Podcast #738 - Radeon RX 7800 XT & 7700 XT Announced, Falcon Northwest FragBox Review, and MORE

09/02/23 • 83 min

We decided to podcast yet again this week because, honestly, you demand it (you know who you are). The show must go on, and we had a lot to talk about this week - and sometimes we even sounded halfway intelligent! Like when we talked about the new Radeon cards, which bring the promise of $450+ midrange cards to AMD buyers. And we looked at the very compact - and ridiculously well-equipped - FragBox from Falcon Northwest (you know, that little PC that looks like a Playmate cooler?).

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Food with Josh
03:13 AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT announced
12:08 Finally an update on FSR 3
14:39 Is MSI giving up on Radeon?
18:10 Mandatory Arc News: Battlemage in the lab already?
19:45 Starfield bundle going for a bundle
21:41 AMD warns of fake Starfield bundles
24:11 That ASUS mobo GPU power connector uses a server standard
27:41 Podcast sponsor - DeleteMe
29:18 Security Corner
41:23 Gaming Quick Hits
47:00 EPOS Impact 1060 professional headset review
57:14 Falcon Northwest FragBox review
1:12:34 Picks of the Week
1:23:20 Outro

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Podcast #737 - NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 & Monster Earnings, Case-Top GPUs, DUHD and OLED Monitors & MORE

Do you like piña coladas, and getting caught in protracted discussions about DLSS 3.5 and NVIDIA quarterly financials? And that's just the FIRST HALF HOUR. You won't want to miss a single second of this episode. Also, there weren't any piña coladas. Sorry. But there would have been if you had brought your own. There is quite a lot of monitor discussion, right down to the Picks-of-the-Week(tm). Also, there was only the one 737 plane.

Recorded August 23, 2023.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:22 Food with Josh
03:24 DLSS 3.5 announced (with extended discussion)
16:33 NVIDIA earned so much money last quarter
28:17 Microsoft brings some PC Game Pass games to GeForce Now
30:00 The reviews are in - Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is the fastest gaming CPU
33:28 Samsung's dual-UHD 57-inch monitor
38:14 A trio of new OLED displays in the ASUS ROG Swift lineup
39:33 Minisforum Project DRFXI puts the GPU on top of the case
43:35 Podcast sponsor - DeleteMe
45:11 The status of the Windows 11 OOBE
49:24 Microsoft's Secure Time Seeding "feature"
53:11 Security Corner
1:00:04 Gaming Quick Hits
1:11:25 Picks of the Week
1:25:20 Outro

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Podcast #739 - AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT Reviews, GPU Pricing Puzzlement, Starfield and MORE

Are you ready for a podcast filled with verbose discussion interrupted by digressions into random topics? You've come to the right place!
We've got Security nightmares, Gaming updates, Starfield lunacy, regular lunacy, Intel Arc news and even Usenet!

00:00 Intro
01:41 Food with Josh
03:18 Radeon review - take one (with odd CPU cooler digression)
05:11 The actual Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT review
24:23 Josh reviews the XFX QICK 319 Radeon RX 7700 XT Black Edition
36:34 More RX 7700 XT price puzzlement
38:58 One more look at that Starfield bundle eBay auction
40:48 Podcast sponsor - Hello Fresh
42:13 Mandatory Arc News - the Starfield driver issue
46:41 A brief digression into old graphics APIs
48:22 Intel Core i9-14900K Geekbench leak
50:47 Usenet is still going strong
52:41 Podcast sponsor - DeleteMe
54:26 Security Corner
1:04:25 Gaming Quick Hits
1:10:59 Picks of the Week
1:20:14 Outro