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Cyrix: Gone But Not Forgotten
Most of you are no doubt familiar with Intel and AMD, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and possibly even...
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Weird Keyboard Layouts: A Showcase
There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest...
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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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Explainer: L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 Cache
Every single CPU found in any computer, from a cheap laptop to a million-dollar server, will have so...
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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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The OLED Burn
Over the course of the last month, we have been purposefully using a 4K OLED monitor in ways that wi...
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Nvidia DLSS 3 Revisit: We Try It Out in 9 Games
After its big splash, today we're taking a second look at Nvidia's DLSS 3 technology to see what has...
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7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components
Building your own gaming PC is once again an option, even if your budget is small, after over a year...
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A Brief History of In
These days, in-game advertising is the rule, not the exception. According to an Omdia survey, gaming...
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2016's $400 GPU vs. 2019's $400 GPUs
Something we've been hearing a lot this year is that PC gaming is not in great shape, how there's a...
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Aiming for Atoms: The Art of Making Chips Smaller
In the realm of computer chips, bigger numbers are often better. Morecores, higherGHz, and greaterFL...
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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...