魏建业
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4GB vs. 8GB: How Have VRAM Requirements Evolved?
A lot has been said about 8GB graphics cards over the past year, and much of that discussion was spa...
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4GHz CPU Battle: AMD 2nd
For the unaware, IPC (instructions per cycle) provides a good indicator of how fast a processor is a...
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Can You Build a Gaming PC for $500?
In a world where a decent graphics card can cost the same as a new cutting-edge console, you'd be fo...
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Building a Hackintosh with Quo's Any OS Motherboard
Apple famously transitioned away from PowerPC processors in favor of Intel's back in 2006. The move...
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WTF: 10 of the Weirdest Products Ever
First, a friendly disclaimer. This is not a holiday shopping list. If you were hoping to find someth...
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How to Save PDF Pages as JPG Images in Windows and macOS
If you want to neatly share PDF pages on social media without relying on ugly screenshots, you shoul...
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 3: Building the Chip
This is the third installment in our CPU design series. In Part 1, we covered computer architecture...
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Explainer: What is Chip Binning?
You just bought a new CPU or graphics card, and fired it up in your PC. It seems to run pretty cool,...
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Going Hands Free with GM's Super Cruise
It used to be a regular understanding that "going hands-free" in a car, related to sending and recei...
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Not Intel, Not AMD: Alternative CPU Architectures from Around the World
It's easy to think of the desktop CPU space as a duopoly: on the one hand you have Intel finally tra...
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10 Most Memorable Fictional Technologies
Science fiction books, movies, games, TV shows and other media have long been home to amazing techno...
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Five Experimental Chrome Settings Worth Enabling
Similar to the "Labs" section of Gmail, Google has a hidden list of experimental features that you c...