What if you could enjoy the power and flexibility of PC gaming without the sky-high price tag of modern consoles or premium gaming rigs? Imagine a sleek, compact system nestled in your living room, ...

Finding and building a powerful gaming PC that perfectly suits personal preferences can really help level up anyone's gaming experience, increasing the overall quality of immersion, gameplay, and ...

Assembling a gaming PC on a limited budget is more achievable than ever. By combining a prebuilt Dell Optiplex 770 desktop with an AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU and installing SteamOS 3.8, you can create ...

A huge part of that comes down to how heavily Valve has funded and supported open-source projects to make gaming on Linux easier. One of the most important examples is Wine, which is a compatibility ...

I've seen some unusual gaming PC builds in my time, but this futuristic space pod build is certainly up with the best with them. Named Ugahari, a word meaning frugal or modest in Indonesian, the ...

I love Scandinavian interior design, embracing the minimalist vibe with beautiful woods and natural colors. That's why I'm in love with this DIY Nordic gaming PC build, with its beautifully crafted, ...

Nvidia makes some of the best graphics cards, but most of them are ridiculously expensive. In fact, some of them are so pricey that you could build a whole gaming PC for the price of one GPU. This is ...

So possible tariffs next year, and an older (2018) CPU that's not Win11-capable have me looking at a new gaming build. I used to follow various build guides (like the guides that used to be on Ars) as ...

Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe ...

A month after launch, Cronos: The New Dawn now has a native Linux build, with devs Bloober Team announcing in a post on Steam, "Today, we’ve released a native build of the game for Steam’s handheld ...

PC cases might be overlooked more than other components when building your rig. But cases are your gaming PC’s home, and features like cable management, airflow, and ventilation can make or break your ...