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What's Thermal Throttling and How to Prevent It
Heat is an inevitable byproduct of work. It's generated when you start a car's engine, go for a bris...
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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...
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Tweaking Windows 10 Privacy Settings
Several controversial privacy issues have kept many users from upgrading to Microsoft's latest opera...
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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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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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The Best Portable Apps for Your Software Toolbox
Portable apps usually offer the same functionality and advantages as the regular versions of your fa...
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The Best CPU & GPU Purchases of 2017
A few weeks ago we put together a list of what we felt were the worst CPU and GPU purchases of 2017,...
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Why Upgrading a Gaming PC Right Now is Almost Pointless
Earlier in the week, we were discussing why building a new gaming PC right now isn't a bad idea, as...
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A Brief History of In
These days, in-game advertising is the rule, not the exception. According to an Omdia survey, gaming...
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What Ever Happened to GameSpy?
Today, multiplayer gaming is easy. You hop onto a game, press "play online," and in moments, you're...
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Superb PC Gaming with Next
For the past few weeks we've been testing the upcoming MSI MPG 321URX, a new gaming monitor packing...
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Testing GeForce Now Ultimate RTX 4080 Tier
Back in January, we looked at Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service's Ultimate tier and how it...