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With these Prime Day deals, you can build your own AMD Zen 5-powered RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC for less than $1,070—cheaper than any prebuilt system

By Nick Evanson Published

Prime Day Slap on an OS of your choice and you'll be good to go.

Prime Day
A collection of tools and PC building components on a blue and red Prime Day deals background, with the PC Gamer logo in the bottom right

Forgotten something? You need extra bits for your bodacious gaming PC build—and these 15 Prime Day deals start at just $5

By Andy Edser Published

Prime Day All the extras you need to build a fantastic gaming PC.

Prime Day
An MSI graphics card, an AMD CPU, and a Corsair PC case

Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse

By Andy Edser Last updated

DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.

DIY
Corsair's new Warthog case with a light over the rear IO panel, at computex 2026.

Corsair's slightly-outrageous Warthog PC case is the thing I'd most like to take home from Computex 2026, and I'm not ashamed to say it

By Andy Edser Published

Computex 2026 Shove one in your luggage for me, would you?

Computex 2026

I build a PC every month: these are my 5 worst PC building gripes

By Jacob Ridley Published

Gripes Week It's Gripes Week at PC Gamer, and I'm taking aim at the thing I enjoy the most in my job: PC building.

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Gripes Week
A gaming PC build using the Be Quiet Shadow Base 800 FX chassis, an Intel Core Ultra CPU and an RX 7900 XT GPU.

This no-vidia gaming PC is a great example of how small design decisions can make it feel like you're building a PC on easy-mode

By Jacob Ridley Published

Simple All thanks to a roomy case, fan controller, and incredibly simple NVMe slots.

Simple
Corsair iCUE 5000T RGB mid-tower PC case with RGB lighting enabled in blue and pink

Corsair's released a rival to PCPartPicker that completely misses the point

By Jorge Jimenez Published

News Corsair PC Builder is great, assuming you only want to use Corsair parts.

News
Alienware Aurora next to empty Corsair Carbide 275R chassis

Should you buy or build a gaming PC?

By Dave James Published

Choose wisely To build, or not to build: that is the question.

Choose wisely
NPCs of Cyberpunk 2077

This is the PC we recommend for Cyberpunk 2077

By Alan Dexter, Tyler Wilde Published

Build guide Maybe the RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 XT will be available by 2077?

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How to build a gaming PC

By Jarred Walton, Wes Fenlon, Bo Moore, Zak Storey Published

Elbow grease This is our easy walkthrough to building a PC for the first time, with a video showing each step of the process.

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