PC Perspective Podcast #321 - 10/09/2014

Join us this week as we discuss the EVGA GTX 980 Water Block, AMD's New CEO, R9 290 Price Drops and more!

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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, and Allyn Malventano


Program length: 1:33:12



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Week in Review:



0:03:10 EVGA Hydro Copper GTX 980 Water Block Early Performance Testing


0:12:15 Lenovo Y50 Touch Gaming Notebook Review: In Touch With Your Budget


0:15:35 WD Red 6TB Retested - Performance Restored


0:21:10 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Performance Testing



Sniper Elite 3 Performance: Maxwell vs. Hawaii, DX11 vs. Mantle




0:34:12 NVIDIA Announces GTX Maxwell Notebooks (980M & 970M)


0:40:40 be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 & Shadow Rock Slim CPU Cooler Review


0:43:30 ASUS Maximus VII Formula Z97 Motherboard Review




News items of interest:



0:50:10 Dr. Lisa Su Is AMD's New President and CEO


0:58:10 DirectX 12 Shipping with Windows 10


1:01:35 ARM and TSMC are headed for 10nm


1:05:50 AMD Dropping R9 290X to $399, R9 290 to $299


1:13:20 Hewlett-Packard (HP) Splits Into Two Companies


1:15:45 AMD's mobile APU update, Carrizo-L for Christmas, full Carrizo for the new year


1:17:30 MSI Revamps Armory of Gaming Laptops with Latest NVIDIA GTX 970M & 980M Graphics




Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:



Ryan: Sniper Elite 3: Shoot people in the nuts


Jeremy: Why is no one talking about this game?


Josh: We could all use 3 of these!


Allyn: What's in your wallet?




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