This is where you easily max out every title at 1080p. This is also where high-end tasks, like streaming and Virtual Reality, become reasonable possibilities, too. You could do these before but with questionable results. Are you ready to feast your eyes with the best gaming PC build in this price range? At this point: Every. At lower price ranges, you often find yourself making various compromises to get the best for your money. Not so here-- value can be maintained without compromising on any part of the build or its capabilities, allowing the full range of PC gaming to be experienced with this one machine. No, we do extensive research and hours of price comparisons to make sure you get more than what you pay for. As such, expect to see changes on our builds from time to time. The i5-8400 provides stellar gaming and all-around performance. With the MasterLiquid Lite 240 Liquid Cooler, your PC will make much less noise when running idle or under load, and your CPU will be cooler than ever, allowing it to run at turbo frequencies more frequently. This 8GB DDR4 RAM stick from Patriot is from a trusted brand, and comes clocked just a little higher than entry-level DDR4 RAM. This is one of the few non-compromises in this build. ADATA makes some pretty solid value SSDs, and the SU800 series is no different. While still operating about as fast as a SATA SSD, the SU800 512GB offers some of the best price-per-gigabyte that you can find in a modern SSD. With half a terabyte of fast storage, you have more than enough room for your operating system and all of your favorite programs. This makes the ADATA Ultimate SU800 512GB SSD our top value SSD pick. Now that we have just a little bit more flex room, we are able to add a Semi-Modular PSU from Corsair, which will make your building process much cleaner and easier than it would be with a Non-Modular PSU. The same basic rules of PSU shopping still apply here, of course: buy high quality from a trusted brand EVGA, Corsair , or risk system loss or a house fire aka house loss. The Rosewill Nautilus is a fully-featured case. The only real compromise we had to make for the sake of this build came in the form of overclockability. Ultimately, the 1070 offers better gaming performance here, so we decided to sacrifice overclockability for it. This is why we decided to include a list of pre-built gaming computers in the same price range. Below are several of the entries from our product guide. If you wish to upgrade your gaming experience a tad more, go get this. However, you can only do this with a K-series processor, like the 8600K mentioned above. Expect top-of-the-line graphics performance alongside first-class cooling, build quality, and customer service with this card. While the 1070 can beast through most games you put on it, the GTX 1080 is even more crazy-powerful. Want to get online? This should do the trick perfectly, saving you from wireless interference and providing you the best possible network performance. Unless your ISP is just bad, Internet lag spikes should be a thing of the past with this beaut! Wireless Wi-Fi Remember how much fun it was as a kid when you realized that you could use static electricity to shock people, but then you forgot about it for the rest of your life? There are several easy ways to avoid this. First, you can buy an to place your motherboard and other components on. Second, and perhaps more importantly, is grounding yourself while building, which you can do with an. At first, it can be somewhat nerve wracking to use since if you get it wrong, it will cost you hundreds of dollars. Building PCs can be scary for a first-timer. Newbie builders also are afraid they might be missing something in the process. This is where our how to build a PC guide should come in handy. Apologies for the late reply. Everything you need is in the system build- the motherboard and case both include audio jacks, for instance. We list some options for the OS, peripherals and the such in the latter half of the article, but they are not included in the overall price. Let me know if you need help with anything else. Fortnite at 1080p on Epic settings will give you 80-105FPS while PUBG at 1080p on Ultra settings will stay around 60-80FPS.