PC Perspective Podcast #405 - 06/23/2016

Join us this week as we discuss a AMD RX 480 hands-on, 32-core Zen rumors, the ASUS/MSI VBIOS scandal and more!

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This episode of the PC Perspective Podcast is sponsored by Kaspersky Labs!

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

Program length: 1:33:07



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Week in Review:



0:07:35 Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro 2TB Review - More Power


0:18:00 be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 750W PSU Review




This episode is sponsored by Kaspersky Labs!


News items of interest:



0:28:00 Whoops! AMD Radeon RX 480 Specifications on Newegg



Several more RX 480's appear




0:37:40 Rumor: AMD Plans 32-Core Opteron with 128 PCIe Lanes


0:42:40 ASUS Responds to GTX 1080 "Reviewer VBIOS" Concerns


0:51:50 NVIDIA Announces PCIe Versions of Tesla P100


0:54:40 Drobo Updates 5D to Turbo Edition 5Dt


0:58:00 Brace Yourselves, Samsung SM961, PM961, 960 PRO and 960 EVO SSDs Are Coming!


1:05:30 Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal Comparison Benchmarks


1:10:14 UCDavis Manufactures a 1000-Core CPU


1:12:50 EVGA Shows Off New High Bandwidth "Pro SLI Bridge HB" Bridges




Hardware/Software Picks of the Week



Ryan: Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70mm f/4 ZA OSS Lens


Jeremy: Sound BlasterX G5


Allyn: devCalc Pro - Engineering Mode calculator for iOS


Josh: Don’t have decent rails? Try these!




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