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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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Desktop vs. Laptop Gaming with the RTX 2070
Since the launch of Nvidia's RTX GPUs we've been intrigued about the performance difference between...
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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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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...
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FreeSync on Nvidia GPUs Workaround: Impractical, But It Works
Recently two separate Reddit threads brought an interesting topic to discussion: if you hook up your...
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Music is the secret weapon of Mario Speedrunners
Is there anything so satisfying to watch as a well-played Mariospeedrun? What makes an expert run of...
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Anatomy of a CPU
The CPU is often called the brains of a computer, and just like the human brain, it consists of seve...
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Explainer: What Are Tensor Cores?
For the past three years Nvidia has been making graphics chips that feature extra cores, beyond the...
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Anatomy of a Graphics Card
Almost every desktop PC has one. They have billions of transistors, can use hundreds of watts of pow...
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Biggest Tech Fads of the Last Decade
A number of industries are well known for their fads: fashion, food, health. But technology has expe...
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Discrete GPU on a Cheap OEM PC: Does it Make Sense?
Having tested Turing GPUs of nearly all flavors, the latest graphics card to hit the market is the G...
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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...