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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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Culture Smash: The State of PC Gaming in Japan
Cold rain drizzles outside. Inside, everything is pink, round, and frilly. The first floor of this o...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Lighting and Shadows
The vast majority of visual effects you see in games today depend on the clever use of lighting and...
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Discrete GPU on a Cheap OEM PC: Does it Make Sense?
Having tested Turing GPUs of nearly all flavors, the latest graphics card to hit the market is the G...
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Moto Z Battery Beast: Mod Delivers Best in Class Smartphone Battery Life
There are a lot of things to like about premium smartphones: incredible cameras, top notch performan...
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The Steam Machine: What Went Wrong
2012 was an important year for Valve. The company introduced Big Picture Mode - a Steam interface de...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk 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 Blizzard Saved Diablo III From Disaster
This is an excerpt from Jason Schreier's upcoming book, "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels," which comes out...
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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...
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Video Games Are Better The Second Time You Play Them
Everyone remembers the first time they played a really good video game. The constant surprises of Ha...
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AMD Ryzen 5000 IPC Performance Tested
Today we'll be taking a look at Zen 3's IPC performance. IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and...
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The State of 5G: When It's Coming, How Fast It Will Be & The Sci
Although 5G may seem like just another generational upgrade for mobile networks, touting more speed...