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The Steam Machine is upon us, and component costs are affecting its sale price. For a little more, enterprising builders can make impressive ones of their own.

Anyone dedicated to saving a buck could spend a little time researching, shopping and toiling to build their own PC. This has been true since the earliest days of personal computing. Usually, it would ...

One of the most important things to check for before building a PC is compatibility across the various components that you will be including in the rig. A mismatch between any two crucial components ...

The golden years of PC pricing may be behind us, but the savvy user can still rustle up a verifiable performance machine ...

Valve's Steam Machine, affectionately nicknamed the "GabeCube" after Valve founder Gabe Newell and Nintendo's similarly-shaped GameCube console from the early 2000s, is launching early next year at an ...

Think you can't build your own computer or that, with low PC prices, there's no real reason to do so? Guess again. Brian Harris says the challenge is easier than it sounds, and will facilitate ...

The rising costs of computer components has everyone jumping over to buying pre-built computers, but building one yourself ...