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Weird Keyboard Layouts: A Showcase
There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest...
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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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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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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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The State of PC Gaming in 2019
Sometimes, as borders erode, new fissures form in their wake. In 2019, more games flowed between PC...
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Pairing CPUs and GPUs: PC Upgrades and Bottlenecking
How bad is bottlenecking these days? Well, that all depends on how bad you are at pairing hardware....
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Anatomy of a Graphics Card
Almost every desktop PC has one. They have billions of transistors, can use hundreds of watts of pow...
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The Biggest Tech Fails of the Last Decade
Any organization, be it a multi-billion-dollar corporate behemoth or lowly startup, can launch a hyp...
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Impact of Temperature on Intel CPU Performance
If you're looking for authoritative information on how much cooling is enough for your CPU, you'll b...
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The State of PC Gaming in 2015
Unlike the other gaming platforms we've been evaluating here at the end of the year, the PC's been a...
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17 Years of Far Cry
The video game landscape is filled with long-running first-person shooter franchises, from the incre...
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Improve Windows Start Menu's Search or Simply Install a Better Replacement
Although the Start menu is supposed to be the fastest way to find local files, software and settings...