PC gaming has never quite been affordable, but you could always save money—and get a surprising amount of value and power—if ...

The end result is a Frankenstein’s monster of a PC, a cobbled-together mess of modern and venerable components that still ...

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 ...

If you want to build a kick-ass computer lab in your home, you’ll need to start with a kick-ass PC. But with so many ways to get good PCs these days, you’ll need to make a decision: Do you buy a ...

PC building sucks right now. At least, it does for anyone on a budget—even a reasonable one. This reality is documented in ...

"Out of the box" doesn’t mean "out of the woods." These essential first steps will tidy up Windows, lock it down, and get your new PC ready for real work and play. Fancy a PC in a glass-sided case?

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 ...

Inspired by the idea of a brain in a jar connected to a computer, PC builder David Wieland created this steampunk PC called Posthuman. It makes use of wooden elements, along with CNC-machined metal, ...

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 ...