One of Wendell's pals is retiring and looking for advice on gaming PCs. With knowledge about the best and a convenient sale, Wendell opts for AMD's RX 6950 XT OC Formula from ASRock. Coupled with the M32U Gigabyte Monitor, this gaming PC will breeze through 4k and look good doing it!

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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Intel tries to get its chip manufacturing back on track with “Intel 4,” due in 2023
0:50 - AMD Reveals RDNA 3 Chiplets, 3D V-Cache For Zen 4 And Phoenix Point Laptop Chips
1:39 - TSMC Reveals 2nm Node: 30% More Performance by 2025
2:31 - Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board
3:33 - Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital fails to meet margin calls
4:18 - Coinbase lays off 18% as execs prepare for recession, 'crypto winter'
5:04 - Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham
6:08 - Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor
6:23 - THE SPILL
9:55 - Google privacy lawsuit over ad bidding process to go forward
11:06 - Crypto lender Celsius pauses withdrawals, transfers citing ‘extreme market conditions’
12:19 - Ads Streaming While TV Is Off Waste $1 Billion Per Year
16:33 - Samsung temporarily reduces procurement amid inventory pressure
17:46 - Samsung caught cheating in TV benchmarks, promises software update
18:48 - Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone
20:39 - It's the end of the Internet Explorer era
21:11 - It's Warren Buffett Versus Google, Facebook in Latest Wind-Farm Debate
24:39 - MoonDAO Will Pick 2 of the Next Blue Origin Astronauts With the Help of NFTs
25:21 - GM 3D Prints 60,000 Parts to Keep Tahoe Deliveries on Time
26:27 - Ford issues stop-sale of Mustang Mach-Es due to potential safety defect
27:13 - Tesla (TSLA) significantly increases its electric car prices across its lineup
28:44 - Activision Internal Investigation Finds Almost Nothing Wrong
29:57 - Overwatch 2 will get rid of loot boxes
32:57 - Elon Musk's Starlink may provide internet for Royal Caribbean cruises
33:54 - SpaceX fires employees who wrote open letter complaining about Musk
35:03 - A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
35:53 - Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat
36:38 - Researchers discover a new hardware vulnerability in the Apple M1 chip
37:54 - Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren't ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft
39:17 - Chinese-made smart coffee machines threaten Americans' data security, researcher finds

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If you're looking for a quiet mini desktop, this may be the video for you!
Minisforum had a spare Elitemini B550 laying around and they were kind enough to give it over to us to review. Powered by AMD, this little guy can perform some decent benchmarks!

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0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Apple’s M2 lineup could add a 15-inch MacBook Air and 14-inch iPad Pro
1:03 - Apple iOS 16 previewed at WWDC 2022
1:42 - iOS 16 supports Nintendo’s Switch Pro and Joy-Con controllers
2:38 - Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura
3:49 - Apple expands fintech ambitions in iOS 16
6:12 - MetalFX Upscaling will bring DLSS-like image reconstruction to games on MacOS
6:46 - Next-Generation Apple CarPlay Will Be a Whole Car OS
7:35 - Meta has reportedly shelved its watch with in-built cameras
9:16 - Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives By 2023: Report
10:10 - Microsoft tries collaborating with unions to avoid ‘public disputes’
11:12 - Microsoft Won't Ban Most Staff From Seeking Jobs at Big Tech Rivals
12:23 - Microsoft winds down its business in Russia, lays off more than 400 people
13:13 - Google developer Emma Haruka Iwao has calculated Pi to 100 trillion digits
14:12 - Some NYC Restaurants Still Owed Thousands of Dollars After Grubhub’s Free Lunch Debacle
15:09 - Diablo Immortal now has Blizzard’s lowest ever user score on Metacritic
17:31 - Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud
18:17 - PayPal Lets Users Transfer Bitcoin and Ethereum to External Wallets
19:05 - Wall Street's top cop proposes massive changes to the stock market
20:35 - Nintendo wanted hacker's prison sentence to turn heads
22:46 - Inside Roku, Talk Is Heating up About an Acquisition by Netflix
24:30 - Bosses wanting a return to office face off with workers who want to stay home
25:36 - Facebook Gaming brings Crayta’s user-generated games to its cloud platform
27:19 - Alleged Google Pixel 7 Pro prototype surfaces on reddit
28:48 - Twitter to provide spam data to Elon Musk as part of deal
30:01 - Texas AG Ken Paxton to investigate Twitter over fake accounts
31:16 - Twitter Refusing Jan 6 Committee Request for Slack Chat Logs
31:56 - Amid growing concerns around app addiction, TikTok rolls out more screen tools

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0:44 - AMD Ryzen 7000 Smokes Alder Lake At Computex Keynote As Zen 4 Excitement Builds
2:46 - It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal
3:54 - Samsung allegedly assembling a "dream team" to take down Apple's M1 in 2025
5:25 - Foxconn could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
6:56 - Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery
9:27 - Apple in talks to buy EA, Disney and Amazon potential suitors
10:50 - Amazon Style: Retailer opens its first physical clothing store
13:11 - Amazon's Regretted Attrition Rate More Than Doubled in the Past Year
14:08 - Amazon Shedding Warehouse Space as Sales Slow
14:38 - Amazon tests having drivers make deliveries from local malls
15:25 - ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand
16:15 - Microsoft (MSFT) to Slow Hiring in Windows, Office, Teams Chat Groups
17:12 - Microsoft brings support for Arm-based AI chips to Windows
18:04 - Microsoft Dev Box will virtualize your Windows development PC in a browser window
18:45 - Microsoft will support third-party Windows 11 widgets later this year
20:11 - Windows 11 CPU usage reporting is apparently buggy, including on Task Manager
21:08 - Match Group and Google reach an interim compromise over app payments
21:55 - Epic Games points to Mac’s openness and security in its latest filing in App Store antitrust case
22:46 - Terra Will Split and Abandon Its Stablecoin After Losing Dollar Peg
23:22 - JPMorgan Chase tests blockchain technology for collateral settlement (NYSE:JPM)
24:11 - ‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
25:31 - Solar Panels Will Be Sold at Ikea, Starting in California
26:34 - Walmart, CVS to Stop Filling Controlled-Substance Prescriptions for Cerebral, Done
27:28 - New Copyright Lawsuit Targets Uploaders of 10-Minute Movie Edits
28:37 - On-demand grocery app Gorillas lays off half its office workforce
30:43 - Airbnb is closing its domestic business in China, sources say
31:39 - Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings
33:27 - GameStop now has its own wallet for crypto and NFTs
34:43 - At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews

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Wendell breaks out the test machine to move the Ryzen 5800 X3D into a new home. While he does, he wants to show you how the cpu deals with some heavy simulation-type games including Sterllaris, Factorio, and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead!

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Not one, not two, but four Motherboards in one video! It's time for a DDR4 B660 Roundup with Wendell. In this video, Wendell, using the 12700K cpu and 6800xt gpu, compares and contrasts the Gigabyte B660m DS3H AX DDR4, the ASRock B660 Pro RS, the ASRock B660M Steel Legend, and the ASUS PRIME B660M-A D4! How much of a difference with $10 make?

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0:26 The motherboards and why
4:32 Gigabyte Layout
6:07 ASRock Pro RS Layout
8:16 ASRock Steel Legend Layout
9:54 Asus Layout
11:40 Results
25:22 TL;DR

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Need a refresher? Try this Radeon 6650 XT! Well, actually, if you somehow managed to get your hands on a 6600 XT graphics card, you don't need to go to the 6650, they're nearly identical. However! If you missed out on the 6600, you're in luck, cause the 6650 is all about supply! So sit back and enjoy this short review of Sapphire's AMD Radeon 6650 XT!

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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - AMD promises ‘extreme gaming laptops’ in 2023 with new Dragon Range CPU
1:54 - AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks
3:19 - Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser
4:22 - Paramount Plus subscriber count has grown to nearly 40 million
6:17 - Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
6:58 - Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter
8:36 - Apple lawsuit says 'stealth' startup Rivos poached engineers to steal secrets
11:28 - Apple Reaches Settlement to Pay $15 to Some iPhone 4S Owners Who Experienced Buggy Performance After iOS 9 Update
12:23 - Intuit to pay $141M settlement over 'free' TurboTax ads
13:39 - Square Enix sells all of its Western game studios—and their games—to Embracer
15:08 - New York Bill Would Force Amazon to Limit Grueling Warehouse Quotas
15:55 - Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Convert EPUB to Kindle Format
17:01 - Amazon pledges $20 billion in exports from India by 2025
20:19 - Starbucks to launch NFTs this year, offering access to ‘unique experiences and benefits’
21:27 - NY Times says Wordle drove “tens of millions” of new users, record growth
22:59 - All 2023 Volvos Will Have Hybrid or Fully Electric Powertrains
23:22 - Google Overhauls Performance Review System After Employee Criticism
24:15 - A major Patreon survey shows that most creators don’t want crypto payments
24:59 - 1 Billion Cryptocurrency Users in a Decade, Predicts Coinbase CEO
26:05 - iPhone users complain Apple Music is installing itself to the dock, booting out their other apps
27:31 - Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant
28:41 - SpaceX engineer says NASA should plan for Starship’s “significant” capability
29:46 - NASA Is Sending Artificial Female Bodies to the Moon to Study Radiation Risks
31:32 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope completely aligned and fully focused
32:08 - Rocket Lab catches falling rocket with a helicopter — then drops it in the ocean
34:53 - Japan firm develops AI system to catch shrine box donations thieves
36:08 - Hear the Sound of a Black Hole ‘Echo’

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0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Mac sales fly as PC declines – did the M1 chip save Apple?
2:35 - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Powers a New Gaming Champion
4:16 - Amazon slaps U.S. sellers with 5% fuel and inflation surcharge
5:31 - Amazon workers made up almost half of all warehouse injuries last year
7:44 - Amazon Targets High Schoolers in a Warehouse Recruiting Blitz
9:28 - Amazon filing outlines plans to fight the New York union vote
10:40 - Google to invest $9.5 billion in U.S. offices, data centers this year
13:00 - SoCal man says car computer on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
14:25 - Over 10 Percent of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years
16:15 - CNN+ struggles to lure viewers, drawing under 10,000 daily users
18:58 - E Ink's New Color Electronic Paper Is Fast Enough for Video
20:18 - Intel patent suggests drones may be used to create mobile billboards in the near future
22:41 - Intel Says It'll Deliver 2025 Chip Tech a Half Year Early
25:34 - Disconnected: Samsung.com sales reps say the system makes them work for free
28:42 - Peloton raises subscription fees, cuts prices for Bikes, Treads
30:29 - ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’ shut down by Disney, website seized by London police
32:10 - ‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280
33:21 - Wikipedia community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
34:46 - Remember IMDb TV? It’s called ‘Amazon Freevee’ Now
35:43 - Google quietly launches its awaited ‘Switch to Android’ app on iOS
37:46 - Microsoft: Moving Windows 11 taskbar may never be an option again
38:51 - Paypal founder launches tirade against ‘gerontocracy’ over bitcoin
40:28 - PS3, Vita Games Mysteriously Expiring, Making Them Unplayable
42:32 - ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ has the best opening weekend for a video game movie
44:22 - 45 Robinhood Users' Angry FTC Complaints
45:32 - Tim Cook uses privacy keynote to attack sideloading
47:13 - U.S. Warns Sophisticated ICS/SCADA Malware Can Damage Critical Infrastructure
48:53 - New Speedcam App Lets Anyone, Anywhere Submit Evidence Of Drivers Speeding
50:59 - Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine, US Space Force says
51:59 - Git for Windows issues vuln-plugging update: Patch now
53:51 - Chrome Web Store will show badges for reputable developers
54:56 - Cop Admits To Playing Copyrighted Music Through Squad Car PA To Keep Videos Off YouTube
57:27 - RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested
58:28 - Pentagon's outgoing data boss warns of quantum cyber threats
59:32 - Class action lawsuit about unlawful location tracking
1:01:24 - A ‘cautionary tale’ about location tracking
1:03:20 - Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2022 Edition

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