PCPer Podcast #69 - Stream and CUDA, Lucid HYDRA, P55 and SLI, collecting garbage and more!

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This week we talk about the final days until QuakeCon 2009, ATI Stream and

NVIDIA CUDA comparisons, a motherboard with a Lucid HYDRA chip

implementation, SLI officially coming to P55 platforms and thoughts on

3-Way SLI on the platform, SSD updates including OCZ's new garbage

collection firmware, Intel and Micron announcing higher density MLC flash,

AMD's new low TDP processors and Tim Sweeny calling for the death of the

GPU.

 

URL: http://pcper.com/podcast

 

Program schedule:

 

* 0:00:22 Introduction

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* 0:02:30 Quakecon 2009

* 0:06:00 ATI Stream vs. NVIDIA CUDA - GPGPU computing battle royale

* 0:17:45 Lucid HYDRA chip could be coming on high-end MSI motherboard

* 0:24:45 Catalyst 9.8 to be previewed at QuakeCon 2009

* 0:25:40 SLI coming to P55 chipset and Lynnfield CPU, but what about

3-Way?

* 0:28:40 This Podcast Sponsored by MSI Computer

* 0:31:50 Intel X25-M G2 updated firmware is now available

* 0:33:50 OCZ Vertex beta firmware with background 'Garbage Collection

* 0:37:00 Indilinx latest 1711 TRIM-enabled firmware

* 0:39:50 Show and tell with PhotoFast

* 0:45:00 3 Bits are Better Than 2

* 0:49:30 MS Word oh noes.

* 0:52:15 AMD tries to split the atom's market

* 0:53:30 Tim Sweeny's Death of GPU

* Contact us! 1-888-38-PCPER or podcast ( -at -) pcper.com

* 1:04:40 Closing

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective