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CPU and GPU Availability and Pricing Update: May 2021
Here's our monthly update looking into the current state of the CPU and graphics card markets. The g...
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Explainer: Number Representations in Computer Hardware
As Shakespeare would have it, "that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet...
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10 Tech Products That Are Next to Impossible to Repair
Repairing a faulty or damaged gadget no longer requires a PhD in electrical engineering or a visit f...
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The 12 Best Games on PC
PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. The shini...
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What's Thermal Throttling and How to Prevent It
Heat is an inevitable byproduct of work. It's generated when you start a car's engine, go for a bris...
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 3: Building the Chip
This is the third installment in our CPU design series. In Part 1, we covered computer architecture...
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10 Free Steam Games Worth Playing
While Steam gets a lot of hype for discounted prices, you don't actually have to spend any money to...
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Windows 11 vs. Windows 10 Performance: Gaming and Applications
Windows 11 is coming and some of you have been trying out the leaked ISO as have multiple media outl...
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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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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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Windows 8.1: Six Things Microsoft Got Right and Others That Are Still Missing
Not unlike previous releases of Microsoft's ubiquitous desktop OS, Windows 8 has faced a lot of scru...
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Tweaking Windows 10 Privacy Settings
Several controversial privacy issues have kept many users from upgrading to Microsoft's latest opera...