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Latest about Desktops
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 Best Gaming PC Deals 2025 — deals from Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, Dell, Lenovo, and othersBy Stewart Bendle Last updated 
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 $2,000 PC Build Spotlight: Rising PhoenixBy Niels Broekhuijsen Published 
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 Best Gaming PCs of 2025By Andrew E. Freedman Last updated 
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 This RGB PC in a plastic jug is uncomfortably beguilingBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Apple's Houston-built AI servers are now shipping, according to CEO Tim Cook — custom silicon to power Private Cloud ComputeBy Luke James Published 
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 CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme review: High style, affordable price, but loudBy Brandon Hill Published 
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 MSI's new AI-powered PC building assistant recommends the 9800X3D as a budget CPUBy Hassam Nasir Published 
 
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Gaming PCs
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 Best Gaming PC Deals 2025 — deals from Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, Dell, Lenovo, and othersBy Stewart Bendle Last updated 
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 $2,000 PC Build Spotlight: Rising PhoenixBy Niels Broekhuijsen Published 
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 Best Gaming PCs of 2025By Andrew E. Freedman Last updated 
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 CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme review: High style, affordable price, but loudBy Brandon Hill Published 
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 Maingear debuts new premium desktop PCs — Apex Rush, Force models start at $6,259By Stephen Warwick Published 
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 iBuyPower Y40 Pro Review: Style firstBy Charles Jefferies Published 
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 Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auctionBy Jon Martindale Published 
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 Eight-year-old gaming PC with Nvidia GTX 1080 found in the trash room gets a second lifeBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 Fully working gaming PC fished out from a dumpster and rehabbedBy Jowi Morales Published 
 
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Mini PCs
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 Nvidia's DGX Spark AI mini-PC goes up for sale October 15By Jeffrey Kampman Published 
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 Wee Beastie crowdfunding project promises 4.75L fish tank SFF PC packing a 'desktop' RTX 4070By Mark Tyson Published 
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 Qualcomm shows off reference mini PCs almost as thin as a USB port, powered by Snapdragon X2 Elite ExtremeBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 This upcoming Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock lets you mount an entire mini-PC on the sideBy Aaron Klotz Published 
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 ‘World’s smallest Intel Core Ultra-powered Mini PC’ crown claimed by fanless Aaeon PICO-MTU4-SEMIBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Mini-PC production line video shows a combination of machine automation and human efforts to make PCsBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Mini PC 'violently' smashed with a sledgehammer, dragged behind a motorbike, and spun in a washing machineBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Custom PC company stuffs a NUC inside a GPUBy Zhiye Liu Published 
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 Would you buy this? $44 PC promises "powerful performance" and "striking visuals"By Avram Piltch Published 
 
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PC Building
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 This RGB PC in a plastic jug is uncomfortably beguilingBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 MSI's new AI-powered PC building assistant recommends the 9800X3D as a budget CPUBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 This Porsche wheel is actually a custom, liquid-cooled gaming PC with an RTX 5080 & floating motherboardBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Redditor quoted absurd $11,000 labor fee for $4,000 PC buildBy Zak Killian Published 
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 Repairer brands customer’s gaming PC a ‘monstrosity’ — skin lacerating cable management technique provokes horrorBy Mark Tyson Published 
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  Enthusiast builds an entire PC setup with Lego-style bricksBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Redditor fishes a fully-functional Core i5-9400F and GTX 1660 PC gaming rig out of the trashBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Shuttle intros semi-ruggedized barebone Intel Arrow Lake-S mini PCBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 $175,000 computer server package acquired by mayor flagged as suspicious due to an apparent 1,300% markupBy Mark Tyson Published 
 
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Servers
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 Apple's Houston-built AI servers are now shipping, according to CEO Tim Cook — custom silicon to power Private Cloud ComputeBy Luke James Published 
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 Microsoft cancels Wisconsin data center after community pushbackBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 China to launch commercial underwater data centerBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 Intel reveals 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon at Hot ChipsBy Luke James Published 
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 China is developing nation-spanning network to sell surplus data center compute powerBy Anton Shilov Published 
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 News Analysis News AnalysisNvidia's Arm chips rapidly gain share in server market as AI boomsBy Anton Shilov Published 
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 Nvidia reportedly books entire server plant capacity through 2026 to build Blackwell and Rubin AI serversBy Anton Shilov Published 
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 Researchers convert old phones into 'tiny data centers'By Jowi Morales Published 
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 Someone hacked an Apple Network Server to run DOOMBy Stephen Warwick Published 
 
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More about Desktops
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 MSI's new AI-powered PC building assistant recommends the 9800X3D as a budget CPUBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Nvidia's DGX Spark AI mini-PC goes up for sale October 15By Jeffrey Kampman Published 
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 This Porsche wheel is actually a custom, liquid-cooled gaming PC with an RTX 5080 & floating motherboardBy Hassam Nasir Published 
 
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