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 ...

You can fit three whole AMD gaming PCs into these retro Lego PC cases, with space for full-size and mini-ITX motherboards ...

So long as you don't count your weekend time in cents and dollars, I think my gaming PC build is a better buy than any prebuilt.

I'd like build my own computer. I'm not talking about ordering parts from Newegg and such and slapping them together, I mean ordering a CPU, LCD screen, flash RAM, etc, and soldering it all ...

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.

However, building your own PC gives you the freedom to optimize things like wattage and cooling, paying more attention to the components that prebuilt makers may sometimes overlook.

Here are some important lessons that all DIY PC builders can learn from a boutique builder, and tips on how to incorporate them into your next build.

Wal-Mart has been experimenting with 20 build-your-own computer stations around the nation and they will begin expanding this program to over 1,200 stores by the end of this year. Wal-Mart has ...