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Assembling a DIY PC Speaker System
I was bitten by the audiophile bug at a relatively young age. When I was in my early teens, my paren...
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The Best Gaming GIFs of 2012
It's been a heck of a year for games. We've had our highs and we've had our lows, but more important...
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Apple M1: Why It Matters
Ever since Apple launched its M1 processor and showed it running fast and cool on new MacBooks, the...
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Not Intel, Not AMD: Alternative CPU Architectures from Around the World
It's easy to think of the desktop CPU space as a duopoly: on the one hand you have Intel finally tra...
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The Dark Web: Exploring the Hidden Internet
In the realm of the Internet, few things carry as infamous a reputation as the Dark Web. Widely util...
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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 CPU Cores & Cache Impact Gaming Performance
At some point you may have heard someone say that for gaming you need X amount of cores. Typical exa...
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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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50 Years of Video Games
For a little over 50 years, video games have been a significant part of popular culture, for million...
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Weird Keyboard Layouts: A Showcase
There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest...
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The Most Memorable Overclocking
Enthusiasts have been pushing the limits of silicon for as long as microprocessors have existed. Ear...
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These 9 Devices Might Be a Waste of Your Money
Sometimes it pays to buy slightly older devices in place of tempting deals on newly released tech. B...