounts of food, we are back to discuss a seemingly random list of topics (see the time stamps for all of them). Also, the burger this week was a little weird.Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:22 Burger of the Week04:46 Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Gen 109:44 AMD RZ600 Series Wi-Fi 6E Chips Coming Via MediaTek Collaboration11:47 Break for Sponsor:  Work smarter and faster with TextExpander12:51 Did you know that Microsoft and Qualcomm were exclusive?18:44 Getting Nostalgic About Netbooks and Webcams (???)21:28 Kingston Joins the PCIe 4.0 SSD Club with the KC300027:17 Bricking Samsung TVs remotely30:08 Break for Sponsor:  VPLS, a full services IT company31:26 Seaberry Turns A Raspberry Pi 4 Into A Linux Powered ITX System35:35 With DDR4 At 5000MHz, Who Needs DDR5?44:55 Break for Sponsor:  SimpliSafe, complete home security system46:00 Picks of the Week57:02 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

4 Des 202158min

Join us for a look at another week of PC hardware and software news, including NVIDIA's big November update, Seagate's bizzarre NVMe HDD (as in HARD DISK DRIVE, not SSD), more Intel CPU BIOS patches, and more - all listed below in the time stamps.00:00 Intro01:07 Burger of the Week (sort of)01:52 NVIDIA Intros DLSS 2.3, Image Sharpening, ICAT10:57 Intel 4004 Turns 5013:20 Seagate Developing NVMe HARD DRIVES?!15:36 Podcast Sponsor: LinkedIn Talent Solutions16:47 Get Yer (70+) Windows 11 Fixes Here!18:49 Time to BIOS Patch Your Intel CPUs21:45 TPU Looks at Win11 vs Win10 ADL Performance26:42 The Elder Scrolls 6 on PC and Xbox Only27:35 CHERRY MX Board 3.0 S Keyboard35:42 Picks of the Week47:10 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

19 Nov 202148min