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BMX SolidSafe battery

This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work

By Jeremy Laird published

News It won't catch on fire, either.

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ROG Ryuo IV 360 ARGB

Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler

By Jeremy Laird published

News Asus ups the ante with '3D effect' visuals

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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.

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