There are a bunch of mini PCs available (or coming soon) with AMD Strix Halo processors featuring up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, up to 40-core RDNA 3.5 graphics, a 50 TOPS NPU, and up to 128GB of onboard ...

Intel’s Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake processors are designed to be affordable and energy-efficient chips that offer good-enough performance for a wide range of tasks. They’ve shown up in a lot of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Whether you're building or upgrading your PC, the size of its motherboard plays a big role in choosing computer components. It affects ...

Way back when VIA introduced the Mini-ITX standard in 2001, it was initially aimed at low-power systems and highly-integrated machines. VIA's designers probably never imagined a future where you could ...

It takes a bit of extra skill to build a PC from the ground up inside a small form factor (SFF) chassis, but if you get it just right, it can be rewarding. There's something to be said for cases that ...

Timi has been writing about technology for over a decade, focusing on smartphones, computers, and anything that he finds interesting in the tech space. He started writing for XDA, covering all things ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Motherboards are one of the first things PC builders lock in before any build. It sets the rules for what kind of case you'll need, how much ...

Small-form-factor PC builds are awesome when they’re done right, but they can get expensive fast. Between DDR5 memory, SSD pricing, and GPU costs that still feel higher than most people want, the ...

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for ...