This Week in Computer Hardware (Audio)

by TWiT
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Tech News #80

If you obsess about the details inside computers then on This Week in Computer Hardware, you'll find out the latest in motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, storage, RAM, power supplies, input devices, and monitors. Hosts Patrick Norton of TekThing and Sebastian Peak of PC Perspective bring you the newest hardware, talk benchmarks, and even dive into the not-yet-released products on the horizon.Although this show is no longer in production, you can enjoy past episodes in the TWiT Archives.

Recent Episodes
  • TWiCH 558: Console Spec-tacular! - Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X Specs!!!
    Mar 19, 2020 – 56:05
  • TWiCH 557: Some Sound Advice For Your Desktop - Intel big.LITTLE CPUs and more Coronavirus Drama!!!
    Mar 12, 2020 – 59:31
  • TWiCH 556: Fashion-Forward Fabric Fanless PC Cases! - AMD Ryzen 3 Update, MicroLEDs for Next Gen Macbooks!
    Mar 5, 2020 – 56:34
  • TWiCH 555: Coronavirus, HyperX, and Qi Charging - HyperX Cloud Flight S headset & Samsung T7 Touch SSD
    Feb 27, 2020 – 1:18:44
  • TWiCH 554: Is Your Mouse a Security Risk? - Drop ALT Keyboard, Mid Price GPU Picks
    Feb 20, 2020 – 1:16:35
  • TWiCH 553: MWC: Mobile World Cancelled - Sprint T-Mobile Merger Approved, Mobile World Congress Cancelled!
    Feb 13, 2020 – 50:44
  • TWiCH 552: Time to Build That New Desktop... Now! - RAM Prices Going Up, Best Bargain CPU!
    Feb 6, 2020 – 51:48
  • TWiCH 551: AMD Ca$he$ In, Intel Caches Out - Apple's Biggest Quarter Ever, Corsair's New Air Cooler!
    Jan 30, 2020 – 1:24:25
  • TWiCH 550: BIOS Updates: Boost It or Brick It? - AMD RX 5600 XT Beats NVIDIA RTX 2060
    Jan 23, 2020 – 1:01:07
  • TWiCH 549: Big Navi and the Ice Lake Fail - Ice Lake Slower than Comet Lake? New AMD Flagship GPU!
    Jan 16, 2020 – 1:06:39
  • TWiCH 548: CES 2020: Ryzen 4000 Mobile and a $4000 CPU! - CES 2020: Gaming Monitors & 7nm Ryzen Laptop CPUS!
    Jan 9, 2020 – 1:15:10
  • TWiCH 547: Dell XPS 13 9300 & a 6-Core CPU for $85 - Dell XPS 13 9300, AMD's stock, & ThinkPad T490S
    Jan 2, 2020 – 38:25
  • TWiCH 546: TWiCH Rewind: 2019's Biggest Stories in Hardware - From AMD to Intel, 2019 was a crazy year for hardware!
    Dec 26, 2019 – 1:18:03
  • TWiCH 545: Your Phone is a !$@*%# Spy! - Snapdragon 865 Benchmarks, Apple Repairability Win!
    Dec 19, 2019 – 55:12
  • TWiCH 544: The 1080p GPU to Beat! - RX 5500XT, Intel's Ridiculous Roadmap
    Dec 12, 2019 – 47:30
  • TWiCH 543: Intel is NOT Extreme - Intel I9-10980XE EXTREME EDITION, Snapdragon 865
    Dec 5, 2019 – 42:49
  • TWiCH 542: Google Stadia: Meh. - Google Stadia, Intel 10K CPUs!
    Nov 21, 2019 – 1:07:30
  • TWiCH 541: AMD 3950X Benchmarks, MacBook Pro Goes 16-inch, & the Razr is Back - MacBook Pro 16-inch, AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Benchmarked!
    Nov 14, 2019 – 1:10:25
  • TWiCH 540: AMD's Massive Multicore Mayhem - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X & 3970X announced!
    Nov 7, 2019 – 1:03:36
  • TWiCH 539: Intel Core i9-9900KS: Victory or Defeat? - Intel's Core i9-9900KS & NVIDIA's GTX 1660 SUPER
    Oct 31, 2019 – 1:02:59
  • TWiCH 538: Ryzen 9 Spanks Intel Core i9! - Ryzen 9 3950X, Samsung Exynos 990!!!
    Oct 24, 2019 – 1:01:24
  • TWiCH 537: Did Intel Just Kill 10nm Desktops? - Google Pixel 4, Huawei's sales growth, & the Phanteks Eclipse P400A case
    Oct 17, 2019 – 48:29
  • TWiCH 536: Blue Light Special: Intel CPUs Now Half Off! - Intel's cheap chips & Microsoft's Surface Duo!
    Oct 3, 2019 – 50:40
  • TWiCH 535: Not So Good News About CPUs - Amazon Echo Frames, CPU Shortage?
    Sep 26, 2019 – 55:34
  • TWiCH 534: AMD's EPYC CPU & Gaming on Intel's Ice Lake - The 1st CPU to encode real-time 8K HEVC video
    Sep 19, 2019 – 1:05:05
  • TWiCH 533: The iPhone Goes Pro - iPhone 11 Pro & a THICC RX 5700 XT
    Sep 12, 2019 – 1:02:45
  • TWiCH 532: Mobile Intel Icelake Gaming and a Big Ryzen Update! - Intel Icelake: Laptop Gaming Gets Better!
    Sep 5, 2019 – 1:09:15
  • TWiCH 531: Approaching Shrout's Law - SSD Prices Falling, Ryzen 3600X In-Depth
    Aug 29, 2019 – 1:31:27
  • TWiCH 530: 10th-Gen Intel CPUs & Minecraft RTX - Intel 10th-Gen mobile CPUs, Minecraft gets ray tracing!
    Aug 22, 2019 – 1:00:50
  • TWiCH 529: The Reversing PSU Fan "Sucks" - Custom Liquid Cooling And a Tiny Sega Genesis!!!
    Aug 15, 2019 – 59:09
  • TWiCH 528: AMD EPYC 7002: This Changes Everything - AMD EPYC 7002, Samsung Galaxy Note 10
    Aug 8, 2019 – 1:03:08
  • TWiCH 527: Intel's Ice Lake Gets The Cold Shoulder - Ice Lake Underwhelms, Fake Nvidia Super GPUs???
    Aug 1, 2019 – 49:14
  • TWiCH 526: Nvidia RTX 2080 Super??? Not Really - NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER review, Samsung Galaxy Fold release date, low voltage= low performance?
    Jul 25, 2019 – 1:04:41
  • TWiCH 525: Has Radeon VII Gone to Radeon Heaven? - Radeon VII EOL??? Radeon 3000 Updates!
    Jul 18, 2019 – 57:44
  • TWiCH 524: AMD Launch Eats Intel's Lunch - Hey, Listen! Navi performance impresses.
    Jul 11, 2019 – 1:31:12
  • TWiCH 523: Raspberry Pi 4 the Win! - Raspberry Pi 4, Display Port 2.0 Spec!
    Jun 27, 2019 – 54:41
  • TWiCH 522: Intel Performance Maximizer, MacBook Pro Recall, & Price Hikes Coming - PCI Express 6.0 announced, Intel Performance Maximizer tested
    Jun 20, 2019 – 48:16
  • TWiCH 521: Did Intel Just Get Stomped by AMD? - Ryzen 9 3950X crushes Intel Core i9!
    Jun 13, 2019 – 1:19:01
  • TWiCH 520: Stadia: Spend Even More Money on Gaming - Stadia Gaming & an Epic Mac Pro!!!
    Jun 6, 2019 – 1:33:43
  • TWiCH 519: Ryzen 3000 and Zombieload's Impact - Computex News! AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs & 5700 Series GPUs!
    May 30, 2019 – 1:05:55
  • TWiCH 518: Antitrust Pain, AMD GPUs, Cheap Gaming, and Cheaper Tablets! - New AMD NAVI GPUs - Qualcomm Antitrust Fight!
    May 23, 2019 – 1:00:35
  • TWiCH 517: Time To Patch Your Intel CPU. Again - ZombieLoad, Lenovo's folding ThinkPad laptop, HP's dual screen gaming laptop.
    May 16, 2019 – 52:40
  • TWiCH 516: Pixel 3a: 3.5mm of Headphone Heaven! - Lenovo IdeaPad S940, Pixel 3a, Google's New Nest!
    May 9, 2019 – 57:27
  • TWiCH 515: Samsung's Vertical reality...and VR Headsets! - Intel Optane Memory H10 and a vertical TV
    May 2, 2019 – 1:03:06
  • TWiCH 514: Nvidia 1650? Meh. 50 new Intel CPUs!
    Apr 25, 2019 – 53:55
  • TWiCH 513: Samsung Folding Phones: You're Doing It Wrong!!! - Samsung Folding Phones, Apple vs. Qualcomm is Over!
    Apr 18, 2019 – 47:44
  • TWiCH 512: NVIDIA Brings Ray Tracing to the Masses - NVIDIA GTX Ray tracing Drivers, SSD Picks!
    Apr 11, 2019 – 1:01:45
  • TWiCH 511: Intel's 56-Core CPU and a Couple of Gorgeous Cases! - Intel's New 56-Core CPU!
    Apr 4, 2019 – 1:09:49
  • TWiCH 510: Will Apple Ever Fix the MacBook Keyboards? - Ryzen CPU Bargains, ASUS Quad-DAC Gaming Headset
    Mar 28, 2019 – 1:23:45
  • TWiCH 509: Streaming with Bated Breath - Google's Stadia, Razer Basilisk Essential
    Mar 21, 2019 – 1:14:40
Recent Reviews
  • jackback52
    Sounds like they were cancelled
    Hope not, one of my fav podcasts!
  • LockSteps
    Patrick Norton is a Legend.
    Quit hating. What’s wrong with saying “um” or “ya know” anyway? I’m serious. Have you critics ever asked yourself that question? Is it because you were told to abhor it in some TEDtalk or during an NPR interview? Norton’s been around the block (ever heard of TechTV?) and knows what he’s doing. I’d much rather listen to a show that doesn’t take itself so seriously and actually has personality even if it comes at the cost of lacking oratorical polish.
  • klaatu_barada_nikto_3
    Poser’s
    A couple of poser’s who don’t really know anything about hardware beyond what they parrot from popular tech sites. How Patrick is allowed to host any podcast is baffling. He can’t finish a sentence without saying “um” or “ya know”. Total trash cast.
  • TracerX-1
    Great show. Wish “ya know” was edited out
    Really good content. Though I have to listen in small segments, as I counted over 30 times the host has said “ya know” in just 2 min. It can be very distracting, but hopefully will improve over time
  • Bruiser350
    Awesome podcast
    I love the podcast. It keeps me well informed on all things computers without having to massive amount of research. It has brought me back into the PC gaming realm and I've since, stopped playing my PS4 and hotheaded my PC to be able to game on it. Thanks for all the great information and I'm looking forward to future episodes.
  • Alex Balls Deep
    Okay
    There is some decent commentary in this podcast, but it's pretty cheesy and kind of low rent. And I don't know what this says about me, but the dude on here saying "Oh my goodness" constantly is unbelievably annoying. He says it in lieu of a pause or 'um' constantly and finishes sentences consisting of very banal topics with "oh my goodness" for no reason whatsoever. Whichever one you are, can you please tone this down? Or at least edit it out. I haven't counted, but I would guess I hear it about 15-20 times per show.
  • LJ.Scott
    Another great Twit podcast
    Great show, but if Patrick says "oh my goodness" one more time I might unsubscribe. J/k...kinda.
  • Mike12045
    The Best
    One of my favorite podcasts.
  • RalphPA
    Going Down Hill...
    …Mostly because Patrick Norton can’t keep his mouth shut. He has always gone on but his ramblings are getting worse. Maybe he is spending too much time around Leo. The TWIT formula is to have a host and subject matter experts. People listen to hear the subject matter experts not the host! The best is Scott Wilkinson and Padre SJ is pretty darn good also. Leo can do well when he wants to (or has to like with Steve Gibson) but also goes on in some shows. Patrick has got to be the worst.
  • Lemmmer
    I am a dork, so, yep - great show
    If it were a humanoid, I would let my daughter date it.
  • Dano Spumoni
    Been listening for several months love the show
    This show is quality. When I need in depth info about the state of consumer technology this is the show I listen to. Keep it up guys!
  • Ophiuchi
    Outstanding
    If you love to learn about computer hardware. This is the show to listen too.
  • Axecock
    Great podcast
    This podcast is fantastic, but it has not updated since 11/16/12. I'm not sure why, but I hope it is fixed soon. I always look forward to the next episode.
  • Josh McRae
    Big fan of the show
    This is a great podcast, every week I enjoy listening in as an easy way to keep current with upcoming hardware news. Recently I had someone ask me how they could learn more about building a PC an this was the direction I pointed them in.
  • Gary Byers
    Awesome Shoe
    Looking to build my first gaming pc..Lots of great info. Very knowledgable hosts...
  • Pen is Mightier
    Hugely improved but...
    The lack of chemistry is apparent. Things like that usually take time.
  • j44557
    Just remove one thing!
    Love everything about this podcast except...Patrick Norton. Replacing him with a less obnoxious host would make this podcast so much better!
  • beerdoodle
    I would give no stars
    If you want a podcast about computer hardware then listen to Ryan Shrout's other and much better podcast, the PC Perspective podcast. It is more intelligent, informative and has smarter, less cheesy co-hosts that aren't Patrick Norton.
  • Brisa117
    Love it!
    Love the show. Such great information. Sometimes it's just a recap of what happens on the PC Per show, but I love Patrick's input. I also love that every time I've emailed a question in, it's actually been answered! Would recommend to anyone that loves tech.
  • EmbraceNext
    Best podcast on twit network.
    Patrick saves this podcast and makes it so awesome!
  • unarmed apple purveyor
    Good enough
    Both hosts could work on their presentation skills, but there's no denying their knowledge on the topic. Would be great if Patrick Norton stoppe punctuating EVERY sentence with a chuckle/grunt/snort/laugh, tho.
  • SomeGuy27
    Great show
    I really like this show. I like this show because it has a good amount of interesting news, topics, and opinions. Thanks guys keep it up.
  • savoytruffle
    Very interesting but hosts grate
    This is a really interesting very technical podcast, and very fair regarding various platforms and vendors. The main host is very pleasant and knowledgeable. The second host (Patrick something?) gets annoying fast because he's mainly laughing or blowing in the microphone at his own dumb jokes.
  • Aeolyn5601
    Awesome
    Great show. Ryan and Patrick make a great team and the show is very informative
  • Carl20236
    Outstanding Info!
    If you have any questions about what kind of hardware to buy to upgrade your computer...look no further. Thank you for all your hardwork!!!
  • Pfkninenines
    Very informative, a great TWiT production
    Look forward to listening each week
  • Smart ASSets Ink
    Outstanding Podcast
    This is my favorite computer podcast by far. Ryan is an excellent host who tells it like it is and the show is even better with the addittion of Patrick Norton. I am not a gamer but I do like to stay on top of the latest hardware out there and these guys help me do it. Give them five minutes and you will be hooked too!
  • BadNewsAaron
    So long Colleen!
    Only two shows left with Colleen on and I have to say the show will be much improved once she is gone. Other than her, this is a fabulous podcast.
  • Leo Laport
    Punch a puppy face!
    Please replace colleen with Patrick Norton, or get Leo back! Her obnoxious personality and "I'm so smart" attitude makes me want to punch a puppy in the face! Don't get me wrong, I like this pod-cast when colleen is not on here! Ryan Shrout is a very good host and can carry a discusion when there isn't a nag that cuts him off...
  • OverShocked
    Good podcast
    But coleen must go
  • Gfishers
    Please no more Colleen!!!!!
    Colleen, has no business being onthis show... For weeks I have not heard a single constructive comment from her. She may a good lady, but a radio host she is not.
  • Tech Hound
    Love the show but........
    Ryan is a great host when given the chance and not interrupted by Colleen. Sometimes I wonder who is hosting this show? Ryan is a professional and is polite not to make a big deal out of it but I wonder if internally is he getting frustrated? Colleen is very intelligent but not suited to host this show, in my opinion. Personally, I've stopped listening to this show and that's a shame because Ryan has a wealth of knowledge that I'm missing out on. I hope to return to this show if and when Leo hosts again. On a positive note I love the Twit Network and wish Leo and staff all the best!
  • Ritzie125
    I like it but...
    Colleen can be contadictory and bothersome. Also, I think that most of your demographic is the 'pc gamer' so don't worry about 'overdoing' that.
  • Lablatz
    Please no more Colleen.
    I'd give it 5 stars if it wasn't for her.
  • jay.jirsak
    Warning! Oncoming fail detected...
    I completely agree with the previous poster. Colleen must go. Ryan is the host, but with Colleen on air, you wouldn't know it. If Leo is unavailable, do an interview maybe?? This was becoming one of my favorite podcasts on the TWIT network, but if the trend of having an over-bearing 'cohost' continues, I'll have to stop listening. Please, please, please Leo, avert this potential fail!!! Ryan is a competent and capable host, let him do his thing.
  • real_metagamerx
    Colleen = Fail
    90% Awesome episode was a disaster. Colleen talks over your co-host. Pulls him off topic, and just makes for an all around hard to listen episode. Keep her behind the controls, where she belongs.
  • Bo!nk
    Great podcast
    I miss techtv, Leos the man !
  • Al Davenport
    I can't believe this! I actually like this as much as Security Now!
    This is great. Very informed Ryan is an absolute pro. Although (sorry Leo!) he is constantly interrupted by Leo. Some interruptions are fine because Leo is asking questions on behalf of the listener at times, but Ryan should be allowed to completely voice his thoughts without SO MANY interruptions! I love the TWiT network. This could easily become my favorite podcast! A GREAT addition to the network!!
  • RaincoatHermit
    Misleading
    Dissapointing.... just another Leo Laporte show....He is clearly the host and struggles to stay on topic as usual.
  • Marcelo.si
    Best hardware podcast
    Every podcast from Twit production is the best and this one is no exception
  • 9086532776545
    AWESOME!! INSPIERING!!
    I am a teenager who love the elctronic world and how and why it works, this is an amazing podcast as well as an inspiering!! All should listen to TWICH daily! Whether you are an expert of some one like me, anyone can enjoy and learn from TWICH
  • RB421
    One of Twit.tv's best
    TWICH is an excellent tech based podcast. While TWIT is now almost a pure social media/comedy podcast, TWICH is filled with computer hardware news and explanations of new technology. Highly recommended for those looking for substance in their podcasts.
  • ennaiDAdnil
    Outstanding Personel and Content
    Ryan geeks each week so the less geek can understand. Twich is informative and understandable. Ryan's style is perfect for this difficult subject and he could be the heir to Leo at TWIT.
  • vigile
    Best information on computer hardware
    And on a weekly basis - just like the title says. Great show!
  • Twitch356
    TWIT does it again
    Long time TWIT listener. I subscribe to all of the other podcasts by Leo and was looking for a good hardware podcast when I stumbled upon this one. I'm delighted there is a computer hardware podcast that lives up to the same quality all of his other podcasts have.
  • malventano
    I love it!
    But hey, I'm only slightly biased :)
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