DIY PC building is a no-fly zone in 2026. (Thanks, RAM.) Now what?

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The PC version of 007 First Light requires lots of expensive RAM and VRAM to run at recommended settings

IO Interactive just announced PC requirements for the upcoming James Bond game 007 First Light. It'll support NVIDIA DLSS 4 ...

Dell revives Area 51 gaming PCs with the world’s fastest gaming CPU

Dell has revived Alienware Area-51 with a flagship desktop featuring AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, RTX 5090 graphics, up to 64GB ...

I finally built the mini PC I've been dreaming of and it made me realise we've come a long way from cramped cases and fiddly connectors

That's what I've long believed in my many years of building relatively functional computers. You have to consider tolerances, sizes, form factors, and cooling more carefully when working within a ...
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With Its New Ryzen 7 9850X3D, AMD Ticks Up the Speed on Its Buzziest Gaming CPU

AMD's new-for-2026 Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor kicks up the clocks and packs the same extra-fast cache in an effort to outpace the well-regarded Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
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Would you buy a prebuilt PC to get a new CPU and GPU?

Some of the people we know have been struggling so long to get a new graphics card and processor that they decided to just sell their old system (getting a pretty decent market price) - then putting ...