In this special JoshTekk episode, we return from our Thanksgiving break with just over an hour of some of the best podcasting you'll ever experience in your life. Don't believe it? Watch, and be convinced.  We've got Tiny 11, OwnCloud horror show soon, Google Drive files that are disappearing, YouTube slights Firefox users, and so much more! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:13 Food with Josh 03:33 Intel to spend billions to have TSMC fab their CPUs 10:17 Tiny11 now available in 23H2 version 12:35 NVIDIA makes all the money 18:04 Build your own USB-C power delivery sniffer 20:41 The amazing disa ..read more

We won't be podcasting next week, so we encourage you to watch this week's episode repeatedly until we return. We've got SanDisk Extreme Pro with a whole-lotta failures, Intel Arc updates!, GeForce Five-Oh rumors, Gaming industry layoffs and so much more. We of course talked about several other topics, and provide you with a handy index below. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:37 Food with Josh 04:06 Intel Arc news - a minor driver update! 05:49 Josh interrupts to ponder AI or something 07:00 AMD MI300X to power new Azure VM series 08:47 Microsoft developed their own Arm superchip 11:49 Intel APO fea ..read more

Ryan may not be back this week, but I'm sure viewers won't tune out in droves. Right? Right?? Hello??? No one left, eh? Well, we did a podcast anyway. So much ARM, too much for ARC, and AMD Polaris / Vega is forsaken.  All that and more in the subjects below. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:03 Burger of the Week 04:29 Arc News: Get your $1949 A770-equipped Alienware today! 07:19 AMD begins retirement of Vega and Polaris 08:45 New Starfield Steam Beta brings DLSS and PC optimizations 10:56 Mac DirectX game porting 16:00 Imagination has a DX11 GPU 19:03 Arm invests in Pi 25:11 Intel killed off C ..read more

Ryan is back! At least, this week. As a guest. But he's BACK, darn it. We talked about stuff. M3. Qualcomm.  ARM.  So much financial. More topics in the time stamps below. Timestamps: 00:00 Cold Open 00:45 Intro 04:39 Food with Josh 07:51 Qualcomm X Elite Windows benchmarks 24:32 Apple M3 discussion 36:23 Intel financials 42:57 AMD financials 47:48 Qualcomm had financials, too 48:57 AV1 is everywhere 50:27 Ryan is lit 51:45 Security Corner 59:14 Gaming Quick Hits 1:03:30 What 5 years at Intel did to Ryan 1:04:41 Back to Gaming 1:08:41 Picks of the Week 1:16:47 Outro ★ Support this po ..read more

It was another week of news, rumors, game releases, four-year-old GPUs becoming irrelevant thanks to Mesh Shader support requirements, the industry freaking out about arm64 and declaring the death of x86, and other things. So many security fails to wedge into 1 show and then we flavor the cast with a Loupedeck review.   Topics below! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:16 Food with Josh 05:38 NVIDIA (and AMD) to make Arm CPUs - is this the end of x86??!! 11:59 Qualcomm's mighty laptop SoC claims 24:16 Alan Wake 2, mesh shaders, and the fate of old-ish GPUs 31:46 Microsoft has questions for yo ..read more

Words flow from us at an alarming rate, but be not afraid; we are the harbingers of semi-literate PC hardware and software discussion. Also, burgers. In this episode, we discuss the VERY EXCITING Intel 14th Gen launch, look at a very fancy Falcon Northwest Talon desktop equipped with one of these processors, and eventually talk about AMD un-launching Anti-Lag+ after it caused some mildly inconvenient bans from popular games when using the feature. There's even a very exciting back and forth on programmable remotes during the SofaBaton pick!   The rest of the topics can be found in the tim ..read more

What is fifty-three minutes in time, and yet timeless? This episode of the PCPer podcast, of course! Yes, we made Podcast History (tm) once again this week, and did it in just under an hour. Listen again and again, savoring every moment. We can't stop you.  Enjoy the Arc, The VBScript, and the Dark Rock within. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:11 Josh did not have a burger 04:14 Intel launches Arc A580 as A750 goes on sale for $10 more 08:57 More Arc news - driver update massively improves Starfield perf 11:17 be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5 and Dark Rock Elite air coolers coming soon 13:53 Microsoft ..read more

It might appear to be a lighter news week, but we still managed to talk for well over an hour, even after liberal editing.   We've got RGB, Pi, and Arc news of course, plus FSR and some fast and interesting portal storage. Full topic list in the time stamps below! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:57 Burger of the Week 03:59 Arc A580 may actually be released soon 05:50 Radeon 7900 XTX and XT price drops 16:47 Mobile Radeon 7900 rumor 19:26 AMD FSR 3 has been released 25:19 Microsoft ends Windows 11 activation via Win7 and Win8 keys 29:38 Windows 11 ARGB control out of beta 30:55 Raspberry Pi 5 3 ..read more

Ryan left Intel! What does this mean for PC Perspective?? Nothing, actually. Except that we get to pontificate about Ryan's future. Don't worry, we'll ask him to visit soon. It will be more interesting when he can tell us where he's going. We also talked about Scott "Jebaited" Herkelman's pending departure from AMD. So many moves in the PC hardware industry, eh?? Oh, and you won't want to miss our CASO discussion. This might be the biggest thing to happen to gaming laptops, ever. EVAR.  Should be mention the proliferation of affordable 2.5Gb switches again?  Yes, we'll do that. Times ..read more

The fab five are back at it again. Well, maybe not "fab" in the traditional sense, or even in the silicon sense. But we recorded a podcast and talked about various things anyway. Please consult the list below.  It includes the usual security theater, gaming bits, and even a ROG Strix keyboard review for those of you that swing that way! Recorded September 20, 2023. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:10 Burger of the Week 02:50 Intel details Meteor Lake architecture - a big departure 11:58 Overreacting to very early RTX 5090 rumors 16:01 Mandatory Arc News - Intel's commitment to building GPUs 19 ..read more