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How CPUs are Designed and Built, Part 2: CPU Design Process
Now that we know how processors work at a high level, it's time to dig inside to understand how the...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Lighting and Shadows
The vast majority of visual effects you see in games today depend on the clever use of lighting and...
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The Best Strategy Games on PC
The PC is home to just about every type of video game under the sun, but few are as quintessentially...
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The Unexpected Success of No Man's Sky
Sean Murray, lead developer of the planetary exploration game No Man's Sky, doesn't want to dwell on...
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2016's $400 GPU vs. 2019's $400 GPUs
Something we've been hearing a lot this year is that PC gaming is not in great shape, how there's a...
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Battlefield V DLSS Tested: Overpromised, Underdelivered
Nvidia's deep learning super sampling, or DLSS, is one of the highly anticipated features present on...
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4GHz CPU Battle: Ryzen 3900X vs. 3700X vs. Core i9
IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and it can be a good indicator of a processor's architecture...
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Anatomy of a Motherboard
You might have a desktop PC at work, school, or home. You might use one to work out tax returns or p...
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Anatomy of a Monitor
You're looking at one right now. It might be sitting on a desk, stuck on a wall, or cradled in your...
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Three Apps to Combine All Your Messaging Clients Into One
Instant messaging is an increasingly competitive market and despite your best efforts to keep it sim...
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Ryzen 5 2600X vs. 2600: Which should you buy?
If you've got some $200 to spend on a new CPU and you want something that can handle any and all tas...
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Should You Buy a Sound Card? An Enthusiast's Perspective
I've been on the fence about buying a discrete sound card since building my first PC in 2002. The eq...