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4GHz CPU Battle: Ryzen 3900X vs. 3700X vs. Core i9
IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and it can be a good indicator of a processor's architecture...
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How CPUs are Designed and Built, Part 2: CPU Design Process
Now that we know how processors work at a high level, it's time to dig inside to understand how the...
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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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Music is the secret weapon of Mario Speedrunners
Is there anything so satisfying to watch as a well-played Mariospeedrun? What makes an expert run of...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Solid State 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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Solder vs. Paste on the Core i9
Just recently we reviewed Intel's latest Core i9-9900K and Core i7-9700K processors. In summary, the...
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider: A Ray Tracing Investigation
Critically-acclaimed game Shadow of the Tomb Raider has been updated to receive support for both Dir...
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 4: Where is Computer Architecture and Design Headed?
Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades taking place with each new generation, proc...
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Reasons to Upgrade Your Laptop (That Go Beyond a Performance Upgrade)
It used to be that buying a new laptop every few years was more or less necessary just to keep up wi...
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The Rise and Fall of Multi
When it comes to graphics cards, more is nearly always better. More shaders, more RAM, more bandwidt...
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Five Years Without Facebook
It was the summer of 2012 when I made a seemingly innocent decision that would have a greater impact...
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17 Years of Far Cry
The video game landscape is filled with long-running first-person shooter franchises, from the incre...