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When SSD Performance Goes Awry
An unfortunate tale about Samsung's SSD 840 read performance degradationAn avalanche of reports emer...
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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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CPU and GPU Availability and Pricing Update: May 2021
Here's our monthly update looking into the current state of the CPU and graphics card markets. The g...
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Against All Odds: How Nintendo Made It
Ask your oldest relative – the one who still thinks smartphones work through witchcraft – to name on...
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The Rise and Fall of Multi
When it comes to graphics cards, more is nearly always better. More shaders, more RAM, more bandwidt...
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The Science of Keeping It Cool
Almost every single piece of modern electronics generates heat whether we notice it or not. Without...
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Xbox One: Entertainment Hub First, Gaming Console Second
Microsoft may have been the last of the major console makers to announce their next generation syste...
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Then and Now: 5 Generations of Radeon Graphics Compared
Last month we compared half a decade's worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce cards in the latest and g...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Solid State Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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Inside the Murky Process of Getting Games on Steam
These days, it seems like Valve will let just about anything on Steam. Programs like Greenlight and...
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Revisiting 8
Game systems from the 8-bit and 16-bit era weren't exactly the graphical powerhouses that modern con...
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Ryzen 5 3600 vs. 3600X: Which should you buy?
We were among the first publications to review the Ryzen 5 3600 and at $200 we found the 6-core, 12-...