PC Perspective Podcast #368 – 09/24/2015

Join us this week as we discuss full GTX 980s in notebooks, Samsung's NVMe 950 Pro, Jim Keller leaving AMD and more!

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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Josh Walrath, Jeremy Hellstrom, and Morry Teitelman

Program length: 1:24:13

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  2. Week in Review:
    1. 0:03:15 CPU Water Block Comparison on Haswell-E
    2. 0:14:35 Choosing a ThinkPad – Something for Everyone
    3. 0:22:35 World's Fastest Mobile GPU – Full GM204 GTX 980 for Notebooks
      1. MSI Makes Desktop Gaming Graphics Mobile with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPU
    4. 0:34:20 Thrustmaster TX F458 Ferrari Italia Edition Review: Stepping Up the Wheel Game
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  4. News item of interest:
    1. 0:49:05 Jim Keller Leaves AMD
    2. 0:54:50 HP Split Imminent, and 30,000+ Employees Will Be Let Go
    3. 0:58:00 Star Wars Battlefront Beta Will Be Public
      1. More Star Wars Battlefront news
    4. 1:02:05 Samsung Launches 950 PRO – 300,000 IOPS and 2.5 GB/sec from a M.2 V-NAND SSD!
      1. Samsung Announces New Branding and Future SSD Capacity Expansion with their New 48-Layer V-NAND
    5. 1:09:35 ASUS Updates Transformer Book Lineup with T100HA and TP200SA
    6. 1:12:00 Rumor: Google To Host Press Briefing on September 29th
  5. Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
    1. Ryan: Kanex USB-C Gigabit Ethernet
    2. Jeremy: Origin unbuggered C&C 2
    3. Josh: Perhaps a good starter wheel?
    4. Morry: USB 3.1 enclosures at their best
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  8. Closing/outro

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