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Loading ...The Second Coming
Alex Watson
It’s been a while…. but the second coming of the Custom PC podcast is beginning. We recorded the long awaited Episode 17 of the podcast on Friday afternoon, and all being well, I’ll be able to edit it and upload it on Monday (2nd June). Apologies for the length of time it’s taken.
The five months since Christmas have passed in a bit of a blur; we’ve been understaffed and (for some reason) also decided to take on some of the biggest and most involved features and labs tests in the CPC history. Not a recipe for having spare time to sit down and cast a pod. However, our first new recruit of 2008 has now started, Orestis Bastounis, who joins us from Future Publishing in Bath. We’re very happy to have him on board, as it means we’ll be able to kick out lots more excellent stuff for you to read, watch and listen to.
Orestis joins myself and Phil on the podcast and we’ll be discussing:
* The upcoming Autumn graphics war between new, next-gen AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphics cards
* Windows 7
* Age of Conan, Assassin’s Creed and the rest of the top 10 games
* And finally, Clive will be looking ahead to the Computex trade show which kicks off next week, from where he and James will be reporting.
Thanks for your patience and encouragement, too - hopefully it will be worth the wait.
- Alex.
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Loading ...Episode 8 discussion: ways to save AMD?
Alex Watson
In the most recent episode of our podcast, we ended by discussing AMD’s recent troubles - Intel is piling on the pressure with its cheap and fast Core 2s, while on the graphics front, Nvidia’s 8-series have the upper hand against the Radeon HD 2000 series. As fans of the red guys, we racked our brains to think of a cunning plan: CPC editor Gareth maintained they simply need some time to get their quad core chips out and to tune the HD 2000 architecture, while Clive thinks its time for some radical thinking and AMD should make its own games console. During the discussion we asked for your suggestions and we’ve had quite a few interesting emails…