Best gaming PC build under $1500 of 2022

At the $1500 mark, you get a PC that can handle almost anything, and for this amount of money, you can ensure it’s a high-level gaming experience. These components smash AAA games while also providing you with streaming and rendering capabilities too.

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What You Get For Your $1500

When you are spending around $1500, you are pretty much guaranteed to give yourself a high-end PC with an array of top-shelf features. For this amount of money, you can expect CPUs that will enhance your gaming experience and also perform without question when multitasking. With this kind of budget, you can benefit from a high-end, modern graphics card, which is capable of high frame rates in glorious detail. At this price point, you can’t get the very best components, but that doesn’t mean your gaming experience has to suffer one bit, regardless of which build path you choose!

Performance

Whether you go for the AMD or Intel build path, you are going to get some seriously slick gaming performance from the $1500 PC build. Both paths feature powerful RTX 30-series GPUs, which can handle gaming in every resolution, however, you would have to tweak settings for most modern titles in 4K.

The $1500 gaming PC features a 1TB SSD to take care of your operating system and games. This storage solution will give you faster boot times than your standard HDD and will also improve your FPS in-game too. We also see 16GB of fast RAM in this PC, which boosts the gaming potential of this already stellar build.

AMD Vs. Intel

To be honest, there is little between the two build paths, both the AMD and Intel paths will give you an excellent gaming PC. We recommend the AMD build as we feel it give you a little bit more than raw gaming performance. The Intel path provides you with one of the best gaming CPUs on the market and should always be considered, though. With little to separate the two, it is worth noting that the AMD CPU and it’s multithreading capabilities will stand the test of time a little more, while also delivering on the gaming front too.

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 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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