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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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Revisiting the Radeon R9 280X / HD 7970
Continuing along with revisiting some of our favorite old graphics cards, today we'll be checking ba...
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How USB Works: From 'Plug and Pray' to Being Everywhere
For a quarter of a century, the USB port has been a faithful old friend. Connecting and powering our...
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Are We Reaching GPU Normalcy? The Answer is (Almost) Yes
It's time for another look at graphics card pricing and this month it's particularly exciting as we...
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What is Crypto Mining?
On January 3, 2009, the first Bitcoin mining operation went underway, and a 50 BTC reward was sent t...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: April 2022
It's time for our monthly graphics card pricing update and in overly positive news, the trend toward...
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Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 CPU and GPU Benchmark
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is a new free-to-play battle royale game, a sequel to 2020's CoD: Warzone...
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Display Tech Compared: TN vs. VA vs. IPS
When choosing a new computer monitor, the type of panel used by the display is a key piece of inform...
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4GHz CPU Battle: AMD 2nd
For the unaware, IPC (instructions per cycle) provides a good indicator of how fast a processor is a...
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What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Recently I had a friend over to whom I offered to audition my DIY PC speaker system. The first thing...
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How to Backup Your Gmail Account
There are a number of reasons why you might need to backup your email account. You might be changing...