Building your own PC will not only save you money, it can also be surprisingly fun. But unlike graphics cards and CPUs, which get much hype and praise heaped on them, motherboards are one of the ...

The motherboard is the spine of your computer, but despite how important it is, it often becomes an afterthought. It’s easy to overlook when there are shinier, more exciting components to spend money ...

At CES 2024, MSI unveiled its no-cables desktop (or, at least, its no-visible-cables desktop!) with a special motherboard and PC case series dubbed “Project Zero.” We built it up—and created the ...

Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines, ...

Moving the motherboard in your gaming PC to the middle of your case is no easy feat, but PC modder Jeroen ter Horst has done an expert job here. He gutted his Fractal Design Meshify S2 and completely ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to build a retro gaming PC, based on original hardware from the 1990s, with a few modern touches. It can run DOS games and early Windows games, but it'll also look ...

Do you think we'll see a day when we can build our own motherboard? I mean actually design the circuits, place the components on and solder them. (I suppose if you were really ambitious you could do ...

If you are building a PC you can just choose whatever motherboard fits into your case, right? Wrong, there's a lot more to think about. For the first part of this series go here. Anyone who's ever ...