Over the past few years, a combination of growing public interest in the hobby, inflation pressures, and now tariffs, ...

First-timer to PC building, or just need a 2024 refresher ... of computer gear—from the 386SX to 64-core processors—in my long tenure as an editor, a writer, and an advice columnist.

How long you should wait between PC upgrades is ... Once you get bitten by the PC building bug, upgrades become part and parcel of your life. Whether it's a single component or an entire PC ...

This is perhaps one of those "goes without saying" steps, but wherever you intend to build your PC, give the area a good cleaning first. Long, flat wooden surfaces are ideal, although wood can get ...

The question of whether it's cheaper to build or buy a gaming PC has existed for as long as the platform has with no definitive answer. Things changed when the pandemic raged, though, as ...

PCPartPicker can assist you in your PC-building journey. It can help you to find the right component and create a PC that’s not bottlenecked. In this post, we will learn how you can use ...

The news was not received well by many gamers, with most wondering whether building a PC would make more sense. Here's where things get tricky: the PS5 Pro uses an AMD GPU based on the RDNA 3 ...

There are plenty of good reasons to build your own gaming PC. Complete control over aesthetics ... through a combination of face-licking and long walks, and only occasionally barks at him to ...

I've always wanted to build a white gaming PC, and over the Christmas holidays I had the chance to do just that with a build designed to excel at high refresh rate 1440p gaming. Along the way ...

Why build a retro gaming PC? There's no doubt that DOSBox is a seriously ... Finally, PSUs have come an enormously long way since the 1990s. We have modular and semi-modular designs, wrapped ...

Building a PC for the first time ... The process isn’t designed to be difficult, and as long as you follow the instructions clearly and keep an eye out to ensure the chip is fully seated ...