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What Are Chiplets and Why They Are So Important for the Future of Processors
While chiplets have been in use for decades, they've been employed sparingly and for very specific p...
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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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Should You Buy a Sound Card? An Enthusiast's Perspective
I've been on the fence about buying a discrete sound card since building my first PC in 2002. The eq...
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Virtual Reality: The True Cost of Admission (and Why It Doesn't Matter)
Oculus VR, the company that is single-handedly responsible for the modern virtual reality movement,...
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Galaxy S9+ vs Pixel 2 XL Camera
Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have commanded the phone camera throne since launch, producing aston...
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What Games Can Ultrabooks Really Play?
Thin and light ultraportable laptops are not gaming systems. Focusing more on productivity and batte...
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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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Explainer: What is an API?
Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even usedthem before, but...
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How to Reboot and Reset Android Devices
Sometimes things go wrong and knowing how to hard reboot or reset your Android device can come handy...
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How to Watch Netflix with Friends Anywhere (and No, It's Not Illegal to Share Your Password)
There was a brief moment of panic in mid July when articles with damning headlines such as "Federal...
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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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Things AMD Needs to Fix
This is the second part of our "Needs to Fix" series. Last week we talked about a number of issues w...