Components: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

For a bargain price, Lian Li’s Vector V150 INF delivers premium thermal performance, high-speed I/O, and a head-turning infinity-mirror face in a well-composed MicroATX chassis.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is a powerful AM5 desktop CPU with excellent performance in content creation workloads and games, but its high price makes it hard to justify for gaming alone.

You know it's bad when this seems like a great deal.

Anthropic tells Business Insider it will 'co-design' the hardware and models.

German vendor Arctic is looking to pass on tariff-related savings via a sales promotion on Amazon and eBay that reduces the price of its various liquid coolers and cases.

The RTX 3060 is once again the most popular card, according to the July Steam Hardware Survey.

Maximizing core performance could ensure that the ones being used get the full power budget.

Strong value, clever modularity, and fine build quality for the money make the Lian Li x DAN Cases B4-mATX collaboration a standout MicroATX chassis—provided you plan your component clearances and cable routing carefully.

Take some results with a pinch of salt, though.

Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook warns during an earnings call that memory prices are expected to increase even more during the current quarter.

Samsung also used its latest earnings call to tease a Galaxy Tab S12 and Galaxy S26 FE.

New processor pricing changes will likely impact smartphones, wearables, laptops, and more.

A 4GB ASRock RX 9050 briefly appeared online before being taken down, but it says something about how major GPU manufacturers see the next couple of years playing out.

Taiwan prosecutors are investigating how Supermicro AI servers, known to contain cutting-edge Nvidia GPUs, were illegally exported to China.

Could dual-GPU PCs make a comeback thanks to AI enhancement?

At a tidy $44.99 MSRP, Cooler Master’s Q300L V3 MicroATX PC case packs the modularity and flexibility of models twice its price. It’s the best-value extreme-budget chassis you can buy today.

AMD is splitting Zen 6 Epyc into four classes: Venice SP7, Venice SP8, Venice-X, and Verano. These high-powered Zen 6 CPUs offer different core count configurations and power limits.

The go-to testing tool for performance statistics is being overhauled for the first time in three years with improved multi-core benchmark testing.

12GB of VRAM helps it punch above its weight, but spending close to $350 is not ideal.

AMD's flagship 3D V-Cache desktop processor is still the current PC-gaming champ, but Intel's surprisingly affordable challenger mixes up the whole buying equation.