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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Intel’s AI PC Label Isn’t Actually Branding

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:20:03 +0000

The chances are you've received at least a few emails from system builders touting their new AI PC line of products, and you might have assumed it was official branding. The marketing…

A New AIDA64 For A New Month

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:16:21 +0000

We here at PCPer have been using AIDA64 for a very long time, it offers a user friendly way to get a lot of information about the components in your system, test…

CORSAIR K65 PLUS WIRELESS 75% RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:44:53 +0000

Corsair’s latest mechanical gaming keyboard is a compact model in the K65 series, but it isn’t a 65% keyboard; this new K65 PLUS is actually 75%. It offers premium features like…

Podcast #763 – GDDR7 Specs, NVIDIA Says No CUDA on Other GPUs, Crucial T705 Gen5 SSD, GenAI Worm, Roku Updates Terms and MORE!

PCPer Staff — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:00:09 +0000

We talked at length about various things, some of which were actually the topics at hand! The Apple M3, Android apps on Windows 11, and Roku agreement - or else. Not to…

The Fosi Audio LC30 VU Meter Amplifier And Speaker Selector

Jeremy Hellstrom — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:24:08 +0000

Fosi Audio has been trending towards simplicity lately, with their amps dropping all but the volume control. The LC30 is a complete change in direction, offering lights, moving pointers and even a…

Poor Tesla Security Proves Us Wrong, The Flipper Zero And Other Devices Can Steal A Modern Car

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:02:57 +0000

The Flipper Zero has been in the news lately, thanks to the Canadian government deciding it is a hacking tool capable of helping people steal cars instead of a handy tool…

The Thaumaturge, Check Out An Alternate Early Twentieth Century Warsaw

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:07:25 +0000

The Thaumaturge is a top down detective RPG with some eldritch twists in amongst the social upheaval of the times. The First Russian Revolution is just kicking off which means everyone, from…

Gatekeeper Companies Respond To The EU’s Digital Markets Act

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:11:23 +0000

The European Union's Digital Markets Act comes into effect tomorrow, and those gatekeeper companies that it will apply to are sending out messages of doom to everyone and their dog today. The…