PC Perspective Podcast

Discussion on the upcoming Intel LGA1954 CPU roadmap, that Plex servers might be vulnerable, LG and all their spying, AI is probably going to destroy us all, RAM prices won't peak, and get a GOG box for the full experience. All that and so much more! (And somewhat less when Brett has to dip out unexpectedly) Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:20 Patreon 02:59 Food with Josh 05:37 News begins - iPhone Duo 09:45 TSMC High-NA EUV expanding 11:49 Intel next-gen roadmap leaks 14:46 Also, Intel CPUs about to get more expensive 18:38 DLSS 5 coming to older GPUs after all 22:40 DDR5 prices to grow up to 18 percent in Q3 24:58 Windows 11 new update fixes taskbar complaint 26:46 The chances AI could destroy us all in the next 10 years 32:51 AMD GPUs climbing up the charts 35:06 Audacity 4 37:46 (in)Security Corner 1:02:19 Brett suddenly has to leave 1:02:59 Gaming Quick Hits 1:13:40 Picks of the Week 1:22:24 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Originally aired on September 1st. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:39 Patreon 02:53 Food with Josh 06:17 News begins - and Packard Bell is back 10:03 Intel LGA1954 confirmed 12:49 MacBook Neo SSD thrashing seems dire 16:30 Horrifying DLSS 5 mods 22:29 Rumored next-gen Radeon flagship performance 25:19 Run multiple Linux kernels with no hypervisor? 27:59 Tweaks for Windows 11 before Microsoft shuts them down 31:29 GPU coil whine database 35:21 (In)Security Corner 48:51 Gaming Quick Hits 54:07 Fractal Refine 2 gaming chair review 1:00:08 Picks of the Week 1:08:35 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Where else are you going to get GTA6, WiFi7, M6, WPA3, RTX 5090 and Atari 2600 coverage all in the same show? No where else, that's where. Listen to the dulcet tones of tech whisperers go over the weekly news and so much more. Hot Chips, SteamOS, Outlook stupidity! Oh, and Linux turns 35. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Patreon 01:44 Food with Josh 04:24 Breaking news - Hot Chips was all about ai 11:06 Apple has new silicon and Macs 16:20 Linux turns 35 17:25 SteamOS 3.9 Main boots on Intel Arc B580 18:53 Careful when you upgrade to WiFi 7 22:55 New Outlook can look more like old Outlook now 25:40 How much is that 5090 in the window? 29:25 NVIDIA financials 35:21 (In)Security Corner 51:06 Gaming Quick Hits 56:07 Picks of the Week 1:08:31 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Get the fanciest Ryzen 9 without a lid, Intel appears to be looping back on their naming CPUs and Arc squeaks out more performance (sometimes), CoPilot assists in "hacking" itself, your Twitch streams might be training AI, and Epic appears to be coming to Linux. It's the year of Linux, Am I Right(tm)? or what? All that and way to much for this 5Lb bag again. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:29 Patreon 03:17 Food with Josh 05:02 News begins - Intel might Haswell name their new CPU the 4950K 06:34 You can now buy a de-lidded 9950X3D2 with a warranty 07:53 VRAM compression with Arc on Linux? 11:22 Microsoft's rebrand registry 14:28 Microsoft working on Windows 11 context menu 15:50 Intel, money motivated, may make more memory memories 21:44 Twitch ai training is opt-out, because no one would opt-in 26:47 Fairphone Gen 6 Plus arrives in USA 28:51 (In)Security Corner 40:48 Gaming Quick Hits 50:10 Josh reviews MOZA CS Pro and R9 V3 1:03:06 Picks of the Week 1:16:19 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Linux gaming support keeps improving, TPM hardware keeps gaining vulnerabilities, the AI tech sector keeps gaining debt linked to investments, and advertisers keep gaining sneakier ways to infiltrate your content experiences. Enjoy! Ah, Kent couldn't make the show at the last minute, and Brett so planned on being there (lights were on, computer was spun up), but a last minute emergency took him off the air too - so it's a threesome tonight! (I should have written that differently I think ...) Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:02 Patreon 01:47 Food with Josh 05:50 Xbox and Game Pass on Linux in the works 07:46 New SteamOS beta adds support for more hardware 09:58 Massive AI debt hiding in plain sight 14:10 RTX 50 Series median price keeps growing 16:24 Time Magazine shows ads only chatbots can see 19:07 Noreply domains 22:28 Woodgrain motherboard 25:15 Microsoft raising Windows 11 license cost 26:04 Win 11 built-in weather app wastes over 1GB of RAM 28:04 (in)Security Corner intro 29:23 (in)Security Corner actually begins 44:34 Josh's Sim Corner 51:25 Gaming Quick Hits 56:58 Picks of the Week 1:03:05 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We continue the journey to 1000 episodes with this riveting installment that could possibly change your life. Not convinced? If you order big bacon-covered burgers every day that WILL change your life. We guarantee it. Print out your Noctua things, run Windows 11 in 8Gb with varying degrees of success, AMD makes the monies, and EA goes private. Question: Is THIS the year of Linux? Why did Roomba and power inverters just get banned, Apple DRAM struggles, and Fanatec (of course). A well packed show in a 10lb bag, enjoy! TImestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Patreon 02:28 Food with Josh 05:40 Microsoft deletes 32GB RAM recommendation docs 11:04 Linux market share grows 14:08 AMD Financial results (with extended discussion) 22:33 Even Apple struggles to get DRAM (and memory is sold out through 2027) 24:30 We talk even more about RAM and the stock market 29:28 Sony moves ahead with end of discs 33:26 Google removing Assistant on phones - Gemini the only option 35:07 Finally, we can 3D print in official Noctua colors 38:08 (In)Security Corner 51:13 Josh's Sim Racing Corner 53:50 Gaming Quick Hits 1:04:49 HyperX Cloud Stinger 3 Wireless gaming headset review 1:10:18 Picks of the Week 1:22:47 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GOG is coming to Linux! Microsoft asks LG to stop with the bloatware ads, the Radeon RX 9050 arrives in a 4GB config, Nova Lake-S is bringing a 65w iGPU to the fight, and 8GB is just not enough for a laptop with Win 11 + Josh takes over the show with his Racing Corner segment. Maybe a DD$4 build is not in your future? There's so much more in here, it's hard to summarize, I'm afraid you'll just have to listen. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Patreon 03:29 Food with Josh 05:10 Radeon RX 9050 (and the return of the 4GB GPU) 14:29 Intel's Nova Lake-S iGPU draws 65W? 17:44 GOG Galaxy app going native...Linux 20:23 Microsoft's 8GB Surface laptop is an embarrassment 22:50 The DDR4 to DDR5 gaming gap 27:25 AMI acquired by a company called Lattice 29:47 Starlink exempted from foreign router ban 31:47 CXMT now charges more for RDIMMs than Samsung 41:50 (In)Security Corner 58:07 Josh's Sim Corner 1:09:48 Gaming Quick Hits 1:18:58 Picks of the Week 1:37:37 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

R.I.P. John C. Dvorak. In other news ... the Ryzen 7700X3D prices drop already, Nvidia N1X CUDA counts and an 88-core CPU (of course). Windows on ARM gets a real boost with Nvidia GPU drivers, HP is just as bad as we all through regarding printer cartridges, and LG discovers a new low by auto-installing bloatware when you plug in a display. Plenty of AMD good news in the datacenter and Open AI shows that unshackling their creations will probably be as bad as we thought. Steam hardware sales and so much more in the show! Enjoy. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:09 Patreon 02:21 Food with Josh 06:08 RIP John C. Dvorak 08:08 NVIDIA's 88-core CPU 09:26 RTX Spark Win 11 driver and Arm dGPU support 12:07 Josh leads us into more NVIDIA talk and later defends datacenters 19:16 AMD gets two big datacenter wins 22:43 Ryzen 7 7700X3D already had a price drop 24:11 ADATA chairman warns RAM shortage will last another decade 24:37 Samsung Unpacked 29:21 HP fined for nefarious printer cartridge practices - in India 34:44 LG adware 38:18 (In)Security Corner 48:46 Gaming Quick Hits 58:44 Picks of the Week 1:12:01 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

I had a dream that I posted this already - but I was wrong. The Ryzen 5800X3D becomes widely available, it's like the return of the former king. Memory supply continues to get worse, but no worries, you'll just pay more. AMD FSR continues to develop, and Windows 11 gets slightly better. So much more here, check out the notes below! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:39 There is no German version 02:14 Patreon 03:58 Food with Josh 06:11 The Ryzen 7 5800X3D returns - and at MSRP! 09:40 RTX 50 Series hot spot is a hot issue 15:14 Microsoft to let Win 11 users disable ads in search? 16:29 The horrors of Windows 95 program installation REVEALED 21:40 FSR with up to 8x framegen in development 23:22 For its 25th anniversary Google gives us more AI 25:28 Reflecting on the death of physical media 32:26 Windows marketshare falling 37:26 SK Hynix says next year will be the worst 39:08 (In)Security Corner 55:40 Gaming Quick Hits 1:01:39 Samsung SSD 990 review 1:09:33 Picks of the Week 1:21:05 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Valve offers Windows drivers now for the Steam Machine, Intel feels like they need to join to price rising brigades, Micron is fab, MiniPC's with last gen gear, and Nvidia will lend you money on easy terms! Adobe has another vulnerability and Microsoft has a couple fresh ones too! So much more in the actual show ... especially the live version, which you probably missed. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:22 Patreon 02:53 Food with Josh 05:41 Steam Machine coverage continues (again) 08:52 Intel Nova Lake and AVX-512 10:04 Intel raises MSRPs on their best processors 11:02 Intel restarts 13th and 14th Gen Core production - for China 12:23 Lian Li B4 mATX makes another appearance 15:01 Micron breaking ground on a new fab expansion 16:01 Get ready for Mini PCs with previous-gen Intel CPUs and DDR4 17:33 Internal sound cards in 2026? 20:25 Cover story - RTX 3060 12GB returns in 2026 23:54 An NVIDIA story about AI cloud 26:24 Jeremy leads us into a story about Samsung's obscene profits 28:22 Josh's Racing Corner 32:38 (In)Security Corner 50:07 Gaming Quick Hits 57:12 Picks of the Week 1:08:22 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Prices are getting so high that we may all end up gaming on potatoes soon. Buy yours from Dell. Steam Machine pricing seems ... like pretty much on target actually. DDR price fixing?! No! The dBrand Companion Cube is no more. PC shipments are falling, and Sony agrees that you will own nothing and like it very much. There's so much to be angry about it this episode while we basically shake our heads and laugh it away. Mostly. There might have been crying... Timestamps! 00:00 Intro 00:39 Patreon 02:03 What case would you put in a living room? 05:56 Food with Josh 07:56 Steam Machine coverage continues 15:52 RAM makers accused of price fixing 18:03 RTX 5050 9GB may be cancelled 21:44 PC shipments fell 7 percent in Q1 23:43 Now Microsoft says 8GB is fine for Win 11 28:30 Sony deleting 551 movies from customer accounts 29:54 Windows 10 gets updates for another year 30:34 Racing with Josh - NLR fiberglass chair 32:31 (In)Security Corner 40:20 Gaming Quick Hits 57:13 Picks of the Week 1:01:08 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Mostly Steam Machine, but several other products may have been mentioned. Like how memory pricing has gotten so bad that DDR2 is being made again, you'll get Windows 11 25H2 whether you like it or not, that the history of computing includes us, and that you are not eligible for a GTA VI preview and you'll pay $90'ish for it. But you might be eligible for FSR 4.1! Take a listen or watch the show for more! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:51 Patreon 2:06 Food with Josh 5:40 Steam Machine and SteamOS 19:48 DDR2 to go back into production? 24:08 Lets talk more about Steam Machine (RAM cartel, etc.) 30:53 Microsoft force-installing 25H2 before 26H2 33:40 Official FSR 4.1 support comes to RX 7000 Series 35:47 AMD will restore memory encryption to consumer CPUs 37:47 Old men yell at clouds 42:42 Josh briefly talks about Gunnar Optics 43:54 (In)Security Corner 58:30 Gaming Quick Hits 1:08:41 Picks of the Week 1:23:59 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Well well, what do we have here? Another episode of the PCPer Podcast for your enjoyment! Commodore is making phones, Steam Machine is starting to make waves, iGPUs are getting dropped, 12vHPWR is making lightning, a very special segment on pricing of olde, a critical Copilot vulnerability (suprise?), and a Bitlocker Zero Day. Steam hardware survey, brown cooling, and the infamous Podcast sound board. Relax and take it all in. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:06 Patreon 5:12 Josh fails to deliver a food segment 6:31 Steam Machine benchmarked 8:06 Zen 6 desktop CPUs may lose iGPU, add NPU 11:16 Intel and NVIDIA collaborate on upcoming processor 12:51 A trip down memory (and storage) lane 18:37 AMD giveth, and AMD taketh away 22:19 Noctua NL-LC1 liquid cooler reviewed at TPU 26:08 Handheld with Arc G3 Extreme pricing 28:22 IQUNIX Ghost in the Shell hall effect keyboards 30:24 Commodore Callback 34:53 Logitech folding mouse 38:40 Another melting 12VHPWR connector story 42:02 (In)Security Corner 53:44 Gaming Quick Hits 1:05:52 Picks of the Week 1:16:45 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The back episodes finally make it online, this is number 4 in a series of episodes - wait - this IS the current episode! Brett is back, so the episodes are getting posted almost on time! Windows is starting to support ARM more, RAM pricing hysterics, Windows 11 CPU boost, Intel improves with iBOT, Microsoft 365 brings the CoPilot, and bots surpass humans on the network. On with the show, enjoy! 0:00 Intro 1:15 Patreon 2:09 Food Stories with Josh (just words, no photos) 3:54 3DMark adds native Arm Windows support 6:55 Josh talks about the latest Arm developments 9:43 Memory prices may double this year (and related discussion) 16:45 Windows 11 performance boost? 19:05 Intel expands iBOT with 7 more games 23:31 AMD reaches almost 45 percent CPU share on Steam 25:23 Office 365 Copilot auto-install returns 33:59 Bots take over the Internet 36:59 Apple iOS 27 has an "agentic" solution for compromised passwords 39:42 (in)Security Corner 54:15 Gaming Quick Hits 1:01:32 Picks of the Week 1:10:02 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The back episodes finally make it online, this is number 3 in a series of episodes that did not get posted, but are now! Brett is out (which is why these didn't get posted) - but the show is very fine, up to our usual standards. Computex hits (and misses), the 5800X3D comeback, our RX 9070 GRE review, the ZimaCube 2 Pro and even a VS Code zero day and ZeroSpace gaming! Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:09 Patreon 1:38 Food with Josh (or not) 3:38 Computex highlights begin - AMD was busy 6:47 Ryzen 7 5800X3D returns 8:57 Reviewing the RX 9070 GRE (and extended pricing discussion) 22:57 NVIDIA at Computex 34:00 Intel wants to build back their reputation 36:36 Noctua at Computex 40:11 Corsair's announcements include a pretty sweet looking case 46:32 RIP 24-pin ATX connector as everything shrinks 49:52 Qualcomm has potentially gone insane with the 6G stuff 58:43 MSI has world's first triple mode QD-OLED gaming monitor 1:01:02 A very fast NAS (just don't try to buy big HDDs right now) 1:06:43 (In)Security Corner 1:13:55 Gaming Quick Hit 1:19:52 Picks of the Week 1:32:55 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The back episodes finally make it online, this is number 2 in a series of episodes that did not get posted, but are now! Brett is out (which is why these didn't get posted) - but the show is great as usual! Motorola phones hijaking stuff, Steam Deck OLED pricing, LLMs spill their guts, and Windows laptop makers are scare of the Macbook Neo!? Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:27 Patreon 1:52 Food with Josh 5:25 RX 9070 GRE spotted at retailers 6:51 Steam Deck price hike 9:56 CXMT is the new consumer memory maker on the block 14:20 NVIDIA retires the control panel 16:42 First-gen Chromecast lives on 20:11 PC makers start to respond to MacBook Neo 24:02 Lenovo Legion N1X name confirmed 26:50 (in)Security Corner 39:08 Gaming Quick Hits 42:02 Picks of the Week 55:08 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The back episodes finally make it online, this is number 1 is a series of episodes that did not get posted, but are now! Brett is out (which is why these didn't get posted) - but the show is great! So much insecurity, so much Linux and retro, enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:04 Patreon 1:26 Food with Josh 3:10 New Ryzen X3D already? 5:16 NVIDIA just made more money than ever 11:52 RTX 5090 price increase 16:41 EFI partitions and Windows Update 19:57 Noctua Home - adding fans to everything in your life 22:57 Linux drops more vintage CPU support 26:35 Vintage style ROG motherboard 30:39 (In)Security Corner 44:30 Gaming Quick Hit 47:20 Jeremy explores the Lepro OE1 RGB floor lamp 52:12 Picks of the Week 1:00:29 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Let me start off by saying that we should have made a "5309" reference, a miss on our part. AMD has a very good financial report, let the Josh take wash over you. Steam controller launches, sells out, and you probably don't have one. 32GB was the minimum. Then it wasn't. Microsoft, so trustworthy. Also plain text never hurt anyway. And so much more! Thanks to our sponsor this week: Zapier! Bring the power an AI to any workflow - don’t just talk about it: ACT! Check out Zapier and their orchestration platform. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:19 Patreon 3:09 Food with Josh 5:11 Josh presents AMD financials 12:19 Steam Controller news and Machine rumor 14:46 Microsoft wants you to forget not to worry 18:16 DDR6 development starts 19:06 PCI Express 8.0 23:54 be quiet! Dark Rock 6 coolers announced 26:09 We apologize for being wrong about GALAX 29:10 Lisuan 7G100 is a GPU launching this month 31:50 Jeremy discovers the cheap turntable market 35:10 Ad 37:03 (In)Security Corner 52:02 Gaming Quick Hits 1:03:16 Josh put his racing corner segment here 1:13:14 Picks of the week 1:24:02 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intel is making BANK on their stocks, but still not getting respect on their CPUs, GALAX is shutting down (mostly), Microsoft is trying REALLY hard now, does ASUS have the 12vhpwr cabling answer?, and patch your damn cPanel right now. Plus cool gaming tidbits and more on that router ban. Enjoy all that and even slightly more! 0:00 Intro 0:39 Patreon 2:18 Food with Josh 3:55 Intel stock hits record high 12:06 Microsoft feels enough pressure to fix Update 16:29 GALAX shuts down 19:11 Portable hotspots face US ban just like routers 22:44 57 Right to Repair bills in 27 states 26:25 NES or Acemagic Retro X5 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Mini PC? 30:40 Fractal Pop 2 Vision 33:49 Some discussion of the ROG Equalizer 40:37 We look at a 2080Ti Super eBay listing here 42:24 (In)Security Corner 49:03 Gaming Quick Hits 59:47 Picks of the Week 1:07:39 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What's better then an episode of the PCPer Podcast? Two of them at once! The reviews of the 9950X3D2 are in from discerning reviewers. TL;DR; - it's not for everyone, but it's very much for some. The return of the 3060 is almost here, wait - DDR pricing has an upside?, D-Link routers take another beating in the security section, XBox mode, and the tipping point is here for IPv6 (I know, I know: much wow, very excite!) 0:00 Intro 1:05 Patreon 2:59 Fishsticks 6:16 Food with Josh 8:41 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 reviewed by a dozen outlets 19:44 Alienware first to market with 9950X3D2 PC 22:06 Ryzen 7 5800X3D returns, possibly! (Plus CPU show and tell) 26:40 NVIDIA pausing the 9GB GPUs for the RTX 3060 12GB return? 29:19 SK hynix giving executive bonuses to ALL employees 30:46 HUDIMMs are half the speed, but will they be half the cost? 32:39 Another retro computer case 34:44 Brett shows off his latest PC build 38:49 Apple has a new CEO (but it isn't Brett) 42:10 Let's talk about video CODECs 45:52 IPv6 usage reaches 50 percent 49:54 MacOS 27 officially drops support for Intel 50:45 (In)Security Corner 1:01:10 Gaming Quick Hits 1:13:26 Picks of the Week 1:23:35 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★