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 ...

Learning PC building basics gives users more control over performance, upgrades, and overall value compared to many prebuilt systems. Whether creating a work machine or a gaming PC build, choosing ...

At CES 2024, MSI unveiled its no-cables desktop (or, at least, its no-visible-cables desktop!) with a special motherboard and PC case series dubbed “Project Zero.” We built it up—and created the ...

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 ...

If you thought wireless power delivery was handy for charging phones but not terribly practical for much else, prepare to have your mind blown. One of our favourite YouTube channels, DIY Perks, has ...

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 ...

Since AI has diffused into every aspect of the technology sector, I’ve been more than a little tempted to try my hand at some of AI’s cooler applications. That growing temptation finally culminated in ...

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 ...

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, ...