Desktop pc articles

When you're buying for a new desktop PC you have two main options: build one or buy pre-built. Here are some of the best desktop PC you can buy off the shelf in a variety of form factors.

You just bought a new laptop, built a new desktop, or are clean installing your OS, good for you! Gotta love the taste of a fresh new machine. Now it's time to get back to productivity Zen by recovering your files and installing programs. Not sure which ones? Well, let us help.

Here's a confession: I haven't built a PC from scratch in almost a decade. Sure, I've replaced RAM, SSDs, and several graphics cards, but it's been years since I sat down with a load of boxed components ready to be put together.

When buying a new desktop PC you have two main options: you can build one yourself or you can buy a "pre-built." Here are some of the best desktop PC in a variety of form factors for gaming and basic computing.

Is this a better time to buy or build a new PC than it was earlier this year, when we saw component shortages and skyrocketing prices? Let's take a look at how the market has changed in the past few months.

The Ryzen 3 5300G is a 4-core, 8-thread processor featuring 6 CU Vega graphics... the problem is, you can't buy it. You see, the 5300G is an OEM-only part, but a pretty interesting value part at that.

The Ryzen 7 5700G is an 8-core, 16-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture. It used to be OEM only but it's now landing on retail as well, sporting Radeon integrated graphics. So is it any good?

With insane GPU prices out there, are you better off buying a gaming laptop? Laptops are more widely available and are not ridiculously priced in some instances, and performance has improved a lot in recent years.

Buying a new gaming PC today presents a few challenges due to the GPU shortage. We recently compared our recommended PC building specs to OEM gaming PCs. Now let's do the same comparing pre-builts to boutique PC builders.