But not everything in a PC should be given a second life. Some parts carry hidden wear, unpredictable failure risks, or can ...

The cheapest surge protectors, which are mostly just power strips with a single MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor), are good for just ...

Catch you all next week—I’ll be in the thick of covering Black Friday sales on PCWorld, in addition to whatever deals we chat about on the show. That includes a live blog on Black Friday proper ...

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I reviewed a lot of PC gaming hardware in 2023, but only some of it truly stood out. This year, we saw the introduction of AMD’s second-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs, the full lineup of Nvidia’s RTX 40-series ...

I’ve built hundreds of PCs. I’m not confident enough to say thousands yet, but I’m sure I’ll hit that mark before too long. Every time I go to review a new graphics card or processor, I go through the ...

The new computers, which Microsoft calls “Copilot+” PCs–made by manufacturing partners and Microsoft itself–and new Windows systems to run on them, are a near-total reinvention of the old Windows ...

Is part of your computer monitor’s screen not refreshing properly? It’s showing old content, and no matter how many times you refresh the screen, it remains the same. If a part of the screen freezes, ...

But it gets complicated, because the Steam Machine is largely going to be using mobile-class hardware, like you’d find in one ...

After the better part of two years of declining sales after the gaming PC boom during the COVID pandemic, PC sales are finally on the rise again. The first three months (Q1) of 2024 saw a 1.5% rise in ...