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Rob's Alder Lake Windows 11 Rig Build Log
Here's a confession: I haven't built a PC from scratch in almost a decade. Sure, I've replaced RAM,...
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Should You Buy a Sound Card? An Enthusiast's Perspective
I've been on the fence about buying a discrete sound card since building my first PC in 2002. The eq...
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35 Years of Prince of Persia
The Prince of Persia series likely means different things to different generations of gamers, from u...
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The 10 Most Anticipated PC Games of 2017
2016 was a decent if unspectacular year for PC gaming. Several popular game franchises received high...
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10 Big Misconceptions About Computer Hardware
With technology advancing so rapidly around us, sometimes misconceptions can work their way into our...
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Why Upgrading a Gaming PC Right Now is Almost Pointless
Earlier in the week, we were discussing why building a new gaming PC right now isn't a bad idea, as...
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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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Solder vs. Paste on the Core i9
Just recently we reviewed Intel's latest Core i9-9900K and Core i7-9700K processors. In summary, the...
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Explainer: What is Chip Binning?
You just bought a new CPU or graphics card, and fired it up in your PC. It seems to run pretty cool,...
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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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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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5 Ways to Connect Your Old Storage Devices to a New PC
When your computer breaks down, or when you need to upgrade to a new faster machine, you may think t...