Cost as of this writing: $479 to $504, depending on your case ...

It’s hard to argue against the fact that prebuilt PCs are a lot easier to get started with than custom computers. In recent years, building your own PC has gotten harder, and PC gaming is fairly ...

Building a custom rig was damn near impossible, at a reasonable price anyway. Even getting access to the hardware via traditional avenues was an insurmountable task.

The project is based on the Allwinner V3S, a system-on-chip with a 1.2GHz ARM-Cortex-A7 core, 64MB of DDR2 RAM, and an Ethernet transceiver for good measure.

However, with some nifty tweaks and replacements subbed in, the computer came good. Other work involved adding a custom keyboard and modifying 3.5″ floppy drives to work with the system.

Starforge Systems elected to use the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X processor in its Terraria build. The CPU is potent enough to ensure graphical performance is not bottlenecked. Thanks to a modified 240 mm ...