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PC Perspective Podcast #513 - 09/13/18

Join us this week for discussion on gaming on Threadripper 2990WX, Huawei Cheating in Benchmarks, and more!

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Hosts: Allyn Malventano, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Ken Addison

Peanut Gallery: Alex Lustenberg

Program length: 1:22:09

Podcast topics of discussion:

1. Join our spam list to get notified when we go live!
2. Patreon
3. PCPer Mailbag #57 - How Many Rays Would a Ray Tracer Trace If a Ray Tracer Could Trace Rays?
4. Merch! http://joshtekk.com/
5. Week in Review:
   1. 0:05:05 Quick Look: Toshiba XG6 1TB NVMe SSD - Upgraded to 96-Layer BiCS Flash
   2. 0:12:45 Be Quiet! Silent Base 601 Mid-Tower Enclosure Review
   3. 0:17:50 HyperX Alloy FPS RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
   4. 0:20:35 New GeForce Driver Fixes Performance Issue: Threadripper 2990WX Tested
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7. News items of interest:
   1. 0:33:45 Apple Announces iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR Smartphones with 7nm A12 Bionic Processor
   2. 0:43:55 Das Keyboard Launches Q-Series Cloud Connected RGB Keyboards
   3. 0:46:45 Athlon rides again!
   4. 0:49:10 The Huawei defence; it ain't cheatin' if everyone does it!
      1. Huawei Kirin Cheating Extends to Geekbench, P20 Pro Tested
   5. 0:55:10 Board shorts, the GPU market shrinks a bit
   6. 0:58:20 Qualcomm Launches Next-Gen Snapdragon Wear W3100 Smartwatch Platform
   7. 1:00:25 14TB for anyone! Seagate's new HDD lines
   8. 1:05:20 A glimpse through the new Windows; Edge goes full Clippy
8. Picks of the Week:
   1. 1:10:05 Allyn: Intel SSD 760p at MicroCenter
   2. 1:11:00 Jeremy: Back things up, seriously
   3. 1:12:50 Josh: If you bought that InstantPot...
   4. 1:14:25 Ken: ASUS PG27UQ for less money
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11. Closing/outro