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Boutique PC Builders vs OEM Pre
With the shortage of graphics cards, which are currently selling at several times their MSRP, even g...
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Reality Distortion Field: 10 Things Apple Won't Directly Say But We'll Infer About the iPhone X
With the long-awaited iPhone X now official and set for release in November, tech conversation will...
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AMD Smart Access Memory Tested, Benchmarked
Today we're taking a detailed look at how AMD's Smart Access Memory (SAM) technology influences perf...
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Cyrix: Gone But Not Forgotten
Most of you are no doubt familiar with Intel and AMD, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and possibly even...
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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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Top 10 Hacks for Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is the de facto standard in word processing. Simple on the surface, yet immensely cap...
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Rendition: Gone But Not Forgotten
Today's PC gamers can consider themselves lucky when it comes to choosing a graphics card (relativel...
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Pairing CPUs and GPUs: PC Upgrades and Bottlenecking
How bad is bottlenecking these days? Well, that all depends on how bad you are at pairing hardware....
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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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How USB Works
Editor's note:An updated version of this article has been published.For 25 years, the USB port has b...
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How to: Taking Pictures of PCBs
I've been taking pictures of circuits as part of the (now defunct) Omzlo One Kickstarter and the new...
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Use Your Gaming Laptop and Play On Battery Power? Is It Possible?
Today we are investigating two commonly asked questions about gaming laptops: what's the performance...