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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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GPU Prices Drop Even Further, Sort Of
It's time for our mid-month GPU pricing update and we feel like we say this every month, but honestl...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical 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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Going From 20 to 40: A Graphics Card Upgrade Tale
At some point, every PC enthusiast will want to make an upgrade of some kind. It might be the entire...
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Against All Odds: How Netflix Made It
Home video rentals were already a $16 billion industry when Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph decided...
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Shader Compilation and Why It Causes Stuttering, Explained
You just shelled out your hard-earned dollars for the latest AAA game to play on your treasured gami...
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How USB Works: From 'Plug and Pray' to Being Everywhere
For a quarter of a century, the USB port has been a faithful old friend. Connecting and powering our...
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How to Open .HEIC iPhone Photos in Windows
Apple switched to High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) files as the default format for storing pho...
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Explainer: What is Chip Binning?
You just bought a new CPU or graphics card, and fired it up in your PC. It seems to run pretty cool,...
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Nvidia DLSS in 2020: Stunning Results
We've been waiting to reexamine Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling for a long time, partly becaus...
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15+ Titles Every PC Gamer Should Own
There are thousands upon thousands of PC games out there, and hundreds of good ones. However, some h...
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Explainer: What is SSD Trimming?
Have you ever noticed when you go into Windows to optimize your storage drives, it says retrim for S...