工兵乐队
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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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OCZ Technology: Gone But Not Forgotten
OCZ Technology was founded in 2000 by Ryan Petersen as "The Overclockerz Store," an online hardware...
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Why Owning a Real Camera Matters
Google recently said it best: photos are more than just pixels. They're moments in time we'll never...
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7 Tech Predictions for 2018
After a surprisingly robust 2017, our collective attentions now turn to the new year, and many quest...
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Reasons to Upgrade Your Laptop (That Go Beyond a Performance Upgrade)
It used to be that buying a new laptop every few years was more or less necessary just to keep up wi...
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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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AMD B450 or B550 Motherboard for Ryzen 5000 CPUs?
With the announcement of AMD's Ryzen 5000 desktop CPU series, we noticed a lot of chatter about B450...
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How CPUs are Designed and Built, Part 2: CPU Design Process
Now that we know how processors work at a high level, it's time to dig inside to understand how the...
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Culture Smash: The State of PC Gaming in Japan
Cold rain drizzles outside. Inside, everything is pink, round, and frilly. The first floor of this o...
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FreeSync 2 Explained
Over the past few weeks we've been looking into and exploring the world of FreeSync 2. Now this isn'...
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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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Long Live the Mouse and Keyboard, a Great Way to Control Video Games
For years, I only played PC games with a mouse and keyboard. For years after that, I played almost e...