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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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50 Years of Video Games
For a little over 50 years, video games have been a significant part of popular culture, for million...
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Anatomy of a Gamepad
Input devices have a key role in the computing and gaming landscape. Today we'll finish our autopsy...
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How CPU Cores & Cache Impact Gaming Performance
At some point you may have heard someone say that for gaming you need X amount of cores. Typical exa...
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Top 10 Hacks for Microsoft PowerPoint
For countless people working in business, education, and entertainment, the most commonly used tool...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: November 2021
It's time to take a look at the current state of the GPU market in our monthly update feature. In wh...
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Multitasking Benchmark: PC Gaming + YouTube + Discord
In today's article we're going to look at multitasking performance when gaming. This is a complex su...
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Not Intel, Not AMD: Alternative CPU Architectures from Around the World
It's easy to think of the desktop CPU space as a duopoly: on the one hand you have Intel finally tra...
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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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Rob's Alder Lake Windows 11 Rig Build Log
Here's a confession: I haven't built a PC from scratch in almost a decade. Sure, I've replaced RAM,...
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How JPEG Image Compression Works
In today's world of AI and machine intelligence, it sometimes skips the mind that the primary end-us...
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DisplayPort vs HDMI: What's Best for High Refresh Rate Gaming?
Modern graphics cards and monitors usually offer two port options for connecting them together: Disp...