Best Gaming PC Build Under $1,000 for 2025

This $1,000 build is the perfect 1440P gaming machine.

Are you looking to hop into higher resolution gaming? With a budget of around ~$1,000, you can build a monster 1440P gaming computer.

With an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, a Radeon RX 7800 XT, and 32GB of RAM, this build will run any game on a 2K display and maintain a very high average framerate.

You will have to build it, though, as you’ll be hardpressed to find this kind of performance out of a similarly-priced prebuilt PC. Fortunately, that’s easy to do with our Step-By-Step PC Building Guide.

Watch us build this PC and see the full part list below.

How We Choose

Tech Guided has been covering PC hardware for over a decade and has helped thousands of gamers build their first computers.

With years of hands-on experience building systems, we are always looking for the best parts at the best prices, so that you can get a part list that will give you the most gaming performance possible.

We’ve put together a Beginner’s Guide to Choosing Components on YouTube and you can also watch us build PCs on our channel.

Important: For help choosing parts or for any questions you might have, check the FAQ section below, or ask a question in the comment section.

You can also check out our guide on the Best Gaming PC Builds for more partlists at a variety of budgets.

Watch Us Build This PC

Part List for $1,000 PC Build

CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X	VIEW
COOL	Thermalright PA	VIEW
MOBO	Gigabyte B550	VIEW
GPU	XFX RX 7800 XT	VIEW
RAM	G.SKILL 32GB	VIEW
SSD	Crucial P3 Plus 1TB	VIEW
CASE	Okinos Cypress 5	VIEW
PSU	Thermaltake 750W	VIEW

Grand Total: $970-$1,030

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*Prices on PC components change on a daily basis. Click ‘Price on Amazon’ to see the most-up-to-date price.

**The ‘Grand Total’ price includes the parts that make up the computer only. You’ll need an operating system and Windows costs ~$125 for an activation key. However, you can still install Windows for free and it will work indefinitely without activating it with no problems—there will just be a watermark at the bottom left of your screen asking you to activate it.

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$1,000 PC Build Overview

You’re not messing around anymore. No more consoles. No more cheap laptops. No more older desktops that can barely run Minecraft. It’s finally time to ascend.

This $1,000 build is no joke. This thing is ready to handle anything you throw at.

For specs, this $1,000 build comes with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor, an XFX RX 7800 XT 16GB graphics card, 32GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws V RAM, a Crucial P3 Plus 1TB NVME SSD, a tempered glass case that has wood accents from Okinos, and a Thermaltake 750W 80 PLUS Gold fully modular power supply.

Benchmarks

Want to hook this build up and never have to think about your framerates again? Well, sorry, that won’t happen with this build. You will be thinking about your framerates…

…and, how ridiculously high they are.

As mentioned in the intro, this build can handle gaming on a 1440P 240Hz+ monitor and will serve as a nice entry point into 4K gaming as well. So, even if you do start out with a 1080P monitor, this build can easily accommodate a monitor upgrade in the future, too.

For 1080P gaming, it would be best to pair this build with a 360Hz+ display. Anything less and you’ll likely be wasting the power of the 7800 XT. If you do just want to game at 1080P, you could save some money and opt for something like an RX 7700 XT instead, or you could bump up from the odler Ryzen 5 5600 to the newer Ryzen 5 7600.

We benchmarked this system in 17-different games at both 1080P and 1440P resolution. Check out the results in the video below:

Other Components

To hold the components in this system, we’ve chosen the Okinos Cypress 5 AIR. This Okinos case is a fairly affordable ATX chassis that will give you more than enough room to house the parts in this build. It also comes with four preinstalled fans.

For the power supply, you get an Cybenetics and 80-Plus Gold-rated fully-modular power supply from Thermaltake. This unit has enough capacity to accommodate the 7800 XT very easily.

Ultimately, this build is a powerful machine that will allow you to max out your favorite games for years to come.

Why Build A PC?

Build FAQ

We chose each of these components for a reason—but there are viable alternatives. Below, we discuss why we chose the components listed above for this build and what other alternatives there are…

1. How Do I Build This PC?

You will need to assemble all of the individual components you have purchased into a working PC. Fortunately, this process is not difficult! And, it’s a lot of fun. If you’ve never built a PC before, use our Step-by-Step PC building guide to walk you through the process.

How to Build A Gaming PC: Step-by-Step

2. AMD or Intel Processor?

In my opinion, you have a bunch of viable CPU options with a $1,000 PC build. We decided to try and max out the GPU performance we could get with this $1,000 part list and, to do so, we chose an affordable CPU that would not significantly bottleneck RX 7800 XT at 1440P resolution.

That CPU is the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X.

It would be worth it to check and see what the price of the Ryzen 5 7600, Ryzen 5 5700X3D, Intel Core i5-13400F, or 14400F are before you decide. But at the time of updating this guide the Ryzen 5 5600X was priced significantly cheaper than those other three options. The 12400F is also a great alternative if you do want to go the Intel route and it is currently a little cheaper than the 5600X.

Any of these options would be good choices for this build, though. And, if you don’t need as much GPU performance as the 7800 XT offers, you could always drop down to something like an RX 7700 XT or RX 7600 XT and get a higher-end CPU.

3. How Does This Compare to A Prebuilt

4. Plenty of Case Options

There are so many different gaming cases available in the ~$45-$75 price range that would work for this build. We chose the Okinos Cypress 5 case, though, because of its affordable price and out-of-the-box cooling.

There are a lot of solid case options in the ~$50-$100 price range, though. You can check out some of our recommendations in our PC Case Buyer’s Guide.

5. How Big of A Power Supply?

We use Outervision’s PSU calculator to determine the power consumption for each of our builds. Accoding to Outervision, even in the most extreme scenarios, this $1,000 gaming PC will require a minimum ~550W power supply.

So, we went with a little bit of extra headroom with a 750-watt unit to ensure there would be no problems down the road. This will not only accommodate this build easily, but it will also allow for GPU upgrades in the future that won’t also require a power supply upgrade.

Check out our guide on How to Choose the Right Power Supply for Your Build.

Conclusion: A Build That Will Max Out Anything

Really, if I had to choose what the perfect budget was for building a gaming computer in terms of value, I would probably say right around the $1,000 mark. As you can see, in this price range you can afford a list of components that will allow you to play any game out there on the highest settings on a 1080P or 1440P monitor.

These parts are also good enough to handle most games at 4K resolution as well.

And, you also get plenty of storage, too. Finally, if you can get the cable management right on this build, and maybe throw in some RGB fans on the front and back of the case, this build will look really nice, too.

So, overall, for ~$1,000 this gaming PC build has everything most gamers could ever want or need.

If you have any questions about the build, or need help choosing components, leave a comment in the section below and we will help you out.

Get Help With Your Build: If you need help putting together a part list for your build post your questions in the comment section!