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Ryan Shrout
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Owner, Operator, Editor-in-Chief
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Florence, KY, USA
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Ryan started PC Perspective in 2004 and before that ran hardware review websites by the name of Amdmb.com and Athlonmb.com.  Besides taking care of the day to day operations of the pcper.com, managing content and producing a podcast, he also hosts This Week in Computer Hardware on the This Week in Tech network with Patrick Norton.  

You can find Ryan mostly on PC Perspective, but also in a few key places:

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Rumor: AMD Gets Exclusive Optimization for all Frostbite 3 Games

06/18/2013 - 15:39

UPDATE #3 The original source article at IGN.com has been updated with some new information.  Now they are saying the agreement between AMD and EA is "non-exclusive and gamers using other components will be supported."  The quote from...

Intel Core i7-4770K

06/18/2013 - 13:15

Goodbye 3770K and hello 4770K as Haswell is finally available.  At 3.5GHz and with the new Intel HD GPU to accelerate encoding this is a decent replacement to the long standing Ivy Bridge processor that has been the base of the High End system for...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mobility Performance Testing

06/14/2013 - 12:47

Late last month, just before the tech world blew up from the mess that is Computex, NVIDIA announced a new line of mobility discrete graphics parts under the GTX 700M series label.  At the time we simply posted some news and specifications about the...

Razer Blade Haswell Gaming Notebook is Damn Sexy, Powerful

06/12/2013 - 20:47

With the launch of Intel's Haswell processor, accessory maker-turned notebook vendor Razer announced a pretty slick machine, the Blade.  Based on a quad-core, 37 watt Core i7 Haswell CPU and a GeForce GTX 765M GPU, the Razer Blade packs a lot of...

Oculus VR Rift HD 1080p Prototype Headset Impresses

06/12/2013 - 20:24

I have been a big proponent of the Oculus Rift and its move into the world of consumer-ready VR (virtual reality) technology.  I saw it for the first time at Quakecon 2012 where Palmer Luckey and John Carmack sat on stage and addressed the new...

E3 2013: Monoprice Shows New 27-in and 30-in High-Res, Low Cost Monitors

06/12/2013 - 19:58

While wandering the halls at E3 to talk with NVIDIA and AMD about the future of gaming, I ran across a small booth with Monoprice in it.  If you don't know Monoprice, it is an online seller of electronics and cables and much of its merchandise...

NVIDIA Reiterates Dedication to Gaming on PC, Working with Developers

06/11/2013 - 22:30

NVIDIA views the gaming landscape as a constantly shifting medium that starts with the PC.  But the company also sees mobile gaming, cloud gaming and even console gaming as part of the overall ecosystem.  But that is all tied together by an...

Power Consumption and Closing Thoughts

06/11/2013 - 15:55

Power testing mobile GPUs, especially those on different platforms, can prove to be a painful effort.  The results are going to have some inherent variance as they use different motherboards, processors, memory configurations and displays. ...

3DMark (2013)

06/11/2013 - 15:50

[inline:files/review/2013-06-11/3dmark-fs.png] [inline:files/review/2013-06-11/3dmark-fse.png] I thought it might also be interesting to run the new 3DMark on these GPUs and the results show a similar story to the gaming tests on the previous page....

Metro: Last Light

06/11/2013 - 15:48

Metro: Last Light (DirectX 11)