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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical 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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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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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: February 2022
After many, many months we finally have some good news to share regarding graphics card pricing and...
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Radeon VII & GeForce RTX 2080 using Ryzen 7 2700X & Core i7
Today we're looking at a few different hardware configurations to see if certain matchups work bette...
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Revisiting the Radeon R9 280X / HD 7970
Continuing along with revisiting some of our favorite old graphics cards, today we'll be checking ba...
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Essential Apps to Install on your Windows PC or Mac
You just bought a new laptop, built a new desktop PC, or are simply clean installing on a new solid...
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Why GPUs are the New Kings of Cache. Explained.
It wasn't that far back that if you wanted a processor with tons of cache buried inside it, then CPU...
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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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Commissioning Misleading Core i9
As expected, Intel officially announced their new 9th-gen Core processors this week along with the Z...
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How Hot is Too Hot for PC Hardware?
With power limits of CPUs and graphics cards climbing ever higher, and news reports of chips hitting...
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Building a Budget PC: Should You Buy a Used Graphics Card?
At a time when graphics cards are extremely overpriced, AMD's new Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G of...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...