Spend on the PC peripherals you touch — keyboard, mouse, audio comfort — and buy the rest cheaply. A priority order for peripheral spending.
How to choose a motherboard on socket, ports and power delivery — and why an enthusiast board is the most common overspend in a build.
How to choose a laptop by weight, battery, screen brightness and cooling — the things a spec sheet hides. Plus what you can upgrade later.
PC cooling and power supply choices decide reliability and noise. How to size for peak draw, check quality beyond efficiency badges, and pick cooling.
How to choose a monitor by desk distance and GPU headroom first. Why 27-inch 1440p at 144Hz suits most desks, and how to check HDR claims.
How to choose a CPU by workload, not core count. Why 6-8 cores beats 16 for gaming, what the platform really costs, and when core count pays.
Buy 2TB. NVMe costs $124.50/TB at 2TB against $149 at 1TB — and in one drive family 2TB costs just $21 more than 1TB. Current price data.
Component inflation has flipped the prebuilt vs custom PC maths in 2026. When volume pricing beats building yourself, and how to check in 20 minutes.
32GB is the answer for most people in 2026 and the cheapest DDR5 per GB at $11.84. Current prices, cost-per-GB data and how to diagnose before buying.
GPU prices sit 18% to 120% above MSRP in 2026. How to choose a graphics card by shopping the premium, not the benchmark, with current price data.
