A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

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I recently bought a GMKtek G5 mini PC – one of the smallest mini PCs of 2025. Before making the purchase, I went spiraling down a rabbit hole of reading about mini PCs. It turned out to be a good ...

Desktop deals usually fall into two buckets: cheap machines that need upgrades right away, or pricey rigs that feel like ...

It's fair to say that Maingear is one of the most respected boutique builders in the business, as is its boss, Wallace Santos. We've long been impressed with Maingear's build quality and attention to ...

As a PC builder with nearly 20 years of experience, I was always of the opinion that if you want to get one of the best gaming desktops, you have to build it yourself. I still stand by that opinion, ...

The first few months of 2025 were full of graphics card reviews where we generally came away impressed with performance and completely at a loss on availability and pricing. The testing in these ...

Mini PCs made me rethink what a desktop should be ...

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Most people will put a lot of thought into their CPU and GPU requirements when buying or building a new PC, but the storage often gets left by the wayside or is considered only insofar as picking an ...