Unique designs, smart engineering, and serious performance defined this year’s CES PC haul. These are our favorites across 11 categories of hardware.

While conventional wisdom states that performance and value should be the sole criteria for choosing PC components, I can't ...

I’ve spent the better part of a decade preaching the gospel of “build, don’t buy,” but looking at the current state of ...

Let it be shouted from the rooftops until everybody gets the message: Building your own PC, be it for productivity, video editing, or gaming, does not need to cost a small fortune. A lot of PC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building your own gaming PC is a rewarding experience and gives you far more control over the pieces and parts that wind up in your PC tower. Those without any familiarity of the internal workings of ...

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: gaming laptops are awesome. After decades of being looked down upon by “real” PC gamers, they can now go toe-to-toe with gaming desktops. But if you want ultimate ...

Having a properly configured firewall on your computer is an important part of staying safe online, but having one on your ...

Buying a new computer starts with a single but not so simple choice: desktop or laptop? Workhorse tablets might be more viable for certain segments of the market than they were previously but for many ...