袁成杰
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What's Thermal Throttling and How to Prevent It
Heat is an inevitable byproduct of work. It's generated when you start a car's engine, go for a bris...
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Technology Before Its Time: 9 Products That Were Too Early to Market
Every now and again, someone comes up with a revolutionary idea for a product or service and brings...
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Five Things I Didn't Get About Making Video Games (Until I Did It)
Before I joined Gearbox Software, I worked at Destructoidas a features editor. I worked there from 2...
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Patched Laptops: Testing Meltdown & Spectre Patches on Ultraportable
You've probably seen our coverage and tests over the past few weeks on the Meltdown and Spectre vuln...
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Apple and Google Tablets Moving to Microsoft Territory
The common refrain has been that tablets are for consumption and that laptops are for productivity,...
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How to: Taking Pictures of PCBs
I've been taking pictures of circuits as part of the (now defunct) Omzlo One Kickstarter and the new...
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How CPUs are Designed, Part 4: Where is Computer Architecture and Design Headed?
Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades taking place with each new generation, proc...
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10 Free Steam Games Worth Playing
While Steam gets a lot of hype for discounted prices, you don't actually have to spend any money to...
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The Last Mile to Civilization 2.0: Technologies From Our Not Too Distant Future
Developments in big data and bio-tech are ushering in a new age of consumer electronics that will br...
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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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AMD Raven Ridge 8GB vs. 16GB Reserved Memory Benchmark & Explanation
We recently took our first look at AMD's Raven Ridge desktop APUs after a grueling four day grind of...
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Then and Now: 6 Generations of GeForce Graphics Compared
With the venerable GeForce GTX 980 having celebrated its third birthday already, in the world of GPU...