You’ve probably noticed that everywhere you go — the doctor’s office, hotels, or retail shops, there are tiny PCs everywhere. These small PCs often show up on the surplus market for a very good price, ...

Reader Ran Mokady took a pretty big gamble with this project, but didn’t really have any other choice: his power supply was broken and he couldn’t get a replacement. He ended up replacing it with a ...

Corsair RMe 1000 in ATX 3.0 version looks good, nothing on the smaller units yet. I'm happy with my 750W ATX 3.0 Corsair RM750e I picked up at Best Buy for $90. Very quiet running my i7-13700K/RTX ...

An ATX power supply unit, or PSU, has a 24-pin connector for energy delivery. The symptoms of a dying or dead ATX PSU are identical to those of any PSU and involve operational problems in your PC -- ...

Spire, makers of everything from coolers of every size and shape to cases to some modding supplies. They also market their own line of PSU’s under the Rocketeer nomenclature and today that’s what I’m ...

Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards Processors Best CPU for gaming in 2025: These are the ...

Way back at the beginning of last month, Intel finalized the 3.0 version of the ATX12V specification. This revision, as you'd expect from a full-number version, brings significant changes to standard ...

Standard ATX power supplies aren't designed to turn on unless they are properly connected to a motherboard. This helps to ensure that they can't power up and damage computer components if the plug isn ...

Adopting active PFC for harmonic-reduction while making other architectural- and component-level improvements can cost-effectively reduce losses in ATX power supplies. ATX power supplies — the generic ...

Reader Ran Mokady at Hack-a-Day submitted his How-To for a DIY Xbox 360 powersupply. He writes, "I have been running my console off a 250W computer PSU for a week now with no problems." The steps ...

So you have tested everything from the motherboard to the floppy drive. Still having problems? Have you tried testing the power supply? This Daily Drill Down by Faithe Wempen gives you the scoop on ...

Let's face it, power-supply units (PSUs) are boring. Presented in what's usually a mundane box spitting cables from one end, this is a product that's neither aesthetically pleasing nor technically ...