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How Much Does It Cost to Make a Video Game?
You pay $60 for many of the new games you play, but how much does a blockbuster game cost to make? A...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Solid State 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 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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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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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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How to Throw Your Video Game Controller
Video games are a lot of fun, but they can also be frustrating. From time to time, you may even get...
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Productivity on a $200 Chromebook, Coming From an Enthusiast Desktop
There's no denying that a desktop PC is the ideal place to handle a heavy productivity session. That...
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The Past, Present and Future of Diablo
On November 2, 2018, Blizzard closed its annual BlizzCon keynote by announcing, to scattered applaus...
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Building a Hackintosh with Quo's Any OS Motherboard
Apple famously transitioned away from PowerPC processors in favor of Intel's back in 2006. The move...
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Does Ryzen Perform Better with AMD GPUs?
Last month we tested the gaming performance of AMD's Ryzen 7 processors by pairing them with a Titan...
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Performance
If you are in the market for a new PC, you're probably all too aware of the huge variety of differen...