The Hardware Unboxed Podcast

Steve 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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Our $1000 Gaming PC Builds for 2023

Episode 4: It's a battle! Steve and Tim each spec out a $1000 gaming PC build that the other one hasn't seen and discuss whose is better. Also, a few brief news topics including the latest Nvidia driver for Starfield and RX 7600 XT rumors. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 2:13 - RX 7800 XT Pricing in the US vs Other Regions 4:27 - Nvidia's New Starfield Driver with ReBAR Enabled 11:35 - Is the RX 7600 XT a Real Product? 17:21 - Our $1000 Gaming PC Builds for 2023 52:05 - Other Stuff in Our Lives NEWS LINKS...

Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 4

Is Starfield Actually Badly Optimized?

Episode 3: Today we're recapping the Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT reviews and discussing some missed opportunities in AMD's marketing. We also chat about Starfield: is the game badly optimized? Should you be thinking about more frequent CPU upgrades? What happened to DLSS? CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 4:04 - AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT Recap 16:01 - Is Performance Close to RDNA2 a Fail? 19:20 - Heaps of Old Stock Still Affecting Releases 22:44 - What About Manufacturing Costs 25:43 - Misse...

Sep 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 3

Nvidia Further Destroys AMD in Ray Tracing

Episode 2: It's a news episode! We talk about Nvidia's new DLSS 3.5 technology; our early thoughts and how this impacts AMD and benchmarking. We also revisit some difficulties with VRAM benchmarking, give our thoughts on new PresentMon features, Nvidia's BIOS signature check being bypassed and more. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 2:56 - Nvidia DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction 25:25 - Benchmarking is Getting More Difficult, VRAM Discussion 37:49 - DLSS 3 is Coming to Fortnite, Latency Testing 42:30 - GPU Busy ...

Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 2

Our Thoughts on LTT Errors and Gamers Nexus' Criticism

First ever episode? Let's make it a hot topic one by discussing the latest Gamers Nexus video on Linus Media Group, general thoughts on testing methodologies, whether Linus is a net benefit to the community and more. SUPPORT US DIRECTLY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed Floatplane: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/HardwareUnboxed LINKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 1

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