Episode 101: What are our thoughts on Nvidia's DLSS 5 reveal? Time to chat about that, along with Crimson Desert, which we've been benchmarking

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:31 - Our Initial Thoughts on DLSS 5

08:14 - DLSS 5's Artistic Changes

27:36 - Possible Technical Challenges

42:07 - The Reaction to DLSS 5

49:24 - Crimson Desert Impressions

1:08:03 - Final Thoughts

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Episode 100: A brief chat on some news topics again, including Intel's announcement of Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs at attractive price points and FSR Diamond. Then we chat about a customer getting screwed over after his DDR5 memory died

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

01:53 - New Intel Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs

11:34 - AMD Announces FSR Diamond

14:27 - DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Frame Gen Release

15:59 - Umart, Corsair and Memory Failures

1:07:02 - Updates From Our Boring Lives

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Episode 99: A brief chat on some news topics, like Nvidia's recent driver issues and the rumored RTX 5050 9GB, then into our main chat. Is it really no longer possible to future proof your PC? Or is this one of the better times for PC hardware longevity?

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:37 - The RTX 5050 9GB Rumors

06:49 - New AMD Ryzen APUs for AM5

11:55 - Nvidia Driver Issues

18:52 - Future Proofing Your GPU, Is It Possible?

52:39 - CPU Longevity?

1:12:16 - Updates From Our Boring Lives

SOURCES

Jay's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqIf5yvQdbc

RTX 5050 9GB: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-plans-geforce-rtx-5050-with-9gb-memory-and-96-bit-bus

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Episode 98: Two goobers give their thoughts on AI. We've used it, the marketing claims don't match the capabilities at all. We chat about the financial investments so far, how that's likely going to be a big problem, and the overall status of the 'bubble'.

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

10:56 - Our Experiences Using AI

29:54 - The Insane Investment into AI

38:33 - Are They Going to Run Out of Money?

52:40 - The Bubble

1:06:00 - Updates From Our Boring Lives

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Episode 97: Simon from TFTCentral joins us after the wave of announcements at CES 2026 to chat about upcoming monitor technology, the current flaws with WOLED and QD-OLED panels, the types of screens we'd love to see, burn in, G-Sync Pulsar and more

TFTCENTRAL

Check out Simon's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tftcentral

Check out Simon's website: https://tftcentral.co.uk/

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

02:43 - New Ultrawides for 2026

11:19 - New RGB Stripe WOLED

20:36 - Does 5K Gaming Make Sense?

30:16 - 500Hz 1440p LCDs

36:38 - The OLED Formats We'd Like to See & Future of OLED

55:50 - Status of OLED Burn In and Other Flaws

1:14:41 - G-Sync Pulsar

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Episode 96: Some employees have recently left LTT and their stories have been blowing up, so we thought it might be interesting to give our perspective on running a YouTube tech channel, whether Linus was being unfair and whether the ex-LTT guys made the right choice. Also, we chat about 9800X3D failures and Valve delaying the Steam Machine (and its price reveal)

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Our Thoughts on Employees Leaving LTT

45:50 - What is the Deal With 9800X3D Failures?

1:03:09 - Valve Delays Steam Machine

1:17:20 - Updates From Our Boring Lives

SOURCES

Jake's video on leaving LTT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVxgcKQO2E

Zip Tie Tuning video on LTT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GPnA9pW8k

Valve's Steam Machine update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/625565405086220583

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Episode 95: The Ryzen 7 9850X3D has been released and at best all we can say about it is that it's inoffensive. Also, more reports have emerged that signal the end of GPUs at MSRP.

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:26 - So The 9850X3D Has Been Released

16:04 - More GPU Supply Information

29:40 - Zotac Might Be In Trouble

43:11 - Intel Launching Big Battlemage for Pros?

49:09 - Updates From Our Boring Lives

SOURCES

der8auer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lS1S_VhUK4&pp=2AYB

Zotac Korea statement: https://videocardz.com/newz/zotac-korea-warns-of-steep-rtx-5090-and-rtx-5060-price-hikes-says-some-models-may-be-unavailable-for-a-while

Arc Pro B70: https://x.com/SquashBionic/status/2015648577511629092

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Episode 94: We released a report saying the RTX 5070 Ti is effectively being killed off, and that Asus put the product into end of life status. What happened there? We share the full story

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:33 - AMD Officially Launches the 9850X3D

05:53 - The RTX 5070 Ti is Effectively Dead, The Story So Far

25:38 - It Was From Asus PR, Not a Random Rumor

35:08 - Did We Cause Supply Issues?

48:57 - Why Didn't We Remove the Video?

57:44 - Why Aren't Companies Just Honest About Supply?

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