刘冰
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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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Against All Odds: How Netflix Made It
Home video rentals were already a $16 billion industry when Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph decided...
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The Science of Keeping It Cool
Almost every single piece of modern electronics generates heat whether we notice it or not. Without...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 3: Bad Timing
In the first part of this series we looked at DDR4 memory, discussed pricing and availability, and s...
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A Year Later, You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free
Although Microsoft concluded its free Windows 10 upgrade program on July 29, 2016, the company has y...
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Add Tabs to File Explorer and Other Applications Ahead of Windows 10's Sets Feature
While tabs have been a core part of web browsers for more than a decade (including Internet Explorer...
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Then and Now: 5 Generations of GeForce Graphics Compared
It may not seem like it, but we've been gaming on DirectX 11 graphics hardware for half a decade. Th...
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Building a Budget PC: Should You Buy a Used Graphics Card?
At a time when graphics cards are extremely overpriced, AMD's new Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G of...
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A Steve Ballmer Story That Helps Explain Microsoft
Steve Ballmer surprised the world when he resigned from Microsoft, and everyone wondered what he wou...
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The Steam Machine: What Went Wrong
2012 was an important year for Valve. The company introduced Big Picture Mode - a Steam interface de...
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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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The Story of Solitaire, One of the World's Biggest Video Games
For over twenty years, a video game has tormented mums, dads and office workers the world over. And...