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Josh Walrath
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Managing Editor
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Laramie, WY. USA
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Josh started writing about the computer field in 1997, opened his own site in 1999 (Penstarsys.com), and joined PC Perspective in 2008.  He handles a lot of the general tech and some of the deep dives into products such as CPUs and GPUs.  He appears on the PC Perspective Podcast live every Wednesday night at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT.

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Installation, Impressions, and Setup

02/13/2013 - 22:56

  Installation and Impressions The board was a breeze to install.  Updating the BIOS was again very easy within the BIOS.  Downloading the BIOS image to a USB flash stick is all it takes anymore.  Even if a user somehow destroys the...

The GA-F2A85X-UP4

02/13/2013 - 22:54

  “Sacrifices must be made” is a quote that is easily remembered by most US Air Force Academy graduates.  Otto Lilienthal was not speaking about motherboards in particular, but he knew that any kind of progress would require...

Corsair Acquires Simple Audio: Aggressive Expansion into New Markets

02/11/2013 - 16:57

Corsair sure does like to expand upon their product base.  The company was founded in 1994 and produced only memory for quite a few years.  The past five years have seen tremendous growth from the company in terms of SSDs, cases, power supplies...

ST Ericsson Shows off First FD-SOI Product

01/16/2013 - 22:41

SOI has been around for some time now, but in partially depleted form (PD-SOI).  Quite a few manufacturers have utilized PD-SOI for their products, such as AMD and IBM (probably the two largest producers of SOI based parts).  Oddly enough,...

Sapphire CES 2013: Mini-PCs are the Future

01/09/2013 - 22:11

  Sapphire was a quick trip with a few interesting things to show off.  At the moment we are in a quiet period with AMD and NVIDIA graphics releases.  While AMD has released a few of their mobile based 8000 series parts, we are still not...

AMD CES 2013: Temash, Kabini, and Kaveri with a side of Sea Islands

01/09/2013 - 21:43

The day after the official AMD presentation we were able to sit down with Leslie Sobon for a good hour and really dig into the products we are expecting throughout this next year.  AMD did not officially announce any products, but they revealed more...

Corsair Releases the Kraken: 900D Engulfs All

01/08/2013 - 12:37

Corsair had quite a few announcements this CES 2013, but none were as big as this one.  The rumors had been swirling about a massive case in the bowels of the Corsair headquarters, and today we get to see the reality of the situation. It truly is a...

Intel CES 2013: Updated Ivy Bridge, More Haswell Details

01/08/2013 - 05:29

Intel is a yearly presence at CES and typically have a few interesting things to talk about.  Last year we got to see Will.I.Am on stage telling us all about how the Ultrabook has changed his artistic life.  Oddly enough, things have not...

Intel Leaks Valleyview and Bay Trail Slides

01/06/2013 - 18:09

When the original Intel Atom hit the scene, it was a reasonably large success for Intel with the massive explosion of netbooks.  The original design was very simplistic, but was fairly power efficient.  The weak link of the original Atom was...

AMD FX-8350 Overclocking + Liquid Cooling System Review

12/30/2012 - 21:38

Closed loop water cooling is not new, but it certainly is a pretty hot topic now.  Some of the first units out there had some interesting issues (like internal corrosion clogging everything up), but once those teething problems were solved the...