Our best $1000 gaming PC build of 2022

With this build, our main goal was to provide the best gaming PC for under $1,000! It’s at this price range that you start needing to make fewer and fewer compromises and can instead focus on raw performance and excellence. You’re officially out of the mid-range category and have entered into the realm of premium builds where maxing out AAA titles at 1080p becomes a doddle, with some 1440p performance too.

The great thing about this build is how versatile it can be if performance levels become under par in the distant future. Everything in this build is interchangeable, meaning you can easily swap out a CPU or GPU, add extra RAM, and storage to keep up to speed with the latest technological advancements.

Overall, we believe this is one of the best all-round builds we have put together so far. Please note that prices of the hardware do fluctuate daily, our team works tirelessly to try and ensure the price is as close to $1,000 as possible.

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What You Get For Your $1000

At this price point, there is a little bit more planning required to get the absolute best experience out of the system. That being said, you are still going to get a high-end gaming PC for your $1000. Our AMD build provides you with a serious amount of gaming performance with overclocking potential and upgradability.

Performance

As previously mentioned, both the AMD and Intel builds perform at a similar level, with there being only subtle differences to separate the two. Both processors will only enhance your gaming experience. However, the AMD CPU is one of the best on the market and handles multitasking in a much more efficient way.

Graphically, you can expect excellent results in 1080p while playing in max settings or with a high refresh rate monitor.

With our, AMD build you are going to get a 1TB SSD, which is more than enough to store your operating system and games on. This SSD will not only give you quicker boot times, but it will also improve the gaming performance too. While we are talking about performance, it is important to mention the 16GB RAM kit in this build too. While having a high-capacity memory kit installed, it is worth noting that it features a clock speed of 3600MHz, again increasing your gaming performance and future-proofing the build.

AMD vs. Intel

At this price range, the lines begin to blur between the build paths, but we feel the AMD build is the way to go. The Intel build is superb and will give you high levels of gaming performance; however, the AMD build path features better value and certainly protects your system for a longer amount of time. Regardless of which you choose, you are going to get some serious enjoyment out of this $1000 gaming PC.

How We Choose

Our team has years of experience behind them building PCs for a range of needs and budgets. All this knowledge combined with hours of research, user feedback, and onsite benchmarking is what goes into choosing the best components for our builds.

We look for value for money, how the components perform together and focus on gamer’s needs to make sure our builds are the best your budget can buy.

We build all these PCs ourselves, in-house, so trust us when we say we want to make them as good as possible. We actually use all these builds ourselves day-to-day in the WePC offices.

How We Test

We build each of our selected PC’s from scratch to make sure all the parts we recommend work well together, fit into the selected case, and provide the best performance possible for the price range.

Once built, the PCs are used in the office for everyday work as well as a range of games from light to heavy-duty. While we test, we also run benchmarking tests to see how well our builds perform, all while keeping an eye on the temperature of the components themselves.

We know how much some of our readers enjoy overclocking their PCs, so we made sure to test that out too. So, you can feel safe knowing that these machines can be pushed beyond their basic capabilities. But, please make sure you know how to overclock before trying to over-task your builds.

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