PC Perspective

Podcast #766 – AMD FSR 3.1, Radeon 7900 GRE Memory OC Unlock, Microsoft DirectSR, LIVA Z5 PLUS, Apple CPU Vulnerability + MORE

PCPer Staff — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:00:09 +0000

You didn't ask for it, but here it is. The greatest PC Perspective podcast ever recorded on March 27, 2024. Some things we talked about were: China bans things too, FSR 3.1,…

ECS LIVA Z5 PLUS Mini PC Review

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:56:09 +0000

It has been nearly ten years since I first went hands on with one of the LIVA mini PCs from ECS, with that original LIVA in 2014 the smallest personal computer…

Homeworld 3 Delayed, For Only Good Reasons

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:04:49 +0000

Homeworld 3 is now due to launch May 13th, about two months after it was first to launch but in this case players might not be overly upset because of the…

Intel Meteor Lake Gets Socketed, But You Won’t See It In Your Desktop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:30:17 +0000

There are rumours of a new socketed Meteor Lake chip thanks to a post on Twitter from iBase motherboards, who suggest they will release an LGA 1851 socket with explicit support…

Podcast #765 – NVIDIA Blackwell, MAINGEAR Ships PCs w/ Delidded 14900KS, First SK hynix Gen5 SSD, Fresh DDOS attack style + MORE!

PCPer Staff — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:00:09 +0000

Another week, and another podcast. It seems like our destiny. In the words of Darth Vader, join us, and together we can rule the galaxy as ... distant cousins? I think that's…

The Colourful PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:25:49 +0000

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE comes with three see through fans, two 100mm and a 90mm in the middle. They are also very effective, The FPS Review never saw temperatures…

ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB842MP-B, M.2 Storage On The Go

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:53:33 +0000

ICY Dock's new ToughArmor MB842MP-B is a PCIe 3/4.0 card that will fit a pair of NVMe drives. It takes advantage of PCIe bifurcation to provide each of the drives with four…

Apple M Series Hardware Security Flaw, Too Bad You Can’t GoFetch A Patch

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:16:02 +0000

Proud owners of a M1, M2 or M3 based Apple devices are not having a good day. The newly revealed GoFetch attack is worrying enough to ruin a perfectly good Friday as…

Axis Unseen, Skyrim Like But Only A Bow And Gigantic Enemies

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:54:40 +0000

Axis Unseen looks somewhat like Skyrim or perhaps Horizon Zero Dawn seeing as how you only use a bow. The bow is rather unique though, that is where the sound monitor, player…

TrueNAS CORE Bids Goodbye To FreeBSD

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:12:36 +0000

The current TrueNAS CORE 13 will be the last FreeBSD-based NAS from iXsystems. From now you will see the OS of the popular NAS software switch to Debian, but it's necessarily bad…

Podcast #764 – AMD Makes 144 Hz FreeSync Mandatory, 12GB DDR5 Sticks, CORSAIR K65 PLUS 75% Keyboard + MORE!

PCPer Staff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:00:09 +0000

This week we discuss AMD's new 144 Hz requirement for FreeSync certification, the "perfection" of 12GB RAM capacity, Corsair's K65 PLUS keyboard that's actually 75%, Epic gets expensive, mining with Ryzen and…

This Year’s Cooler Master GM34-CWQ2 Display Might Not Be Better Than Last Year’s

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:06:18 +0000

Cooler Master refreshed their 34" quantum dot display this year, with the new GM34-CWQ2 display. The display is still a 3440x1440 VA quantum dot display, with the refresh rate increased from 144Hz…

Supersize Your RAM With The Patriot Viper Elite 5 RGB DDR5-6000 96GB Kit

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:33:29 +0000

The hunger for RAM grows with every software update and Patriot's new Viper Elite 5 RGB kit offers a solution. The 96GB DDR5-6000 kit is dual channel, with each DIMM sporting 48GB…

Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 Is Served

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:02:42 +0000

The new version of Raspberry Pi comes with updated software and some new features. Raspberry Pi 5.2 will ship with new firmware, Linux kernel 6.6.20, and will be updated to Chromium 122…

Ajazz AJ199 4K, A Wireless Mouse With A Lot Of Endurance

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:19:54 +0000

The Ajazz AL199 4K gets it's name from it's top polling rate of 4000Hz, which can be problematic on a wireless mouse as the higher the polling rate the quicker your battery…

AI Assistants, Apart From Google Gemini, Are Spilling Your Secrets

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:18:19 +0000

AI assistants have been in the news lately, and not in a way that the designers hoped. If the Morris 2 self replicating AI worm wasn't enough to make you question…

MAINGEAR Does the Unthinkable – Will Ship PCs with Delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS CPUs

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:38:39 +0000

It's not every day that a press release really surprises jaded, long-term hardware editors like me. But today is the exception. MAINGEAR is doing what I thought a system integrator would never…

Intel Announces the 6.2 GHz Core i9-14900KS Processor

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:02:00 +0000

Intel has made the rumored Core i9-14900KS processor official, pushing out-of-the-box CPU frequencies to an eye-watering 6.2 GHz. Thus, Intel has bested Intel to retain the title as the world’s fastest desktop…

Enermax Launches World’s Smallest ATX 3.1 Power Supply – the REVOLUTION D.F. 12

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:52:05 +0000

The latest power supply series from Enermax is the REVOLUTION D.F. 12, which the company claims is “the world’s smallest ATX 3.1 power supply”. This claim is based on current data from…

Warner Bros. Pulls The Plug On Another Game, Small Radios Big Televisions

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:34:38 +0000

We've lived through the Flash apocalypse, where thousands of the beloved games and videos we misspent hours upon in the early days of the internet. The only reason we can still reference…