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Patched Laptops: Testing Meltdown & Spectre Patches on Ultraportable
You've probably seen our coverage and tests over the past few weeks on the Meltdown and Spectre vuln...
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Going From 20 to 40: A Graphics Card Upgrade Tale
At some point, every PC enthusiast will want to make an upgrade of some kind. It might be the entire...
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Discrete GPU on a Cheap OEM PC: Does it Make Sense?
Having tested Turing GPUs of nearly all flavors, the latest graphics card to hit the market is the G...
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7 Tech Predictions for 2019
Though it's a year shy of the big decade marker, 2019 looks to be one of the most exciting and most...
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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: 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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Explainer: What Are Processor Threads?
In the beginning, it was just one. Years went by before it became two, and then four. Now you can ha...
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Apple M1: Why It Matters
Ever since Apple launched its M1 processor and showed it running fast and cool on new MacBooks, the...
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3D Game Rendering 101
You're playing the latest Call of Mario: Deathduty Battleyardon your perfect gaming PC. You're looki...
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Get Rid of Windows 10 Ads, Office Offers and Other Annoyances
Microsoft started to sneak advertisements into the Windows platform with Windows 8 and they've only...
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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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Explainer: What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning (ML) has become a hot topic in the last few years, but what you may not realize is...