PC Perspective Podcast #485 - 02/01/18

Join us this week for a recap of news and reviews including Intel and AMD Earnings, Samsung Z-NAND, GDDR6 and more!

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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Allyn Malventano

Peanut Gallery: Alex Lustenberg, Ken Addison

Program length: 1:23:43

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PCPer Mailbag #28 - 1/26/2018


Week in Review:



0:03:25 Intel SSD 760p M.2 NVMe Series Full Capacity Roundup - Bang for the Buck


0:16:45 EVGA SuperNOVA 750W G3 Power Supply Review


0:19:00 Samsung Introducing Z-NAND Based 800GB Z-SSD For Enterprise HPC




News items of interest:



0:25:45 Western Digital Announces Second Quarter Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2018


0:27:00 Intel Announces Q4 2017 Results: Calm Before the Storm?


0:40:25 AMD Reports Stronger Than Expected Q4 Earnings


0:51:32 SK Hynix Launches Its 8Gb GDDR6 Memory Running at 14 Gbps


0:53:40 Epic Games Shutting Down Paragon with Refunds


0:55:05 What could possibly go wrong? Microsoft may be looking to buy EA, Valve and PUBG


1:00:30 CORSAIR's water resistant K68 RGB mechanical gaming keyboard


1:03:30 Vivo Xplay7 reportedly to be the first smartphone to feature 10GB of RAM


1:06:10 Intel will be melting down the spectre of insecurity later this year



A quick lesson in bad optics from Intel






Picks of the Week:



1:11:15 Ryan: APC 1500VA UPS


1:15:45 Jeremy: I’m impressed with how much I am enjoying Subnautica


1:17:15 Josh: Reasonably price Threadripper cooling


1:18:15 Allyn: Cheap portable batteries from Amazon? (act fast)




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