Episode 346: Celestial Testing "Confirmed", RIP Budget Gaming, Usefulness Of AI & More

Join The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC hardware topics. In this episode the gang covers the recent "confirmation" that Intel's Xe3 (Celestial) has begun pre-validation, how the increased prices of hardware (and even consoles) has gutted budget gaming, and we ponder about the usefulness of AI. And of course we answer your questions live!

Links: - Evil AI: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2770385/i-saw-how-an-evil-ai-finds-vulnerabilities-its-as-scary-as-you-think.html - Celestial: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-discrete-xe3-celestial-gpus-are-in-pre-validation - Xbox price: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2769772/xbox-massively-hikes-prices-on-consoles-games-and-controllers.html - RTX 5060: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/even-more-dlss-4-multi-frame-gen-games-and-updates-released/

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