Stay ConnectedSteve and Tim from the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed bring to you a weekly show discussing all the latest news and interesting topics in the PC hardware and gaming scene. With our decades of experience testing and benchmarking hardware, you’ll be sure to enjoy various insights into tech and the occasional guest, especially if you love building PCs and playing PC games.
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Episode 27: Two discussion topics in this podcast episode, firstly on CPU/GPU scaling and when it makes sense to upgrade a CPU vs a GPU, and then we re-rank all the current GPUs from worst to best. Lots of interesting chat in this one!
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - CPU and GPU Scaling Discussion
28:25 - Re-Ranking All Current GPUs
1:05:10 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 26: Steve and Tim have been "playing" (for work) Horizon Forbidden West and Dragon's Dogma 2 and share their thoughts on what the games are bringing to PC. Then we answer some listener mails on voting with your wallet and how the channel has been going in a relatively slow period.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:31 - Testing Horizon Forbidden West and Dragon's Dogma 2
30:04 - Should Buyers Vote With Their Wallet?
47:37 - Health of Hardware Unboxed Channel
1:15:43 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 25: Steve is back from his holiday, so that means a discussion on Intel's pretty dumb Core i9-14900KS that no one should buy, thoughts on AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling improvements, Steam gets better with new family share options and we're destroying OLEDs on purpose.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Not Testing the Core i9-14900KS
17:56 - AMD FSR 3.1 Surprise Announcement
25:31 - Steam Family Sharing Seems Awesome
41:06 - OLED Burn In Testing
50:42 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 24: It's news time! Nvidia has apparently discontinued their last good $200 GPU series, the GTX 16 series. AMD AI-enhanced FSR and DirectSR discussion and talk of what GDDR7 will bring to next-gen GPUs.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Nvidia Apparently Discontinues GTX 16 Series
19:58 - AI-Based FSR and Microsoft DirectSR
28:12 - GDDR7 Is Coming Soon
37:56 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 23: A recap of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE and all the issues with stock vs AIB testing, followed by our general thoughts on reviewing this generation of graphics cards. It's been boring, and Steve is feeling it! In more interesting news we also have a generator update and chat about the current state of gaming.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Issues Testing the Radeon RX 7900 GRE
17:29 - Will Overclocking Fix the RX 7900 GRE?
26:25 - The GPU Market is Boring and Sucks
45:03 - Would You Buy a GPU Right Now?
51:08 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 22: After Steve discusses his four day power outage, we chat about the new Nvidia App replacing the slow Control Panel and annoying GeForce Experience. Also some chat about moving from Threadripper over to AM5 for Tim's workstation PC.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Steve Had No Power for Four Days
13:57 - Nvidia App Beta
29:58 - Tim Ditches Threadripper for AM5
1:00:00 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 21: After a brief discussion of the Ryzen 7 5700, we dive into the survey results to look at what GPUs you own, how often you upgrade, your thoughts on switching brands, and the graphics features you find important. Some very interesting results!
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
01:12 - AMD Ryzen 7 5700 Recap
13:57 - Survey Results
14:53 - GPU Market Share
19:07 - How Much Did Your GPU Cost?
21:48 - How Often Do You Upgrade?
28:23 - Rasterization vs Ray Tracing Importance
33:57 - How Much is Too Much for 8GB of VRAM?
43:32 - Buying Same Brand Again vs Switching Brands
54:55 - What GPU Features are Important
1:08:43 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 20: We recap the lack of excitement around the GeForce RTX 4080 Super, discuss our recent ray tracing poll, and chat about why the Ryzen 8000G APUs don't make any sense for someone to actually buy. Plus Steve has a rant about customer service.
SURVEY: https://forms.gle/u43Pa7wEt63nZwSH7
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
10:30 - Ray Tracing Poll Results
25:55 - GeForce RTX 4080 Super Recap
37:08 - Ryzen 8000G APU Recap and Why APUs Are Pointless
1:05:49 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 19: After three new graphics card launches in the space of two weeks, we fully recap and give extended thoughts on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super, as well as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
04:11 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super Recap
18:33 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Recap
41:47 - New Approach to Ray Tracing Testing
1:02:32 - AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Recap
1:21:03 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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Episode 18: We get excited about 2024 hardware releases by working through what products we expect to launch, and what we think they will and should deliver
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
02:24 - Expectations: Intel 14th-gen Non-K CPUs
06:33 - Other RDNA 3 GPUs
10:07 - AMD Zen 4 APUs
24:23 - AMD Zen 5 CPUs
35:05 - Intel Arc Battlemage GPUs
48:50 - Intel Arrow Lake CPUs
1:03:00 - Next-Gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs
1:08:52 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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