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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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How We Test: CPU Benchmarks, Misconceptions Explained
We're certain many of you already have a solid understanding of how we perform CPU benchmarks, but a...
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TechSpot PC Buying Guide: Early 2024
How has the PC market evolved in the past few months?For gamers and mainstream users, not much has h...
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The Sims: 22 Years and Counting
Every gamer who was alive at the turn of the millennium has either played, or at the very least hear...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: February 2022
After many, many months we finally have some good news to share regarding graphics card pricing and...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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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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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 2: Insane Graphics Card Prices
We're hardly two weeks into 2018 and it's been a wild ride for the tech industry already (CES notwit...
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Anatomy of a Graphics Card
Almost every desktop PC has one. They have billions of transistors, can use hundreds of watts of pow...
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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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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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Explainer: What is Arduino?
When it comes to computing devices, the headlines nearly always go to biggest and fastest – more GHz...