张海
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How to Use Intel PresentMon for Benchmarking and Testing
Software tools for recording frame rates, measuring temperatures, or reporting power usage of graphi...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Solid State 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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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Benchmarked
Today we're benchmarking a cargo plane load of graphics cards in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator...
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How CPUs are Designed and Built
We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is goi...
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14 PC Games for Family Time Fun
It might be a rainy day, or you could have unexpected guests, or perhaps you're just in the mood for...
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CPU Price Watch: 9900K Incoming, Ryzen Cuts
Later this week we'll finally be able to publish our benchmarks for Intel's new 8-core CPUs like the...
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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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2016's $170 GPU vs. 2019's $170 GPUs
Today we're going to review the sub-$200 graphics card market and see how it compares to what we wer...
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Solder vs. Paste on the Core i9
Just recently we reviewed Intel's latest Core i9-9900K and Core i7-9700K processors. In summary, the...
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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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How to Optimize Your Internet Connection for Gaming
You can have a super fast gaming PC with an RTX 3080 graphics card onboard and other speedy componen...
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Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing, Explained
Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games lo...