{"id":9131,"date":"2017-03-16T18:51:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2017-03-16T18:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:51:47","slug":"this-week-in-computer-hardware-406-ryzen-5-and-some-sweet-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2017\/03\/16\/this-week-in-computer-hardware-406-ryzen-5-and-some-sweet-tvs\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Computer Hardware 406: Ryzen 5 and Some Sweet TVs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3LmGB7FkMvc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMD announces Ryzen 5 CPUs&#8230; lots of cores for not much cash! Thinking about a new TV? Robert Heron joins us to talk up the latest from LG, Samsung, and Sony. Headphones burst into flames, tuning the Ryzen 7 for best performance, all the 1080Ti GPUs are sold, and are we going from Lithium batteries to glass batteries?!? Tons of hardware news in this week&#8217;s TWiCH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD announces Ryzen 5 CPUs&#8230; lots of cores for not much cash! Thinking about a new TV? 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