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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical 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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The Steam Machine: What Went Wrong
2012 was an important year for Valve. The company introduced Big Picture Mode - a Steam interface de...
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Don't Bother with A320 Motherboards, Go for AMD's B350 Instead for Raven Ridge
We've learned most of what there is to know about AMD's new Vega-infused CPUs, but those of you thin...
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Building a Budget PC: Should You Buy a Used Graphics Card?
At a time when graphics cards are extremely overpriced, AMD's new Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G of...
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AMD Ryzen 5000 IPC Performance Tested
Today we'll be taking a look at Zen 3's IPC performance. IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and...
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The World Wide Web Turns 30: A Timeline
The Web is turning 30 years old this month and clearly we've come a long way since Tim-Berners Lee w...
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Benchmarking Your PC: A Guide to Best Practices
Like millions of people around the world, you probably use your PC to play video games. You may well...
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An Android User's Perspective: Two Weeks with the iPhone 6s, Part 2
It's now been two weeks since I started using the iPhone 6s as my daily driver, and so far the devic...
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AMD Ryzen 5000 IPC Performance Tested
Today we'll be taking a look at Zen 3's IPC performance. IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and...
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How CPUs are Designed and Built, Part 2: CPU Design Process
Now that we know how processors work at a high level, it's time to dig inside to understand how the...
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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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Anatomy of a CPU
The CPU is often called the brains of a computer, and just like the human brain, it consists of seve...