2.5 Geeks: Radeon RX 6700 XT Benched, ASUS ROG Phone 5 Reviewed

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 18, 2021, 01:55 PM EDT

In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks webcast, Marco, Chris and Dave step through the performance and value proposition of AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT, explore the ASUS ROG Phone 5 beastly gaming phone, tease the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro, catch a few yuks over Intel's new anti-Apple Mac ads and run down the top headlines from this past week is computing tech...

Show Notes:
09:03 - Samsung SSD 980 Review: Affordable NVMe PC Storage
14:03 - Behold The Sweet Rock Pi X Powered Serene Screen Aquarium And How To Build One
20:07 - Intel Reveals 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake-S CPUs With A Major Throttle-Up In Performance
25:01 - Intel Nabs Former Apple Pitchman Justin Long To Rip Macs In Hilarious New Ad Campaign
37:36 - AMD EPYC 7003 Series Unveiled: Big Iron Zen 3 Takes Flight
41:00 - AMD Launches Ryzen Pro 5000 Zen 3 Mobile CPUs For Powerful Business Class Laptops
42:41 - AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Review: Impressive 1440p PC Gaming
57:55 - ASUS ROG Phone 5 Benchmarks: The Mightiest Android Yet

Tags: AMD, Intel, Asus, Apple, podcast, Geeks, webcast, 25-geeks

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