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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 3: Bad Timing
In the first part of this series we looked at DDR4 memory, discussed pricing and availability, and s...
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Sound Cards: Worth Buying or Just a Niche Product?
So you've gone through your checklist of components you want to purchase for building your new PC. Y...
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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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Nvidia Ampere vs. AMD RDNA 2: Battle of the Architectures
For GPU enthusiasts, it's been a long wait. Nvidia kept the Turing line going for two years before r...
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Explainer: What is SSD Trimming?
Have you ever noticed when you go into Windows to optimize your storage drives, it says retrim for S...
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5 Adobe PDF Reader Alternatives That Do More for Free
These days, you don't need an app just to view PDF files. Every web browser can do that. If you some...
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Battlefield 2042 CPU Benchmark feat. 128
Today we're taking a look at CPU performance in Battlefield 2042 and this may well be the most diffi...
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We're not in Ubuntu Anymore: The Linux Distros You've (Probably) Never Heard About Before
Unlike Windows and macOS, there is a world of Linux versions, known as distributions, for users to e...
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2016's $400 GPU vs. 2019's $400 GPUs
Something we've been hearing a lot this year is that PC gaming is not in great shape, how there's a...
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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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Estimating CPU Performance Using Amdahl's Law
If you are in the market for a new computer, or thinking of upgrading your current system, choosing...
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The Most Popular Computing Device Has Yet to Be Invented: The 15
I've wanted to write this for some time, but hadn't because there was no solid data to back-up my as...