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Valve's Steam Machine: Dead on Arrival?

Episode 89: Valve has announced a new Steam Machine, which includes entry-level PC gaming hardware at an unknown price. We give our thoughts on whether this sounds any good and what prices would ma...

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AMD Driver Screw Up: Hurt Confidence and Poor Decision Making

Episode 88: AMD does AMD things.

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Microsoft Improves a Few Things
04:15 - AMD's Disastrous Driver Fumble
23:31 - What About Feature Support?
46...

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Intel CPUs Should Be $150

Episode 87: We revisit some discussion from last week as we've found more dodgy stuff Microsoft has done, before chatting about the current situation Intel is in with CPUs. They aren't anywhere nea...

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Live: October Supporter Stream

We are about to talk about stuff! Or you can watch the replay later

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Everything We Hate About Windows

Episode 86: You all told us what you hated about Windows 11, and we fully agreed. So in this episode we go through all our grievances with the current state of Windows.

CHAPTERS

00:00 -...

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Battlefield 6, Intel Nerfing 14900Ks, OC Features vs Grifters, Zen 6 on AM5 "Confirmed"

Episode 85: We chat about Battlefield 6 testing and explore the difficulties with testing one-click overclocking features in benchmarks, such as PBO and 200S Boost. We also discuss the latest Intel...

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Sorry, But APUs Suck for Gaming PCs

Episode 84: Tim and Steve respond to their internet crimes of using DLSS while testing and saying APUs suck. Then we chat more about Intel fixing B580 CPU overhead in some games, AMD's FSR 4 INT8 v...

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Nvidia Intel Team Up: No Impact to PC Gaming?

Episode 83: Intel and Nvidia have formed a partnership, but because APUs are not that relevant to desktop PC gamers, we discuss whether this deal will actually impact gaming significantly. Also, we...

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Live: September Stream

Join Steve and Tim as they discuss... well not sure, your questions and other things probably

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Borderlands 4 Poor Optimization, DLSS as a Crutch, Can it Be Fixed?

Episode 82: A quick update on the YouTube views situation, then into a Borderlands 4 discussion. What is the state of the game currently? What do we make of Randy Pitchford's comments? Is DLSS bein...

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Our Views Are Also Down... Why?

Episode 81: We're back! Lots to discuss in this video, including YouTube weirdness, the future of AMD and Intel's CPU platforms, the good old CPU core debate, upcoming GPU rumors and more.

CH...

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Help me get rid of some monitors (yet again)

Support Hardware Unboxed and take some monitors off our hands

Once again the monitor situation in my office is getting out of hand. This happens every year at about the same time as it turns ...

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August Live Stream!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgci_tHLf6s

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What time is best for a livestream?

Tim is away this month so Balin and I are going to do the livestream, probably Tomorrow (27th). We can do just about any hour of the day (our day), so what works best for the majority of you? Vote ...

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Ranking All Current GPUs from Worst to Best (2025 Edition)

Episode 80: It's that time of the year! We're ranking all the current graphics card models from worst to best, based on vibes. Always a very challenging task that brings up a lot of discussion so y...

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The Biggest Issues With the GPU Market (feat. Daniel Owen)

Episode 79: We chat with Daniel Owen about all sorts of stuff affecting PC gaming right now. His thoughts on the worst parts of the GPU market, plus opinions on upscaling and frame generation (incl...

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Live: July Supporter Stream

Come join us as we chat about all the latest topics and answer your burning questions

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Are We Too Negative About PC Gaming GPUs?

Episode 78: Steve gives an update about B850 testing, Tim talks about a new phone that he's bought, and then we chat about whether we've been too negative about the current state of PC graphics car...

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Should AMD Make A $200 Graphics Card?

Episode 77: We chat about future plans for this GPU generation, including the latest RTX 50 Super series rumors, the latest benchmarks of the RX 9070 GRE, and the potential for a lower cost RX 9060...

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Lack of Love for Mainstream GPU Buyers, 9070 XT FineWine and the RTX 5050

Episode 76: This week we give an update on the RX 9070 XT FineWine situation after some people called out Steve's testing. Also we look further into the mainstream GPU market, where typically buyer...

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GeForce RTX 5050 Graphs

Here are all the 1080p and 1440p graphs.

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Live: June Supporter Stream

We are live to talk about all sorts of news and things that have been happening. You can also use the above video to watch the replay later if you miss it

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BTS: Steve's Gym Part 2

Steve gives a second look at his gym now that more stuff has been done, and also talks about an AIO issue

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The Dodgy "RTX 5090" Laptop Situation (feat. Jarrod's Tech)

Episode 75: Jarrod from Jarrod's Tech joins us to talk about gaming laptops. We discuss the situation with horrible laptop GPU names, poor VRAM configurations, absurd pricing for higher tier models...

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The Future of QD-OLED Gaming Monitors & Cool Upcoming Products (feat. TFTCentral)

Episode 74: Simon from TFTCentral joins us at Computex to discuss everything we saw at the show, our favorite upcoming monitors, impressions from various products, the future of OLED monitors and m...

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High Bitrate 15 Month OLED Burn In Examples

To go along with our recently released 15 month OLED burn in update on Monitors Unboxed, here are the native high resolution, high bitrate versions for Patreon members which shows extra detail you ...

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Steve's Updates, June 2025

Steve gives a look at his studio and progress on his gym

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The RX 9060 XT Leaves Us With Mixed Opinions

Episode 73: Now that the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT is released and we have reviewed both models, we give some further thoughts on the 16GB card, the 8GB card, the weirdness around the launch (samples, ...

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Good vs Bad: AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT Launch

Episode 72: Live from Computex in Taipei, we discuss the latest in graphics cards, including how we managed to review the GeForce RTX 5060 from our hotel room, and what we think about the Radeon RX...

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Will AMD Make the RX 9060 XT Overpriced?

Episode 71: We chat about potential upcoming Intel Arc GPUs including the B770 and B580 24GB, discuss the RX 9060 XT and what AMD might do with pricing, and round out the chat with some discoverie...

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