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When SSD Performance Goes Awry
An unfortunate tale about Samsung's SSD 840 read performance degradationAn avalanche of reports emer...
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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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Ryzen 5 3600 vs. 3600X: Which should you buy?
We were among the first publications to review the Ryzen 5 3600 and at $200 we found the 6-core, 12-...
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Screenshot Sharing in a Snap: 7 Free Alternatives to Droplr
Many of us here at TechSpot use Droplr on a daily basis to quickly share screenshots. While this sim...
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Explainer: What are MMX, SSE, and AVX?
Computer technology is no strange to acronyms: CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, BIOS, CD-ROM, to name but a few....
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 3: Bad Timing
In the first part of this series we looked at DDR4 memory, discussed pricing and availability, and s...
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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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The Homebrew Litecoin Mining Project
It's hard not to be intrigued by Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital currency devised by the mysteriou...
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Internet for All
Since its birth in the labs of ARPANET half a century back, Internet has risen to create a truly glo...
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Better Buy: Previous
Update:This article has been updated for late 2017 here.If you're in the market for a new phone and...
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And Action! An Examination of Physics in Video Games
Video game physics are something that we often take for granted. If you make your avatar jump, you e...
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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...