Podcast #701 – AMD Ryzen 7000 Price Drops, MSI RTX 4080 SUPRIM X, Vertagear Gaming Chair, Slow Win11?, Security Scares + way more!
We can’t stay away from the tech news and reviews – and neither should you. After doing this 700 times, the 701st time should be easier, right?
AMD lowered prices on their Zen 4 processors, but for how long? Also, we look at a massive aftermarket RTX 4080 from MSI, with none other than the SUPRIM X edition of the card. Plus other things, including a gaming chair review from Jeremy. There’s plenty of security scares to raise your blood pressure, gaming news and the state of the GPU market! Kick the show off with Food with Josh and get the rest of the details in the timestamps below. Thanks!
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Show Topics
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:11 Food with Josh
03:55 AMD Ryzen 7000 price drops
12:34 Samsung presents GDDR6W
16:15 NVIDIA’s Priority Access program
19:04 GPU shipments take a nosedive
23:26 Podcast Sponsor – TextExpander
24:42 Faster or slower to run 13900K with no E-cores?
27:41 Intel software-defined silicon rides again
30:57 Windows 11 slow? There’s a patch for that
35:13 NVIDIA patches 29 security vulnerabilities
39:12 Twitter and Meta leaks
42:15 Beware MSI Afterburner imposters
45:11 Gaming Quick Hits
49:15 MSI RTX 4080 SUPRIM X review
57:13 Josh’s Thustmaster Airbus review
1:02:56 Vertagear PL6800 gaming chair review
1:11:51 Picks of the Week
1:26:44 Outro
Picks of the Week
- Josh: Another monitor!
- Jeremy: Give the gift of backup with a 16TB IronWolf Pro NAS HDD?
- Brett: Intel 660p M.2 2TB NVMe 3.0×4 (But QLC) $139
- Sebastian: Bad capacitors are the surprise gift this year
