刘家昌
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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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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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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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Best Android Smartphone Battery Life
Battery life is one of the key features that most consumers want to see upgraded in their new phone,...
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Revisiting the GeForce GTX 680: GTX 1050 Ti
After recently retesting the GeForce GTX 580 eight years after its release, we thought it would be i...
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Secure Email and Cloud Alternatives to Gmail and Dropbox
Back in June last year, confidential documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that major email a...
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Customizing Chrome's New Tab page
Chrome's New Tab page can be rather handy if you frequently visit the same sites although as with mo...
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AMD Radeon RX 550 + Intel Pentium G4560
As many of you are no doubt aware, AMD's recently launched Radeon RX 500 series is essentially a reb...
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Useful or Little Known Android Features
Android powers hundreds of millions of mobile devices worldwide. Its openness has made it a favorite...
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The Last Time Intel Tried to Make a Graphics Card
Will history repeat itself? Intel's setting out to make a name for itself in the discrete GPU space...
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These 9 Devices Might Be a Waste of Your Money
Sometimes it pays to buy slightly older devices in place of tempting deals on newly released tech. B...
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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...