The TBG DIY PC Build Guides

Introduction to the TBG PC Build Guides

Welcome to TBG’s DIY PC Build Guides! This is where you’ll find all the best PC builds on the ‘net, from ultra-compact home office PCs to screaming-fast gaming towers. In total, we offer 18 distinct DIY PC Build guides, constantly updated with the latest and greatest components.

The June 2025 Updates

The news has been much of the same this year – some good good gear, mostly hard to find in stock, and a few gems that are both great and available. The most recent releases have been from AMD (a “budget”, but actually mid-range priced Radeon RX 9060 XT), plus a new world’s best SSD, the SanDisk WD_Black SN8100. We’ve also seen a number of recent new cases that are bucking the RGB trend and going classy with wood trim, and that could truly be the next big thing (potentially serving as a counterpoint to the “fishbowl” cases that also became popular, but more to accentuate RGB than to avoid it.

As always, we’ll talk about the CPUs and GPUs that make sense right now. On the CPU side, Intel is great up to about $150, and after that, just ignore everything they have or will have for a few years, because it’s all trash. Pretty simple, right?!? AMD owns the entire CPU market from $200 on up, whether it’s for productivity or gaming, and with gaming, it’s not even close – the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is impossibly fast, and finally, almost shockingly, is both in stock most days and sometimes even under MSRP. Hallelujah!

For GPUs, AMD continues to release GPUs that look great on paper and then simply aren’t available anywhere near the right price, with the 9060 XT 16GB being a prime example. At the $350 MSRP it’s fantastic, but that’s not where it will land. With the “$600” RX 9070 XT continuing to sell for $800 and up, we expect the 9060 XT to go for over $450 and promptly prove to be another flop. That leaves the $400+ Nvidia GeForce 5060 Ti 16GB as the best option in its price range, the RTX 5070 the best card starting around $600, and the 5070 Ti the best option for $800 and up. The RTX 5080 comes in around 50% more expensive (and obviously isn’t 50% faster), and then at the very high end, the RTX 5090 is now fully available any day of the week, as long as you’re willing to pay nearly 50% over the $2000 MSRP, which was a total and complete fiction.

So there you have it – the latest, the greatest, some of it pretty marked up, but most of it actually available. That, dear readers, is actually what counts as very good news these days!

Using the TBG PC Build Guides

Whether it’s your first, tenth, or hundredth time building a PC, these guides will set you up with the best components you can buy. To find the right PC for you, feel free to browse all of the options below, or alternatively choose specific criteria from our filter browser below, which will display just the builds that meet your needs. You can then click on the “View Specs” button to see a quick view of prices, parts, and dimensions, or click the “View Guide” button to jump straight to the full Build Guide for that build. Happy hunting, and good luck with whichever build you choose!

Our DIY PC Build Guides are updated monthly, and sometimes daily, to ensure you get the most up-to-date info. If you appreciate the work we do on these, don’t forget to use our Amazon and Newegg links to support continued publication of these guides.

We’d like to express special thanks to SilverStone Technology Co., which sponsors the TBG PC Build Guides. Founded in 2003, SilverStone has made major contributions to PC case design, small form factor PC development, and power supply innovation!