Moving the motherboard in your gaming PC to the middle of your case is no easy feat, but PC modder Jeroen ter Horst has done an expert job here. He gutted his Fractal Design Meshify S2 and completely ...

Budget motherboards are an upgrade trap: How cheaping out ruins your future PC build ...

Hi all, I've seen some good discussion here about 9800X3D builds, but remain unconfident in my decision making abilities after a 10 year PC building gap (with an i7-4790k, GTX 970, and Asus Z97 Pro, ...

Do you think we'll see a day when we can build our own motherboard? I mean actually design the circuits, place the components on and solder them. (I suppose if you were really ambitious you could do ...

The motherboard is the spine of your computer, but despite how important it is, it often becomes an afterthought. It’s easy to overlook when there are shinier, more exciting components to spend money ...

If you are building a PC you can just choose whatever motherboard fits into your case, right? Wrong, there's a lot more to think about. For the first part of this series go here. Anyone who's ever ...

Don't spend on vanity features you'll never realistically use ...

You’ve got plenty of reason to build a new PC right now. AMD recently launched new Ryzen CPUs. For its part, Intel released its own fresh set of incredible desktop processors. And then Black Friday ...

Intel and AMD’s next-generation platforms are both here, with advanced technology like DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5. That means a plethora of motherboard choices, from frugal options, to the most princely. It ...