PC Components

AMD's former pound-for-pound gaming champ hits its historic low again — Ryzen 7 9800X3D offers unmatched value for gamers at $429

Shopper scores $1,000 in PC hardware for just $86 in a shocking pricing glitch

11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core chips, flaunts Cyrillic-badged chips

How to use Precision Boost Overdrive and Curve Optimizer to improve Ryzen CPU performance

Best Budget CPUs of 2026, Benchmarked and Ranked

Intel announces Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs, claims 15% higher gaming performance and multi-threaded boost

Intel Nova Lake CPU teaser lists official support for speedy DDR5-8000 RAM

Intel Panther Lake-H high-res die shot emerges

Intel keeps socket LGA 1700 alive with new P-core-only CPUs

Best AIO Coolers 2026

Thermal Grizzly scammed out of $46,000 by Alibaba metals suppliers

Best PC case fans tested 2026: Improve your airflow, silence your system, or add more RGB glow

Be quiet! Silent Loop 3 420 review: Performance cooling with minimal noise

Best CPU Cooler deals 2026

Thermalright Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB Black review: Detachable 6.7-inch screen makes for unique possibilities

Budget RGB Fan Roundup: Are cheap PC fans always this bad?

Thermalright's LCD software for Windows ported to Linux

Noctua celebrates its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit

Chinese GPU vendor Zephyr has cancelled its single-fan RTX 4070 Ti Super due to VRAM price hikes

Flabbergasted GPU repair wizard highlights dangers of liquid metal after leak kills entire RTX 5070 Ti

AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 GPUs might improve dual-issue execution, LLVM patch adds new FMA instruction

Chinese GPU-maker Lisuan flaunts new design details for its LX 7G100 gaming card,

Nvidia promises a 1-million-times improvement in path tracing, thanks to AI progress

GPU price tracking 2026: Lowest price on every graphics card from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel today

China's ByteDance to access 36,000 Blackwell GPU cluster through Malaysia cloud operator

Lisuan's homegrown 6nm G100 series GPUs launches June 18 in China with support for popular Steam games

Rumored RTX 5050 9GB could make hay from recycled RTX 5060 silicon

ASRock launches new Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots

MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Max Wifi II Motherboard review: Sharpening the Tomahawk’s blade

Best motherboard deals 2026

Why AMD motherboards now come with bigger BIOS chips—and why it matters to you

MSI to the max: power and performance from today’s cutting-edge motherboards

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MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis

Best Motherboards 2026 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero Motherboard Review

Gigabyte X870E Aero X3D Wood Motherboard Review: Wood and leather make it better

Splave's Cave: Overclocking the Asus RTX 5090 Astral and setting the 3DMark Port Royal world record

Overclocker uses camping freezer to push RTX 5050 to nearly 3.5 GHz

GPU overclocker uses chilled car antifreeze and pond pump to push Intel card to sub-zero temps, sets world record

Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category

GPU frequency overclocking world record broken using integrated Intel graphics

Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs 23 degrees cooler

PC enthusiast delidded a 9950X3D using fishing line and a clothes iron

Overclocking Arrow Lake: How I set world records, plus simple tips to push your Core Ultra to the limit

Diabatix and Asus hit new overclocking records with LN2-optimized heatsink – Intel Core Ultra 9 285K hits 7.448 GHz

Noctua teases upcoming PC case with brown color scheme and bundled fans

This shark PC case will take a $5,499 megabyte out of your pocket

Akasa launches its latest-generation fanless Mini-ITX case

Computer History Museum unveils comically large-scale rendition of the 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus

Hands-on with Cooler Master’s Cosmos Alpha full-tower chassis – sliding, configurable interior makes for lots of possibilities

Corsair launches new FRAME 4000D "Vault" series featuring two color-shifting paintjobs & other upgrades

Best PC Case Deals 2026

This Xbox One S mod hides a full Windows gaming PC within the original shell

Retro Apple Mac mod implements thermal printer floppy swap

Lian Li SP1000P SFX power supply review: Exceptional power density in compact form

Best Power Supplies 2026

be quiet! Power Zone 2 1200W power supply review: Delivers outstanding performance at premium pricing

Enthusiast fries 14TB HDD due to SATA power slipup

Infineon allegedly hikes prices of power switches and ICs amid AI boom

Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill

Cooler Master Elite NEX W600 power supply review: Affordable, but with outdated design

Lian Li RS1200G ATX 3.1 power supply review: Stellar performance, state-of-the-art design

be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 650W power supply review: Balanced performance and reliability

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion

RAM Price Index 2026: Daily lowest price on DDR5 and DDR4 memory of all capacities

Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer

US RAM crisis hits boiling point as AI mania wipes out all 32GB DDR5 kits under $359

Framework’s monthly chip shortage update sees slower RAM price increase but rising SSD costs for March

SK hynix introduces turbocharged LPDDR6, 33% faster and 20% more power efficient than LPDDR5X

Memory bit flips cause up to 15% of Firefox crashes, asserts Mozilla engineer

DDR5 RAM kits skyrocket to an astonishing $4,000 on Newegg with wild price listings on multiple G.Skill and Corsair products

Micron begins sampling 256GB SOCAMM2 units for up to 2 TB of LPDDR5X per CPU

DIY Amiga sound sampler circuit mystery solved 32 years later

Creative Labs revives Sound Blaster brand with modular audio hub

Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later

Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed

How to Add Effects to Audio in Audacity

How To Remove Background Noise, Distortion in Audacity

EVGA Nu Audio Pro Review: Who Needs a Sound Card in 2020?

EVGA Adds Nu Audio Pro 7.1 Sound Cards With Improved Looks

EVGA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Kingpin Card Includes a Power Meter

Microscopes can clearly see the video on the surface of a CED 'LaserDisc,' discovers Techtuber

Six-month rewritable DVD endurance test crowns winner with 1,000 rewrites, shows the best discs are no longer manufactured

SSD price tracking 2026: Lowest price on every M.2 SSD from Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, and more — here are the best deals during the AI-driven pricing crisis

How to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypse

The best SSD for the Steam Deck, Xbox ROG Ally, and Ally X in 2026

Minisforum's new flagship NAS comes with OpenClaw pre-installed

Phison CEO says that NAND prices hiked by around 50% overnight, highlighting severe shortage in the industry

Cancelled Blu-Ray recorder production leads to flood of orders for Panasonic after rivals exit market

Unpowered flash drive data retention test shows promising results after six years