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CyberPowerPC Phanteks CPU cooler inside a gaming pc.
It's time to throw away your PC's small AIO liquid cooler

Small radiators choke under long loads as modern heatpipe air coolers close the gap with quieter reliability.

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Two video out ports on a dinged up old GPU.
I've started buying "broken" GPUs, and it's not because I know how to fix them
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One gamer's trash is a self-hoster's treasure.

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A USB bus plugged into a PC with all the ports on
Your PC has a hidden USB limit

I pushed my USB ports to the limit just to see how many devices my PC could handle.

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A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU inside a B550M motherboard with some DDR4 RAM and an NVMe SSD.
Stop gaming on these 4 AMD processors
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AMD has come a long way, and these CPUs are proof of how far!

Plugable UD-MSTH3 PC dock with external monitors
This PC dock gives you dual 4K 60Hz monitors without using Thunderbolt

Plugable offers a sharp multi-display setup with USB-C and no drivers.

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PCIe lanes on a motherboard.
These 5 cheap PCIe cards turn any PC into a Plex powerhouse

Unleash your Plex server's true potential with these unexpected PCIe expansion cards.

Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU on display.
Why Nvidia abandoned the RTX 50 Super before it even launched
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Was Nvidia's RTX 50 Super the exact thing we needed in this current state of the market?

Noctua NF-S12A ULN 120 mm fans with foreground fan in focus.
Noctua's brown fans became the status symbol of PC building—here's why it actually worked

The ugly color became the brand's biggest marketing advantage.

HP OmniBook 3 left-side HDMI USB-A and dual USB-C ports.
USB-C was great for laptops, but not desktops

As it turns out, one port to rule them all had some drawbacks.

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An FX-6100
These are the 5 worst CPUs of all time, ranked

5 times Intel and AMD completely failed us

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The AM4 socket on an AMD motherboard.
Your motherboard might already be dead and you don't know it yet

5 signs you damaged your motherboard when building your PC (it's more common than you think)

The original Intel Pentium CPU leaning against a modern gaming PC.
The 6 best CPUs of all time, ranked

These 6 legendary CPUs changed PC building forever

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A disassembled AMD RX 6800 XT with new thermal paste on the GPU.
Stop believing these 7 thermal paste myths before you ruin your PC

We busted 7 common thermal paste myths so you don't ruin your PC

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Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan
The best GPUs of all time, ranked
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The most legendary GPUs in PC gaming history, and why we'll never see anything like them again

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Intel Core i5-14600K contact pads.
These 4 legendary Intel CPUs are officially too old for gaming in 2026

It’s officially time to stop gaming on these 4 beloved Intel CPUs

LG Ultragear WQHD OLED Curved Gaming Monitor - Edited
LG monitors are installing adware, and its TVs are raising "eavesdropping" concerns

The company is facing an uproar over McAfee software and AI recording policy.

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The back panel I/O of a motherboard showing USB ports and Wi-Fi antenna connectors,.
Your PC's motherboard has a hidden button on the back—here’s why you should use it

I used the hidden button on the back of my motherboard, and it solved my worst PC building nightmare

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A Geforce RTX 3050 Ti GPU inside a computer tower under blue light.
I used to dream of a dual-GPU gaming PC, but I'm glad Nvidia killed it
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How Nvidia quietly killed multi-GPU gaming for good

Intel Arc GPUs
I didn't expect to recommend an Intel GPU in 2026, but here we are
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Nvidia and AMD have officially broken the budget GPU market—and only Intel can save it

An AMD RX 9070 XT Gigabyte gaming graphics card.
The worst GPUs of all time, ranked
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A throwback to some of the most disappointing and ridiculous GPUs we've ever seen

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