ThinkComputers Podcast #416 - What's Going on with Intel, Ryzen 9000 Delay, a Forever Mouse & More!

This week on the podcast we go over our review of the Patriot MD330 Storage Hub.  We also NVIDIA bringing back the RTX 3060 and them coming out with a 9GB variant of the RTX 5050, the new MacBook Neo, new Steam Machine news, a look at some new PC cases, and much more!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the ASRock Phantom Gaming 360 LCD Liquid CPU Cooler and the KLEVV CRAS C925G Gen4 Solid State Drive.  We also discuss Intel rethinking CPU design, the drama around the Ryzen Z1 updates, DDR5 prices going down, and much more!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero Motherboard and the ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade Gen5 Solid State Drive.  We also discuss Intel's XeSS 3 multi-frame generation and the performance boost it is giving to Intel Arc cards, UT2004's first update in two decades, GPU's going up in price, and much more!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the ASUS ROG Kithara Gaming Headset and the ASRock X870 Taichi Creator Motherboard.  We also discuss if NVIDIA is planning to release a TITAN Blackwell card or something that would sit above the RTX 5090, the RTX 60 series being delayed, a new AMD game bundle, the Steam Machine being delayed, and so much more!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the HYTE X50 PC case and the levelplay CL 360 HUD Liquid CPU Cooler.  We also AMD AIBs increasing the price of Radeon GPUs, some pretty cool retro systems from Maingear, new hard drive tech from Western Digital, Mozilla adding an "AI Killswitch" in the latest version of Firefox, and more!

This week on the podcast we go over our review of the Patriot iLuxe Cube.  We also discuss the possibility of graphics cards becoming more scarce, the continued RAM shortage, a pretty cool Ryzen 7 9850X3D bundle, a portable PS4, and much more!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the ASUS Jelly75 Keyboard (KD201) and the NZXT Kraken Core 360 RGB Liquid CPU Cooler.  We also discuss the continued RAM shortage and how it is effecting graphics cards and store, a new Steam record, and some cool new products!

This week on the podcast we go over our review of the be quiet! Light Base 500 LX Case.  We also are back from CES 2026 and we are going to go over everything from the show including new graphics cards, cases, motherboards, and more!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP Black ARGB CPU Cooler and the Womier WD75 Mechanical Keyboard.  We also discuss the ongoing RAM shortage and how prices have risen to crazy levels, what to expect going into 2026, and more!This weeks episode is brought to you by the LLT Store New Prismagic Series Transparent Screwdrivers! Get yours here: https://thinkcomputers.org/LTT

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the Fractal Design Epoch XL Case and the Crucial Pro Overclocking Edition DDR5-6400 CL32 32GB Memory Kit.  We also discuss if AI is ruining the PC industry with increased costs etc, more Ryzen 7 9850X3D information, a motherboard with wooden accents, an iconic mouse being brought back to life, and more!