郜晓晨
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Thirteen Steam Features You Probably Don't Know About
Like the thousands upon thousands of games it hosts, Steam has secrets.Steam is, on one hand, a bril...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk 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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Get Rid of Windows 10 Ads, Office Offers and Other Annoyances
Microsoft started to sneak advertisements into the Windows platform with Windows 8 and they've only...
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What's New in DirectX 12? Understanding DirectML, DirectX Raytracing and DirectStorage
DirectX has been with us for 25 years, providing developers with the tools to make incredible games....
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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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The Rise of Power: Are CPUs and GPUs Becoming Too Energy Hungry?
Every couple of years, a new generation of computer processors is launched. For a long time, CPUs se...
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The Sims: 22 Years and Counting
Every gamer who was alive at the turn of the millennium has either played, or at the very least hear...
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Then and Now: 6 Generations of GeForce Graphics Compared
With the venerable GeForce GTX 980 having celebrated its third birthday already, in the world of GPU...
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Screen Tearing or Input Lag? To Vsync or Not to Vsync?
Screen tear or input lag? To vsync or not to vsync? For the longest time, this was an either-or ques...
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1440p at 165 Hz: The Ultimate Gaming Experience?
There are a lot of choices for monitors out there at the moment, which makes picking one variant as...
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How to Play Long Video Games When You Have No Time
For a lot of gamers with demanding jobs, marriages and/or families, the excitement of reading good r...
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 4: Where is Computer Architecture and Design Headed?
Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades taking place with each new generation, proc...