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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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Can You Build a Gaming PC for $500?
In a world where a decent graphics card can cost the same as a new cutting-edge console, you'd be fo...
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Anatomy of RAM
Every single computer has RAM, whether it's embedded into a processor or sitting on a dedicated circ...
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Shader Compilation and Why It Causes Stuttering, Explained
You just shelled out your hard-earned dollars for the latest AAA game to play on your treasured gami...
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Precursors to Today's Technology: These Products Had the Right Vision
Products like the Apple Newton and the Nintendo Power Glove immediately come to mind when reminiscin...
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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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Why You Can't Buy Books from the Kindle app on iPhone or iPad in 2018
Spoiler alert:It's the same reason you couldn't in 2017 or previous years for that matter.Apple user...
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Why Refresh Rates Matter: From 30Hz to 540Hz
Are higher refresh rates better for gaming? Yes, they are. In this article we'll explain why refresh...
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How We Test: CPU Gaming Benchmarks
This a topic that's often raised when we do our CPU gaming benchmarks. As you know, we perform a ton...
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Hidden Siri Commands and Unusual Responses
Digital assistants can be useful for performing a variety of tasks hands free, especially while in t...
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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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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: July 2022
This month's update is particularly interesting not only because we continue to see a slide in GPU p...