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Nvidia and AMD Keep Dropping GPU Prices After New Product Launches Flop
Even if we're not planning to buy a GPU at this time – and we don't blame you – there are still many...
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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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The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD
AMD is one of the oldest designers of large scale microprocessors and has been the subject of polari...
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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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Ryzen 5000 Memory Performance Guide
In this article we'll be searching for Zen 3's memory sweet spot and looking at DDR4 memory performa...
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Going Ergonomic: How to Make Your Computing Life Better
For many people, computers are only used for short periods of time, sometimes for entertainment, oth...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Anti
The 3D games we play and love are all made up of thousands, if not millions, of colored straight lin...
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The Ultimate 44 Used Graphics Card Pricing & Benchmark Guide
Along with our recent editorials on why it's a bad time to build a gaming PC (not least because of o...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical 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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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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Anatomy of a CPU
The CPU is often called the brains of a computer, and just like the human brain, it consists of seve...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Good Idea: Good Timing, Great Hardware, Right Prices
What a difference a year makes. It was about this time last year that we discussed why building a ga...