Components: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Morgan Stanley estimates suggest N1X models might start at $2,900.

At Computex, AMD introduced a new 3D V-Cache desktop processor and resurrected an old one. Here's why you should think carefully before buying either one.

Luxury goods purchases in the regions where many tech companies are located are booming. Samsung union members alone got an average bonus of about $340,000.

Might as well. You're going to use it in games, right?

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a capable midrange graphics card for gaming and a good fallback if you can't find an RX 9070 or RTX 5070 at list price.

The ever-popular Ryzen 7 5800X3D will re-release for $349 on June 25. AMD is also launching its Radeon RX 9070 GRE worldwide to try to keep graphics card pricing down.

Pure muscle and localized agentic AI are about to ignite a PC revolution.

The company hopes to usher in the era of the AI supercomputer at home with laptops and mini PCs powered by RTX Spark arriving this fall.

Huang will take the stage in Taipei on Sunday, May 31, at 11 p.m. EDT.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes the stage on June 2 at 1:30 p.m. Taipei time. Expect him to discuss Wildcat Lake laptops, Panther Lake handhelds, as well as AI PCs and data centers.

CEO Cristiano Amon is speaking on June 1 at 2 p.m. Taipei time. With Nvidia potentially debuting its N1 platform, Qualcomm may have stiff competition for its own Arm efforts.

The Arc G-Series is heading to Acer's new Windows-based Predator Atlas 8 handheld. MSI and OneXPlayer plan on adopting the chips, too.

It's shaping up to be an exciting week in Taipei. Here's what AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and the PC industry’s biggest players are likely to unveil.

Fitting a full-length graphics card into a small-footprint box, the NZXT H2 Flow’s vertical-yet-retro look hides monster gaming power.

Building or buying a PC in 2026 just keeps getting more expensive, with memory and storage prices surging. I've been building PCs for a long time, so here's how I would save my money.

Upgrading or building out your workhorse PC on a tight budget? Here's how to shop for the right AMD or Intel processor for less than $300, along with the top-performing chips in our benchmark tests.

An unapologetically premium airflow monster, Antec's Flux Pro Noctua Edition pairs standout thermals and impressively low noise with a wealth of highly regarded Noctua fans. The brown-and-beige aesthetic won’t win over everyone, but for Noctua devotees and air-cooling obsessives, this lavish PC chassis delivers.

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G isn't a high-speed desktop CPU, but its built-in graphics processor is faster than most, making it a practical, tailored pick for compact PCs and light PC gaming if a discrete graphics card isn't an option.

Intel's budget-class Core i5-14400 is a fine-performing desktop CPU for everyday tasks and an upgrade option for slower PCs on the LGA 1700 platform, but you can find peppier modern processors in the same price range.

Intel's Core Ultra 5 225 is an economical CPU with performance and features commensurate with its price. Intel's own Core Ultra 5 250K Plus casts a long shadow, though, relegating this chip to bargain buys only.