On this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray discuss rumors of Nvidia reintroducing the GeForce RTX 2060 and what to anticipate of Black Friday offers for PC {hardware}.
The Full Nerd crew kicks off this week’s podcast discussing rumors of the GeForce RTX 2060 GPU Nvidia may reintroduce. Sure, you heard that proper—the identical entry-level RTX card the corporate launched in January of 2019. Why? The crew speculates that such an outdated chip may assist deal with the dire GPU unavailability in the present day because it makes use of an older 14nm TSMC course of, which could imply better provides. In fact, how a lot would a GeForce RTX 2060 dressed up with 12GB of RAM be? Brad speculates an virtually cheap “MSRP,” which received’t translate to actuality.
Alaina additionally briefs everybody on what to anticipate this Black Friday from CPUs to coolers and instances. Lastly, the crew discusses a whacked Newegg bundle that requires you to purchase two motherboards to get a GPU. You heard that proper—two motherboards with one GPU. Why? Maybe Newegg is utilizing the identical math distributors use once they promote you an 8-pack of hotdogs however you possibly can solely purchase buns in a 10-pack.
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Considered one of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been overlaying PCs and parts since 1998.
