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Beginner PC Building Tips & Common Mistakes
It's been snowing here lately, which means that the entire state has shut down from its 1” of cumulative death-powder. While waiting for one of the thermal benches to warm-up, we figured a quick,...
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Budget Gaming PC Build for Overwatch, Rocket League, & CSGO - $619
Gaming PC build classifications haven't changed much over the years, despite enormous leaps in hardware capabilities and game graphics. The price brackets are largely defined by the likes of Intel,...
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Budget Gaming PC Build Powerhouse for $500
Building PCs is almost always a compromise between performance and cost. In this PC build, we’re making a gaming PC for approximately $500 -- but a good one; a powerful, $500 gaming PC. This $500 PC is...
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How to Build a Gaming PC: Step-by-Step Computer Building Walkthrough
It takes our technicians minutes to build a computer these days – a learned skill – but even that first-time build is completable within a span of hours. Cable management and “environment setup” (OS,...
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Mid-to-High End Gaming PC Build for Dark Souls III & Streaming
The Dark Souls series is known for challenge and development of player skill, but it is also infamous for its poor PC ports (read our review on this here). On the PC, the Dark Souls games have suffered...
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Cheap Bastard's Gaming PC Build for $455 - i3 CPU & GTX 950
It sometimes seems that gaming PCs have to use high-end components and, subsequently, be expensive. These high-end PCs may provide a pretty looking picture and high FPS, but a PC capable of a decent...
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Gaming PC Build for Overwatch on a $700 Budget
We tested Overwatch back when it was still in beta, posting one of the earliest GPU benchmarks for Blizzard's new team shooter. The game's finally concluded its full beta pass and has set its final...
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst Gaming PC Build for High Settings at 1080p
We were mixed in our review of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, but it's still one of the most intensive games currently out – our graphics card benchmark shows that much. Mirror's Edge pushes even the newest...
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Cheap Bastard's Gaming PC Build for $436
Too often people considering PC gaming will fall into the train of thought that gaming PCs have to be expensive. This train of thought is both unfortunate and untrue: Gaming PCs can certainly be...
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1440p Gaming PC Build with RX 480 for $1100
AMD’s recent GPU release, the RX 480, is in a strong position for 1440p gaming at $200. We’ve decided to detail an ~$1100 gaming PC aimed at 1440p gaming on the cheap. Our full coverage of the RX 480...
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1080p & 1440p Gaming PC Build for Battlefield 1, Overwatch at $800
1080p remains the most popular resolution in use today, with more than 80% of the market sticking to existing 1920x1080 displays. Just a few years ago, a fairly beastly rig was needed to run games at...
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Budget Gaming PC Build for Gears of War 4 at 1080p Ultra, 60FPS
Gears of War 4, despite its woeful exclusivity to Windows Store, remains one of the best iterations of the franchise we've played – and the best on PC, of the two available on the most glorious...
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$467 Ultra-Budget Gaming PC Build with Benchmarks (X4 845, GTX 1050)
It's technically Thanksgiving here, and we need some easier content to consume to go with the rest of the consumption this weekend—and we mean consumerism and Black Friday, not food. Our latest...
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$1500 UltraWide 21:9 Gaming PC Build - Black Friday, 2016
With the gaming community migrating towards 1440p as the new resolution sweet spot, and the booming prominence of UltraWide 21:9 displays, we’ve set forth to outline a build guide that caters to both...
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Watch Dogs 2 Gaming PC Build for Very High, 1080p Graphics
Withstanding the circumspect of PC players, Watch Dogs 2 has seemingly launched without a hitch. Mostly, anyway. The usual PC congregations of Steam and Reddit have been mostly devoid of the day one...
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$583 Gaming PC Build Using Xmas Sales - RX 470 & i3
The holiday season is upon us. In due time, the Steam Holiday/Winter sale will be flowing like a river, and many users will be preparing their wallets for the impending profligacy. As Newegg, Amazon,...
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Last-Minute Christmas Build: GN’s Completed Gaming HTPC
Subscribers of our YouTube channel will know that we’ve been hastily assembling a gaming HTPC for the last few days, dedicated as a gift for Andie (my sister, and also occasional tester for the site)....
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High-End 144Hz Gaming PC Build (7700K + GTX 1080)
With the arrival of Kaby Lake on the microarchitecture roadmap, Intel had effectively signaled the end of their long-established “tick-tock” cadence of manufacturing and design, opting instead for the...
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AMD R5 1600X PC Build for UltraWide 1440p Gaming at $1150
It’s been a few months since our last PC build--in fact, it was published well before Ryzen was released. For our first post-Ryzen build, we’ve pulled together some of the components we liked best in...
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Budget Gaming PC Build with Intel G4560 & GTX 1050 for $443
Intel’s Kaby Lake launched to a sweeping shrug of insouciance amongst enthusiasts, as the upper-end Core Series parts—aside from the manifest overclocking headroom—failed to provide any prominent...
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