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The Ideal Smartphone for 2016
In 2015 I saw a ton of great smartphones hit the market; so many, in fact, that it's getting harder...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Good Idea: Good Timing, Great Hardware, Right Prices
What a difference a year makes. It was about this time last year that we discussed why building a ga...
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Five Years Without Facebook
It was the summer of 2012 when I made a seemingly innocent decision that would have a greater impact...
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Estimating CPU Performance Using Amdahl's Law
If you are in the market for a new computer, or thinking of upgrading your current system, choosing...
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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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Inside the Murky Process of Getting Games on Steam
These days, it seems like Valve will let just about anything on Steam. Programs like Greenlight and...
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Revisiting the GeForce GTX 680: GTX 1050 Ti
After recently retesting the GeForce GTX 580 eight years after its release, we thought it would be i...
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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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Bigger Than Godzilla: Why Are Games Using So Many Gigabytes?
If you're a devoted PC gamer, you've undoubtedly noticed that many of today's titles demand vast amo...
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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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How to Get Your Significant Other Into Gaming
You play games, but your significant other does not. It's a common scenario that can be a point of c...
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Using FreeSync with Nvidia GPUs Examined
2021 Update:Since Nvidia opened up to support FreeSync monitors with GeForce GPUs, the gaming monito...