How to build a green PC
If you're savvy in the components you choose and in how you use your PC, you can cut your electric bill and get a good, warm eco-friendly glow.
Jon Skillings Editorial director
Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into editing for tech publications -- including at PC Week and the IDG News Service -- back when the web was just getting under way, and even a little before. For CNET, he's written on topics from GPS, AI and 5G to James Bond, aircraft, astronauts, brass instruments and music streaming services.
Expertise AI, tech, language, grammar, writing, editing Credentials
- 30 years experience at tech and consumer publications, print and online. Five years in the US Army as a translator (German and Polish).
If you build it, it can be green. That is, if you're savvy in the components you choose and in how you use your PC, you can cut your electric bill and get a good, warm eco-friendly glow. But will you get all the computing power you desire? Such are the potential trade-offs.
Read all about green gaming PCs, extreme green machines, and more at Ars Technica:
"Ars System Guide special: it's easy being green"