2.5 Geeks 2/15/18: Geek Love, Raven Ridge, GTX 2080, Snapdragon 845, Clever Dog Bots, New SSDs!

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 15, 2018, 12:30 PM EDT

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Paul, and Dave get in the mood for V-Day and also chat about AMD's Raven Ridge Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G desktop APUs, a rumored NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 performance benchmarks, creepily clever dog robots, a couple of new SSDs from Samsung and Intel and more...

Show Notes:
03:01 - AMD Ryzen 5 2400G And Ryzen 3 2200G Review: Raven Ridge Desktop Debuts
19:06 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 Rocking GA104 Ampere GPU Rumored To Arrive In April
31:23 - Qualcomm Snapdragon 845: Benchmarking A Hot Rod Mobile Chip
41:08 - AMD Threadripper Cryptocurrency Mining: How To Pay For A CPU In Just Months
49:02 - Intel SSD DC P4600 NVMe PCIe Review: Low-Latency TLC Storage For The Data Center
51:11 - Samsung SSD 860 EVO M.2 SATA Review: Fast, Affordable Solid State Storage
56:22 - Boston Dynamics Spot Mini Can Now Help Its Friends Escape

Tags: Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Samsung, robots, podcast, Geeks, webcast, mining

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com