PC Components - Features

'How to Build a PC,' the Interactive Geek Tech Video!

Building a PC isn't always something that you can learn from an instruction manual, or even a comprehensive article. Sometime, you just need to see what's going on with your own two eyes.

The world's weirdest keyboards!

Keyboards without keys, a vertical keyboard with mirrors on the side so you can see your fingers, and keyboards on which you type on the back: Get ready for some wacky input devices.

Ghosts of Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta haunt x86-bound Nvidia

Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?

Governments line up to bail out DRAM makers

DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess.

Seven classic PC symptoms

As a small-business person, you might bemoan the fact you don't have 24/7 IT support like your larger-scale competitors. Don't panic. You can solve many of the most common computer problems yourself. Here are some snafus you can tackle on your own, t...

Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.

Stephen Morse: father of the 8086 processor

In honor of the 30th anniversary of Intel's 8086 chip, the microprocessor that set the standard that all PCs and new Macs use today, I interviewed Stephen Morse, the electrical engineer who was most responsible for the chip.