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No BS Podcast #48: The Nothing but Rants Edition

Tom Edwards — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:22:43 -0600

That's right! We've compiled the most bilious, noxious rants
fan-favorite Gordon Mah Ung has ever produced into one great show.
Listen on as Gordo tells you why pandas shouldn't exist, why Steve Jobs
is the devil, and why you should never, ever, ever use the Maximum PC restrooms.

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Overdrive PC Core2.SLI

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:05 -0500

One thing we respect about Overdrive PC is that it’s never predictable.
These guys seem to always take the path of most resistance.

In this case, Overdrive PC has constructed a rig whose sole purpose
seems to be smashing our benchmarks. The company’s theory: Why go with
a quad-core setup when you can push a dual core to higher speeds and
guarantee stability? Since the overwhelming majority of applications
aren’t multithreaded for quad core, why not push the hell out of a dual
core?

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Digital Storm Twister Ultra 4

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:38:33 -0500

Maximum PC’s mandate has always been that performance rules all else.
But recently we’ve been harping about nothing but stability. It’s not
that we previously ignored this area, but lately we’ve been inundated
with rigs that have been overclocked so aggressively they make our
standard benchmarks blow up within minutes. Because of this, our new
message has been stability, stability, stability.

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CyberLink PowerDirector 6

Gordon Mah Ung — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:31:38 -0500

PowerDirector 6’s powerful features are handcuffed by a mildly frustrating interface. Unfortunately, the app just won’t let you easily tweak things, which is strange because the product seems aimed at pleasing the button-mashers.

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Abit IN9 32X-MAX

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:09:10 -0500

If you’ve seen one Nvidia 680i reference board, you’ve seen them all. Not so with Abit’s IN9 32X-MAX board, which thumbs its nose at the me-too crowd. The IN9 32X-MAX features Nvidia’s top 680i chipset, which gets you two x16 PCI-E slots for SLI, a third full-length x8 PCI-E slot for graphics, and support for unannounced, unofficial 1,333MHz FSB processors.

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Corsair 16GB Flash Voyager

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:02:07 -0500

Ain’t technology wonderful? Just a few years ago our mouths were agape at 1GB USB thumb drives that cost $500. Yet here we have Corsair pushing the 16GB mark for $140—a mere $8.75 per GB.

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Falcon Northwest Mach V

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:19:32 -0500

It’s no secret that we’ve had nothing but headaches with overclocked
quad-core Intel systems this year. The cause of the problems—be it
heat, over-overclocking, or other—doesn’t really matter. Frankly, we
don’t care. These systems are being sold to consumers who don’t want to
know the shape of the piston heads in their engines—they just want to
be slapped back into the seat when they step on the gas.

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ScreenTek

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:21:41 -0500

You've been wating for someone to show you how to use something like the ScreenTek
Laptop Screen Replacement.