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.

No Man’s Sky was released in in the middle part of 2016 to largely negative reviews due to the game being overhyped and rushed to release. That is a typical issue with Kickstarter and other crowdfunded projects. However, since the release the developers have been consistently releasing new content while offering new and different ways to play. In this Podcast Extra Darren gives us his review into the current game and his favorite play style.

Last month we talk about the Z790 refresh from Gigabyte Aorus called the Fast Track to Gen X. In this episode we are doing a virtual unboxing of the new Elite 7 X to check out the new features and check out new DDR5 memory from BIWIN called the Predator Hermes with speeds available up to 8000Mhz.

In this episode Dennis talks about his recent trip to Seattle to attend Seafair 2023. The trip was to experience live hydroplane racing and catch an exciting airshow featuring planes manufactured by Boeing and the Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Of course, before heading back he made a quick stop at RE-PC for some retro pc part hunting.

Hardware Asylum as invited to attend a special media event hosted by Gigabyte / Aorus to showcase their Z790 X Motherboard refresh. They called this event “Fast Track to Gen X – Speed Simplified” and marked a series of major technology enhancements they were implementing to not only make their motherboards faster but also unique in the enthusiast motherboard space. In this episode the duo discusses the highlights of the event and what makes these boards great.

We get a good number of questions related to PC building and computer hardware and, in this episode, we dig through the mailbag to find some of your most obscure computer questions and have a great time answering them.

In this episode the duo discusses a recent article about the Newegg Shopping App built using the ChatGPT IV API interface. This allows users to ask the bot questions about computer hardware, components and even how to install everything. However, the responses are limited begging the question, can, or should, we trust the results

Diablo is a pretty amazing game and the developers did an excellent job at optimizing it to run on a wide variety of platforms and PC Hardware configurations. They also built in ways to run it with NVIDIA DLSS which can not only increase performance by 25% but also while running at the highest image quality settings.

In this episode we revisit three of our currently in progress projects including the Dual Subwoofer project, the Supra PiModem and some new Retro PC gaming builds.

The Battlefield games are a common topic on the Podcast and while Season 5: New Dawn of Battlefield 2042 is reported to fix everything wrong with the current game we thought it might be interesting to dive into how things got so bad to begin with starting 21 years ago.