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Metro Exodus Ray Tracing Benchmarked
It's time for us to talk about ray tracing once again, this time in Metro Exodus, the latest game to...
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Intellivision: Gone But Not Forgotten
One day in 1979, during Christmas break, I sneaked into my parents' bedroom while they were away, ho...
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King's Field Retrospective: Exploring the Roots of Elden Ring and Dark Souls
A little over 10 years ago, Demon's Souls launched on the PS3, an action RPG import from a little-kn...
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2016 Flagship GPU vs 2022 Budget GPU
Today's comparison is about two GPUs that we never thought about putting head to head, but after thi...
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What is HDR?
So you're in the market for a new monitor or laptop and you check out the specs for the screen. It h...
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Ryzen 5 3600 vs. 3600X: Which should you buy?
We were among the first publications to review the Ryzen 5 3600 and at $200 we found the 6-core, 12-...
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Things AMD Needs to Fix
This is the second part of our "Needs to Fix" series. Last week we talked about a number of issues w...
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What Are Chiplets and Why They Are So Important for the Future of Processors
While chiplets have been in use for decades, they've been employed sparingly and for very specific p...
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Intel B560 is a Disaster: Huge CPU Performance Differences and a Power Limit Mess
I've been testing a ton of Intel Z590 motherboards recently for VRM thermal performance and this has...
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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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How Screwed is Intel without Hyper
As we've come to learn recently, there are four new hardware vulnerabilities that affect Intel proce...
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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...