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Productivity on a $200 Chromebook, Coming From an Enthusiast Desktop
There's no denying that a desktop PC is the ideal place to handle a heavy productivity session. That...
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How Blizzard Saved Diablo III From Disaster
This is an excerpt from Jason Schreier's upcoming book, "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels," which comes out...
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S3 Graphics: Gone But Not Forgotten
These days, it's rare to see a new hardware company break ground in the world of PCs. However, 30 ye...
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We Bought the Cheapest DDR5 RAM Modules We Could Find, Are They Any Good?
For this article we're doing something simple: find the cheapest DDR5 RAM we could get our hands on,...
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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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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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Rob's Alder Lake Windows 11 Rig Build Log
Here's a confession: I haven't built a PC from scratch in almost a decade. Sure, I've replaced RAM,...
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Long Live the Mouse and Keyboard, a Great Way to Control Video Games
For years, I only played PC games with a mouse and keyboard. For years after that, I played almost e...
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FreeSync vs. G
Adaptive sync display technologies from Nvidia and AMD have been on the market for a few years now,...
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Overclocking Intel Non
We're revisiting Intel's locked Alder Lake CPUs with a special sneak peak of an upcoming MSI motherb...
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The One Thing Next
The PS4, Xbox One and Wii U are all very different consoles, but there's one thing I wish all three...
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Intellivision: Gone But Not Forgotten
One day in 1979, during Christmas break, I sneaked into my parents' bedroom while they were away, ho...