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PCWorld addresses the challenging reality that building a decent gaming PC now costs around $1,250, significantly up from the ...

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A budding tech recycler has turned an Xbox 360 into a fully functional gaming PC build, retrofitting this 20-year-old console with a serious set of modern specs. Now featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D ...

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We can admit that over the past two years, there's been some negativity towards new PC gaming hardware. The reason is simple: most new PC hardware released over the last few years has been less than ...