Building the best gaming PC is actually a very easy thing to do, however, everyone’s definition of what’s “the best” can be different. To cater to this, we are going to build a gaming PC where performance and value meet in the middle, giving the masses an affordable machine that can tackle any AAA game you throw its way.
Grabbing yourself one of the best gaming PCs out there is going to give you an exemplary gaming experience for years to come. The best in this class often feature the latest, high-end components, capable of high FPS results, across a multitude of titles in max settings.
Anyway enough preamble, let’s take a look at the best gaming PC build.
What You Get For Your Money
As previously mentioned, we aren’t aiming to build a PC that costs a fortune here, we want to build a quality gaming PC that many can enjoy, for a reasonable amount of money.
With this in mind, we are going to be trying to keep the overall budget to around $1,500. At this price point, you will, without a doubt, have one of the best gaming PCs out there. Sure, it may lose out to the more expensive builds but the price-to-performance is in the sweet spot here and this build will provide you with everything you need to get a high-end experience.
Performance
You may expect the best gaming PC build to be able to handle every game, in any setting, at any resolution but remember, we are aiming for an affordable yet high-quality experience.
At the heart of this PC sits a powerful Ryzen desktop CPU with a proven track record of being one of the best on the market. To support the processor, one of Nvidia’s latest 30-series GPUs takes the stage, providing you with high FPS counts in esports titles, and incredible detail for those single-player games.
The performance is further enhanced thanks to an adequate amount of fast RAM for gaming and fast storage, giving you snappy boot and load times.
How We Choose
The team here at WePC has years of combined building and, of course, gaming experience, allowing us to make astute recommendations to our friends, families, and readers. All of our custom gaming PC recommendations are backed with careful research and benchmarking to ensure the products we suggest are actually the best for the job. We work tirelessly to update and keep every build recommendation as up-to-date as possible, even when items go out of stock we will be there to fill the gap with appropriate replacements.
We are always looking for value for money and try to focus on performance over just flashy looks, ensuring your hard-earned cash isn’t going to be squandered.
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How We Test
We build all our custom PC build recommendations in-house at the WePC office, making sure all the components are compatible and work in unison for the best gaming experience.
Once built, we put these custom PC’s through their paces, benchmarking a wide selection of the most popular and demanding titles. It isn’t just gaming we focus on, we like to test our PCs for general work scenarios from lightweight to heavy-duty tasks.
We know some of our readers like to overclock systems and push the price to performance even further, so we ensure that we test this too. This can leave you reassured that the components can handle this extra push in power and nothing will break down the line.