Building or upgrading a gaming PC can feel overwhelming, especially with new hardware releases every year. But smart, strategic upgrades can dramatically boost performance without breaking the bank.

In the PC hardware timeline, even 5 years seems like ages ago. After all, 2020 was the year when we were grappling with the GPU crisis, the RTX 30 series had just launched, and the Ryzen 7 5800X3D ...

When playing the most GPU-intensive games on the market today, you either realize your GPU settings are ruining your gaming experience, or your gaming PC build wasn't as future-proofed as you had ...

Without beating around the bush, PC gaming is expensive these days. Or, at the very least, it certainly feels like it is. With the prices of the best graphics cards still way too high, it might feel ...

If you're a PC enthusiast with any amount of expendable income, you know how difficult it is to ignore the itch to upgrade, even if everything you have is already sufficient. 2025 was a year in which ...

PCWorld outlines nine essential PC upgrades to prepare systems for 2026, focusing on components like CPUs, GPUs, RAM, SSDs, and cooling solutions. Key recommendations include 32GB RAM for gamers, GPUs ...