PC Perspective Podcast #339 – 03/05/2015

Join us this week as we discuss the NVIDIA SHIELD and Titan X, AMD Mantle, OpenGL Vulkan, and much more from GDC!

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Hosts: Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Allyn Malventano, Scott Michaud and Ken Addison

Program length: 1:22:13

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  2. Week in Review:
    1. 0:02:25 Asus STRIX GTX 750 Ti Review: Quiet, Tiny, and Effective
    2. 0:08:30 Cooler Master Nepton 240M All-in-One Liquid Cooler Review
    3. 0:11:20 Intel Launches Atom x3, x5 and x7 Processors for Phones, Tablets, and 2-in-1s
    4. 0:16:30 SilverStone Raven RV05 Enclosure Review: The Raven Returns to Form
  3. News item of interest:
    1. 0:22:50 New Intel NUC Will Feature i7 Broadwell-U CPU With Iris 6100 Graphics
    2. 0:25:15 MWC 2015: Samsung Has Officially Announced the New Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge Smartphones
    3. 0:30:20 HTC Announces Vive VR Headset in Partnership with Valve
    4. 0:34:00 GDC 15: NVIDIA Announces SHIELD, Tegra X1 Powered Set-top with Android TV
      1. NVIDIA SHIELD Set-top Powered by Tegra X1 Specs and Impressions
      2. GDC 15: Native versions of Doom 3, Crysis 3 running on Android, Tegra X1
    5. 0:38:20 GDC 15: NVIDIA Shows TITAN X at Epic Games Keynote
    6. 0:43:45 AMD LiquidVR SDK Aims for Silky Smooth VR on all Headsets
    7. 0:46:20 GDC 15: AMD Mantle Might Be Dead as We Know It: No Public SDK Planned
    8. 0:47:15 GDC 15: What Is Vulkan (glNext), SPIR-V, and OpenCL 2.1?
      1. GDC 15: Khronos Acknowledges Mantle's Start of Vulkan
    9. 0:52:50 EVGA and Inno3D Announce the First 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Cards
    10. 0:56:00 GDC 15: ZOTAC Announces the SN970 Steam Machine – Powered by a GTX 970M and Intel Skylake CPU
    11. 1:00:00 GDC 15: Valve Shows Off $50 Steam Link Game Streaming Box
    12. 1:05:45 GDC 15: PhysX Is Now Shared Source to UE4 Developers
  4. Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
    1. Jeremy: Um, I don’t know, SteamOS sales I guess?
    2. Allyn: A handy thing to have for cloning mobile SSDs (and this option)
    3. Josh: Makes for the networking!
    4. Scott: Buying computer parts at the worst possible time.
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  7. Closing/outro

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