Gape the Tubby Nerd crew open the books and admit three noteworthy items of hardware to the PC Hardware Hall of Fame.

Join The Tubby Nerd for our 3nd annual PC Hardware Hall of Fame episode where we shriek about the supreme PC hardware of all time and which aspects can regain to composed be inducted.

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On this episode of The Tubby Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, Keith Would possibly maybe also neutral, and Adam Patrick Murray open up the books and admit noteworthy hardware into our officially unofficial PC Hall of Fame.

In past years, the Intel 8086/8088 processors, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics card, IBM Model M keyboard, 3DFX Voodoo graphics card, Raspberry Pi, and MLC NAND (as a stand-in for cheap SSDs) made the lower after a fierce debate. This year, every of us brought three more legendary picks to the table, prepared to plea and cajole as we whittled the distinctive field of 15 nominees down. It starts out elephantine of laughter and journeys down memory lane, then the grins gradually fade moreover-deserving parts delivery getting the axe. Manufacture obvious that to win the total assignment play out, however within the tip, finest three products arrange to change into our 2021 inductees in The Tubby Nerd’s PC Hardware Hall of Fame:

  • AMD’s Athlon Good adequate75 CPU, which won the speed to 1,000MHz. AMD’s K7-sequence of CPU marked a turning point for AMD where it had at closing beaten its bitter rival.
  • Ingenious Lab’s Sound Blaster 1.0 arguably ushered in mainstream PC audio, which had largely been a chain of beeps forward of.
  • Nvidia’s GeForce 256 additionally marked a turning point within the graphics cards wars, where Nvidia would largely dominate PC gaming for the next 22 years and counting. Here’s literally the graphics card that gave GPUs their name.

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