If you've ever spent time in PC enthusiast communities, you've probably come across people benchmarking their PCs and stress testing them to push them to the limits. These numbers are a good indicator ...

A 26% increase in frame rates from your CPU sounds far-fetched. If that’s not enough to catch the attention of PC gamers, I don’t know is. But trust me — according to my own testing — that’s exactly ...

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There are two ways to measure the performance of PC components: synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark or PCMark, and real-world benchmarks that test performance in games and various software using ...