The Hardware Asylum Podcast

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  • Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super and the Sorted History of the RTX 40 Series

    Published: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - Podcast Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super and the Sorted History of the RTX 40 Series

    The RTX 40 Series Super video cards launched in January and encompass some of the final versions of the NVIDIA RTX 40 Series and Ada Lovelace architecture. We have the Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super in the lab and discuss some of the features and the take a deep dive into the interesting and completely messed up launch history of the 40 Series.

  • Supersized CES 2024 From Augmented Reality Sunglasses to AWD Robot Mowers

    Published: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - Podcast Supersized CES 2024 From Augmented Reality Sunglasses to AWD Robot Mowers

    In this episode we do a debrief of the popular Consumer Electronics Show talking about each vendor we visited. While we focus on the computer hardware aspects of CES and checking out the latest motherboards, and related computer accessories there are some other amazing things to see including some AR Sunglasses, Mega Servers and an awesome all wheel drive robot lawn mower.

  • Hot Tech Items and Trends that Have Come and Gone over the Past 30 Years

    Published: Sunday, December 24, 2023 - Podcast Hot Tech Items and Trends that Have Come and Gone over the Past 30 Years

    They say the only constant is change and that if things are not changing then you are not growing as a person or society. This has a direct impact on the technology that we use on a regular basis and while some trends may have never been welcome to begin with, there are some that may have left before their time. In this Podcast Extra the duo discusses an article on PC Gamer “30 things PC Gamer has outlived over the past 30 years” and later adds a few items they had missed.

  • Challenges when Streaming Retro PCs and the Ease of Building a Modern One

    Published: Sunday, December 10, 2023 - Podcast Challenges when Streaming Retro PCs and the Ease of Building a Modern One

    Streaming on Twitch or YouTube is extremely easy on modern computers but can be quite a challenge when the technology is a little older. In this episode we talk about the steps needed to stream games from a Retro PC and how easy it has become to build a modern gaming build complete with EK watercooling gear.

  • Build Review of the 50k Oppenheimer Creator PC

    Published: Saturday, November 25, 2023 - Podcast Build Review of the 50k Oppenheimer Creator PC

    We have all built computers before but, there are some people out there looking to take things to the next level and blur the lines between what makes sense and what will get views. This is very much a social medial world and it extends well beyond reasonable PC building. But, is there a limit?

  • Stop the Madness - You are building your PC Wrong

    Published: Friday, November 10, 2023 - Podcast Stop the Madness - You are building your PC Wrong

    There have been some major changes in the PC hardware world and the makers of those components have been slow to adapt. However, the fault is not with the maker of the hardware but rather the consumers, the hardware enthusiasts, the once vocal minority has been enabling the hardware maker with their silence. It might be time to put a stop to it.