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There are many ways to sell your used components. Here are the pros and cons of trade-in sites and resale options like Amazon, eBay and Craigslist.

Have two sets of data with one common field? Learn how to combine data from different spreadsheets using the VLOOKUP function.

High-performance workstations need to be as stable and reliable as they are fast. We put together an all-around crowd pleaser that'll allow us to test professional hardware on a relative budget

If you're tired of getting alerts from your favorite websites, it's easy to disable some (or even all) of your browser notifications.

Learn how to install and configure the DNS Server Role in Windows Server 2012.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $2,500 build.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $2,000 build.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $1,500 build.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $1,250 build.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $1,000 build.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $750 build.

We built 7 PCs from the ground up that were designed and spec’d by the Tom’s Hardware community to be the best. Here’s how to assemble the $500 build.

Even with summer gone, cooling remains a hot topic. How can the cooling performance of a graphics card be improved without replacing the cooler, or switching to liquid cooling? We'll cover some causes of poor cooling performance.

We test how passive cooling treats Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and discuss some of the challenges a passive cooler presents to a 75W graphics card.

Learn how to enable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions in Windows Server 2016 to administrate server PCs from anywhere.

Learn how to index specific Windows 10 files and folders, change the default indexing database location or even disable indexing in Windows 10.

Ever had your patience put on trial by glitchy mouse buttons? That is one problem that simply should never have been on any half-decent mice.

AMD's socket AM1 is notoriously slow and gloriously inexpensive. Contributor Joe Trott tunes his machine in an effort to answer the question: Can this low-energy platform meet the most-basic needs of a performance enthusiast?

Now that we’ve built four PCs with matching budgets, which builder, and which machine, owns the title of best performance for $1600?

Because you asked for it, we put an Intel Core i5 and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 into a mini-ITX case. But how does it perform compared to its larger twin?