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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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How We Test: CPU Gaming Benchmarks
This a topic that's often raised when we do our CPU gaming benchmarks. As you know, we perform a ton...
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The World Wide Web Turns 30: A Timeline
The Web is turning 30 years old this month and clearly we've come a long way since Tim-Berners Lee w...
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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...
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Using FreeSync with Nvidia GPUs Examined
2021 Update:Since Nvidia opened up to support FreeSync monitors with GeForce GPUs, the gaming monito...
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Benchmarking Your PC: A Guide to Best Practices
Like millions of people around the world, you probably use your PC to play video games. You may well...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Good Idea: Good Timing, Great Hardware, Right Prices
What a difference a year makes. It was about this time last year that we discussed why building a ga...
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Anatomy of a Monitor
You're looking at one right now. It might be sitting on a desk, stuck on a wall, or cradled in your...
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Apple and Google Tablets Moving to Microsoft Territory
The common refrain has been that tablets are for consumption and that laptops are for productivity,...
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Virtual Reality: The True Cost of Admission (and Why It Doesn't Matter)
Oculus VR, the company that is single-handedly responsible for the modern virtual reality movement,...
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Do Video Games Make You Violent? An In
Early last year, seventy French university students sat down in a room. A group of scientists told t...
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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...