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 November 2025 Updates

Heading into the most exciting time of the year for PC builders (i.e., the holiday!), we have some really good news and some pretty bad news. The good news is that video cards are all available at or near their MSRP, and sometimes even a bit under MSRP. In terms of GPUs, both Nvidia and AMD have good deals available, at different price points. Among our favorites are the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB and 16GB at under $300 and $400, respectively, the GeForce RTX 5070 12GB at under $550, the RTX 5070 Ti around $750, and the RTX 5080 16GB at $1000. This is huge change from spring and summer 2025, and actually pretty good for any GPU in its year of release – historically it’s been hard to grab GPUs at all for a year after release. Given that AI is gobbling up lots of GPUs, just getting your hands on a GPU is great, and getting it at or below MSRP is phenomenal.

And now for the bad news – the RAM market is in crisis mode, and it looks like it will be getting worse before it gets better. We’ve been ringing the alarm bell for a couple months on this page, and the mainstream tech media has only just caught up, but in short, RAM is now 100-150% higher in price than it was at its low point this summer, meaning kits we were recommending at $90-$100 are now well over $200 (and often out of stock), and kits that were at around $200 are now well over $400. SSDs are also going up in price, as they are a related technology, but luckily the increase hasn’t been as swift (but will probably continue). To work around these issues, we will be spec’ing lower-speed and lower-capacity RAM kits in many builds. It’s not ideal, but RAM is the easiest thing to upgrade in a PC, by far, and rather than let you get soaked with an awful price today, we figure you should get your system up and running with a decent if not extraordinary kit, and upgrade once prices drop.

So with that said, with the holidays coming, we’ll likely see great deals on just about every PC component… except for RAM!

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!