The Hardware Asylum Podcast
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Building a Budget Gaming PC in 2026
Published: Sunday, May 24, 2026 - PodcastWe get gaming PC questions quite often and decided to revisit the process of building a budget gaming pc for the most popular games of 2025. As of this Podcast we are still in the middle of a memory shortage which can alter prices considerably.
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PC Board Game Crossovers that are Actually Good
Published: Sunday, May 10, 2026 - PodcastIt is not uncommon for board games to become a video game, one famous example is Dungeons and Dragons where the tabletop experience and adventure were ported to the PC to extend the universe. As it would turn out, quite a few games have been ported to the Board Game genre including titles such as Doom, Pac Man and Slay the Spire.
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Protecting Yourself from Router Attacks
Published: Friday, April 24, 2026 - PodcastRecently there have been changes to the import rules for routers due to prolific security issues that shouldn’t have been there to begin with. Of course, this issue is not new but there is finally a governmental regulation in place to minimize the risk.
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Latest Audio Trends and A Sound Solution Looking for A Problem
Published: Friday, April 10, 2026 - PodcastOver the past several years we have watched as the motherboard audio solution slowly started to become less advanced in favor of a two-port analog USB solution that nobody uses. Creative stepped up with the Audigy Fx Pro sound card as a solution but, does anyone want it?
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Podcast Machine Cooling Upgrades and One Strange Custom Keyboard
Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 - PodcastOne of the constants in the enthusiast PC world is that builds change and in this episode the duo discuss the recent cooling upgrades made to the Podcast and Stream Machine used in the Hardware Asylum Labs followed by an introduction to a new keyboard project for the cyberdeck build.
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Extreme Reader Mail Part 2 - Mystery Box
Published: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - PodcastWhile the Retro PC projects have slowed, we still get excited for when old hardware happens to show up. In this episode we do another blind unboxing of a Retro PC care package with some interesting hardware from motherboards to coolers.
