A liquid cooling system helps your computer run better, but it's not an easy setup. Here are five beginner mistakes to avoid ...

What if your next desktop PC wasn’t a bulky tower or an off-the-shelf laptop, but a palm-sized powerhouse you built yourself? The Raspberry Pi 5, already celebrated for its versatility, is now ...

We're nearly a year into today's chronic shortage of PC memory (dubbed by many pundits "RAM-ageddon"), and it's showing no signs of slowing down. If your main-squeeze PC is getting old, you may not be ...

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 ...

The war on cables is over, and the cables lost. You can follow Adam and Will as they build a full desktop PC with nary a cable in sight, thanks to Asus Back To Future parts. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It’s ...

This may come as a surprise: Though I work at PCWorld, I don’t build computers. Well, I can. I have. But it’s one thing to buy a few thousand dollars’ worth of parts and then build a desktop on a ...

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging ...

One of the most important things to check for before building a PC is compatibility across the various components that you will be including in the rig. A mismatch between any two crucial components ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you want to get in on PC gaming today, you have three broad choices: buy a handheld gaming PC, a gaming laptop, or a desktop gaming PC.

A gamer may want to build their PC from scratch for several reasons. You might choose this option if your gaming PC or gaming consoles doesn't meet the demands of the games you play, you want a more ...