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Allen key tool
This adjustable Allen key tool is one small project for a YouTube channel, one giant leap for PC building kind

By Jeremy Laird Published

News An awful lot of engineering for such a small tool.

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I build a PC every month: these are my 5 worst PC building gripes

By Jacob Ridley Published

Gripes Week It's Gripes Week at PC Gamer, and I'm taking aim at the thing I enjoy the most in my job: PC building.

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Gripes Week
A plain looking, ergonomic office chair concealing a gaming PC underneath the seat.
Is it a chair? Is it a PC? Actually, this stealth PC build is both—and probably very toasty

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News That's one way to save on heating bills this winter.

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A gaming PC with RGB lighting enabled on a desk.
This gaming PC build smashes together the very latest components but if I did it again, I'd do it differently

By Zak Storey Published

OTT The H9 Elite looks glorious, but with an RTX 5090 plus AMD's 9950X, it makes for a toasty little number.

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A gaming PC build using the Be Quiet Shadow Base 800 FX chassis, an Intel Core Ultra CPU and an RX 7900 XT GPU.
This no-vidia gaming PC is a great example of how small design decisions can make it feel like you're building a PC on easy-mode

By Jacob Ridley Published

Simple All thanks to a roomy case, fan controller, and incredibly simple NVMe slots.

Simple
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX photographed with box on a white background.
Reddit user unearths $850+ RX 7900 XTX from bargain bin, pays about 10 bucks for it, and claims 'it's working'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Talk about a wild (graphics) card.

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A gaming PC built using MSI's Project Zero components. With a small illustrated 'living' computer pointing at it in the bottom left.
I built the mullet of gaming PCs with MSI's Project Zero 'Back-Connect' parts

By Jacob Ridley Published

Mullet PC Business up front, party out back.

Mullet PC
A finished white gaming PC on a table with Nanoleaf lighting panels behind it and RGB enabled.
Don't try and squeeze too many ideas inside one PC build: For this white gaming PC with an RTX 4080 Super, I very nearly did

By Jacob Ridley Published

The Build Follow along as I build a white gaming PC.

The Build
Prime Day PC build parts on a blue background.
Join me as I build a wicked gaming PC for ~$1,000 out of Prime Day sale parts

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Prime Day Live Let's build ourselves a tasty machine that'll play the latest games at 1440p or better.

Prime Day Live
A photograph of a desktop PC next to a large monitor on a desk, with a keyboard and mouse
Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable

By Nick Evanson Published

PC building pains AMD, Intel—doesn't matter which one you go with, there's always something to trip you up.

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