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 15 distinct DIY PC Build guides, constantly updated with the latest and greatest components.

The July 2025 Updates

The good news recently is that many sought after components are finally easy to find in stock, so enthusiasts can get to building  the perfect system for their needs, whether modest or seriously high-end. Great video cards are available from $300 to $3000 (talk about a big price range!), and as is typical each month, we have a new world’s best SSD, the Crucial T710. 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 none of it’s worth buying. Intel has been getting desperate with huge discounts on its latest Core Ultra range, but with the motherboard socket retired as soon as the CPUs were released, the platform is a dead-end investment. So, in short, 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 easy to buy most days at MSRP. Hallelujah!

For GPUs, both Nvidia, and more surprisingly AMD, continue to release GPUs that look great on paper and then simply aren’t available anywhere near the right price. The reality is that price expectations must be reset, and that prices announced at launch are mostly fictional. At the low end, some of the cards are coming in close to MSRP (like the RTX 5060 at $300), but above that, you really have to pick and choose based on actual performance per dollar, not how the reviews showed a GPU stacking up. Right now we like the RTX 5060 8GB, the RX 9060 XT 16GB, the RTX 5070 12GB, the RX 9070 XT 16GB, and the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB. At the very high end, there’s not much choice: either go with the RTX 5080 for around 50% more than the 5070 Ti (despite it obviously not being 50% faster), or at the very high end, the RTX 5090 is now fully available, as long as you’re willing to pay nearly 50% over the $2000 MSRP.

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!