PC Perspective Podcast #274 – 10/24/2013

Join us this week as we discuss NVIDIA G-SYNC, R9 290X Benchmarks, and Process Technology for Next Gen Graphics!

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

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Program length: 1:16:43
  1. 0:02:30 PC Perspective Halloween Hardware Giveaway – Brought to you by Corsair and Gigabyte
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  3. Week in Review:
    1. 0:07:10 NVIDIA "The Way It's Meant to be Played" 2013 Press Event
      1. NVIDIA Holiday Gaming Bundle: Free Games and More!
      2. NVIDIA Announces G-Sync, Variable Refresh Rate Monitor Technology
      3. John Carmack, Tim Sweeney and Johan Andersson Talk NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD Mantle and Graphics Trends
    2. 0:31:30 NVIDIA G-Sync: Death of the Refresh Rate
      1. PCPer Live! NVIDIA G-Sync Discussion with Tom Petersen, Q&A
    3. 0:34:45 Next Gen Graphics and Process Migration: 20 nm and Beyond
  4. News items of interest:
    1. 0:45:20 AMD Allows Two Early R9 290X Benchmarks
    2. 0:48:35 Apple Announces Updates to Macbook Pro and Mac Pro Lineups
    3. 0:53:30 AMD to Continue Never Settle?
    4. 0:55:30 GeForce GTX 760 OEMs Announced, With Specs!
      1. GTX 780 Ti Announced Too… Specs Not So Much
  5. Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
    1. Jeremy: X-Com: Enemy Unknown Long War Mod
    2. Josh: Interesting Monitor… non-eBay!
    3. Allyn: Did you know (Windows 8.1 safe mode)
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  9. Closing/outro
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