RYZEN is BACK, BABY!
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·2020-05-05
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hmm i'm not sure if we have enough internet for this episode can i get some more
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because it's a series of tubes get it
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we've been waiting to see whether AMD's third gen ryzen cpus will continue in
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the tradition of greatness started by their predecessors and although we
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haven't seen third party benchmarks yet it looks like the ryzen 3000 series
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might be pure bangers shut your butt
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i will not the five multi-threaded cpus that AMD
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unveiled at computex are the six core ryzen 5 3600 and 3600 x the 8 core ryzen
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7 3700 x and 3800x and the 12 core ryzen
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9 3900x the first mainstream class
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desktop CPU with 24 threads AMD demoed the chip in single and
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multi-threaded tasks beating Intel's competing 12 core i9 9920x which costs
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1200. the ryzen 9 3900x yes will retail
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for 4.99
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that's less than half and it comes with a cooler and it has a
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much lower TDP yeah 3rd gen ryzen should be compatible
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with most am4 boards with a BIOS update but it's also arriving alongside the
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x570 motherboard chipset which supports PCIe 4.0
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Corsair and Gigabyte showed off some m.2 ssds that are PCIe 4.0 ready but you
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know what else will support it AMD's new navi GPU and no it's not called the
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rx3080 i've never been happier to find out a
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rumor was false what it's actually called is the rx 5700
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much better it's not much better because there's already a Radeon rx 570 so this
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is just like another zero anywhere yeah anyways AMD has finally
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moved past the gcn architecture the rx 5700 is built on our dna
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or Radeon dna and is apparently on par with the rtx
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2070. we didn't get specs or price but AMD will most likely reveal those
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details at e3 in june with availability in july also it doesn't have ray tracing
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so the graphics front is a little less exciting but man
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AMD ryzen huh how many times do you think we can make
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the rising up joke before it's tired so what did Intel have to say for
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themselves at computex not much the company unveiled a super clocked version
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of its flagship gaming processor the core i9 9900k called the i9 9900ks
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it's got a base clock of four gigahertz and can push every one of its eight
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cores to a five gigahertz boost clocks which is a big deal because normally
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boost clock frequencies only apply to one core and it appears that unlike
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their notorious ice chiller demo these clocks can be achieved using normal
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computer hardware so that's so that's cool that's nice yeah
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good job guys yeah i'm trying to be excited about it it's
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hard Intel also teased the performance of their 11th gen integrated graphics
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which can apparently run games at 1080p slightly better than AMD's built-in vega
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graphics on second gen ryzen so maybe
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that means Intel's graphics cards will be good too i
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i'm trying i'm trying to have things to look for yeah it's just it's just it's
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just not as cool ASUS however did show
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off some innovative tech it's questionably useful but but still
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the zenbook pro duo is like the nintendo ds of laptops with a secondary display
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below the primary one spanning the width of the keyboard Linus did a video on it
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and he apparently thinks it might be useful
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but i don't know maybe the humidity there is like getting to his head i
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personally i don't know if he can be trusted because of this ASUS also iterated on their combination
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touchpad and display feature the screen pad from last year screen pad 2.0 is
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larger more intuitive to use and uses the laptop's CPU integrated graphics
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instead of the GPU for better power savings the company also showed off a
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pair of portable usb-c monitors one with a 240hz refresh rating
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wow and one with the touchscreen yeah
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but perhaps the most interesting product unveiling was the zenbook edition 30 a
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white leather and gold laptop to celebrate their 30th anniversary so
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that's very exciting for hardcore ASUS fans who are also
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tremendously wealthy now it's time for quick bits brought to you by diss plate
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displayed regular posters are fine but you roll them up wrong one time and luke
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skywalker's got a weird bent face forever disc blades are magnet mounted
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metal prints that are durable and look way cooler than a piece of paper anyway
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displayed has over 260 000 artworks
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spanning many influences and styles and feature an easy magnet mounting system
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no power tools or holes in the wall required plus they plant 10 trees for
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each displayed purchase they're good people
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they're so good they'll let you use the discount code LTT at checkout to get 15
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off so check out displate's metal posters today at the link below and if
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it wasn't quick bits it would have been something else NVIDIA also showed up at
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computex 2019 but if you were looking for an explanation for that cryptic
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super teaser from last week you'll be disappointed really yup all
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they really showed off was the new NVIDIA studio initiative designed to
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help manufacturers like acer hp and razer build powerful laptops for
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creators which will be equipped with quadro rtx or GeForce rtx gpus
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basically was that the super thing no we're gonna hear about that at e3 okay
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the company also announced an official ray tracing enabled version of quake 2
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which is now available and that the feature is also coming to the upcoming
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wolfenstein youngblood game and apparently we weren't all crazy and
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video was scared of AMD naming the navi GPU the rx3080 so NVIDIA patented the
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numbers 3080 4080 and 5080.
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at least they have it now you know thinking ahead computex isn't all about
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desktop okay mobile's in there too
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listen to james and ARM doesn't want you to forget it because they unveiled the
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cortex a77 CPU and the mali g77 GPU both
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with performance boosts over their predecessors but we can't very well go
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out and buy these and stick them in our phones so why the heck are we talking about it james theoretical yeah
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base your chips on this man oof
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the wall street journal has published an article detailing the accusations
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leveled against huawei as it rose in power and significance over the past
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decade it points out that the current scandal over the company's potential
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status as a spy for the chinese government doesn't even address claims
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that it stole technology from other companies did you forget about that
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james i've been silenced by huawei a new
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york times report claims that the ransomware that is currently crippling
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baltimore's computer systems is based on eternal blue a piece of malware that was
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created by the nsa eternal blue was leaked in 2017 and microsoft released a
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patch for the malware a day later but apparently baltimore hasn't been keeping
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their pcs up to date i should really show this story to my
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dad he hasn't updated his phone since like 2012.
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told you dad and if you want to skip the whole not updating thing and get right
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to the malware you can buy this laptop running Windows xp which is infected
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with six of the world's deadliest viruses including wannacry for over a
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million dollars it's an art project titled the persistence of chaos and the
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auction has probably concluded by now actually see you can't buy it sorry the
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laptop apparently had all of its connectivity options disabled so the
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malware can't spread so it's perfectly safe i'm sure
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no one will find a way to make this horrible all right that's it for this
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episode guys i've had enough of this but if you haven't had enough come on back
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on wednesday for more tech news and hopefully more juicy drama as well ooh
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what will logitech say about hp