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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The PC hardware market has finally settled down with the release of AMD's new Radeon 9000 series and no more major CPU or GPU product launches later this year. So we assess the state of the PC union a bit this week, with a focus on the new AMD cards and their dramatically improved upscaling, ray-tracing, video encoding, and perhaps most of all, price. Plus, some updates on Intel's low-end Battlemage, Nvidia's mounting 50-series woes, the possible delay of Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU to 2026, new rumored low-power CPUs for Brad to get excited about running a Linux router on, and more.

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0:00.0	So I've been testing a different CPU for an upcoming PC world thing.
0:05.9	And when I swapped out the CPU in my machine with a ostensibly faster machine,
0:11.6	and then I fired stuff up and started playing games and seeing how it worked,
0:15.5	everything was slower.
0:17.3	That seems the reverse of what you would want?
0:20.3	Well, it turns out what I had to do was clean the chipset drivers and reinstall the chipset
0:27.5	drivers and windows.
0:28.8	Oh.
0:29.4	And then everything was groovy.
0:31.4	Is that that AMD thing of like, hey, you shouldn't just swap CPUs.
0:34.9	You have to kind of reinstall windows.
0:36.4	I remember that from when I had the 7950 X3D. Well, so the reinst just swap CPUs. You have to kind of reinstall Windows. I remember that from when I have the 795 X3D.
0:39.3	Well, so the reinstall Windows was specifically for dual CCD, going from one CCD to dual
0:44.5	CCD chips.
0:45.5	This, I'm going from a one CCD to a one CCD and I don't understand why I don't understand
0:51.9	why this would work this way and it's, it's, it's. I don't understand why any of this would be necessary.
0:57.0	Like you would think the drivers would, like what is being keyed in the drivers to specific
1:01.0	hardware at time of install that can't be changed later?
1:04.0	That's a strange design.
1:06.0	So I'm going to ask about it.
1:07.0	I want to do some more investigation.
1:08.0	I think it's the Windows thread scheduler changes on a per CPU basis. So if like you're changing from Intel to AMD or vice versa, you could
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