Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

AI infrastructure has driven RAM and storage prices to historic highs, making even a basic gaming build a serious financial decision.

Building or buying a PC in 2026 just keeps getting more expensive, with memory and storage prices surging. I've been building PCs for a long time, so here's how I would save my money.

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 ...

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 ...

A quiet gaming PC is no longer a luxury—it is a practical goal for gamers who want immersive performance without constant fan noise. As modern GPUs and CPUs push higher power limits, unmanaged heat ...

Now that Sony has finally unveiled the PS5 Pro, packed with a more powerful GPU – and little else – I’ve taken a look at the specs to see what an equivalent gaming PC would look like. And, well, you ...

Computex always delivers PC-enthusiast eye candy, but this year's standouts pushed the envelope with transparent components, ...

I test and review PC components, and I love a good deal. Want my $1,600 desktop recipe, packing a Ryzen 9 and a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti? You just need to buy and assemble. I have been interested in ...

Discover the step-by-step process to assemble a $166 custom gaming PC capable of playing modern and retro games smoothly.

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 ...