Thinkcomputers Weekly Tech Podcast

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: NZXT H1 Mini-ITX Case Review Lexar NM610 M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Ice Age Project Win a $50 Gift Card of your Choice News This Week: Intel Makes 10th Generation Comet Lake Desktop Processors Official Intel to Stagger Comet Lake-S Launch, K-SKUs Available First Intel Core i5-10400 gaming performance matches Core i7-9700F ASRock Launches the Z490 AQUA Flagship Motherboard ASRock Enables Overclocking for Non-K Comet Lake-S CPUs Gigabyte says compatibility with 11th gen Rocket Lake-S CPUs, PCIe 4.0 Support Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs to use LGA 1700 AMD B550 Leak Shows Prices Close to B450 HyperX Teams up with Ducky and Launches HyperX x Ducky One 2 Mini Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Power Supplies can leak your data: Researcher Halo 2 for PC ready to launch next week on Steam Coming Next Week: ASRock Radeon RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 6G OC iStorage CloudA

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Sabrent Rocket Nano Portable Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Upgrading our Ultimate RGB Build! Case Mod Friday: HYDRA SLIM DESK AUTOBOT Win a $50 Gift Card of your Choice News This Week: Gigabyte’s Entire Z490 Motherboard Line Leaked ASUS Teases Z490 Boards Including a White ROG STRIX Colorful iGame and CVN Z490 Motherboards Detailed Nvidia secretly designing a 5nm chip, ramps up 7nm production Nvidia tells us to get ‘Amped’ up for GTC 2020 keynote Intel 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs and Xe GPUs to debut together in Q4 2020 Core i3-10300, i3-10100 Cinebench scores leaked, compared with Ryzen 3-3300X, 3100 Intel enables overclocking for B460 chipsets Hot Swap Your NVMe Drives with the Icy Dock ToughArmor MB840M2P-B Coming Next Week: NZXT H1 Mini-ITX Case Tech / Nerd Recommendations: NEW way to use your CANON camera as a WEBCAM! | Canon EOS Webcam Utility Beta Tutorial & Review

Reviews This Week: Dell UltraSharp U4320Q 42.5-inch 4K Monitor Review HP SSD EX950 2TB M.2 Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Modern Furniture News This Week: New AMD Ryzen 3 CPUs Ready-To-Compete with Intel Comet Lake B550 Chipset Official, Features PCIe Gen 4.0 15 ASUS Z490 Series Motherboards Leaked MSI Z490 Motherboards Leak Gigabyte AORUS Z490 Motherboards Leaked Nvidia RTX Voice removes background noise picked up by microphones RTX Voice can work on GTX graphics cards Multiple AAA Game devs to leave Nvidia GeForce NOW program A Crysis Remaster is Confirmed! Crysis Remastered Could Feature Both Crysis and Crysis Warhead Cougar Announces a Gaming Sofa?! Coming Next Week: NZXT H1 Mini ITX Case Sabrent Rocket Nano Portable Solid State Drive Tech / Nerd Recommendations: WallpaperAccess.com

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: NZXT Kraken X63 Liquid CPU Cooler Review iQunix F96 Coral Sea Wireless Mechanical Keyboard Review DataLocker Sentry K300 Encrypted Flash Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Liquid Devil Win a Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1TB SSD! News This Week: AMD 4th Generation Ryzen Desktop Processors Could Launch in September Intel Comet Lake-S Pricing Leaked Intel’s 65W Core i9-10900F 10-Core CPU Consumes 224W at Max Load and Hits 90C Huawei To Enter the GPU Market? NAS users unhappy with bait-and-switch WD Red HDDs Lian Li Updates DK-05 and DK-04 Desk Cases with Electrochromic Glass AVerMedia Launches World’s First External 4K HDR & 240 FPS Capture Box Minecraft with RTX BETA ‘ON’ from April 16th New No VR Mod Allows You To Play Half-Life: Alyx Without a VR Headset Crysis Twitter Account Becomes Active after 4 Years Cyberpunk 2077 is Complete, CD Projekt Red Prepares For September Launch Call of Duty

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: Thermaltake A700 TG Full Tower Case Review Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Gaming Mouse Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Actina Why you should give Lightweight Gaming Mice a Try (Video) Win one of 5 ORICO HDMI Switches! Win a Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1TB SSD! News This Week: Intel Launches 10th Gen Core “Comet Lake-H” Mobile Processor Lineup NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 20-series SUPER Mobile GPUs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super Mobile Specifications Leaked ASUS Brings Liquid Metal to new ROG Gaming Laptops Intel 10th Gen Core Desktop Marketing Materials Leaked Intel “Comet Lake-S” Desktop CPU Availability Could be Pushed Back to May 29th NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition Selling for over $5000 on eBay Fractal Design Announces Celsius+ AIO Coolers Sony Reveals DualSense, the New Wireless Game Controller for PlayStation 5 Amazon Working on their own Cloud Gaming Service Called “Project Tempo” Th

Reviews This Week: Glorious PC Gaming Race Model D Gaming Mouse Review Lexar SL100 Pro Portable Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Cerise ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Motherboard (Video) Win a Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1TB SSD! News This Week: Leaked Benchmark Shows Intel Core i9-10900K Beating the i9-9900KS by 30% Intel Could Launch 10th Generation “Comet Lake” Desktop Processors April 30th Intel’s Mobile Core i9-10980HK Detailed NVIDIA Super Mobile & Intel Comet Lake-H Coming April 2nd AMD Reports Theft of their Graphics IP Samsung to end all LCD Production by the end of 2020 Folding@Home Breaks ExaFLOP Barrier as Network Achieves 1.5 ExaFLOP Performance! QuakeCon 2020 Gets Cancelled over Coronavirus Outbreak Steam Changes Auto-Updates To Save Bandwidth GameStop to Close over 300 Stores Domain Update to GTAVI.com Sparks Announcement Rumors World War Z is Currently Free on the Epic Games Store Coming Next Week: New Corsair mouse Thermaltake A700 Aluminum Te

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: MSI Optix MPG341CQR 34-inch 144 Hz Gaming Monitor Review Patriot Viper VPR100 RGB Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project Omega Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 SSD Review + Giveaway News This Week: AMD Dropping Prices of Ryzen 3000 Processors in the US GDC Rescheduled to a 3-day “GDC Summer” Set for August 4-6 Computex 2020 Postponed Till September Folding@Home is now the World’s Largest Supercomputer! Intel Rocket Lake-S Platform Detailed, will Feature PCIe 4.0 and Xe Graphics A 3dfx Graphics Card is up on the Lego Ideas Website GOG Offers 27 Free Games Urging Gamers To Stay at Home Watch Dogs is Free on the Epic Games Store Crytek Teases a Possible Remaster of Crysis Coming Next Week: Lexar SL100 Pro Portable SSD Glorious PC Gaming Race Model D Gaming Mouse

Reviews This Week: ORICO GV100 Portable Solid State Drive Review HyperX Cloud Flight S Wireless Gaming Headset Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: CANVAS News This Week: Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft Board of Directors Fractal Design Announces a Sleek ITX Case Targeting Creators, Gamers and DIY-ers Use Your CPU and GPU to Help Fight Coronavirus NVIDIA To Hold Off GTC News Till Further Notice Coronavirus Causing Record Low Motherboard and GPU Shipments Computex 2020 in Limbo as Taiwan Bans All Foreign Visitors With E3 2020 Cancelled, Microsoft moves the Xbox E3 Event Online Microsoft Revealed Complete Xbox Series X Hardware Specifications Steam Recorded Highest Active User Load over the Weekend, Coronavirus Effect? CD Projekt Red Says No Change in “Cyberpunk 2077” Release, Employees Will Work from Home CD Projekt Red Confirms there will be a “The Witcher” title that follows “Cyberpunk 2077” Coming Next Week: MSI Optix MPG341CQR 34-inch 144 Hz Gaming Monitor Patriot Viper VPR100 M.2

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).   Reviews This Week: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Motherboard Review SilverStone SETA A1 Case Review Razer Kraken Ultimate Gaming Headset Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Green Machine Antec Torque Win a Fractal Design Define 7 Case News This Week: AMD RDNA2 Graphics Architecture to Offer 50% Gain over RDNA AMD Teases Next-Gen Graphics Card Design with No Blower Fan Intel Core i5-10400 Pictured and Detailed Could Intel Comet Lake Desktop Processors be Delayed Till June? The First AMD B550 Motherboard Appears Noctua Now Selling Hoodies that Match their Fans NVIDIA GTC News to Be Shared on March 24, Followed by Investor Call 2K Games Removes its Library From GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service E3 2020 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus PlayStation Exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn is Coming to PC Coming Next Week: Orico GV100 512GB Portable SSD HyperX Cloud Flight S Gaming Headset Home Gadget Geeks - 436 - Thursday,

Reviews This Week: Thermaltake Level 20 RGB Titanium Gaming Keyboard Review Lamptron SM436 Sync Edition Fan & RGB Controller Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project JARVIS Win a Fractal Design Define 7 Case News This Week: AMD GPU Shipments up 22.6% In Q4’19 NVIDIA Cards With 108 and 118 Compute Units Spotted, Possibly Ampere? NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Shifted to Online Event over Coronavirus Concerns A Company is Selling a Gaming Bed Mountain Unveils the Everest Modular Gaming Keyboard EKWB Presents the EK-Quantum Magnitude CPU Water Block FSP Announces the New T-WINGS 2-in-1 High-end PC Chassis Herman Miller & Logitech G Join Forces to Create High-Performance Furniture Solutions for Gamers Coming Next Week: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Motherboard SilverStone SETA A1 Case Home Gadget Geeks - 435 - Thursday, March 12th, 8:00 PM CST

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: Fractal Design Define 7 Case Review Alphacool Eisbaer Aurora 360 CPU Liquid Cooler Review ADATA SE800 Portable Solid State Drive Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Hydra Mini Win a $50 Gift Card of your Choice Win a Fractal Design Define 7 Case News This Week: Big Navi Incoming? New AMD Listings Hit Korean RRA Certification AMD Big Navi Spotted? Radeon RX 5950 XT Detailed AMD Opens Up Fan Store To Sell Merch Lenovo Updates ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio with AMD Ryzen 4000 Series Mobile CPUs NZXT Introduces the H1 Mini-ITX Case and NZXT BLD H1 Mini PC Pre-Build Cyberpunk 2077 is Coming to GeForce NOW Streaming Service Bethesda Pulls its Games from GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service Coming Next Week: Lamptron SM436 Fan Controller & RGB Hub ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Motherboard

Reviews This Week: Corsair A500 CPU Cooler Review Glorious PC Gaming Race GMMK Tenkeyless Gaming Keyboard Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: COUGAR CONQUER – EDWIN DO WHITE GANG Win a $50 Gift Card of your Choice News This Week: NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti “Cyberpunk 2077 Edition” Intel Core i7-10700F Gets Run Through Cinebench Intel 10-core Core i9-10900 CPU Pictured CORSAIR Releases SCIMITAR RGB ELITE MOBA/MMO Gaming Mouse and MM500 3XL Mouse Pad ADATA Launches SE760 External Solid State Drive ModMyMods Launches ModWater PC Coolant for Watercooling TrendForce: The Effect of the Covid-19 Corona Virus Measured on Tech Industry Coming Next Week: ADATA SE800 Portable SSD Lamptron SM436 Fan Controller & RGB Hub New Case

We are back after a week off! This week on the podcast we talk about our four reviews, big Intel Xe leaks, Apple possibly sourcing AMD for CPUs, some gaming news and more!

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: InWin 309 Case Review Cooler Master MM711 Gaming Mouse Review Reeven Justice II CPU Cooler Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Thermaltake Level 20 HT New Contest Launching Soon! News This Week: AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual 2019 Financial Results AMD Will Debut 2nd Generation RDNA Architecture in 2020 Intel 400-series Motherboards will Lack PCI-Express 4.0 MSI Z490 Motherboards Show up at the EEC Intel Moving Select CPU Manufacturing to GlobalFoundries Chinese Government Closes Foxconn and Samsung Factories Because of Coronavirus Outbreak ASUS Releases ROG Bezel-Free Kits for Multi-monitor Configurations NZXT Announces Kraken X-3 and Z-3 Series AIO Liquid Coolers Coming Next Week: Be quiet! Pure Base 500 Case New Corsair mouse

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming X Graphics Card Review AORUS CV27Q 165Hz Gaming Monitor Review ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 Liquid CPU Cooler Review Other Stuff This Week: The Case Mods and Builds of CES 2020 New Contest Launching Soon! News This Week: NVIDIA Next-Generation GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 “Ampere” Graphics Cards Detailed AMD Radeon RX 5950 XT, RX 5950, and 5800 XT Show up at the ECC Intel to Detail Xe Graphics Card Architecture at GDC Intel To Reportedly Cut CPU Prices in the 2nd Half of 2020 Humble Bundle Offers “Fire Relief Bundle” To Aid Australia The Epic Games Store Gains over 100 Million Subscribers in its First Year Coming Next Week: Cooler Master MM711 Gaming Mouse In Win 309 Case Reeven Justice II CPU Cooler

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT Gaming Keyboard Review Other Stuff This Week: Win a Thermaltake Toughpower PF1 ARGB 850W PSU + Riing Trio 12 RGB Fans! News This Week: AMD’s 64-Core, 128-Thread Threadripper 3990X CPU Debuts at CES 2020 Radeon RX 5600 and Radeon RX 5600 XT Add to AMD’s GPU Lineup at CES 2020 EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO Shown at CES 2020 NVIDIA Shows Off Crazy-Fast 360Hz G-SYNC Monitor at CES 2020 Gaming on Samsung’s Odyssey G9 49-inch Gaming Monitor! Corsair’s Insane New RGB Case, A500 Air Cooler & More Checking out Cooler Master’s 45 gram Mouse, 60% Keyboard and more at CES 2020 Sit Back and Relax in Cooler Master’s New Gaming and Ergonomic Chairs In Win’s Diey Chassis is Absolutely Insane! Thermaltake’s MONSTER Case, DistroCase, new TOUGHRAM & More at CES 2020! The Tomahawk is Razer’s Implementation of Intel’s NUC Compute Element Gigabyte has a Gen3 Drive that will give you Gen4 Speeds! Alpha

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: HyperX Pulsefire Dart Wireless Gaming Mouse Review SilverStone PF240-ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler Review Other Stuff This Week: The Best Case Mods of 2019 Win a Thermaltake Toughpower PF1 ARGB 850W PSU + Riing Trio 12 RGB Fans! News This Week: The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT will have 2304 Stream Processors ASRock Radeon RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming OC Graphics Card Pictured Intel 10th Generation “Comet Lake” Desktop Processors Revealed Intel LGA1200 Socket Appears to be Cooler-compatible with LGA115x 48-Core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3980X Revealed ADATA To Start Selling Monitors, Laptops, and Gaming PCs Steam Reveals Top Selling Games of 2019 Grand Theft Auto 6 rumored for Fall 2021 Coming Next Week: New Corsair Product CES 2020! Intel 10th generation processors RX 5600 XT official NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super? AMD “Zen 3” Microarchitecture

Podcast brought to you by our merch store! https://thinkcomputers.org/merch Episode brought to you by OUR NEW MERCH STORE! (https://thinkcomputers.org/merch).     Reviews This Week: Sapphire Pulse RX 5500 XT 8GB Graphics Card Review Glorious PC Gaming Race Model O Gaming Mouse Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project 24K Fractal Design Vector RS Case News This Week: AMD Officially Launches the Radeon RX 5500 XT New Intel CPU Architecture Listed on Benchmark Database? ASUS 280Hz TUF Gaming Monitor Listed Online Lexar’s new PCIe 4.0 SSD Hits 7GB/s NZXT Announces World of Warcraft Custom H510 PC Gaming Cases Microsoft Advertises Gmail in Windows 10 Mail which Points to Outlook CORSAIR Agrees to Acquire SCUF Gaming, Adding Premium Gaming Controllers to its Portfolio Half-Life Alyx Will Not Feature Multiplayer Coming Next Week: In Win 309 Case AORUS CV27Q Gaming Monitor SilverStone PF240-ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler Tech / Nerd Recommendations: Ryan got into the Star Wars Fornite Event!

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: Cooler Master MasterAir MA620M CPU Cooler Review iStorage DatAshur PRO2 Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: Project CYBERPUNK 2077 Win a Corsair iCUE QL120 RGB 3-Fan Kit! News This Week: The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT has been Listed Online Custom RX 5500 XT’s From Gigabyte & ASRock Spotted Sapphire’s $259 RX 5500 XT NITRO+ Special Edition Spotted AMD Announces Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Dell looking to AMD as an Alternative as Intel CPU Shortages Continue Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake-S CPUs and Z490 Motherboards to Launch in April 2020 The Next Core i5 Desktop Processor will feature HyperThreading VIPER GAMING by PATRIOT Unleashes VPR100 M.2 2280 PCIeGen3 x4 RGB Solid State Drive New BioShock Game in Development by New “Cloud Chamber” Studio Coming Next Week: In Win 309 Case Glorious PC Gaming Race Model O Gaming Mouse AORUS CV27Q Gaming Monitor

Episode brought to you by Amazon (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/amazon).     Reviews This Week: Sabrent Rocket 1TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 Solid State Drive Review HyperX Fury RGB DDR4-3200 16GB Memory Kit Review Other Stuff This Week: Case Mod Friday: SL600Mi Win a Corsair iCUE QL120 RGB 3-Fan Kit! News This Week: AMD to Unveil Both RX 5500 XT and RX 5600 Series in This Month HIS Launches Interesting Pink and Blue RX 5700 XT Cards Intel Intel Xe Rumors: Progress Not Going Well Dells Calls out Intel for CPU Shortages According to EHA Study, 60% of European PC Enthusiasts Prefer AMD CPUs AMD X570-Successor Chipset Might not be Made By AMD Zalman Finally Releases their CNPS20X and CNPS17X CPU Coolers Humble Bundle’s Jingle Jam 2019 Will Give You Great Games All December for Just $1 Per Day! Apparently You Can Now Play Doom on Your Old Digital Camera Coming Next Week: Cooler Master MasterAir MA620M CPU Cooler In Win 309 Case iStorage DatAshur Pro2 Hardware Encrypted Flash Drive Tech / Nerd Recommendations: