What you will notice about the Proact GM1 Gaming Chair is a fundamental change in how gaming chairs are designed. The traditional gaming chair often resembles a racing seat and, when used in a car is designed to hug the driver and prevent them from sliding around under spirited driving.
CyberPower PC Pro Streamer 2.0. You can now do video capture and remote PC control over Thunderbolt 4 and Cyberpowerpc has a gaming PC and Laptop solution to simplify game streaming and video production with zero latency.
The MasterFrame is modular case concept has roots that go back to the MasterCase 5 which was released almost 10 years ago. The concept is that you can purchase a base chassis and then upgrade it to match your needs including replacement panels to match your office decorations or adjust the internals to better accommodate custom builds.
beQuiet was showing the Pure Base 501 during CES 2025 along with a number of existing and soon to be released products including the Light Loop AIO coolers, Light Wings fans and powerful Dark Power Pro power supplies.
As expected, ASUS was showing their latest generation of RTX 50 Series graphics cards and, in what seems like a common trend across all of the hardware makers, there is a new product segment for “ultra high-end graphics cards” called ROG Astral.
Hardware Asylum CES 2025 Coverage
I would like to thank Yeyian Gaming for helping sponsor Hardware Asylum during CES 2025. The Consumer Electronics Show starts Jan 9th and runs through Jan 12th.
Yeyian Gaming offers an wide range of solutions for the PC gamer including pre-built PCs to fully customized gaming computers with an online configurator. Their builds feature the latest in computer hardware including Intel Ultra, AMD Ryzen 9 and the latest in Nvidia RTX.
Be sure to check them out at https://us.yeyiangaming.com and the Venetian Tower if you'll be attending CES 2025.
One of the defining characteristics of vintage computers is the “beige” box. This was a rather neutral color for the time period and allowed other hardware vendors a sudo color standard to follow when offering up their accessories.
The motherboard in the Classic Case build had extensive damage that was targeted right around the motherboard mounting hole below the battery. My guess is that when this system was taken out of service it was stored on its side which allowed the battery contents to pool up and attack that one region.
The system featured in this ongoing project is a build from Magitronic. This was a Taiwanese based hardware maker that was able to design and build just about everything that went into their systems. I could not find any specific details about this particular build but, it features a Magitonic 602 motherboard along with some other parts with a Magitronic sticker.
For this Real Retro Gaming adventure, I’m going to play a game from my youth called “Hack”, or PC Hack as its official name. This was a freeware offering that you could download from Bulletin Board Systems or buy out of the back of computer magazines. I'll also be playing this on a 386 40Mhz with dual 5.25" Floppy drives.
During the service life of these computers there were reports of batteries exploding and/or leaking, sometimes they would destroy the motherboard and other times they just stopped keeping time. Either way it was an acceptable risk and usually when the board or battery failed it was time to upgrade anyway.
I have been in the process of collecting some old Retro PC hardware for some YouTube projects and before I started tearing into each of the computers, I wanted to take an image of each hard drive and then document the components in each system.
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