This Week in Computer Hardware Show Notes
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| Shownotes | Date | Hosts | Topics | Episode Title |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 135 | September 2, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | New GPU for Battlefield 3 ($1400 600Watt GPU!) Intel dealing with 24 FPS problem, adding volume control to your GPU, and more | This GPU Goes To 11 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 134 | August 27, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | The most exciting GPU ever?, gaming over 3G, thoughts on Steve's letter, HP's business, Hackentosh actions and more. | A GPU Worth Loving |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 133 | September 1, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | The first live in studio episode with Patrick and Ryan! They explain how a PC becomes quiet and weight in on the future of HP. | HP Explodes And We Go Inside A Quiet Case |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 132 | August 12, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | 100 Watts flaming USB, optical disks made of stone, building cheapest pc possible, external GPU fail, and more. | Flaming Cables And Optical Disks Made Of Stone |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 131 | August 5, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | SSD failure rates revealed, water cooled GPUs, QuakeCon coverage, dual vs triple channel memory, and more. | Water Cooling Is Back. Should You Care? |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 130 | July 29, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Intel's going the full Matrox, $200 netbook, good week for AMD, 28 nanometer GPU, and more hardware news. | Intel Goes The Full Matrox |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 129 | July 22, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Cross fire or a new card, amazing mods, new Mac hardwares, 1TB notebook drives and more hardware news. | Don't Fold Your Way To The Poor House |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 128 | July 15, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | 5 GPUs in 1 box, making Bitcoin faster, new MacBook Air specs, stick with your core 2 duo? and more hardware news. | Making Money Off Your GPU Faster Bitcoin |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 127 | July 8, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | All next generation consoles pick AMD,APU overclocking, LightSquared vs GPS, 3TB hard drives and more hardware news. | Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo Agrees On AMD |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 126 | July 1, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Festival of cases, AMD Llano, GPU upgrades, and more. | Case Study |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 125 | June 24, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Crysis patch, more AMD news, ARM notebooks are coming, consoles VS PCs, and more hardware news. | ExaFLOP VS AMD: The Future Of Computing |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 124 | June 17, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | AMD developer fusion summit, favorite PC cases, cheap water cooling, gigabit from Comcast, and more. | AMD Strikes Back |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 123 | June 14, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Corsair's SSD recall, Thunderbolt is so dead, AMD brings back FX, one big GPU, budget Phenom build advice, rogue temperatures, and who cares about Chrome-books anyhow? | Just... Ignore That Temperature |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 122 | June 3, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Computex Taiwan, When not to upgrade to SSD, Wear and tear from power cycling, and more! | The Computex Festival |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 121 | May 27, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Core i5 vs. Core i7, cabling the Eyefinity card, strange ideas from Intel, and more. | Intel's Getting Bulldozed |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 120 | May 20, 2011 | Patrick Norton | Intel vs. ARM, Upgrading old hardware, HDMI vs. DVI, and more! | Intel Wants To Crush ARM |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 119 | May 13, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Z68 Sandy Bridge chipset, Keeping a NAS alive in heat, Apple kills SSD upgrades, and more! | Z68, Baby! It's Not A Camaro |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 118 | May 6, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | SSDs are failing, AMD Llano Graphics, Backup RAM upgrades, and more! | Tri-Gate Makes Everything Better |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 117 | April 29, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | A festival of GPUs, Sandybridge refunds, 6 monitor setups, and more! | Forget The PS3, Game On Your PC |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 116 | April 22, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Storage tech, Z68 motherboard availability, AMD's budget graphics cards, and more. | Storage. Lot's Of Storage. |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 115 | April 15, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | New USB3 and Thunderbolt chipset? Core i7 notebook, self erasing drives, missing RAM, and more. | Ignore The Recall, People |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 114 | April 7, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Commodore 64 goes Adam, 3TB Barracudas, AMD 6790 and an AMD card you might now want, 10 cores of Xeon fun and why you do not need 24GB of RAM and much more! | The Commodore 64 Is Back? |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 113 | March 31, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Is it safe to buy an SSD Samsung keylogger?, budget PC's, next gen motherboard technology, and more. | Let's Move To Kansas City! |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 112 | March 25, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | Overclocked Radeon 6990, GeForce GTX 460 and 590 benchmarked, hi-res notebooks, and more. | 6990-59-460 Hike! GPU's A-Poppin |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 111 | March 18, 2011 | Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton | A GeForce GTX you should avoid, universal 3D glasses, SSD's for the Macbook Pro, and more. | The Negative Episode |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 110 | March 11, 2011 | Patrick Norton and Robert Heron | The fastest video card. Ever. 18 million tablets, Robert Heron helps with home theater PC builds, what do you do with an old Power Mac G5, and more. | Home Theater And Hard Drive Help |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 109 | March 3, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Lifetime warranties, Intel Z68 chipset, iPad 2 CPU specs, and more. | Dudes, Did I Fry My CPU? |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 108 | February 25, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Thunderbolt, new MacBook Pros, OCZ consumer SSD, 32 hour notebooks, your questions, and more. | Thunderbolt Is Go! |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 107 | February 18, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | A bunch of upgrade dilemmas including notebook RAM, GPU comparisons, dual-booting on an SSD, your questions, and more. | Upgrade Dilemmas |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 106 | February 10, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Building a new gaming PC intime for BulletStorm, Sandy Bridge RMA's and more! | Try AMD
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 105 | February 4, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Sandy Bridge SATA port flaw, Crysis 2 not that tough, last IPv4 addresses, your questions, and more. | Sandy Bridge Is Falling |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 104 | January 28, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Another fastest GPU ever, dynamic USB 3.0 spec, Tegra 3, hacking ARM hardware, your questions, and more. | Too Many Cores! |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 103 | January 26, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Galaxy's wireless GPU, SLI hack for AMD chipsets, importance of good power supplies, your questions, and more. | You Don't Need To Upgrade |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 102 | January 15, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | CES highlights, Android Honeycomb, Intel responds to Windows on ARM, your questions, and more. | CES Post-mortem |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 101 | January 11, 2011 | Ryan Shrout, Leo Laporte, and Allyn Malventano | A look at the coolest and hottest new PC hardware announced at CES 2011. | Live from CES |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 100 | December 23, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | CES info, AMD Brazos coming from at least 4 vendors, Fusion powered Acer Aspire, your questions, and more. | Motherboard Giveaway |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 99 | December 18, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Cr-48 first look, AMD Cayman architecture, Sandy Bridge CPUs on sale, OnLive MicroConsole tear down, your questions, and more. | Ode To The MacBook Air
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 98 | December 10, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Sandy Bridge is near, HDTV as a computer monitor, your smoky motherboard, and more. | Wait For Sandy Bridge |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 97 | December 3, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | HyperX Max SSD review, RAGE HD first look, Verizon LTE and data caps, your questions, and more. | The Dangers Of 4G |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 96 | November 19, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Missing your SSD, SSD price drops, new AMD APUs, OnLive Microconsole, Dell Inspiron Duo, and your questions. | SSDs Can Be Anything |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 95 | November 12, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | GTX 580 tests, bigger faster SSDs, mega-data centers, real RAID results, your questions, and more. | The Fastest GPU This Week |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 94 | November 5, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Flash kills battery life, green drives kill RAID, FarmVille netbooks for mom, your questions, and more. | Best FarmVille Netbooks |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 93 | October 30, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | AMD Radeon HD review, MacBook Air upgrade, NVDIA 3DTV Play, $100 Walgreens tablet, your questions, and more. | A Solid $250 PC Build |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 92 | October 23, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | MacBook Air innards, MSI GTX 460 HAWK, WD Caviar Green 3TB review, your questions, and more. | The 6800 is Here |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 91 | October 17, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | HDMI cable deals, NVIDIA moves Fermi to HTPC, touch screen viral vector, your questions, and more. | Viral Touch Screen |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 90 | October 10, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | NVIDIA takes on the market themselves, PANTONE's take on colors, How to upgrade a home theater PC, and more. | LAN Boy Or Legos
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 89 | October 3, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | OCZ High Speed Data Link SSD, changing GPU market, your email and twitter questions, and more. | Call The Electrician |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 88 | September 27, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Scratch-off CPU upgrades, NVIDIA roadmap, StarCraft II 3D, your email and twitter questions, and more. | Scratch & Sniff CPU |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 87 | September 17, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Intel Developer Forum news, shift to Sandy Bridge, IE9 accelerates, your email and twitter questions, and more. | Your Browser Needs A GPU |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 86 | September 11, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Ontario and Zacate, overclocking walls, hybrid motherboards, your email and twitter questions, and more. | Zacate Crushes Atom |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 85 | September 5, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | ATI vanishes, AMD APUs, Lucid HYDRALogix UNITY, your email and twitter questions, and more. | The Death Of ATI |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 84 | August 28, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Hot Chips, fanless power supplies, 3TB hard drives, AMD Bulldozers. your twitter questions, and more. | Factory Overclocked 3TB Fanless Wiring |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 83 | August 20, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Cleaner, more natural 1's and 0's, BGF Tech Radeon graphics card, Intel buys McAfee, Intel roadmap, your twitter questions, and more. | Cat Fur Speaker Cones |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 82 | August 13, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Rage for iPhone/iPad, Alienware adopts Bigfoot NIC, cars hacked through tire sensors, your twitter questions, and more. | Wireless Tire Hacks |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 81 | August 9, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | StarCraft II melts your PC's face, Intel's FTC settlement, the $200 linux PC, and your twitter questions. | Hot Date With StarCraft II |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 80 | July 29, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Silicone Photonics, AMD leading in the graphics market, and why PC's are still better than consoles for gaming and much more, Enjoy! | Sand is Cheap |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 79 | July 24, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | StarCraft II performance, Foxconn raises wages/prices, big Droid X, no HP Slate for consumers, your twitter questions, and more. Enjoy. | CAD You Dig It? |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 78 | July 15, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | nVidia gtx460 from Galaxy, Intel has a single best quarter in their history, Intel Sandy Bridge, Own or Rent cable modem, Iphone 4 Pressconference and more... Enjoy! | America Needs YOUR Money
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 77 | July 9, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Home Theater PC, Seagate's 3TB GoFlex drive, Intel's Wireless Display(WiDi), Asus Ares Dual HD 5870, and more... Enjoy. | The Greek God of Video Cards |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 76 | July 2, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Dissecting the iPhone 4 antenna, NVIDIA Surround and 3D Vison Surround, future of HDMI, RevoDrive PCIe SSD from OCZ, your twitter questions, and more. | Secrets of The iPhone 4 Antenna |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 75 | June 26, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | New Xbox, Onlive preview, iPhone 4 issues, Swype for EVO, your Twitter questions, and more. | The Red Dot Of Death |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 74 | June 21, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Sandy Bridge specs, new Mac Mini, Cisco's consumer lineup, PCs vs. consoles, and more. | E3 and the PC |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 73 | June 11, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | EVO impressions, Drobo FS, iPad in a classic Mac, your Twitter questions, and more. | My Router Sucks |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 72 | June 4, 2010 | Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton, Leo Laporte | Computex 2010, unlocked intel cores, PCMag's fastest mobile networks, your twitter questions, and more. | The Magic Cauliflower Is Back |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 71 | May 20, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Stainless Steel And Broken Dreams | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 70 | May 17, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Mac Gets Steamy | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 69 | May 7, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | More Faster Stuff Is Better
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 68 | April 28, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | I'm Thuban, Thanks For Asking
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 67 | April 22, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout, Patrick Norton | Giant Cup of Happiness | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 66 | April 15, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout | Super-Mega-Hyper-Turbo-Core-Mode Technology
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 65 | April 9, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout | Wrap Around Gaming
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 64 | April 2, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout | Hexa-Core and Hexa-Monitor | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 63 | March 26, 2010 | Colleen Kelly, Ryan Shrout | Just Get A Hacksaw | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 62 | March 13, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | The Picometer | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 61 | March 6, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | 90% Awesome | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 60 | February 25, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Big Bang FUZION
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| This Week in Computer Hardware 59 | February 18, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | USB Wall Sockets | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 58 | February 13, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Optimus is Prime | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 57 | February 4, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | The SSD Decoder Ring | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 56 | January 30, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Dissecting The iPad | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 55 | January 26, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | San Force Cometh | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 54 | January 19, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Laptop Gaming | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 53 | January 9, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Live From CES 2010 | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 52 | January 2, 2010 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | OnLive, Or Not? | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 51 | December 26, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Someone's Got Into The Eggnog | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 50 | December 19, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Now With 50% More Cores | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 49 | December 9, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | USB 3.0 and DirectX 11 | USB3D |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 48 | December 5, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | 48 Cores, No Waiting | |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 29 | June 24, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | New mobile GPUs, New Intel CPUs, Intel and Nokia | 29 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 28 | June 17, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | More Computex news, Tegra in Zune HD | 28 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 27 | June 3, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Live from Computex 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan | 27 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 26 | May 27, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | fit-PC2 nettop, Lenovo S12 ION netbook, Win7 Starter Edition Specs | 26 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 25 | May 20, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Thecus NAS, Intel Pine Trail, Nano as a server, HyperThreading Win7 | 25 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 24 | May 13, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Intel fined $1.45B, Zotac ION review, Larrabee die shot, NVIDIA $200M loss | 24 |
| This Week in Computer Hardware 23 | May 7, 2009 | Leo Laporte, Ryan Shrout | Kindle DX, Zotac ION motherboard, Kingston SSD upgrade kit | 23 |