Two And A Half Geeks 4/2/14: NVIDIA GTC, Pascal, Titan Z, Crucial and Samsung SSDs, WD MyCloud EX2

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, April 02, 2014, 11:56 AM EDT

In this episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Marco, Dave and Iyaz discuss various announcements that came out of NVIDIA's GPU Tech Conference last week including the big, bad dual-GPU powered GeForce GTX Titan Z, SHIELD updates, and an upcoming Tegra, SSDs from Samsung and Crucial, WD's MyCloud EX2 and details of our giveaway where you could win a killer mini gaming PC from CyberPower PC...

Show Notes:
01:55 - NVIDIA Updates SHIELD With Kit Kat, New Streaming Options, and Redesigned Gamepad Mapper
04:05 - NVIDIA Talks High Performance Graphics APIs: DirectX12, DirectX11 Improvements, and New OpenGL Extensions
09:18 - GTC '14: NVIDIA Outs Pascal, Titan Z, Tegra Updates
15:32 - NVIDIA Demos Unreal Engine 4 On GeForce GTX Titan Z at GTC 2014
20:24 - Samsung SSD 840 EVO mSATA Review
23:59 - Crucial M550 Series Solid State Drive Review
27:01 - WD My Cloud EX2 Personal Cloud Server Review
33:01 - HotHardware and CyberPower PC Spring Fling Gaming System Giveaway!

Tags: Nvidia, giveaway, Samsung, SSD, GPU, contest, CyberPower, podcast, Geeks, Crucial, webcast, SHIELD, pascal, Titan Z

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