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These 9 Devices Might Be a Waste of Your Money
Sometimes it pays to buy slightly older devices in place of tempting deals on newly released tech. B...
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Testing Windows 10 Performance Before and After the Meltdown Flaw Emergency Patch
The IT world was caught by surprise this week when it was disclosed that nearly every processor sold...
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Explainer: What are MMX, SSE, and AVX?
Computer technology is no strange to acronyms: CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, BIOS, CD-ROM, to name but a few....
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 3: Building the Chip
This is the third installment in our CPU design series. In Part 1, we covered computer architecture...
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Weird Keyboard Layouts: A Showcase
There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest...
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Apple M1: Why It Matters
Ever since Apple launched its M1 processor and showed it running fast and cool on new MacBooks, the...
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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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10 Tech Predictions for 2017
Predicting the future is more art than science, yet it's always an interesting exercise to engage in...
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What Ever Happened to AIM?
America Online had the whole digital world in its hands by the mid-1990s, but nothing can last forev...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Lighting and Shadows
The vast majority of visual effects you see in games today depend on the clever use of lighting and...
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Ryzen 5 2600X vs. 2600: Which should you buy?
If you've got some $200 to spend on a new CPU and you want something that can handle any and all tas...
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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...