TT Show Episode 44 - Global IT outage presses pause on 'Planet Earth'

The CrowStrike Windows outage will go down in history as one of the biggest ever seen, as millions of PCs tied to industries like travel, healthcare, and government services experienced the dreaded Blue Screen of Death or BSOD last week.

Still fresh in everyone's minds, Jak and Kosta spend a big chunk of this week's episode of The TT Show talking about the CrowdStrike Windows outage, what caused it, and how the simple fix of manually booting into Windows Recovery turned out to be a massive undertaking when you're looking at millions of computers and a finite number of tech support specialists.

In this week's massive episode, it's not all CrowdStrike. Jak and Kosta also discuss Intel's ongoing CPU troubles and the controversy surrounding the flagship Core i9 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. Intel has released an official statement, but is it enough?

Also, AMD delayed the launch of the Ryzen 9000 Series by a couple of weeks due to an undetermined quality issue. And in the world of NVIDIA, in addition to the news that the GeForce RTX 50 Series has been delayed to 2025, we've got a new report on GeForce RTX 40 Series cards overheating. An investigation at Igor's Lab concludes that NVIDIA partners use a cheap and unreliable thermal paste that fails after only a few months, pushing GPU temperatures to 100 degrees.

Yes, it's doom and gloom week on The TT Show, but the duo closes the show with positivity. A hidden ray-tracing mode in the PC version of Forza Motorsport transforms the game's look.

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All the topics discussed in this week's episode of The TT Show

• Read more: Breaking - Global IT outage grounds planes, closes banks, and disrupts services everywhere
• Read more: What caused the CrowdStrike Windows BSOD issue, and why it led to total system crashes
• Read more: Microsoft blames global Crowdstrike meltdown on a deal made in 2009
• Read more: CrowdStrike announces a 'significant' number of the 8.5 million Windows PCs are recovered
• Read more: Windows Developer explains how CrowdStrike caused 8.5 million Windows PCs to blue screen
• Read more: Microsoft CEO responds to millions of Windows PCs blue screening globally
• Read more: Airline avoids CrowdStrike chaos because its systems run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
• Read more: Intel confirms fears about its biggest failure in years
• Read more: AMD delays Ryzen 9000 series 'Zen 5' launch to August 15, 'QA issues' with first Zen 5 chips
• Read more: Hidden Forza Motorsport mode adds stunning on-track ray-tracing and other visual improvements
• Read more: Report: GeForce RTX 50 Series delayed to 2025, NVIDIA v AMD GPU showdown at CES
• Read more: GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs are reportedly hitting 100+ degrees because of cheap thermal paste
• Read more: NVIDIA's next-gen TITAN AI graphics card rumored: would beat the GeForce RTX 5090