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The Elephantine Nerd ep. 191: third annual PC Hardware Hall of Reputation

Survey the Elephantine Nerd crew initiate the books and admit three necessary objects of hardware to the PC Hardware Hall of Reputation.

Join The Elephantine Nerd for our 3nd annual PC Hardware Hall of Reputation episode the assign we talk about the one PC hardware of all time and which formulation needs to be inducted.

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On this episode of The Elephantine Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, Keith Might perchance perchance perchance also, and Adam Patrick Murray initiate up the books and admit necessary hardware into our officially unofficial PC Hall of Reputation.

In past years, the Intel 8086/8088 processors, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics card, IBM Mannequin M keyboard, 3DFX Voodoo graphics card, Raspberry Pi, and MLC NAND (as a stand-in for inside of your potential SSDs) made the lower after a fierce debate. This twelve months, every of us brought three extra legendary picks to the table, ready to plea and cajole as we whittled the unusual area of 15 nominees down. It begins out paunchy of laughter and journeys down reminiscence lane, then the grins step by step go as smartly-deserving formulation initiate getting the axe. Ensure to hunt for the total job play out, but within the quit, handiest three products arrange to turn out to be our 2021 inductees in The Elephantine Nerd’s PC Hardware Hall of Reputation:

  • AMD’s Athlon Ok75 CPU, which won the scurry to 1,000MHz. AMD’s K7-series of CPU marked a turning point for AMD the assign it had lastly crushed its bitter rival.
  • Creative Lab’s Sound Blaster 1.0 arguably ushered in mainstream PC audio, which had basically been a series of beeps sooner than.
  • Nvidia’s GeForce 256 moreover marked a turning point within the graphics cards wars, the assign Nvidia would largely dominate PC gaming for the next 22 years and counting. This is literally the graphics card that gave GPUs their title.

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