黄嘉千
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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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Why Do Image Files Need Different Formats?
Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an ima...
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Anatomy of a Mouse
We've all seen and used them at home, school, and work. Computer mice are often inexpensive and basi...
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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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Then and Now: How 30 Years of Progress Have Changed PCs
The humble personal computer has been a part of our lives, directly or indirectly, for nearly five d...
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Use Your Gaming Laptop and Play On Battery Power? Is It Possible?
Today we are investigating two commonly asked questions about gaming laptops: what's the performance...
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30 Years of Civilization
"Just one more turn," an expression that's become synonymous with the game Civilization. It's a feel...
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 + Radeon RX 6800: Tested at 1080p, 1440p and 4K
Recently we took a look at how well the Ryzen 5 3600 performed in games when paired with the GeForce...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 2: Insane Graphics Card Prices
We're hardly two weeks into 2018 and it's been a wild ride for the tech industry already (CES notwit...
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The Ultimate 44 Used Graphics Card Pricing & Benchmark Guide
Along with our recent editorials on why it's a bad time to build a gaming PC (not least because of o...
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What Ever Happened to The Million Dollar Homepage?
What are pixels? The display on your screen is made of them, and raster image file formats have been...
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Why GPUs are the New Kings of Cache. Explained.
It wasn't that far back that if you wanted a processor with tons of cache buried inside it, then CPU...