Building your own PC takes time to research and assemble but offers personalization, upgrade flexibility, and valuable technical experience.

Building your own PC is kind of like cooking: deeply satisfying if you know what you're doing, mildly traumatic if you don't. Pre-builts, meanwhile, are microwave meals. Not bad, not great, and ...

Zack’s probably 22 and makes use of a pocket protector. (Read Build Your Own High-Def PC.) Tom Mainelli, on the other hand, admittedly isn’t a youngster, so he’s less tolerant of noisy PCs.

It's not every day a pre-built gaming PC undercuts the cost of building yourself.

Lots of people create custom PCs, but few build them inside 40-year-old Macintosh cases. We spoke to one person who did to learn how it all went down.

Thousands of letters and only room for a few. Q: I have been watching PC prices for a long time and usually build my own computers to save money. But given what is going on now, I don't see that ...