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  • Computex 2024 Coverage Part 2: Massive Racks and Small Memory

    Published: Friday, July 5, 2024 - Podcast Computex 2024 Coverage Part 2: Massive Racks and Small Memory

    This is part 2 of our Computex 2024 coverage. As mentioned in the previous episode, there wasn’t much in the way of gaming hardware on the show floor but there was plenty of AI accessories and hardware available along with example of the new CAMM2 memory modules designed for ultra-portable computers.

  • Computex 2024 Coverage Part 1: the Calm Before the Storm plus Nvidia

    Published: Monday, July 1, 2024 - Podcast Computex 2024 Coverage Part 1: the Calm Before the Storm plus Nvidia

    It has been a while since Hardware Asylum was at Computex and the 2024 edition of this global technology show did not disappoint. NVIDIA had their keynote the day before Computex opened followed by an AMD keynote to kick the show off. After that Dennis visited with Gigabyte, Corsair, beQuiet during the first hours of the event.

  • Building a Budget Gaming PC Using Steam Survey Stats

    Published: Saturday, May 25, 2024 - Podcast Building a Budget Gaming PC Using Steam Survey Stats

    Have you ever wondered how your build stacks up against EVERYONE else playing Steam games? Well, the Steam Hardware Survey can give you that data and the results are shocking, to say the least. In this episode we use the April 2024 Steam Hardware Survey to build the ultimate gaming PC according to gamers from around the world.

  • What Makes NVIDIA Such an Interesting Company

    Published: Monday, May 13, 2024 - Podcast What Makes NVIDIA Such an Interesting Company

    In this episode we explore some of the things that makes NVIDIA a company to watch from their dedication to gaming using NVIDIA GTX and RTX graphics cards to game related technologies such as Ray Tracing and DLSS. Their GPUs are fueling the AI revolution with datacenter construction and hardware designed specifically for AI processing. All of this collectively impacts their publicly traded stock which is embedded into thousands of mutual funds and the S&P 500 market index.

  • Yeyian Gaming Streaming FlexCam and Essential Home Office Gear

    Published: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - Podcast Yeyian Gaming Streaming FlexCam and Essential Home Office Gear

    It is not uncommon for people to establish a home office either for their day job, their night job or even a side hustle. While you only need a computer there are certain accessories that make the entire process more enjoyable and vastly more productive. In this episode we explore a number of essential components including the Yeyian Gaming Flexcam.

  • The Capacitor Plague and the Risk of Lost Memories

    Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - Podcast The Capacitor Plague and the Risk of Lost Memories

    Dennis recently had an old review motherboard come back to the Hardware Asylum Labs and was a completely unexpected sight. The board in question is the Soltek SL-75DRV4 and was a board he first reviewed back in 2001 on Ninjalane (the Parent site). The board had leaking capacitors and was a common failure that claimed the lives of so many motherboards before their time. Later in the show the duo talk about lost Memories, not from getting old but rather losing your data due to storing SSDs for too long.