In this week's Power Up Podcast, Taylor is joined by Anthony & Matt as they focus predominantly on Tech this week due to the slowness of gaming news over the past two weeks. 

This week, to kick things off, we discuss the recent restrictions Nvidia placed on their 30 series GPUs for crypto mining & just how these restrictions have been bypassed. We delve deep into how miners are getting around the limited hash rates of the 3060 cards and how miners are also purchasing laptops now to extend their mining rig. 

The Intel 11700k CPU has had its embargo broken and a ton of the CPUs have shown up on sale all around the web. We take a look at one of the reviews for the new chip and just how it stacks up to other Intel and AMD chips and whether this CPU has a place in the CPU market. 

A couple of the gaming topics we discussed this week include a patch for GTA V which helps cut download times in the game. EA Play coming to PC Game Pass. & games from Bethesda Softworks will no longer be buggy messes.