PC Perspective Podcast #435 – 02/02/17
Join us this week as we discuss Qualcomm aptX, FSP Reundant PSUs, Micron Enterprise SSDs, 5G LTE, AMD Fiscal Year, ZeniMax lawsuit, and more!
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Hosts: Allyn Malventano, Ken Addison, Josh Walrath, Jermey Hellstrom, Sebastian Peak
Program length: 1:46:22
Podcast topics of discussion:
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Week in Review:
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News items of interest:
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Hardware/Software Picks of the Week
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Josh: Fallout 4 on Sale
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Alex: Rimworld Colony Sim
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Closing/outro
You hear that HP(1)! When the
You hear that HP(1)! When the Raven Ridge APUs arrive I want a ProBook with windows 7 Pro options! There are lots of sales in offering Ryzen APUs in laptops with windows 7 Pro factory installed(under a windows 10 Pro “downgrade” option). Also make sure that your HP ProBook windows 7 Pro build supports Vulkan so there can be better GPU compute support as the spread-sheet software begins to add some better OpenCL/Vulkan compute features to accelerate things on the GPU.
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“AMD Readies Ryzen Platform Drivers for Windows 7”
https://www.techpowerup.com/230291/amd-readies-ryzen-platform-drivers-for-windows-7
Beware of motherboard makers
Beware of motherboard makers branding gaming motherboards as workstation grade and then not offering any ECC memory capabilities and such! Just labeling a consumer based motherboard “Workstation” does not make it so! Workstation motherboards support workstation/server grade CPU SKUs.
Real workstation motherboards have more PCIe lanes and support registered/buffered ECC DRAM.
Some bad timings ahead for
Some bad timings ahead for Atoms!
“Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it’s not just Cisco hit”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/