The State of Tech Events and the Challenges of Building PCs
Hosts: Dennis Garcia and Mike Taylor
Time: 40:03
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Originally recorded October 2025
Hosts: Dennis Garcia and Mike Taylor
Time: 40:03
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Originally recorded October 2025
The Hardware Asylum Podcast has famously only had a handful of guests on the show including some well-known overclockers and several product marketing folks from companies such as EVGA, Cooler Master and Crucial. While guests are a great way to introduce a podcast to an entirely new audience it can be difficult to find that perfect guest that will not only keep with the overall theme but also keep us on topic.
In this episode we welcome Mike Taylor to the podcast bringing with him several years of experience hosting local tech events along with being a fellow tech enthusiast exercising his craft in writing and content creation. He was one of the first to introduce us to Hackfort, a local tech event focused on technology and engineering. There Dennis was able to introduce LN2 overclocking to an entirely new audience and happened to accidently host one of the most attended talks of the entire event.
Later in the episode Dennis helps clarify some of the mysteries associated with building your own computer and demystify a few computer building myths that still propagate to this very day.
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