PCPer Podcast #28 - Raptor and SSD, Phenom triple-core and 3DMark Vantage

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PC Perspective Podcast #28 - 04/25/08

 

This week we talk about the Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drive and a

64GB OCZ solid state drive, the AMD X3 Triple-core processors, ASUS' new HD

3850 X2 1GB card, Sapphire and VisionTek HD 3000-series GPU reviews, the

Isaiah and Atom performance debate, VIA's processors making it into HP

systems, potential Radeon HD 4800 specs being leaked out and even a brief

preview of Futuremark's 3DMark Vantage benchmark.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=411

 

Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom and Josh Walrath

 

Program length: 1:23:28

Program schedule:

 

* 00:45 Introduction

* 01:35 Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 GDDR3 512MB Review

* 08:31 Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB WD3000GLFS Review - Evolution

* 18:31 VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 GDDR4 512 MB Review

* 25:19 AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz Triple-Core Processor Review

* 39:44 ASUS Radeon HD 3850 X2 1GB hits PCPer

* 44:45 OCZ 64GB SSD Review - coming tomorrow sometime

* 47:43 Reader mail and voice mail!! 1-888-38-PCPER or podcast ( -at -) pcper.com

* 55:29 AMD Loses a boat load of Executives

* 58:39 Isaiah and Atom battle it out

* 1:01:31 Intel's new processor prices

* 1:04:36 HP purchases 100,000 VIA CPUs for low-cost systems

* 1:08:48 AMD Radeon HD 4800-series details appear to have leaked

* 1:12:45 Quick Discussion on the upcoming 3DMark Vantage

* 1:23:28 Closing

 

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Ryan Shrout

Owner - PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com