Yeyan shows a new generation of gaming chair at CES 2025
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Yeyan shows a new generation of gaming chair at CES 2025

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.

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CyberPowerPC Shows the Pro Streamer 2 Product during CES 2025

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.

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MasterFrame Chassis and Custom RTX 50 Series Coolers from Cooler Master at CES 2025

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 Shows the new Pure Base 501 Chassis at CES 2025
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beQuiet Shows the new Pure Base 501 Chassis at CES 2025

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.

Asus Crosshair X870 Apex Motherboard Announced During CES 2025
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Asus Crosshair X870 Apex Motherboard Announced During CES 2025

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.

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