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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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Reasons to Upgrade Your Laptop (That Go Beyond a Performance Upgrade)
It used to be that buying a new laptop every few years was more or less necessary just to keep up wi...
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FreeSync on Nvidia GPUs Revisited
Earlier this year we put Nvidia's support for FreeSync monitors to the test, grabbed every FreeSync...
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Is the Ryzen 3 3300X Better Value than the Ryzen 5 3600?
Today we're revisiting AMD's budget-oriented Ryzen 3 3300X. This Ryzen 3 CPU thoroughly impressed us...
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2016's $170 GPU vs. 2019's $170 GPUs
Today we're going to review the sub-$200 graphics card market and see how it compares to what we wer...
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Amazon Prime Shipping: A Cost Analysis
Amazon pioneered the idea of expedited shipping of online purchases with the launch of Amazon Prime...
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What's New in DirectX 12? Understanding DirectML, DirectX Raytracing and DirectStorage
DirectX has been with us for 25 years, providing developers with the tools to make incredible games....
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How CPUs are Designed and Built
We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is goi...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 3: Bad Timing
In the first part of this series we looked at DDR4 memory, discussed pricing and availability, and s...
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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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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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CPU Price Watch: 9900K Incoming, Ryzen Cuts
Later this week we'll finally be able to publish our benchmarks for Intel's new 8-core CPUs like the...