Understand before you buy

Guides & advice

Practical, jargon-free guides to choose right, build right and maintain right — written by our advisors.

Choosing

Buying guide

Office, gaming, creative work: the criteria that really matter — processor, graphics card, RAM, screen — and the pitfalls to avoid.

Building

Build

From the processor to cable management: assembly order, compatibility, startup tests. The complete tutorial, step by step.

Understanding

Components

Cores, frequency, VRAM, latency, throughput: we translate spec sheets into plain language so you can compare without getting it wrong.

Configuring

Configure

Depending on your usage, our simple benchmarks to size memory and storage without overpaying or getting stuck.

Maintaining

Maintenance

Dust, thermal paste, airflow: the right habits to extend the lifespan and performance of your machine.

Business

Standardize, budget and renew an IT fleet: our recommendations for SMEs and public buyers.

Our tool picks a coherent configuration for you based on your budget.