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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 & 980! Dell Venue 7 & 8, CPUs You Can't Upgrade, Do You Need X99 & DDR4? Hotel WiFi Speed Test, CAT6 vs. CAT7 Ethernet, Moto X. (1x523)

: 23, 2014

Nvidia's newest GeForce GTX 970 & 980 graphics cards, reviews of the Dell Venue 7 & 8, do you really need X99 & DDR4, testing hotel WiFi speeds, and CAT6 vs. CAT7 ethernet. SSD Endurance Test, Iron Giant Blu-ray?!? We've gotten some interesting email recently about SSDs being -bad- and that you shouldn't trust 'em. Not sure I agree, especially since I've seen the latest update in TechReport's SSD Endurance Experiment... so far Two Drives Still Standing in SSD Endurance Test... and they've written over 1.5 Petabytes!!! (Learn how the SSD Endurance Test works in this article.) And, on a completely random note, when the heck is there donna be a Blu-ray transfer of the most excellent Iron Giant? It's some of Brad Bird's finest work! New 2014 Dell Venue 7 & 8 Hands On Review! Looking for an affordable Android tablet? Then you'll want to watch Shannon's review of the 2014 Dell Venue 7, $159, and Venue 8, $199. Does the extra inch on the 8 make a difference? Both tablets feel great in hand (not cheap!) run Android 4.4 KitKat, pack 16 GB of storage, 1GB RAM, SD Card slots, excellent Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the ability to Miracast, work with Chromecast, and Intel HD Graphics to go with their Atom CPUs... but the Venue 8 has a higher resolution screen, and a faster processor... find out which one Shannon would carry in the video! GeForce 970 & 980 Are FAST, CPUs You Can't Upgrade, Too Early For X99 & DDR4??? Looking for a faster GPU? Nvidia just dropped the GeForce GTX 970 & 980and PCPer's Ryan Shrout joins us to talk performance, price and... efficiency. He also talks X99 and DDR4, should you be looking at the latest Intel CPUs, and plains why the new 8 core i7-5960X Haswell-E runs 'slow' at 3GHz (at least compared to Devil's Canyon's 4GHz!) for Michael S, then talks about why the new generation of soldered on the motherboard CPUs probably won't effect most users. Good stuff! Hotel WiFi Speed Test! You may be heading to another city for work or fun, and in need of