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Anatomy of a Power Supply Unit (PSU)
Every single desktop PC, console, or laptop has one of these. It doesn't boost your frame rate or ch...
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Then and Now: 5 Generations of GeForce Graphics Compared
It may not seem like it, but we've been gaming on DirectX 11 graphics hardware for half a decade. Th...
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Quality Assured: What It's Really Like To Test Games For A Living
There's an old commercial for Westwood College that's become something of a running joke in the vide...
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It's Time to Reinvent the Digital Pen
One of the best things about the Surface Pro 3 is its pen. It's changed the way I take notes, brains...
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The Best CPU & GPU Purchases of 2017
A few weeks ago we put together a list of what we felt were the worst CPU and GPU purchases of 2017,...
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Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off
On a May morning in Rhode Island two years ago, a reporter for the Providence Journalstood outside t...
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A Decade Later: Does the Q6600 Still Have Game in 2017?
Launched over a decade ago, the 65nm Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was Intel's first quad-core desktop proce...
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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...
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Amazon Prime Shipping: A Cost Analysis
Amazon pioneered the idea of expedited shipping of online purchases with the launch of Amazon Prime...
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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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Inside the Murky Process of Getting Games on Steam
These days, it seems like Valve will let just about anything on Steam. Programs like Greenlight and...
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Ryzen 5 3600 + RTX 3080: Killer Combo or Not?
Today we're taking a look back at AMD's value king, the Ryzen 5 3600, but this time with the GeForce...