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A Brief History of the Multi
It's hard to overemphasize how far computers have come and how they have transformed just about ever...
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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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How to Watch Netflix with Friends Anywhere (and No, It's Not Illegal to Share Your Password)
There was a brief moment of panic in mid July when articles with damning headlines such as "Federal...
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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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Nvidia DLSS in 2020: Stunning Results
We've been waiting to reexamine Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling for a long time, partly becaus...
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Explainer: What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning (ML) has become a hot topic in the last few years, but what you may not realize is...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk 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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Transfer Steam Games to a New Drive Without Redownloading
Although solid state drives have steadily increased in capacity, so too have the size of game instal...
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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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RAM Matters: How Much Do You Need for Gaming? 4GB, 8GB, 16GB or 32GB
About this time each year we set out to see how much RAM is required to play the latest and greatest...
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Multitasking Benchmark: PC Gaming + YouTube + Discord
In today's article we're going to look at multitasking performance when gaming. This is a complex su...
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Game Streaming Investigation: Which Quality Settings Are Best?
This is the first part of an investigation into game streaming, a topic that we've been requested on...