Episode 89: Valve has announced a new Steam Machine, which includes entry-level PC gaming hardware at an unknown price. We give our thoughts on whether this sounds any good and what prices would make sense. Steve also shares a motherboard story.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Initial Thoughts on Steam Machine
14:42 - No Upgrade Path
20:29 - Game Compatibility and Value
35:35 - AMD Roadmaps
39:43 - Steve Finds a Motherboard Flaw
55:15 - Updates From Our Boring Liv...
2025-11-14 05:08:14 +0000 UTC
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Episode 88: AMD does AMD things.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Microsoft Improves a Few Things
04:15 - AMD's Disastrous Driver Fumble
23:31 - What About Feature Support?
46:03 - Reputational Damage vs Nvidia Drivers
01:01:39 - How Big of a Mistake? Who to Blame?
01:19:52 - Impact on Review Recommendations
01:52:59 - Quick Boring Life Stuff
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Audio: 2025-11-06 06:32:34 +0000 UTC
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Episode 87: We revisit some discussion from last week as we've found more dodgy stuff Microsoft has done, before chatting about the current situation Intel is in with CPUs. They aren't anywhere near as competitive up against AMD now, as AMD were with Ryzen when Intel was dominant. (Note: This podcast was recorded before the recent AMD RDNA 2 driver decision, we'll discuss that in the future)
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Microsoft Does Dodgy Stuff Again
11:34 - Intel CPUs w...
2025-11-01 02:02:48 +0000 UTC
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2025-10-28 06:04:22 +0000 UTC
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Episode 86: You all told us what you hated about Windows 11, and we fully agreed. So in this episode we go through all our grievances with the current state of Windows.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
06:21 - Unnecessary Microsoft accounts
10:39 - Search is broken
15:49 - Splash screens and ads
20:52 - The right click context menu
26:53 - Pre-installed bloatware
33:21 - Windows updates hurting performance
38:41 - Telemetry capture and data mining
42:28 - Copilot AI ...
2025-10-24 06:27:12 +0000 UTC
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Episode 85: We chat about Battlefield 6 testing and explore the difficulties with testing one-click overclocking features in benchmarks, such as PBO and 200S Boost. We also discuss the latest Intel graphics announcements including Xe3 and XeSS 3, as well as motherboard vendors beginning to say Zen 6 will be supported on AM5
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2025-10-17 05:56:09 +0000 UTC
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Episode 84: Tim and Steve respond to their internet crimes of using DLSS while testing and saying APUs suck. Then we chat more about Intel fixing B580 CPU overhead in some games, AMD's FSR 4 INT8 version and Microsoft destroying the value of Game Pass.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Why we tested Borderlands 4 with DLSS enabled
08:58 - APUs are not a good option for desktop gaming today
29:26 - Intel fixes B580 CPU overhead in some games
45:47 - AMD FSR 4 INT8 is prett...
2025-10-03 05:05:30 +0000 UTC
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Episode 83: Intel and Nvidia have formed a partnership, but because APUs are not that relevant to desktop PC gamers, we discuss whether this deal will actually impact gaming significantly. Also, we put Intel's Arc GPUs into our GPU rankings, and chat about some news
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Intel and Nvidia APU team up, but gamers don't use APUs
37:00 - We add Intel Arc GPUs to the rankings
45:38 - Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops in price
49:52 - RX 9070 BIOS mod
52:01 ...
2025-09-26 07:08:32 +0000 UTC
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Join Steve and Tim as they discuss... well not sure, your questions and other things probably
2025-09-22 06:54:47 +0000 UTC
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Episode 82: A quick update on the YouTube views situation, then into a Borderlands 4 discussion. What is the state of the game currently? What do we make of Randy Pitchford's comments? Is DLSS being used as a crutch instead of proper optimization? Can it be fixed?
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Update on the YouTube views situation
17:17 - Initial thoughts on Borderlands 4
28:27 - The crutch of DLSS upscaling and frame generation
44:17 - Bizarre development choices
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2025-09-19 04:16:12 +0000 UTC
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Episode 81: We're back! Lots to discuss in this video, including YouTube weirdness, the future of AMD and Intel's CPU platforms, the good old CPU core debate, upcoming GPU rumors and more.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
03:13 - Our YouTube views are down, this is what the stats say
31:14 - Zen 7 on AM5 and Intel's competing platform
54:13 - How important is platform longevity?
1:07:58 - Six core CPUs are still powerful for gaming
1:17:27 - Will Intel make an Arc B770?
1:...
2025-09-12 06:34:01 +0000 UTC
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Once again the monitor situation in my office is getting out of hand. This happens every year at about the same time as it turns out. I've got like 60 in storage this time, which is way too many.
This means I need to clear some stuff out. If you live in Australia and want to support the channel by grabbing a monitor off me, that would be a big help.
Same deal as last time: If you want to get one of the monitor's I...
2025-09-10 08:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Tim is away this month so Balin and I are going to do the livestream, probably Tomorrow (27th). We can do just about any hour of the day (our day), so what works best for the majority of you? Vote on a start time please.
2025-08-25 23:53:07 +0000 UTC
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Episode 80: It's that time of the year! We're ranking all the current graphics card models from worst to best, based on vibes. Always a very challenging task that brings up a lot of discussion so you can enjoy hearing our thought process as we try to upset everyone by ranking the models they like down the bottom.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
02:03 - Quick Radeon RX 9060 Update
08:40 - Let The Rankings Begin!
1:11:42 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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2025-08-08 06:31:55 +0000 UTC
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Episode 79: We chat with Daniel Owen about all sorts of stuff affecting PC gaming right now. His thoughts on the worst parts of the GPU market, plus opinions on upscaling and frame generation (including Optiscaler and driver-based frame gen), game optimization and misleading marketing. We round it out with some listener questions submitted by Patreon members.
DANIEL OWEN
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2025-08-01 05:25:37 +0000 UTC
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Come join us as we chat about all the latest topics and answer your burning questions
2025-07-28 06:53:38 +0000 UTC
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Episode 78: Steve gives an update about B850 testing, Tim talks about a new phone that he's bought, and then we chat about whether we've been too negative about the current state of PC graphics cards.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Steve's B850 Testing Struggles
16:44 - Tim Bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7
27:41 - Are We Too Negative About PC GPUs?
1:21:17 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Audio: 2025-07-25 05:11:01 +0000 UTC
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Episode 77: We chat about future plans for this GPU generation, including the latest RTX 50 Super series rumors, the latest benchmarks of the RX 9070 GRE, and the potential for a lower cost RX 9060 model from AMD. Also we give a few updates on the AMD FineWine situation from last week.
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ComputerBase AMD driver testing: 2025-07-18 03:24:04 +0000 UTC
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Episode 76: This week we give an update on the RX 9070 XT FineWine situation after some people called out Steve's testing. Also we look further into the mainstream GPU market, where typically buyers have not received a lot of love lately.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
03:27 - AMD 9070 XT FineWine Situation
27:01 - Further Thoughts on the RTX 5050
40:51 - Comparisons Between Mainstream GPUs Over the Years
52:30 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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2025-07-11 04:21:25 +0000 UTC
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Here are all the 1080p and 1440p graphs.
2025-07-07 11:48:10 +0000 UTC
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We are live to talk about all sorts of news and things that have been happening. You can also use the above video to watch the replay later if you miss it
2025-06-25 06:54:54 +0000 UTC
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Steve gives a second look at his gym now that more stuff has been done, and also talks about an AIO issue
2025-06-23 14:05:06 +0000 UTC
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Episode 75: Jarrod from Jarrod's Tech joins us to talk about gaming laptops. We discuss the situation with horrible laptop GPU names, poor VRAM configurations, absurd pricing for higher tier models and whether gaming laptops actually make sense to begin with.
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2025-06-19 06:39:01 +0000 UTC
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Episode 74: Simon from TFTCentral joins us at Computex to discuss everything we saw at the show, our favorite upcoming monitors, impressions from various products, the future of OLED monitors and more.
TFTCENTRAL
Check out the video Tim filmed with Simon on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KDWb0tWcM
Check out Simon's channel: 2025-06-13 08:45:07 +0000 UTC
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To go along with our recently released 15 month OLED burn in update on Monitors Unboxed, here are the native high resolution, high bitrate versions for Patreon members which shows extra detail you can't see in the YouTube video.
The best way to view this is to download the file above and view it locally on your PC
Check out the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kPsKyF5bQ
2025-06-10 11:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Steve gives a look at his studio and progress on his gym
2025-06-09 11:22:59 +0000 UTC
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Episode 73: Now that the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT is released and we have reviewed both models, we give some further thoughts on the 16GB card, the 8GB card, the weirdness around the launch (samples, NDAs) and where AMD have gone wrong
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
03:50 - The RX 9060 XT 16GB is Decent
14:11 - The RX 9060 XT 8GB is Problematic
31:26 - RX 9060 XT 8GB vs RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
40:50 - AMD Stuffs Up The Review Program
1:10:56 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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2025-06-06 06:06:13 +0000 UTC
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Episode 72: Live from Computex in Taipei, we discuss the latest in graphics cards, including how we managed to review the GeForce RTX 5060 from our hotel room, and what we think about the Radeon RX 9060 XT now that it's been officially announced.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
03:21 - We Reviewed the RTX 5060 in Taiwan
19:54 - Thoughts on the 9060 XT Launch
37:58 - Outro
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Audio: 2025-05-27 06:15:37 +0000 UTC
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Episode 71: We chat about potential upcoming Intel Arc GPUs including the B770 and B580 24GB, discuss the RX 9060 XT and what AMD might do with pricing, and round out the chat with some discoveries about laptop GPUs.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
05:13 - Intel Arc B770, Is It Real?
22:10 - New Arc B580 Configurations?
26:18 - Lead-Up to the RX 9060 XT
39:04 - Price Considerations and Concerns with 9060 XT
1:04:30 - The RTX 5090 Laptop is a Joke
1:...
2025-05-16 03:21:04 +0000 UTC
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