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Testing Windows 10 Performance Before and After the Meltdown Flaw Emergency Patch
The IT world was caught by surprise this week when it was disclosed that nearly every processor sold...
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What is Crypto Mining?
On January 3, 2009, the first Bitcoin mining operation went underway, and a 50 BTC reward was sent t...
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Why Owning a Real Camera Matters
Google recently said it best: photos are more than just pixels. They're moments in time we'll never...
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How USB Works
Editor's note:An updated version of this article has been published.For 25 years, the USB port has b...
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Should You Buy a Sound Card? An Enthusiast's Perspective
I've been on the fence about buying a discrete sound card since building my first PC in 2002. The eq...
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We Bought the Cheapest DDR5 RAM Modules We Could Find, Are They Any Good?
For this article we're doing something simple: find the cheapest DDR5 RAM we could get our hands on,...
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Virtualized Desktops & GPU Acceleration: Is This The Future of Computing?
When computers were first being developed it was pretty common for each individual user to not have...
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Explainer: What is Chip Binning?
You just bought a new CPU or graphics card, and fired it up in your PC. It seems to run pretty cool,...
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The Best Gaming GIFs of 2012
It's been a heck of a year for games. We've had our highs and we've had our lows, but more important...
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Virtual Reality: The True Cost of Admission (and Why It Doesn't Matter)
Oculus VR, the company that is single-handedly responsible for the modern virtual reality movement,...
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Tweaking Windows 10 Privacy Settings
Several controversial privacy issues have kept many users from upgrading to Microsoft's latest opera...
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Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate vs. Your Own RTX GPU
Nvidia's GeForce Now has changed a lot in the year since we asked the question: which is better, a n...