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MAY 20, 2016

I've been happy with my 2016 HTPC , but the situation has changed, largely because of something I mentioned in passing back in November: The Xbox One and PS4 are effectively plain old PCs , built on: Intel Atom class (aka slow) AMD 8-core x86 CPU. The golden age of x86 gaming is well upon us.

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APRIL 19, 2020

liters (For comparison with The Golden Age of x86 Gaming Consoles , a PS4 Pro occupies 5.3 liters (For comparison with The Golden Age of x86 Gaming Consoles , a PS4 Pro occupies 5.3 Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015.

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MARCH 24, 2017

When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming , I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. Playing games at 1080p in my living room was already possible. I'm here to report that the future is now.

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