PC Perspective Podcast #529 – 1/16/2019
This week on the show, we look at a review of a new wireless gaming headset from HyperX, talk about the new G-SYNC Compatibility program for FreeSync monitors, look at ray tracing performance in the new 3DMark Port Royal benchmark, and more!
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Show Topics
01:34 – Review: HyperX Cloud MIX
05:19 – News: G-SYNC Compatible Monitor Driver
13:38 – News: Threadripper NUMA Dissociater
15:47 – News: HardOCP Interview with AMD's Scott Herkelman
21:35 – News: Intel-Micron 3D XPoint Split
24:34 – News: Cortana & Windows 10 Search
29:38 – News: 3DMark Port Royal Ray Tracing Benchmark
35:53 – Picks of the Week
46:24 – Outro
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Picks of the Week
Jim: iPhone XS Max Battery Case
Jeremy: 3D-Printed Resistor Storage
Josh: ASRock X470 Taichi Motherboard
Sebastian: Koss KPH30ik Headphones
Today's Podcast Hosts
Sebastian Peak
Josh Walrath
Jeremy Hellstrom
Jim Tanous
Seems like many Nvidia users
Seems like many Nvidia users are not enough tech savvy to be able to configure their games to run within freesync range of the monitor they have.
Probably Nvidia Experience also gets in a way.
About port royal, try to run
About port royal, try to run the benchmark with raytracing off and you will see that the benchmark is very demanding even without raytracing.