Plus: Your questions, answered!

In nowadays’s episode we quilt the wonderful PC bulletins out of CES, including the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 sing their own praises, Intel’s Rocket Lake-S cramped print, and heaps of your questions!

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In this episode of The Paunchy Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray dig deeper into some of CES 2021’s wonderful PC hardware bulletins, then dive deep into your questions.

Brad kicks things off by dissecting the specs for Nvidia’s cheap $329 GeForce RTX 3060—even supposing he worries it won’t genuinely be anyplace approach that tag when it launches in late February. And why did Nvidia equip this card with 12GB of memory when the pricier RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 entirely possess 8GB? It’s all explained. After that, Gordon wades into what we can demand from Rocket Lake S, the codename for Intel’s newly printed 11th-gen Core desktop processors.

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