Thinkcomputers Weekly Tech Podcast

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Lexar SL200 Portable Solid State Drive Review Silverstone ECM24-ARGB M.2 to PCIe Adapter Card Review Other Stuff This Week: Win a $50 Gift Card of your Choice! News This Week: NVIDIA and GPU makers respond to GeForce RTX 30 series card crashes NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to launch after RTX 3070, confirm sources AMD’s Frank Azor (sort of) confirms Radeon RX 6000 cards won’t have stock shortages Newegg lists specifications for upcoming GPUs Radeon RX 6700 XT, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT AMD CEO Lisa Su says Zen 3 will push Ryzen performance to new heights AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Vermeer CPU could be a 12-core, 24-thread 150W TDP chip going up to 5 GHz MonsterLabo Introduces Their New Fanless Gaming PC Chassis, The Beast Amazon launches Luna cloud gaming service, with early access starting October DOOM Eternal is coming to Xbox Game Pass this October Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies Confirmed Coming Next Week: A

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity Graphics Card Review Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler Review Silverstone FARA B1 Mid-Tower Case Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Lian Li DK-05F News This Week: NVIDIA responds to RTX 3080 launch day stock issue criticism with an FAQ ZOTAC Confirms Receiving 20,000 Orders For GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity Through Amazon Users report NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 crashes while gaming NVIDIA ends SLI support, Native Game Integrations to handle multi-GPU configurations henceforth Gigabyte confirms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 20 GB, RTX 3070 16 GB, and RTX 3060 8 GB GPU AMD Big Navi Radeon RX 6900 XT could have 16 GB VRAM, Radeon RX 6000 12 GB VRAM ADATA XPG Launches GAMMIX S70 PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive be quiet! Announces Pure Loop All-in-One Liquid CPU Cooling Solution Microsoft acquires ZeniMax Media (DOOM, Elder Scrolls, Fallout) for $7.5 billion Roc

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio Graphics Card Review ASRock B550 Taichi Motherboard Review MeshForce M3 Whole Home WiFi System Review T-Force Spark 128 GB RGB USB Flash Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project Limbo News This Week: AMD RDNA2 Big Navi Radeon RX 6000 reference design revealed through Fortnite AMD RDNA2 Big Navi Radeon RX 6000 alleged benchmarks leak, matches stock RTX 2080Ti in performance Intel DG2 GPU spotted with 6GB and 8GB GDDR6 memory AMD Senior VP says Zen 3 Vermeer CPUs are going to be tremendously powerful, leaks suggest Ryzen 5000 series branding NVIDIA is acquiring Arm Holdings for $40 billion IKEA To Provide Affordable Gaming Furniture, In Partnership With ASUS ROG Razer Leaks Personal Information Of More Than 100,000 Gamers Due To A Data Breach Check out the 8K tech trailer for Crysis Remastered Coming Next Week: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Fractal Design Era ITX Case Review Patriot Viper 4 Blackout DDR4-3600 64GB Memory Kit Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Orange Frost Win a Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB NVMe SSD! News This Week: AMD Zen 3 Vermeer CPUs coming October 8, Big Navi RDNA 2 GPUs coming October 28 AMD Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 Vermeer desktop CPUs rumored to have 10-core offerings, custom boost and frequency tweaks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs to be in limited supply until 2021 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 can run AAA titles at 4K at over 100 FPS, shows Doom Eternal gameplay NVIDIA could be saving RTX 3060 and RTX 3070/3080 Ti/SUPER variants to counter AMD’s RDNA 2 Big Navi GPUs NVIDIA to offer Watch Dogs: Legion and one-year subscription to GeForce NOW with RTX 3000 GPUs A Closer Look of EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Graphics Card Shows 2.2 Slot, Custom PCB and Dual 8-Pin Power GALAX Unveils PCIe 4.0 Hall of Fame Extreme SSD Coming Nex

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Creative Sound Blaster K3+ Review Zissu’s 15.6″ Portable Monitor Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project ONDA The New TEMPORARY Office! (Video) Win a Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB NVMe SSD! News This Week: NVIDIA Officially Announces RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3070! Lenovo confirms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB memory Inno3D Announces RTX 3090 iCHILL X4 with 4 Fans! Fortnite To Get Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Support on PC ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Meta Buffs Product Lineup Apple’s custom GPU likely to be faster than Intel iGPU Apple May Soon Launch Its Own Search Engine To Compete Against Google Search PS5 Faces An Apparent Delay: Initial launch in USA/Canada, Delayed For Rest Of The World Tom Clancy’s The Division available for free on uPlay Coming Next Week: Fractal Design ERA ITX Case Patriot Viper Blackout DDR4-3600 64GB Memory Kit

Reviews This Week: T-Force Dark Z DDR4 3600 MHz Memory Review Razer Huntsman Elite Gaming Keyboard Review Lexar NM700 M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: In Win 925 ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Motherboard (Video) Win a Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB NVMe SSD! News This Week: NVIDIA RTX 3090 Founders Edition Pictured, Massive 3-slot Card! NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 to have 24GB GDDRX6 and GeForce RTX 3080 to have 10GB GDDRX6 memory Seasonic reveals 12-pin power cable for upcoming NVIDIA RTX 30 GPUs MSI’s NVIDIA RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 GPUs spotted on EEC NVIDIA Details Ampere Founders Edition Cooling & Confirms 12-pin Power Design EK hints it is readying Waterblocks for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 series to be ready around launch Intel claims its the cheaper option for gaming PCs, compares 10th Gen Core with AMD Ryzen 3000 Possible roadmap for AMD’s 5th Gen Ryzen chips gets detailed Microsoft Flight Simulator Is Expected To Generate $2.6 Billion In Hardware Sales R

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ASRock Z490 Extreme4 Motherboard Review HP P700 Portable Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: 909EK BUILD Win a Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB NVMe SSD! News This Week: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 spotted on Userbenchmark with memory speeds of 19Gbps Micron confirms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 will come with 12GB GDDR6X memory, running at over 1 TB/sec RTX 3090 Pricing Could Be Around $2000?? NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ampere GPU PCB gets leaked in new pictures NVIDIA GeForce Now is now available on Chromebooks NVIDIA might close in on Arm acquisition deal by end of summer Intel announces Marvel Avengers Collectors Edition KA Series CPUs Intel’s Marvel’s Avengers Edition KA series SKUs won’t include the game Entry-Level A520 Chipset Launched By AMD Razer brings back the Naga Left-Handed Edition gaming mouse Coming Next Week: Razer Huntsman Elite Gaming Keyboard Lexar NM700 NVMe Solid State

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Elgato Key Light Air Review ABKONCORE CT404B Dual Sync CPU Cooler Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project Kyle Win a Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB NVMe SSD! News This Week: NVIDIA Teases Ampere Launch? 21 Day Countdown Begins Custom-designed NVIDIA Ampere Cards to Launch Alongside Founders Edition Cards Intel to release Atom “Grand Ridge” chip with 24 cores, PCIe 4.0 and DDR5 Intel could be working on Marvel’s ‘Avengers Edition’ desktop CPUs Intel’s 9th generation desktop CPUs get huge price cuts AMD now has highest x86 CPU market share since 2013 Toshiba is Officially out of the Laptop Business Angry Miao Releases CYBERBOARD, First Mechanical Keyboard with Custom LED Panel on Indiegogo Noblechairs Announces the DOOM Edition For The HERO Gaming Chair EA’s game subscription service EA Access is coming to Steam Coming Next Week: ASRock Z490 Extreme4 Motherboard HP Portable SSD P700

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Viotek GFT27CXB 27-inch 240 Hz Gaming Monitor Review Sabrent Rocket Q NVMe Solid State Drive Review AIAIAI TMA-2 HD Wireless Headphones Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: TT 20th Anniversary Win an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Motherboard! News This Week: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3080 could launch on September 17th NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ampere could be 35% faster than RTX 2080 Ti, according to leaked 3DMark benchmark NVIDIA is in “advanced talks” to acquire Arm from SoftBank Samsung interested in Arm, looking to buy a stake instead of the whole company TSMC and Foxconn show interest in buying Arm, amping up the bidding race Leak shows redesigned Intel logo and Core branding, and new ‘EVO’ brand of CPUs GIGABYTE Formally Launches Z490 AORUS Master WaterForce Motherboard Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 confirmed to get VR support in a future update Coming Next Week: Elgato

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: FSP T-WINGS CMT710 Dual System Chassis Review Creative Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus Internal Sound Card and DAC Review Other Stuff This Week: Installing Grafana on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Case Mod Friday: $13,000 ULTIMATE Custom Water Cooled Desk Win an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Motherboard! News This Week: CES 2021 Cancelled, All-Digital Event Will Take Place Instead NVIDIA Ampere A100 gets benchmarked, becomes the fastest GPU ever recorded Intel promises Xe Graphics reveal in 20 days in a now-deleted tweet Intel launches the 10-core Core i9-10850K at $453 AMD Ryzen 7 4700G Renoir APU shown playing Doom Eternal at 1080p by itself AMD confirms 5nm Zen 4 CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs will launch by 2021 Alphacool Introduces Eiswolf 2 Fullcover GPU AIO Logitech G Launches PRO X Wireless Gaming Headset Epic Games Store Summer Sale kicks off with up to 85% discount on major titles Joe Rogan’s Comments on Gaming

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Corsair ONE i200 Gaming PC Review Cooler Master GM34-CW 34-inch Curved Gaming Monitor Review SilverStone PP07E Braided Extension Cables Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: SEASONIC PRIME TX-1600W BUILD Win an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Motherboard! News This Week: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU to be 20% faster than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti? AMD releases 4000 series Renoir APUs for desktop, debuts Athlon PRO series First ARM-based Apple Silicon chip may come with 12 cores Intel teases it has “something big to share” on September 2nd Sabrent Unleashes World’s First 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Corsair 4000D Case with RapidRoute Cable Management Leaked A New 65% Percent ROG Falchion Keyboard Wireless Gaming Keyboard Revealed By ASUS Rocket League to become free-to-play later this summer Coming Next Week: FSP T-WINGS Case Creative Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus Sound Card and DAC Installing Grafana on a Ra

Reviews This Week: EKSA E900 Pro Gaming Headset Review ORICO SV100 Portable Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Rollcage Win an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Motherboard! News This Week: AMD RDNA 2 based GPU to be 40-50% faster than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti? NVIDIA To End Production of GeForce RTX 20 ‘Turing’ Series As GeForce RTX 30 ‘Ampere’ Graphics Cards Launch Gets Closer NVIDIA To Bundle Death Stranding with RTX Graphics Cards RTX 2080 Ti fails to run Watch Dogs Legion at 60fps/1080p with Ray-Tracing On Binned Intel CPUs are Selling for Less than Retail Chips Windows PCs Will Have to Switch Over to ARM CPUs Eventually Says Former Mac Chief GALAX readies its Intel and AMD motherboards for the North American market JEDEC published the new DDR5 memory standard for next-gen computers Far Cry 6 poster, teaser, release date revealed, Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito to play villain Sealed Copy of Original Super Mario Bros. Sells for $114,000 at Auction Microsoft Flight

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Creative Sound Blaster X3 Review Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite MOBA/MMO Gaming Mouse Review HP V6 DDR4-3200 16GB Memory Kit Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project Infinite Win a Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Memory Kit! News This Week: New leak reveals first look at alleged ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce “Ampere” Graphics Cards to be Built on Samsung 8mm? NVIDIA RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti Specifications Appear Apple to Remove AMD GPU Support Making Way For Custom GPUs AMD Ryzen 4000 Renoir Series of Desktop APUs releasing on July 21st Intel Announces Thunderbolt 4: Universal Cable Connectivity for Everyone Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Free With New Ryzen Processors Crysis Remastered Delayed After Fans Reaction to Leaked Footage Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC revealed, pre-order starts Coming Next Week: ORICO SV100 Portable Solid State Drive Cooler Master GM34-CW 3

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Motherboard Review Corsair iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Valkyrie Win a Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Memory Kit! News This Week: NZXT N7 Z490 Motherboard Renders Leaked Acer Pushing The Limits With Predator X25 360Hz Gaming Monitor WD readies CMR-based Red Plus NAS HDDs amid switch-and-bait controversy MSI Gives Away Up To $300 Steam Wallet Code with Select Products Crysis Remastered Gameplay Trailer Will Premiere July 1st Cyberpunk 2077 Will Have a “GTA” Mode Steam Summer Sale is Here, with Deep Discounts on Thousands of Games Coming Next Week: Creative Sound Blaster X3 Corsair SCIMITAR RGB ELITE Optical MOBA/MMO Gaming Mouse HP V6 DDR4-3200 16GB Memory Kit Tech / Nerd Recommendations: We will be on the Home Gadget Geeks Podcast Tomorrow!

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Elgato Wave:3 Microphone Review HyperX Alloy Origins Gaming Keyboard Review XPG Battleground XL Prime RGB Mouse Pad Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Mario Win a Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Memory Kit! News This Week: Rumored Specifications of the RTX 3090/3080Ti/3080 Emerge NVIDIA GeForce Ampere Benchmarked, 30% Faster than RTX 2080 Ti Fan Makes NVIDIA GeForce 256 Out of LEGO’s! Laptop with Intel Tiger Lake Gen12 Xe iGPU Shown Playing BFV By Itself Apple announces Mac transition to Apple Silicon Intel Marketing Back At It, Compares Two Notebooks With Different GPUs ZADAK Announces a New Flagship Compact Water Cooled PC with the MOAB II ELITE Microsoft is Killing off Streaming Platform Mixer Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed Until November 19th EA, Motive and Lucasfilm Announce Star Wars: Squadrons Coming Next Week: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming  (WiFi) Motherboard Creative Sound Blaster X3 Tech

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Motherboard Preview Patriot PXD Portable Solid State Drive Review SilverStone LS04 Light Strips Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: THERMALTAKE CORE P3 TG EDITION Win a Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Memory Kit! News This Week: AMD Makes Ryzen 3000XT Processors Official MSI Announces Steam Wallet Credit with B550 Motherboard Bundles NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Allegedly Pictured New leak details RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 with up to 24GB GDDR6X VRAM, 350W TDP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Production Timeline Revealed Jim Keller resigns from Intel, helps with the transition as a consultant HWInfo exposes X570 motherboard’s cheat feature that reduces Ryzen CPU lifespan NZXT Announces CRFT 06 H510 Siege Limited Edition Case TAITRA cancels Computex 2020, sets date for 2021 EA Battlefield Franchise, More Games Return to Steam The Steam Game Festival is On Now C

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Motherboard Review Philips ActionFit ST702 Wireless Earbuds Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Yuel Beast Atlas News This Week: AMD Ryzen 4000 Desktop Processors moved to 5nm+ Process AMD Ryzen 3000 Refresh CPUs Get Early Listing Intel CEO wants everybody to not look at benchmarks Intel discontinues 8th gen ‘Coffee Lake’ desktop processor family WD may face Class-Action lawsuit over SMR HDDs controversy Thermaltake Announces the Tower 100 Mini Chassis Thermaltake Launches the World’s First CPU & Memory AIO Liquid Cooler Fractal Design Introduces Define 7 Compact Case Lamptron Announces CU135 ARGB Fan and Lighting Controller 20 Minutes of Diablo 4 Gameplay Released Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is now Free on Epic Games Store Coming Next Week: Patriot PXD Portable SSD SilverStone LS04 Light Strips

Reviews This Week: MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Review News This Week: AMD is ready with Ryzen 7 3750X, 3850X Mattise Refresh CPUs AMD “Matisse Refresh” XT SKU Clock Speeds Surface Refreshed Ryzen 3000 CPU’s leaked benchmarks show impressive performance over Comet Lake-S Stealthy-looking Intel box CPU coolers now included with Comet Lake CPUs NVIDIA Ampere, AMD Big Navi GPUs likely to debut in September Tiger Lake-U NUC 11 Extreme clocked up to 4.4GHz, features GTX 1660 Ti ASUS ROG Maximus XII Apex Hits 7.7 GHz on 10 Cores and Overclocks Memory to 6666 MHz MSI Releases “Sound Tune” AI-Powered Noise Cancellation Software EK Releases Limited Edition Memorial Day Star-Spangled Velocity Water Block Intel acquires Killer Ethernet maker Rivet Networks for Wi-Fi development BlizzCon 2020 Officially Cancelled Due to Coronavirus PAC-MAN, the Original Video Game Super Star, Celebrates His 40th Birthday Coming Next Week: ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Motherboard Tech / Nerd Recommendations: For All Ma

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Intel Core i9-10900K Processor Review Intel Core i5-10600K Processor Review Gigabyte Z490 AORUS Ultra Motherboard Review ASRock Z490 PG Velocita Motherboard Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: BLACK HAWK News This Week: NVIDIA CEO Introduces NVIDIA Ampere Architecture, NVIDIA A100 GPU AMD Zen 3, Ryzen 4000-series CPUs will work on B450, X470 motherboards TSMC to make 5nm chips in the USA Asetek Unveils Rad Card Industry’s First Slot-In PCIe Radiator Card Coming Next Week: ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Motherboard MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ASRock Radeon RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 6G OC Graphics Card Review NZXT Kraken Z73 Liquid CPU Cooler Review iStorage cloudAshur Cloud Encryption Module Review Other Stuff This Week: ASRock Z490 PG Velocita Motherboard Technical Preview Mini-ITX Done Right - NZXT H1 (Video) Case Mod Friday: IndominAORUS Bench Win a $50 Gift Card of your Choice News This Week: Details on NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti and GA102 Silicon Revealed Intel Core i9-10900K Stress Tested, Reaches Temperatures of 93C MSI Announces Upgrade Program for Z490 Motherboards AMD Details the B550 Chipset AMD’s $99 Ryzen 3 3100 Pushed to 5.9 GHz Multiple Motherboard and VGA Vendors Pulling out of Computex Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2, Remastered From Ramp to Rail on September 4 Coming Next Week: Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro S3