PCPer Podcast #114 - ASUS U30Jc Notebook, Starcraft II testing, AMD Q2 Financials, New 3D Technologies, Hardware/Software Picks of the Week and more!

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This week we talk about our ASUS U30Jc Review, Starcraft II Performance

testing, AMD's Q2 Financials, New 3D technologies, QuakeCon 2010, Viewer

questions, Our Hardware/Software picks of the week and more!

 

URL: http://pcper.com/podcast

 

Program schedule:

 

- 0:01:15 Introduction

- 1-888-38-PCPER or podcast ( -at -) pcper.com

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- http://twitter.com/ryanshrout and http://twitter.com/pcper

- Just Cause 2 winners at end of show

- 0:03:02 Asus U30Jc Review <http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=941>

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- 0:16:24 StarCraft II Performance Review - Even your mom can

play<http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=958>

- 0:28:40 AMD Q2 2010: Financials, Fusion, and

Bulldozer<http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=961>

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- 0:42:34 Delve into an Immersive 3-D World with the ASUS VG236H

Monitor<http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=9050>

- 0:44:20 Asus Dropping Windows Embedded Compact 7 in Favour of

Android<http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=9053>

- 0:45:28 MSI to Launch 3D Notebooks in September - Not using NVIDIA 3D

Vision <http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=9054>

- 0:48:56 Quakecon 2010 - PC Perspective Hardware Workshop on August 14th

- 0:53:15 Email from John about PCIe slots

- 0:59:30 Email from Matt about 880 and 890 chipsets for AMD

- 1:04:12 Email from Hyperzine about 3-Way SLI

- 1:10:10 Email from Ryan about power supplies

- 1:10:52 We have a Facebook page! http://facebook.com/pcper

- 1:12:12 Just Cause 2 Giveaways!!

1. Go to this thread and post a picture of your gaming

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- 1:13:37 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week

1. Ryan: WD SiliconEdge Blue 128GB SSD for $199 or $1.55/GB

<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820250002&cm_re=siliconedge-_-20-250-002-_-Product>

2. Jeremy: stupid rollable keyboard

3. Josh: Grado SR-125i

Cans<http://www.gradolabs.com/product_pages/sr125.htm>

 

4. Jon: M.U.L.E <http://www.planetmule.com/> - the remake.

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- http://twitter.com/ryanshrout and http://twitter.com/pcper

- 1:23:12 Closing

 

Thanks for a post!!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com