The Hardware Asylum Podcast
All Podcast Episodes
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The Death of the Entry Level Gaming PC and the Most Underrated PC Component
Published: Thursday, February 10, 2022 - PodcastIn this episode the duo talks about how with the chip shortage and out of control inflation has changed the PC gaming landscape and completely removed the lowest end segment of the PC market, the entry level gaming PC. Combine that with users building systems incorrectly with overrated components and you have a recipe for disaster.
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Games you should have played in 2021
Published: Monday, January 24, 2022 - PodcastWith the ups and downs for 2021 we wanted to shed some light on one aspect of the year that did not disappoint, games. There were plenty of great games to play, some required the latest and greatest hardware while others remained great on older platforms.
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The Worst Storage Mediums of All Time
Published: Monday, January 10, 2022 - PodcastOne of the most important discoveries in the human race is the ability to save messages and this can take on many forms from notes, photos and even hieroglyphics. We save them so to tell a story and over the years the manner in which we save and store these stories has changed. As you would have guessed there are some good ones and some really bad ones.
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Games for the Holiday Season with an In-Depth Look at Battlefield 2042
Published: Friday, December 10, 2021 - PodcastIn this episode we discuss some of the latest triple A games that are hot this holiday season and dive into some of the issues surrounding their release. While most of these games have gotten amazing Metacritic scores from professional sources the reverse is happening when it comes to actual gamers trying to play these games.
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Essential Software When Migrating Computers and My RetroPC got Stoned
Published: Saturday, November 27, 2021 - PodcastIn this episode the duo talk about migrating computers and some of the gotchas you encounter from missing software to proper ways to back up your data. Bottom line is that you need to invest in a good NAS or external hard drive and make regular backups of your data. Later Dennis is surprised that one of his RetroPCs was infected with the Stoned virus and why it is such a great find.
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The Important Things to Know about Alder Lake
Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - PodcastIn this episode the duo talks about the new processor platform from Intel, codenamed Alder Lake. The new processor is a radical departure from what Intel has released in the past and promises to be one of the best gaming processors you can buy while bringing DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0 to the market.
