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Is the Ryzen 3 3300X Better Value than the Ryzen 5 3600?
Today we're revisiting AMD's budget-oriented Ryzen 3 3300X. This Ryzen 3 CPU thoroughly impressed us...
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Is Virtual Reality Missing Its Moment?
When Facebook announced they were acquiring VR pioneer Oculus in early 2014 for $2 billion, I was a...
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Assembling a DIY PC Speaker System
I was bitten by the audiophile bug at a relatively young age. When I was in my early teens, my paren...
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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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Anatomy of a Mouse
We've all seen and used them at home, school, and work. Computer mice are often inexpensive and basi...
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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 AIM?
America Online had the whole digital world in its hands by the mid-1990s, but nothing can last forev...
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11 Tech Products That Were Supposed to Fail... But Didn't
You'll often find that when a new product or service fails, there's a line of people waiting to say,...
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Against All Odds: How Nintendo Made It
Ask your oldest relative – the one who still thinks smartphones work through witchcraft – to name on...
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FreeSync vs. G
Adaptive sync display technologies from Nvidia and AMD have been on the market for a few years now,...
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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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Optogenetics: A Virtual Reality System for Controlling Living Cells
Our brains communicate with electrical and chemical signaling, but scientists have discovered that l...