Podcast #206 - Corsair 550D Chassis, AMD licensing ARM, AMD Tahiti 2 GPUs and more!

Subject: General Tech | June 14, 2012 - 02:53 PM |
Tagged: tahiti 2, podcast, nvidia, Intel, hsa, corsair, arm, amd, 550d

PC Perspective Podcast #206 - 06/14/2012

Join us this week as we talk about the Corsair 550D Chassis, AMD licensing ARM, AMD Tahiti 2 GPUs and more!

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Hosts: Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Allyn Malvantano and Scott Michaud

This Podcast is brought to you by MSI!

Program length: 1:22:58

Program Schedule:

  1. 0:00:20 Introduction
  2. 1-888-38-PCPER or podcast@pcper.com
  3. http://pcper.com/podcast
  4. http://twitter.com/ryanshrout and http://twitter.com/pcper
  5. 0:02:00 ioSafe SoloPro and Synology DiskStation 212+ Review
  6. 0:13:05 Origin EOS17 Gaming Notebook Review
  7. 0:18:00 Corsair Obsidian 550D Case Review
  8. 0:22:00 This Podcast is brought to you by MSI!
  9. 0:24:10 AMD, ARM, Ti, Imagination and MediaTek for HSA Foundation
  10. 0:34:30 AMD licenses ARM Cortex-A5 for APUs
  11. 0:39:45 Sapphire passive Radeon HD 7770
  12. 0:42:50 ASUS ROG laptop first with 802.11ac
  13. 0:47:50 AMD could be releasing Tahiti 2 GPU next week
  14. 0:49:16 Unreal Engine 4 looks pretty awesome...
  15. 0:55:05 AMD Wireless Display standard coming soon
  16. 0:56:45 Apple does indeed release high-res 15" laptop
  17. 1:02:00 New MacBooks Sporting 6Gb/s Samsung 830 Series SSD Controllers
  18. 1:04:18 AMD Kevari 3rd gen APU to hit 1 TFLOPS performance
  19. 1:06:45 Link_A_Media controller explored
  20. 1:09:45 AMD FirePro W600 launched
  21. 1:13:55 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
    1. Ryan: That Doctor he was getting drunk with
    2. Jeremy: It's heeere and on the Leaderboard
    3. Josh:  Not for the faint of heart. Or wallet.
    4. Allyn: Windows 8 Release Preview is out
    5. Scott: Mount and Blade: Warband: Napoleonic Wars (because you can never have too many subtitles)
    6. Tim: Corsair Obsidian 550D I've been drooling over this since CES! )
  22. 1-888-38-PCPER or podcast@pcper.com
  23. http://pcper.com/podcast   
  24. http://twitter.com/ryanshrout and http://twitter.com/pcper
  25. 1:22:00 Closing

 

June 15, 2012 | 12:52 AM - Posted by DeadOfKnight (not verified)

Damn, you all just rip on Scott like it's cool.

June 15, 2012 | 01:35 PM - Posted by Jeremy Hellstrom

We didn't want him to feel left out since we all rip on each other constantly

June 15, 2012 | 05:41 PM - Posted by Shambles (not verified)

Do all these wireless display consortium's not know about DLNA servers? I've been wireless pushing music, pictures, video to and from TVs, computers, and phones in my house. I like to use XBMC but even windows media player that comes with Windows 7 natively does this. I'm surprised no one on the podcast brought up this point.

And poor Scott :(

June 15, 2012 | 06:28 PM - Posted by Tim Verry

Well, at least for WiDi, one of the features that DLNA can't do is stream the live desktop such that the TV can be used as a larger monitor. Aside from that, yeah people have been DLNA for getting media to the TV for a long time!

June 17, 2012 | 02:39 PM - Posted by Shambles (not verified)

Ahhh, so it at least differentiates itself somewhat. Speaking of desktop sharing our good friends at Microsoft not only have decided to start added animated ads in the middle of our Skype calls but have also removed the ability share your desktop out of the free version. Now in order to show someone else your screen you now have to pay for premium Skype.

June 18, 2012 | 06:40 AM - Posted by Tim Verry

I have to say, I'm not surprised!

June 16, 2012 | 12:32 AM - Posted by Anonymous (not verified)

Li-th-ening (listening) to the la-th-t (last) podca-th-t (podcast) wa-th (was) hell on the ear-th (ears).

Between the distortion, lisps, mis-pronounciations, and the one "special guest" that that Thkype'd (Skype'd) in, sounded like he was talking thru...well, I can't describe what he sounded like other than it sounded absolutely horrible.
Do us all a favor and load one of the podcasts in any wave editor and look at the peaks and clipping.
Horrid...

June 16, 2012 | 12:51 PM - Posted by Scott Michaud

It sounded like I was talking through a gaming headset mic and 600-800 kbps upload while also trying to send a high res webcam feed.

The only other option (unless I somehow can bond 3-or-4 DSL modems here) is 2mbps up unlimited cable for 210$/mo.

Do not have the money for that yet. When some of my other projects go online I might have the funds to justify it though.

June 16, 2012 | 09:16 PM - Posted by Tim Verry

holy shit, $210 a month!? 0.0 And I thought Comcast was insane :P

June 17, 2012 | 10:43 AM - Posted by Scott Michaud

Welcome to Canada.

Although the price I quoted was an unlimited plan.

I could technically get a 20-24/3.2 VERY solid connection (as solid as I have now, just faster) for ~130-170/mo... if I had 4 phone lines coming in the house.

June 18, 2012 | 06:40 AM - Posted by Tim Verry

holy crap :P Hopefully your house is wired with Cat5e for phone lines so you have four pairs to play with :D

June 17, 2012 | 02:42 PM - Posted by Shambles (not verified)

I don't understand why tech sites still use Skype to run podcasts. I can understand using skype for convenient video feeds but the call quality is just so absolutely terrible with horrible latency.

Do yourselves a favour and run everyones audio through a mumble server. You won't be tripping over each other due to laggy Skype servers, you'll sound far better and still easily be able to exclude environmental sounds like keyboards and children. Even with a crappy mic you'll still come out sounding far better than using Skype.

June 16, 2012 | 01:18 AM - Posted by Angry

No offense to the dude, but Scott needs a better mic....Seriously...

June 16, 2012 | 12:48 PM - Posted by Scott Michaud

Yeah I got this mic because it does not pick up my mechanical keyboard that well and is convenient to use for personal calls.

When I get more money I expect to get a Heil or something for recordings and podcasts.

June 19, 2012 | 03:29 AM - Posted by Anonymous (not verified)

Is Scott really Josh with hair? I think that is a complement for one of you but I'm not sure who. Anyways the mic was fine.

June 19, 2012 | 10:21 AM - Posted by Josh Walrath

LOL!

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