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Aiming for Atoms: The Art of Making Chips Smaller
In the realm of computer chips, bigger numbers are often better. Morecores, higherGHz, and greaterFL...
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A PC Gaming Music Journey: From Doom to Terraria, System Shock, and More Memorable Soundtracks
A few years back, we published a feature highlighting memorable video game music from the 8-bit and...
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Why Do Image Files Need Different Formats?
Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an ima...
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50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
Guest author Ken Shirriff is a Silicon Valley-based computer enthusiast who enjoys reverse-engineeri...
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Anatomy of a Graphics Card
Almost every desktop PC has one. They have billions of transistors, can use hundreds of watts of pow...
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Nvidia and AMD Seriously Want to Offload Current
In the lead up to next generation GPUs, current graphics card prices continue to dominate the discus...
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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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Overclocking Intel Non
We're revisiting Intel's locked Alder Lake CPUs with a special sneak peak of an upcoming MSI motherb...
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Cost Per Frame: Best Value Graphics Cards Right Now
For those who missed it, we recently published our GPU pricing update for April 2022, which saw pric...
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Blasts From the Past: TechSpot Staff's Favorite Tech of the Last Decade
In the world of tech, change is constant. R&D relentlessly pushes the limits of size, performanc...
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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...