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Chips, consoles and coolers, talked through by two enthusiasts.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak mix chip, console and component news with hands-on opinions about coolers, cases and keyboards. The show is no longer in production, but its early-2020 episodes keep the pre-launch talk around the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, TSMC's growing lead and the pandemic's first hits to the tech calendar.
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This Week in Computer Hardware (Audio) is the audio edition of a TWiT network show hosted by Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak, and it is no longer in production. What remains is an archive of two enthusiasts talking about hardware in close detail. On air, Peak is introduced as editor in chief of PCPer.com and its 'lead benchmarking maven.' The subject range is wide. Episode rundowns cover CPUs and graphics cards, next-generation consoles, iPads and MacBooks, mechanical keyboards, headsets and SSDs, and they stretch as far as phone launches and a carrier merger. Some of the strongest moments come from the industry side. In one conversation the hosts consider how TSMC, which makes the chips for Ryzen 3000 processors, Navi GPUs and the coming Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, might become a household name, and one of them wonders why Intel does not simply go to TSMC as well. In another they walk through the LVI attack on Intel chips, including the researchers' warning that software fixes could slow SGX enclave work by two to nineteen times. The punchline comes fast. The only remedy, one host says, is a new processor, except that a 10th-gen Intel desktop chip cannot be found for sale. That dry humour runs throughout. When talk turns to on-device AI showing up in light bulbs and refrigerators, one host asks why a light bulb needs AI at all, and the other tells him to open his mind. The product talk is just as specific. A compact Fractal case is admired for its looks and price, then marked down on thermals because the graphics card sits low with little room to pull in air, and it is weighed against small-batch crowdfunded cases such as the NCase M1. A Scythe cooler sets off a short history of the category, from Cooler Master's Hyper 212 Evo to Noctua's D14 and D15, with one host remembering a first Scythe, the Ninja 4, that ran quieter and cooler than its rivals for less money. Console hype gets tempered by memory: a comparison of the Switch and the Wii U makes the point that better optimisation, more than raw power, made the difference. Buying help turns up too, with rundowns promising mid-priced GPU picks and advice on desktop speakers and audio gear. Then there is the pandemic. Coronavirus runs through the early-2020 episodes, from iPhone shortage worries to a cancelled Mobile World Congress to a sign-off about home streaming bandwidth that ends with a reminder to wash hands. A good place to start is 'Console Spec-tacular! - Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X Specs!!!', whose rundown promises real console specs. For builders, 'Fashion-Forward Fabric Fanless PC Cases! - AMD Ryzen 3 Update, MicroLEDs for Next Gen Macbooks!' has fabric PC cases and what its rundown calls a CPU cooling frenzy.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows PC components closely, likes hearing prices, thermals and process nodes weighed in conversation, and is happy to revisit hardware news that has since aged.
What sets it apart: It pairs industry news with specific product opinions, down to where a case puts the graphics card and how quietly a cooler runs. Because the show has ended, its early-2020 episodes keep the pre-launch talk around the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X just as it happened.
If you obsess about the details inside computers then on This Week in Computer Hardware, you'll find out the latest in motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, storage, RAM, power supplies, input devices, and monitors. Hosts Patrick Norton of TekThing and Sebastian Peak of PC Perspective bring you the newest hardware, talk benchmarks, and even dive into the not-yet-released products on the horizon.Although this show is no longer in production, you can enjoy past episodes in the TWiT Archives.
Even a Radeon card's dent gets a hearing when your hardware curiosity turns forensic.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A console-spec episode with its strongest value in cooling, GPU choices, and small-case tradeoffs.
This Week in Computer Hardware frames episode 558 around real PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X specs, with Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peek also folding in the new iPad Pro and Air, audio gear, and GPU buying advice.
A processor-security episode centered on patch costs, performance risk, and practical desktop choices.
This Week in Computer Hardware frames desktop hardware as a chain of practical tradeoffs, moving from Intel's big.LITTLE CPUs to a new irreparable boot flaw, desktop-speaker advice, and the coronavirus anxiety around March 12, 2020.
A broad hardware episode works best when it turns CPU cooling details into practical quiet-build insight.
This PlayNext review frames a busy hardware episode around fabric fanless PC cases, AMD's Ryzen 3 shift to 12 nanometers, micro-LED plans for future iPads and MacBooks, and coronavirus-related iPhone shortages.
A wide-ranging hardware roundup lands hardest when it turns to control, cloud gaming, and GeForce Now's uneasy position.
This Week in Computer Hardware 555 follows the week in hardware as something still shifting underfoot, starting with the possible coronavirus effect on the next-gen iPhone and then moving through Xbox Series X, 12-gig memory, AMD's 5600 XT, 5G rollout costs, HyperX, and Qi…
A brisk hardware roundup connecting GPU value, keyboards, mouse security, quantum computing, and chip manufacturing.
This Week in Computer Hardware ranges across the week’s PC and component news, moving from a mouse security question and Intel’s long view on quantum computing into the more immediate territory of GPUs.
Residential AV news, argued over with a grin.
One player's backlog, talked through to the credits.
Test gear, teardowns and war stories from the bench.
Product launches, read for the strategy underneath.
Episode 558 of This Week in Computer Hardware, recorded March 19, 2020, covers PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Apple's new MacBook Air and iPad Pro updates, midrange GPUs, and headphone gear.
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This Week in Computer Hardware episode 556, recorded March 5, 2020, opens with Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak before moving into AMD Ryzen 3 1200 listings that appear to be shifting to 12 nanometers, echoing the Ryzen 5 1600 AF.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 555, recorded February 27, 2020, ties coronavirus supply-chain risk to Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra, Intel's 5G chips, Xbox Series X, GeForce Now, and HyperX's Cloud Flight S.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 554 opens on Asus's $750 Prime X299 Edition 30, an X299 motherboard that Patrick Norton compares to a Starfleet badge and an aging Intel platform.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 553 examines Judge Victor Marrero’s approval of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger and the possibility that Dish will become a fourth U.S.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 552, recorded February 6, 2020, argues that PC builders should consider buying memory and SSDs before demand from data centers and 5G devices raises prices.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 551 examines AMD's $2.13 billion fourth-quarter revenue alongside Intel's $20.2 billion quarter and conflicting market-share claims.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 550 examines AMD’s RX 5600 XT, whose launch BIOS update raised clocks, restored 14 gigabit-per-second memory, and produced an 11% Far Cry 5 performance increase.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 549 compares AMD Ryzen 9 3950X results with Intel’s $1,000 Core i9-10980XE and reports the 16-core chip ahead in most tested CPU workloads.
This Week in Computer Hardware, episode 548, recorded at CES 2020, examines AMD's Ryzen 4000 mobile processors, including the eight-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 4800H.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peek assess AMD’s $85 Ryzen 5 1600 AF, a six-core, 12-thread processor that uses Zen Plus architecture and may outperform the Ryzen 5 2600.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 546 has Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peek review 2019 hardware stories including AMD's July 7 Ryzen 3000, Radeon 7, and X570 launches.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines Snapdragon 865 prototype benchmarks, Apple's Mac Pro receiving a 9 out of 10 repairability score, and Asus listings for a 280-hertz 1080p IPS monitor.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peake compare AMD’s $169-$199 Radeon RX 5500 XT with NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 Super for 1080p gaming, citing gains of 1.5% in Red Dead Redemption 2, 7.5% in Metro Exodus, and almost 4% in Far Cry 5.
This Week in Computer Hardware, episode 543, examines Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865, NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 Super, T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G launch, and Intel’s Core i9-10980XE.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines Google Stadia’s November 2019 launch, including The Verge’s description of the service as effectively a beta and reports that some games rendered below 4K before upscaling.
This Week in Computer Hardware evaluates AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, which reaches up to 4.75 GHz in testing and costs about $750.
This Week in Computer Hardware, episode 540, recorded November 7, 2019, centers on AMD's announced Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X processors.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 539, hosted by Patrick with Sebastian Peek, evaluates Intel's Core i9-9900KS, NVIDIA's GTX 1660 SUPER, 5G rollout, and Drop's Sennheiser HD58X Jubilee headphones.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 538 compares leaked Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel Core i9-10980XE 3DMark physics results, with Ryzen ahead by about 24 percent in screenshots later removed from 3DMark.
Intel's desktop 10nm roadmap is questioned after a German hardware report claimed those products were canceled, while Intel said its current roadmap still includes desktop parts.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 536 examines Intel's Cascade Lake X price cuts, including a $979 18-core Core i9-10980XE compared with the previous $1,899 model.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 535, recorded September 26, 2019, examines CPU shortage rumors alongside Amazon Echo Frames, Echo Buds, and Echo Loop.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines AMD’s 64-core, 128-thread EPYC 7742, including a reported 70 frames-per-second result for 8K 10-bit HDR HEVC encoding.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak assess Apple’s iPhone 11 lineup, including the iPhone 11 Pro’s triple cameras, claimed four-hour battery gain, 1,200-nit display, and $1,000 starting price.
This Week in Computer Hardware compares Intel’s Ice Lake i7-1065G7 with AMD’s Ryzen 7 3700U, finding Intel’s Gen 11 graphics ahead in several laptop games.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 531 examines falling NAND prices, including a DRAMeXchange forecast for 512GB and 1TB SSDs below 10 cents per gigabyte by the end of 2019.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 530 examines Intel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake U-series, including the first six-core U-series processors in 25-watt thin-and-light laptops.
A custom liquid-cooling build lowered an RTX 2080 Ti from roughly 75–77 C to 47–48 C under load, while the hosts weigh that result against a roughly $617 parts cost.
This Week in Computer Hardware, Episode 528, recorded August 8, 2019, leads with AMD EPYC 7002 server CPUs and their 64-core, roughly 32-billion-transistor parts.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peek assess Intel's 10-nanometer Ice Lake laptop processors, which pair Sunny Cove CPU cores with Gen 11 graphics, Wi-Fi 6, and integrated Thunderbolt 3.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 526 examines NVIDIA's RTX 2080 Super, which raises clocks to 1815 MHz and memory to 15.5 Gbps but averages only 5% to 6% above the RTX 2080 Founders Edition.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peake assess Ryzen 3000 availability, including $330 Ryzen 7 3700X processors and scarce Ryzen 9 3900X listings reaching $828.63.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 524 examines AMD's Ryzen 3000 processors, Navi RX 5700 graphics cards, and the X570 platform after the July 7, 2019 launch.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines the Raspberry Pi 4, which offers up to four gigabytes of RAM, USB-C power, two micro-HDMI outputs, and gigabit Ethernet.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 522 covers Intel Performance Maximizer, Apple’s recall of selected 15-inch MacBook Pros sold from September 2015 through February 2017, PCI Express 6.0, and proposed tariffs on Chinese-made electronics.
This Week in Computer Hardware, episode 521, examines leaked Geekbench 4 results for AMD’s 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 3950X and its potential challenge to Intel’s 18-core Core i9-9980XE.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines Google's Stadia launch pricing: $129 upfront, $10 per month, and separate purchases for most games.
This Week in Computer Hardware, episode 519 examines AMD’s Computex announcements, including Ryzen 3000 CPUs, Radeon 5700 GPUs, X570 motherboards, Intel Ice Lake, Optane M15, and PCI Express 4.0 SSDs.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 518, recorded May 23, 2019, examines AMD Navi rumors ahead of Computex, including possible $399 and $499 cards aimed at Nvidia's RTX 2060 and RTX 2070.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak examine ZombieLoad, an Intel hardware vulnerability that can leak data across processes and may require hyperthreading to be disabled for full mitigation.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak evaluate Google's $400 Pixel 3a, emphasizing its Pixel camera, 3,000 mAh battery, OLED display, and restored 3.5mm headphone jack.
This Week in Computer Hardware, hosted by Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peek, examines Intel’s Optane H10, Valve Index, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, smartwatches, and Athena’s fanless PC.
This Week in Computer Hardware episode 514 examines Intel's announcement of roughly 49,000 processors, including the 8-core, 16-thread Core i9-9980HK mobile chip targeting up to 5 gigahertz.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines Apple’s settlement with Qualcomm, Intel’s exit from 5G modem development, and the consequences for upcoming iPhones.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines NVIDIA's new ray tracing driver for GeForce GTX cards, including support reaching from the GTX 1060 6GB through the GTX 1080 Ti.
Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak examine Intel's Xeon Platinum 9200, a 56-core server processor rated at 400 watts and discussed as potentially costing more than $10,000.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines Asus’s $179 ROG Delta Quad DAC headset, Corsair’s low-noise 678C case, Ryzen CPU discounts, and Apple’s continuing MacBook keyboard failures.
This Week in Computer Hardware examines whether Google's Stadia can replace consoles by using 7,500 edge nodes in 200 countries to reduce cloud-gaming latency.