PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Is the era of affordable PC building over? Not yet, ...

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PC builders have watched memory prices rise far faster than expected, raising questions about what is driving the market and where it goes next.

I enjoy hunting for deals during Black Friday. I specifically like poking around for solid PC parts that I can combine for high-quality-but-affordable gaming PCs. I love it so much that I’ve sat down ...

It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the ...

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging ...

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