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Analyzing Graphics Card Pricing: October 2018
Graphics card prices have come down significantly since the start of the year when the mining craze...
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How We Test: CPU Gaming Benchmarks
This a topic that's often raised when we do our CPU gaming benchmarks. As you know, we perform a ton...
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What Ever Happened to GameSpy?
Today, multiplayer gaming is easy. You hop onto a game, press "play online," and in moments, you're...
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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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Top 10 Most Significant Nvidia GPUs of All Time
Founded in 1993, Nvidia is a youngster when compared to other semiconductor companies. However, its...
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Explainer: What is an API?
Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even usedthem before, but...
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Explainer: Number Representations in Computer Hardware
As Shakespeare would have it, "that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet...
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Coleco: Gone But Not Forgotten
For those growing up in the 1980s, the name "Coleco" stirs up nostalgic memories of a gaming era lon...
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What is a Checksum, and What Can You Do With It?
You're about to click on a download button and notice a weird looking code next to it. It doesn't se...
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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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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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GPU Pricing Update, July 2023: Flash Sales FTW!
It's time for our monthly GPU pricing update, a series which we were really hoping wouldn't still be...