The Full Nerd Podcast

PCWorld's Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray, and special guest Alaina Yee go over all the charts and graphs from AMD's Ryzen Threadripper review. After that they detail the full list of Intel's Core i9 chips and finish up covering the 8th Gen Great American Eclipse party! For audio listeners, don't forget you can tune in live on PCWorld's YouTube or Facebook in order to chat along w...

Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by PCWorld's Executive Editor Melissa Riofrio to discuss Ryzen 3, solve Threadripper's core mystery, and answer your questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the crew goes Full Nerd on AMD's shocking Threadripper pricing and wonders if Ryzen 3 is a Core i5 killer. Finally, does Vega Frontier Edition mean storm clouds are coming for RX? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gordon, Brad, and Adam are joined once again by special guest Alaina Yee to go over some of the hottest news stories of the week. Including Gordon's Skylake X review, a brand new 32 bit Sound Blaster, and Alaina's Xbox One X PC build. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray, and special guest Alaina Yee cover all the hot news out of Computex and more! Don't bother watching Apple's 2017 WWDC keynote, your real PC talk is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PCWorld's Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray, and special guest Alaina Yee get together to talk about the weeks big PC hardware announcements. Topics include AMD's Radeon Vega, Threadripper - the 16-core CPU, and the rumors of Intel's Core i9 aka Skylake X. We finish it off with a bunch of audience questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Alaina, Adam and Brad talk: Microsoft's new Surface Laptop and what Windows 10 S portends, AMD puts an add in its drivers and AIB vs. Stock GPU Coolers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Adam, Alaina, and Brad give you the details on AMD's new Radeon 500 (aka Refreshion) as well as how much Ryzen 5 stomps Core i5. Finally Brad busts out the gourmet stuff with EVGA's wicked GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, finishing off with a really old Q&A segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Adam, Alaina and Brad wonder just how many damned GPUs Nvidia has up it sleeves, tell you just how and why Ryzen performance got better and just wonder what the point of Optane is. Finally, an all out war breaks out over Xbox Scorpio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Adam and Brad tell you why the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti might be a great deal, spill on AMD's Ryzen 5 lineup and talk Optane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Adam and Brad talk what's right and what's wrong with Ryzen. Brad busts out the gourmet stuff with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and we do an extended question and answer period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Adam, Hayden and Brad talk rumors of Vega and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Gordon breaks down leaks and leaked performance of Ryzen vs. Kaby Lake and Hayden gives us the low-down on what to expect at this year's Game Developer Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Adam and Brad host Creative Lab's Ryan Schlieper for some in-depth nerding about PC audio, the API wars and whether your computer will have a soundcard or not again. Tune in every other Tuesday on PCWorld's YouTube or Facebook for the live show and don't forget to leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Alaina, Adam and Brad talk Shield, GeForce Now vs. GeForce Now and ponder whether the Core i5 is dead or not. In the bonus round, the crew talks about just how much the PC gaming hardware market is worth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we're back. This week Gordon, Hayden, Adam and Brad give you the latest on Ryzen and detail: HDR G-sync monitors, USB 3.1 headers, GeForce Now, backpack VR and more. Finally did they go too far? Acer shows off a $9,000 gaming laptop while Razer puts three 4K panels on a Razer Blade Pro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Gordon, Alaina, Adam and Brad predict what will happen in 2017 and vow to literally eat their words if wrong. When will GTX 1080 ti come? What will happen with Ryzen? Will Vega be faster? Will Marty make it back in time to save Doc Brown? (Pardon this late post. The holidays.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gordon, Hayden, Brad and Adam award the totally not real Full Nerd Prize to the best hardware and games of the year. And yes, the best CPU of the Year is a shocker! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gordon Mah Ung, Alaina Yee, Brad Chacos and Adam Patrick Murray break out the tips on how to get PC hardware on the cheap. The crew then pours cold water on rumors that you'll be able to get an 8-core AMD Zen for $300. Finally, Brad breaks down the PlayStation 4 Pro's 4K capabilities vs. a cheap PC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Nvidia's Tom Petersen stopped by to give Gordon, Brad and Adam a frank talk on why G-sync is mo' better than AMD's FreeSync. Tom also tells us why Nvidia killed SLI on budget cards, gives us his opinion on the future of PC gaming, VR and answered every question you threw at him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Hayden Dingman and Adam Patrick Murray talk about Nvidia's new hunnert dollar GeForce GTX 1050 and Razer's super thin and super fast Razer Blade Pro. Hayden gives us the details on Battlefield 1 and why it might be the game of the year. Finally, Hayden takes the Pepsi-challenge on a stack of keyboards to see if anyone can really tell the difference between different co...

Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, Adam Patrick Murray and Gordon Mah Ung show off the latest in monster gaming laptops and discuss why they're awesome. Brad also gives his advice on what you need to run 4K gaming and why you do and don't need it. The crew then show off four different $500 builds configs and argue over who made the best PC (Hint: Gordon's is the best because he wrote this.) Learn more about...

Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos and Hayden Dingman predict how much AMD's highly-anticipated Zen chip will cost and debate whether the PlayStation 4 Pro is up to snuff. Brad then walks you through the best GPU for YOUR needs. And the crew debates Star Wars vs. Star Trek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos and Hayden Dingman discuss Titan X Pascal performance, show off an insane PC and learn the latest on AMD's new budget RX 460 and RX 470. Finally, Hayden gives you his insight on wireless gaming headsets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad gives us the full skinny on why the RX 480 makes more sense than the GTX 1060 for most, the crew dives into the rumors of Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X and whether Intel would eliminate low-end sockets. For show-and-tell in the Builder's Corner, Gordon busts out the world's largest consumer hard drive. Plus audience questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos and Alaina Yee dig into Nvidia's budget wonder, the GeForece GTX 1060. They also discuss if AMD's Radeon RX480 is still killing PCs or not. Finally, the crew tears apart Gordon's budget build specs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices