One of the greatest walls that keeps people from building their own PC is cost. If you just built a DIY $3K gaming PC, it's likely you overspent on various brand-new parts, especially with the ...

Another approach is to preemptively purchase a passel of potentially pertinent parts, and this will form the focus of this column. Related: The Beginner’s Guide to Electronics: Components—What to Buy ...

Online parts search and ordering is a godsend compared to the paper-catalog days of yore. This is fact, there is no argument otherwise (despite [Dave Jones’] assertion that sourcing connector… ...