Now, as the year winds down, we’re facing price spikes for memory and storage that are unlike anything I’ve seen in two ...

Maingear has revealed a new scheme to give the buyers of its prebuilt PCs a possible workaround for the increased cost of these computers due to RAM price hikes – it's called BYO RAM. I guess that ...

"Similar to how muscle cars from the '50s haven't disappeared, the love for building your own desktop PC from the ground up... will make desktop PCs prevail." When you purchase through links on our ...

The science and art of PC building has always been something of a balancing act, but in late 2025, it feels more like walking ...

Things were arguably worse before PCIe and M.2 slots were standard -- I remember struggling to hook hard drives up to long, ...

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Thankfully, there aren't a lot of times in my life when I've been terrified that one small move could ...

For the average consumer, building a PC sucks. In theory it’s a great idea. Get the components, plug them in, turn on the computer, then game all day. But it’s never that simple. Back during COVID ...

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 ...

Building your own PC is more technical and time consuming than choosing a pre-made model, but it can also be more cost-effective. If you feel you have the know-how, building a PC can ensure the ...

Building just one PC and stopping there is hard. Roll your own rig and next thing you know, you’re thinking about all the other systems you could build—if only you had the money to do it. You can try ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article included a video guide detailing similar steps on how to build a PC. Unfortunately, that video included a number of errors in the build process, and ...