Today’s accelerating adoption of cloud services in enterprise computing, coupled with the seemingly unstoppable momentum of all things social and mobile, makes the emergence of the personal computer ...

In addition to the finished goods that can be purchased at home appliance mass merchandisers and specialty shops, there are "homebrew PCs" that purchase parts separately and assemble themselves on PCs ...

In 1969 the world-renowned Swiss psycholgist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, in her book "On Death and Dying" introduced a hypothesis on how humans handle grief in successive stages. There is Denial, Anger, ...

Building your own PC comes with unique thrills. Sure, it can be frustrating as all hell—there’s a reason it’s a lot easier to buy a fully cooked PC than go homebrew. If you haven’t had the joy of ...

I tried overclocking by making the small cube type homebrew PC crisp and water cooled In order to obtain higher processing performance, to move the CPU at a frequency higher than the rated value ...

Joey Hess, a developer contributing to Debian GNU/Linux, has shoehorned a fully functional PC into a portable boombox stereo. Two USB ports are embedded in what used to be the CD eject button, and the ...

Jason Perlowbelieves that the days of the extreme PC and homebrew systems are over. I disagree. First, let's consider extreme PCs. Jason seems to think that extreme PCs are all $16,000 systems. These ...

I'm moving once again and it occurs to me I have this big ass semi-homebrew PC I built about 4 years back that I haven't used in well over 2 years. I have no real use for it and I'll be damned if I ...

BMOW (Big Mess O' Wires) is a DIY PC, complete with a hand wrapped 8-bit CPU. Built by a game developer named Steve Chamberlain, this bad boy operates at 2MHz and sports 512KB memory, two-color video ...

Self-destruct buttons (especially the deluxe models) have been part of geekgeist at least since Battle Damage He-Man. The self-styled ‘Kaizo Aho Ichidai’ (roughly, the ‘Modding Nutter Unit’) has built ...