Commentary: QR codes printed directly onto the machine make it easy for someone like me to upgrade my components with confidence. Shannon is a CNET Perspectives Contributor and YouTube content creator ...

Whether they game, work from home, or are just constantly computing, these expert-tested gifts will turn any desk into a high-performance command center. After starting my career at PCMag as an intern ...

When playing the most GPU-intensive games on the market today, you either realize your GPU settings are ruining your gaming experience, or your gaming PC build wasn't as future-proofed as you had ...

When it comes to upgrading your desktop audio situation, you’ve got options. You can buy computer speakers for anywhere between $100 to $500. You can use a wireless speaker like a HomePod or Sonos Era ...

There are plenty of reasons to choose a desktop over a laptop, despite the latter’s greater popularity. What you sacrifice in portability with a desktop you gain in other areas, including greater ...

Despite the trend in shrinking PC sizes, larger desktop towers with ATX motherboards are still popular — and for fiends who want to get the most out of their systems, these have a secret weapon: PCIe ...

The best desktop computers can elevate your home computing setup in a way that a compact laptop never could. When you don’t have to cram your CPU, RAM, storage, graphics card, screen and keyboard into ...

The Alienware Area-51 namesake is one I've known since I was a young gamer. Ever since my early years playing the Myst series and Fury 3 on my father's computer, the importance of understanding the ...