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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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Patched Desktop PC: Meltdown & Spectre Benchmarked
Following up to our initial testing of the Meltdown patch for Windows 10, today we're looking deeper...
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How to: Taking Pictures of PCBs
I've been taking pictures of circuits as part of the (now defunct) Omzlo One Kickstarter and the new...
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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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S3 Graphics: Gone But Not Forgotten
These days, it's rare to see a new hardware company break ground in the world of PCs. However, 30 ye...
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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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Recommended 4K TVs That Can Effectively Be Used As Desktop PC Monitors
Ultra HD TVs have been available since late 2012. Initial offerings were reserved for those with thi...
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Shader Compilation and Why It Causes Stuttering, Explained
You just shelled out your hard-earned dollars for the latest AAA game to play on your treasured gami...
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Far Cry 5 Benchmarked: 50 GPUs Tested
Developed and published by Ubisoft, Far Cry 5 arrives this week on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, marking...
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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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Going Ergonomic: How to Make Your Computing Life Better
For many people, computers are only used for short periods of time, sometimes for entertainment, oth...
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Do Video Games Make You Violent? An In
Early last year, seventy French university students sat down in a room. A group of scientists told t...