Color depth and image quality are intertwined in a highly crucial way; image quality is as dependent on color bit depth as it would be on something as fundamental as color space.
The best monitors out there, no matter what type – whether they’re gaming monitors or ultrawide monitors – all present a total package that fires on all cylinders with great resolution, ideal response time, a…
Digital communication is all about frequencies. A frequency band is thus “how” your data is transmitted over wireless frequencies, with specific ones for phones, Wi-Fi, televisions, and so on.
The ‘bands’ in our title and in these names, then, refer to frequency bands; these multiple bands allow for switching between different standards, with each group of frequencies having the ability to…
The FreeSync VS G-Sync debate has been raging on for a while now: even the best gaming monitors are split between their support, and the fundamental divide between AMD FreeSync VS Nvidia G-Sync drives both manufacturers to add more and better features to their products to emerge with the best graphics cards.
Still, the relative merits of G-Sync VS FreeSync can be decided through knowing what you…
A NAND is a non-volatile flash memory type. Flash memory is used for storing and transmitting data between devices, usually a PC and other digital devices: this is what makes our USB “flash drives” and our external HDDs work, as well as making hybrid hard drives more robust.
What is 3D NAND? Named after the ‘not-AND’ logic gates of digital electronics, 3D NAND – sometimes known…
Polar patterns on microphones are a great tool for helping you decide what microphone, or what type of microphone, works best for your needs.
Which microphone is best for streaming? Can a budget gaming headset have the best microphone for gaming?
We can tell “how” a microphone picks up sound by its polar pattern; thus, microphone polar patterns tell us about the microphone’s sensitivity to…
Some of the best wireless headphones out there also boast noise-canceling capabilities. Noise-canceling headphones have even given way to noise-canceling earbuds (the best of which allow for both comfort and portability), allowing for this powerful technology to be accessible at every level of casual music listening, gaming, professional use, and other possibilities that are being explored.
In…
Most of us know what an SSD is: a solid-state drive, present in most modern-day computers and laptops, fulfilling the need for individuals and organizations to have speedy access to large scores of data with more durability and less energy needed to sustain them than traditional HDDs did.
In comes something called the nonvolatile memory express protocol, or NVMe for short. An NVMe SSD can – wait…
Of all the things to focus on when shopping for a new monitor, whether an upgrade or to go along with a new system or gaming rig you’re building, in the monitor department, there’s one very crucial aspect that many might overlook or not know much about.
Monitor response time is as important in terms of specs as resolution, refresh rate, and screen size. It’s also often confused with input…
The seemingly always-relevant allure of retro-tech and nostalgic music and shows leads many to wonder what it’s all about, especially with the popularity of VHS and camcorder apps, prompting the need for a better understanding of what analog is and what digital is.
Houses that still employ or need things such as weather radios or outdoor TV antennas and antenna amplifiers are a good example of…
For those of you who are interested in music; whether that means making it, listening to it, or both, you have probably heard the frequency response many times. Today, we explain what it means, and how it affects your musical, or simply, audio, experiences.
So What Exactly is Frequency Response?
As the name suggests, you need to first understand the context in which frequency is used here.
It’s entirely possible to have one of the best DSLR cameras out there and still struggle with blurry or grainy photos, unclear and unsharp. There is no need to panic, however, if you find yourself in this situation; it’s simply a question of camera shutter speed settings.
What is shutter speed? One of the fundamental and most crucial aspects of photography, be it on a mirrorless camera or a…
Most people find it easy enough to figure out how much memory to put in their PC. Memory speed, however, is more of a mystery.
You may know that having more gigabytes of RAM is a good thing but does the same apply to RAM speed?
And on a related topic, what are RAM timings and what should you be doing about it?
Speed Ratings Explained
It helps to know what the speed ratings on your memory module…