As you probably know by now, the PS4 is essentially a $400 PC. It has an x86 PC CPU, a standard PC GPU, and the same kind of RAM that you'd find on a PC graphics card. There are a few custom chips on ...

About 7 years ago, while in the process of getting divorced, my PC power supply died. This was a gaming rig I built 2-3 years earlier based on an Athlon-64 CPU. Didn't have the time/money/space to ...

Building a portable console is hard, right? You have to do lots of wiring, maybe trim a few PCBs, and learn all about the finer points of high-end motherboard design! Or, you could keep it simple.