Building a PC is easier than ever thanks to online resources, comprehensive manuals, and standardized parts. You'll learn about your PC while building it, something that can make troubleshooting less ...

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 ...

Most of you reading this might turn your nose up at the thought of purchasing a pre-built PC instead of building one. I was in the same boat, but lately, I've realized that everything I need and ...

There’s something uniquely satisfying about building a SFF Mini-ITX PC gaming PC that’s not just powerful but also compact enough to fit on a small desk or shelf. But let’s be real—packing that much ...

I’m an avid PC builder. I built my first PC nearly 20 years ago as a teenager with the help of my mom, and I fell in love with the whole process almost instantly. I was already a PC gamer at the time, ...

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging ...

The more I look at the word 'gripes', the less it looks right. Nevertheless, we're running through our PC gaming gripes all week. Since I've been building gaming PCs pretty much non-stop this year, I ...

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 ...

We test a lot of components at PC Gamer. We're often swapping GPUs, CPUs, SSDs and RAM between test rigs to find out whether they're worth your cash. Yet an important question to ask yourself when ...

What if we told you that for just $300, you could build a gaming PC capable of delivering smooth 1080p performance in some of today’s most popular titles? It might sound too good to be true in an era ...

WTF?! If you were going to pay someone to build a PC, how would you expect the labor costs to be? One Redditor was quoted the comically high price of over $11,000 for a build that was allegedly going ...

TL;DR: PC Building Simulator 2 offers a realistic PC building and repair experience with over 1200 real-world components from top brands like MSI and ASRock. The latest update integrates accurate ...