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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Building a new PC from scratch is far more exciting than buying a prebuilt one because you have full control over the components you want to use. I remember how thrilled I was back in 2012 when I took ...

A budget part is only as good as its price on the shelf. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There have been some excellent budget PC ...

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 ...

Imagine coming home from work, turning on your living-room TV, and sitting down to play a PC game, view the latest news, or pick from weeks of archived media, all from a single box, no broadband ...