News This Year's Best April Fool's PC Hardware Hoaxes: Retro, Razer Razors, and Bladeless PC Fans

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We round up the best PC hardware hoaxes for April Fool's Day 2023.

This Year's Best April Fool's PC Hardware Hoaxes: Retro, Razer Razors, and Bladeless PC Fans : Read more

 

[Exploding PSU]

I know it's AI-rendered and all, but can't help but find that NZXT GPU design to be rather... interesting. I don't know, I'm a sucker for simple, angular designs.

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

The zero wings fan might not be as ridiculous as it first sounds, considering the MIT has already built a plane with no moving parts: MIT ion plane has no moving parts, doesn't need an engine to fly | CNN
Applying that technology in computers is going to be a challenge, though.

 

[taz-nz]

Those fans are no less function than the ones found at the front of many tempered glass cases, when there is only 2-3mm between the fan and a solid plate of glass, the fan isn't doing anything but looking pretty.

 

[BillyBuerger]

The NZXT and Silverstone things both seem more like they're seeing if people will bite on the idea more than being an April fools. Noctua already has their fans and style on a GPU, not a stretch for another company to do something similar working with an existing GPU company. The render looks nicer than many GPUs out there anyways. And the Silverstone case could totally work as a retro style system. Not sure they'd sell a lot but I could see some people posting their build in something like that. I would definitely take notice to that compared to yet another windowed RGB case.

 

[Phaaze88]

The be quiet fan really tickled me.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

The yellowing case is 😃

 

[greenreaper]

The be quiet fan really tickled me.

It makes sense - you want to be able to direct the air where it's needed. Fewer moving parts will increase reliability. Plus you could string extra RGB through the middle!

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

3DFX re-enters the GPU market, shows off an RTX4090-killer with 30GB of VRAM at $1000

Wish this was true though !

3DFX re-enters the GPU market, shows off an RTX4090-killer with 30GB of VRAM at $1000 (dsogaming.com)

 

[who_farted]

i look forward to april first every year. reminds me why i became involved with pcs in the first place. its a good alternative to dealing with alot of the politics and social issues we see everyday...to which u have to pick a side and either way you can't make everyone happy.

 

[jkflipflop98]

I guess I'm the only one that really likes the idea of putting a Raptor Lake + RTX4090 in a beige case that looks like it should have a 33MHz "turbo" button on the front? Yeah?

I'll see myself out. . .

 

[bloodroses]

I kind of like the Silverstone case april fools. Just make the case a little smaller than their render and you could build a neat retro system running DOSBox and PCem.

As for the BeQuiet joke fan, maybe they should talk to Dyson to make it a reality...lol

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok I can't be the only one that would totally buy that Silverstone case. Heck I'd preorder it and I never preorder ANYTHING.

 

[spongiemaster]

I guess I'm the only one that really likes the idea of putting a Raptor Lake + RTX4090 in a beige case that looks like it should have a 33MHz "turbo" button on the front? Yeah?

I'll see myself out. . .

You aren't. I'm a bit disappointed that isn't a real product. I'm surprised no one has released a retro case like that yet. I bet it would sell decently.

 

[_dawn_chorus_]

The NZXT and Silverstone things both seem more like they're seeing if people will bite on the idea more than being an April fools. Noctua already has their fans and style on a GPU, not a stretch for another company to do something similar working with an existing GPU company. The render looks nicer than many GPUs out there anyways. And the Silverstone case could totally work as a retro style system. Not sure they'd sell a lot but I could see some people posting their build in something like that. I would definitely take notice to that compared to yet another windowed RGB case.

Yeah the ASUS steam deck one also seems like that, especially given they put up a pre-order page.

 

[Orras]

The Asus one is not an April fools. It totally exists and it looks and feels very nice.

 

[velocityg4]

In an overcrowded case market. I think that Silverstone would stand out and do better than most cases. Especially given the growth in popularity of retro computing.

The 80's to early 90's had some really great cases. They generally got really bad in the mid to late 90's. When PC manufacturers cut every corner in the race to the bottom. The 80's had more money spent on building cases. Yea, there was a lot of junk. But there were some really interesting looking computers.

 

[thisisaname]

The best April fools joke, that would be the price of GPUs, but only if you think it is April 1st all year round

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Ok I can't be the only one that would totally buy that Silverstone case. Heck I'd preorder it and I never preorder ANYTHING.

I love that it’s yellowing, everyone used to smoke in the old days near the computers and they all were yellow from it. Lol.

 

[cyrusfox]

ROG Ally handheld isn't a gag... Twitter link today on it
Just poor product announcment timing, or maybe done on purpose to generate more buzz 🤷‍♂️

 

[Elusive Ruse]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLZxyv79Oo

 

[bigdragon]

MSI and Gigabyte seem to have a handle on what makes a good April Fools joke. Those are some clearly ridiculous, yet marketable, fake products.

NZXT and Silverstone seem confused. They teased what look like legit products that people would really and eagerly buy. NZXT's GPU looks clean, sleek, and in a color that's always hard to find. No RBG gamer crap -- just a solid design. Love it! Silverstone could be on to something marketable with retro-looking cases that support modern hardware.

Asus though... what were they thinking? Why launch a real product on April Fools Day? The design and specs look good. Where's the fool here? Maybe it's in the price, reliability, or battery life. Asus does have a knack for pricing themselves out of the market.

 

[spongiemaster]

MSI and Gigabyte seem to have a handle on what makes a good April Fools joke. Those are some clearly ridiculous, yet marketable, fake products.

Though any normal person would consider an energy drink targeted at gamers ridiculous, there is an already existing market of these products for sale, so I didn't see the humor in that one at all, nor do I think it is ridiculous.

 

[dotpoz]

The zero wings fan might not be as ridiculous as it first sounds, considering the MIT has already built a plane with no moving parts: MIT ion plane has no moving parts, doesn't need an engine to fly | CNN
Applying that technology in computers is going to be a challenge, though.

well, this is not zero fan but is hidden smaller fan

View: https://youtu.be/gcx2mAu4NjY