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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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AMD Ryzen 5000 IPC Performance Tested
Today we'll be taking a look at Zen 3's IPC performance. IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and...
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Explainer: L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 Cache
Every single CPU found in any computer, from a cheap laptop to a million-dollar server, will have so...
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Can It Run Crysis? An Analysis of Why a 13
Every year hundreds of new games are released to the market. Some do very well and sell in the milli...
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Weird Keyboard Layouts: A Showcase
There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest...
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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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How to Google Search Like a Pro: Follow These Tips
How many times have you Googled for something, only to find yourself digging through dozens of resul...
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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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What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Recently I had a friend over to whom I offered to audition my DIY PC speaker system. The first thing...
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The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD
AMD is one of the oldest designers of large scale microprocessors and has been the subject of polari...
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DisplayPort vs HDMI: What's Best for High Refresh Rate Gaming?
Modern graphics cards and monitors usually offer two port options for connecting them together: Disp...
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5 Days of Awesome Wallpapers: Geometric and Architectural Wallpapers
A great wallpaper can start your day off on a good mood. There’s certainly no shortage of places to...