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Explainer: What is an API?
Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even usedthem before, but...
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 4: Where is Computer Architecture and Design Headed?
Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades taking place with each new generation, proc...
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Sustainable Computing, Explained
When it comes to the topic of greenhouse gas emissions, the traditional culprits usually fall under...
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Optogenetics: A Virtual Reality System for Controlling Living Cells
Our brains communicate with electrical and chemical signaling, but scientists have discovered that l...
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8 Years Later: Does the GeForce GTX 580 Still Have Game in 2018?
Today we're turning our clocks all the way back to November 2010 to revisit the once mighty GeForce...
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A Year Later, You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free
Although Microsoft concluded its free Windows 10 upgrade program on July 29, 2016, the company has y...
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25 Years Later: A Brief Analysis of GPU Processing Efficiency
The first 3D graphics cards appeared 25 years ago and since then their power and complexity have gro...
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Screen Tearing or Input Lag? To Vsync or Not to Vsync?
Screen tear or input lag? To vsync or not to vsync? For the longest time, this was an either-or ques...
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Building a Small Form Factor Gaming System with the Silverstone Sugo SG10 and Haswell Hardware
For years now we've had the ability to take a compact Micro ATX motherboard along with a high-end GP...
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The Worst CPU & GPU Purchases of 2018
If you want to know what graphics card you should buy or what's the best CPU for your new rig, we've...
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DisplayPort vs HDMI: What's Best for High Refresh Rate Gaming?
Modern graphics cards and monitors usually offer two port options for connecting them together: Disp...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Anti
The 3D games we play and love are all made up of thousands, if not millions, of colored straight lin...