AMD Reports Stronger Than Expected Q4 Earnings
January 30th has rolled around and AMD released their Q4 2017 results. The results were positive and somewhat unexpected. I have been curious how the company fared and…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Jan 31, 2018 | Editorial | 24
January 30th has rolled around and AMD released their Q4 2017 results. The results were positive and somewhat unexpected. I have been curious how the company fared and…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 30, 2018 | General Tech | 3
Hey, Mr. Spillypants, are you going through keyboards like crazy thanks to the variety of liquids you have fed them? Corsair has a solution with their K68 RGB mechanical keyboard, available with…
Read MorePosted by Allyn Malventano | Jan 25, 2018 | Storage | 12
Introduction: Intel has been doing great with their Optane / 3D XPoint products lately, but what about NAND? Samsung had been leading the pack with their VNAND for a...
Read MorePosted by Ken Addison | Jan 25, 2018 | General Tech | 7
PC Perspective Podcast #484 - 01/25/18 Join us this week for a recap of news and reviews including new SSDs from Samsung, updates on Spectre and Meltdown, and building the ultimate Plex server, and…
Read MorePosted by Jim Tanous | Jan 24, 2018 | General Tech | 43
Regular PC Perspective readers probably know that we're big fans of Plex, the popular media management and streaming service. While just about everyone on staff has their...
Read MorePosted by Allyn Malventano | Jan 23, 2018 | Storage | 27
Introduction: Samsung launched their 850 line of SSDs in mid-2014 (over three years ago now). The line evolved significantly over time, with the additions of PRO and...
Read MorePosted by Ken Addison | Jan 22, 2018 | Mobile | 15
The sub-$1000 notebook market is one that we rarely cover here at PC Perspective. It's not due to a lack of interest from us, but rather from notebook manufacturers. Generally, companies are only…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 18, 2018 | General Tech | 8
The lawsuit against Intel was launched last week and yesterday a similar case was launched against AMD by a shareholder, alleging that the company knew about their vulnerability to Spectre...
Read MorePosted by Ken Addison | Jan 18, 2018 | General Tech | 3
PC Perspective Podcast #483 - 01/18/18 Join us this week for a recap of news from CES 2018! We talk about Intel's Kaby Lake G processor featuring Vega graphics, Zen+ CPUs, the performance impact…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 17, 2018 | General Tech | 4
The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX Vega 56 Limited Edition 8GB HBM2 with Tri-X dual ball bearing fans and Vapor Chamber cooling bears a name almost as long as the card itself. There…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 15, 2018 | General Tech | 14
Google have released their own patch for the second Spectre vulnerability and claim that there is no noticeable performance hit after installation. The patch isolates indirect branches from speculative execution, similar in…
Read MorePosted by Tim Verry | Jan 13, 2018 | General Tech | 7
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced an update to its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security suite in the form of WPA3. The first major update in more than a decade, WPA3...
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