PC Perspective Podcast #324 - 10/30/2014
Join us this week as we discuss Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance, Consoles Performance Issues, Samsung SSD updates and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, and Allyn Malventano

Program length: 1:38:13


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Week in Review:


0:02:25 Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance: Maxwell vs. Hawaii, DX11 vs. Mantle


0:15:50 ECS LIVA Windows Based Mini PC Review: A Palm-Sized Desktop Computer


0:24:50 Steiger Dynamics Maven Core HTPC Review: GTX 980 and CableCARD


0:34:00 Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox One Already Hitting a Performance Wall




News items of interest:


0:44:00 Intel Broadwell-E Expected for Q1 2016


0:47:00 AMD Radeon R9 290X Now Selling at $299


0:52:00 Samsung updates 840 EVO Performance Restoration Tool


Samsung Germany acknowledges '840 Basic' performance slow down, promises fix


Samsung 850 EVO SKUs leaked, leads to initial pricing, specs




1:01:15 GeForce GTX 970 Coil Whine Concerns


1:09:10 The Alienware 13 comes with an optional Graphics Amplifier


1:17:00 LiteOn announces EP1 Series Enterprise M.2 PCIe SSDs


1:19:30 ARM Announces Mali-T800 Series of Mobile GPUs


1:21:25 Connected Data announces Transporter Genesis Private Cloud Appliance


1:25:30 Eighteen-core Xeon E7 v3 Based on Haswell-EX in Q2'15




Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:


Ryan: RavPower Wireless Charger


Jeremy: Low cost, low effort RasPi universal translator


Josh: Make my old Grados much, much nicer


Allyn: Tweak your WMC channel guide




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