PC Perspective Podcast #167 – 8/25/2011

This week we talk about HD6970 shortages, the ASUS ROG Matrix GTX580, HP selling it’s PC business and more!

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

This Podcast is brought to you by MSI Computer, and their all new Sandy Bridge Motherboards!

Program length: 1:28:47

Program Schedule:

  1. 0:00:38 Introduction
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  5. 0:01:32 Where Have All the 6970s Gone?
  6. 0:12:23 ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 580 Platinum 1.5GB Graphics Card Review – Best of the best?
  7. 0:26:00 This Podcast is brought to you by MSI Computer, and their all new Sandy Bridge Motherboards!
  8. 0:27:05 Llano is running short
  9. 0:33:50 HP conference call this afternoon, could a major division drop?
  10. 0:35:50 Corsair Unveils Two New 90GB SATA 6Gb/s SSDs, A World’s First
  11. 0:42:02 Battlefield 3: This is what the PC players will be enjoying
  12. 0:43:59 Intel returns to upgrade cards for more of their crippled parts
  13. 0:48:20 Gigabyte motherboard with 20GB cache
  14. 0:50:49 Drobo Improves Storage with new App-Driven Delivery
  15. 1:00:25 Deus Ex gives beautiful performance on cards costing less than $250
  16. 1:01:22 Steve Jobs steps down blah blah
  17. 1:02:15 Emails from Graeme about a SWTOR rig
  18. 1:06:41 Email from Eric about a new MB/CPU
  19. 1:11:20 Email from a lot of people – What SSD would Allyn buy?
  20. 1:14:30 Email from Mark about Matrox TripleHead2Go
  21. 1:19:32 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
    1. Ryan: Blue Icicle
    2. Jeremy: Space Marine demo on Steam
    3. Josh: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122326
    4. Allyn: Unlocker (is finally 64 bit)
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  4. Closing