Podcast #700 – RTX 4080 Review, High GPU Prices Explained, GN Solves 4090 Connector Mystery, 1-click AMD boost, EPYC’ly good sausage + more!
Whoa, two weeks in a row! Don’t get crazy, we’re taking off next week for Thanksgiving, so there.
And most importantly of all, we have made it to episode 700!!!
Inside, find the RTX 4080, our review. The state of building a gaming PC today vs the consoles, hot takes abound. Some good security news – for once. AMD 1-click game tuning, coming soon to a GPU near you. Power adapter-gate explained (TL;DR; – plug it all the way in!) Plus gripping Nvidia earnings and some EPYC sausage. Full timeline below. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Show Topics
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Food with Josh
03:08 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition review
36:07 You aren’t dreaming…it’s NVIDIA quarterly earnings coverage!
42:34 Podcast sponsor – Masterclass
44:03 Did Gamers Nexus solve the 4090 connector mystery?
55:47 AMD’s EPYC new server processors
1:00:53 Josh talks memory controllers
1:04:23 AMD brings HYPR-RX to Radeon Software next year
1:06:09 Google settles Android tracking lawsuit
1:08:02 Lenovo patches UEFI vulnerability
1:10:01 Gaming PSA
1:13:12 Picks of the Week
1:25:45 Outro
Picks of the Week
- Josh: Monitors getting cheaper and cheaper…
- Jeremy: SAMSUNG LS34J552WQNXZA 34″ WQHD 3440 x 1440 75 Hz, $310
- Brett: Fallout New Vegas, free with Prime
- Sebastian: Still looking for a $329 5800X3D? How about a $339 one?
