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 ...

Assembling a gaming PC on a limited budget is more achievable than ever. By combining a prebuilt Dell Optiplex 770 desktop with an AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU and installing SteamOS 3.8, you can create ...

The early 2020s were grim times for PC builders, but the stars and parts are aligning to bring DIY desktops back into favor. Our expert makes the case for busting out your screwdriver. I have been 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 ...

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 PCPartPicker ...

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 ...

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It’s time for something I’ve been waiting on for over a year, ever since we first saw desktop PC part manufacturers put connection ports on the back of motherboards instead of ...

There are many reasons you might want to build yourself a small form factor (SFF) PC. I built one because I wanted a home entertainment center of sorts — those PCs are often referred to as HTPC, for ...

The question of prebuilt versus custom PC is one that’s faced by nearly every PC owner at some point, be they enthusiast gamers or casual users. After all, getting a prebuilt desktop is a lot easier, ...

If you read PCWorld, odds are pretty good that you like to build desktop PCs, or at least have a passing interest in it. We love building PCs—and in fact, we’ve built dozens of them live on air over ...

Because of their mobile nature, laptops get a lot of attention in the tech world. The ability to pick them up and move around is useful for a lot of people, but not everybody prefers to do their ...