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Today's mid-range GPUs in Battlefield 3
by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:52 PM on November 10, 2011

Join us as we test three pairs of competing mid-range cards and see how well they handle EA DICE's latest blockbuster, Battlefield 3.

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming

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Some thoughts on Rage
by Scott Wasson — 10:54 AM on October 27, 2011

Well, I finished Rage last night. I have to say that I enjoyed it quite a bit, mostly because, at heart, it's a very...

Type: Blog post Tags: Graphics Gaming

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Getting acquainted with Arduino
by David Morgan — 10:54 AM on October 21, 2011

I tend to think of myself as a well-rounded geek. Excluding the keyboard-cowboy day job, my attention is divided between hardware tinkering and...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Battle of the Radeon HD 6950s
by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:25 AM on October 20, 2011

We've gathered three souped-up Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards from Gigabyte, MSI, and XFX. Which one delivers the most bang for your buck?

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics

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Goodbye, Mr. Jobs
by Jason Fox — 9:44 PM on October 5, 2011

About an hour ago, as of this writing, Apple posted this simple statement on their website: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing Mac Personal tech

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With friends like these...
by Fred Silver — 1:42 PM on October 3, 2011

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Lucid's 'smarter vsync' could revolutionize game performance
by Scott Wasson — 2:50 PM on September 21, 2011

Lucid's new 'HyperFormance' tech may have an unfortunate name, but it still has the potential to change the way we think about GPU performance by...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Software

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Cloudy with a chance of backups
by Bruno Ferreira — 10:44 AM on September 13, 2011

You've probably been there before. You just realized that you've overwritten an important file and have no way of getting it back. Last month's backup...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Life after Moore's Law
by David Morgan — 9:20 AM on September 9, 2011

Recently, I've been turning the pages of Michio Kaku's new book, Physics of the Future. While much of its content echoes what was said...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking
by Scott Wasson — 6:08 PM on September 8, 2011

We set out to introduce some new game benchmarking methods, and those new tools promptly helped us uncover an intriguing problem: multi-GPU micro-stuttering.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Gaming

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72-point mystery
by Fred Silver — 10:33 AM on September 6, 2011

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Crysis 2 tessellation: too much of a good thing?
by Scott Wasson — 2:07 PM on August 16, 2011

We discover the world's greatest virtual concrete slab.

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming

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The many seasons of better benchmarks
by Fred Silver — 10:04 AM on August 15, 2011

Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Un-bustin' (monitor) caps with a soldering gat
by David Morgan — 11:19 PM on July 28, 2011

There comes a point in every computer guy's day when the phone rings, and a distraught acquaintance begins reciting error messages or describing some symptom...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Llano in overtime: 1866MHz RAM & IGP-only power
by Scott Wasson — 11:51 PM on July 17, 2011

Will 1866MHz memory make a big difference to the performance of the AMD A8-3850 APU? How does power consumption look without a discrete GPU...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics

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The science of fanboyism
by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 PM on July 14, 2011

We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

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Priorities
by Fred Silver — 11:30 PM on July 10, 2011

Type: Blog post Tags: Graphics

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AMD's A8-3500M Fusion APU
by Scott Wasson — 7:53 PM on June 22, 2011

Can AMD's 'Llano' APU really take on Intel's excellent Sandy Bridge processors and hold its own? We've taken a deep look at its...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing

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