This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC? Whilst making repairs to laptop internals, ...

Imagine playing your favorite AAA games in stunning 1440p resolution on a sleek, compact gaming rig that doesn’t dominate your desk, or your wallet. Building a small form factor (SFF) gaming PC on a ...

Why does it feel like PC gaming is becoming a luxury hobby? With the cost of GPUs skyrocketing, CPUs demanding a bigger slice of your wallet, and RAM prices refusing to budge, building a gaming rig ...

Have you ever looked at your ISP-provided router and thought, "I wonder what it would be like to build my own firewall?" That's precisely what went through my mind last year when I finally made the ...

SilverStone has just unveiled another retro gaming PC case, but rather than sitting flat on your desk, this one is a full tower, complete with a stack of 5.25-inch drive bays. Plus, in a nod to the ...

I ignored my own advice. I built a new PC from scratch in what is likely the worst financial environment to take such an expensive adventure. It involved months of scrounging, begging, and groaning ...

The first few months of 2025 were full of graphics card reviews where we generally came away impressed with performance and completely at a loss on availability and pricing. The testing in these ...

Facepalm: Building a PC can be overwhelming for beginners, so it's understandable why a hardware company would develop a chatbot to assist shoppers with component selection. However, MSI's attempt ...

I don’t typically make New Year’s resolutions, but 2026 is a special exception. You can thank stratospheric memory prices for that—and a little scare that happened right before Christmas. Micro Center ...

It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the ...

Building a brand-new PC is an expensive endeavor in 2025. Costs for almost all components have gone up. Plus, with games like "Indiana Jones: The Great Circle" requiring ray-tracing hardware, ...