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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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Why Are Modern PC Games Using So Much VRAM?
Even if you're just a casual follower of tech news, you can't have missed that the amount of video m...
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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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Revisiting 8
Game systems from the 8-bit and 16-bit era weren't exactly the graphical powerhouses that modern con...
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Where to Watch Free Movies and TV Online
The spread of broadband Internet is changing the way we watch TV and movies. A lot of people are cut...
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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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Anatomy of RAM
Every single computer has RAM, whether it's embedded into a processor or sitting on a dedicated circ...
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Working From Home Effectively: Dos and Don'ts
In the span of just a few weeks, daily life as we know it has taken a 180-degree turn due to the Cov...
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Making a Fast Quad
In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performanc...
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Navi vs. Turing: An Architecture Comparison
You've followed the rumors and ignored the hype; you waited for the reviews and looked at all the be...
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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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Virtualized Desktops & GPU Acceleration: Is This The Future of Computing?
When computers were first being developed it was pretty common for each individual user to not have...