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What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Recently I had a friend over to whom I offered to audition my DIY PC speaker system. The first thing...
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2016 Flagship GPU vs 2022 Budget GPU
Today's comparison is about two GPUs that we never thought about putting head to head, but after thi...
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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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The History of the Microprocessor and the Personal Computer
The personal computing business as we know it owes itself to an environment of enthusiasts, entrepre...
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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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Can You Build a Gaming PC for $1,000?
With hardware prices growing ever higher and graphics cards costing a small fortune, you might think...
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5 Adobe PDF Reader Alternatives That Do More for Free
These days, you don't need an app just to view PDF files. Every web browser can do that. If you some...
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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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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...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works, A Deeper Dive: Rasterization and Ray Tracing
In this second part of our deeper look at 3D game rendering, we'll be focusing what happens to the 3...
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21+ Programs to Analyze and Benchmark Your Hardware
You've just bought a new gaming desktop, or a laptop for the office. Maybe you've upgraded your comp...
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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...