Best gaming PC under $3000 – 3K custom build & prebuilt

Today we’re going to be looking at our best gaming PC for under $3000. It’s a build that can handle pretty much anything you have to throw at it, including 4K gaming and virtual reality. We’re talking about a build that has one of the best graphics cards money can buy paired with high-speed RAM, and quality components across the board. At this price point, you leave behind compromises and concentrate on extracting the maximum amount of performance and aesthetics out of this build. Let’s take a look at what’s in store.

With a $3000 price budget, you have the luxury of being able to tailor this build to your exact specifications. We’ve opted for a build that has maximum performance power, and beautiful aesthetics rolled into one. Before we take a look at what’s in this build, let’s go over exactly what we expect from this goliath gaming PC.

What You Get For Your $3000

The first thing most of us consider when looking to build a new gaming PC is the budget. It pretty much dictates what performance your new build will be capable of and how aesthetically pleasing it will be.

Having said that, with a budget of $3000, those compromises and sacrifices become much less frequent. Want a powerful GPU? No problem. What about the best CPU on the market? That’s absolutely fine as well. With a $3k budget, you have the freedom to create a build that suits your requirements to the absolute tee.

Performance

After you’ve established what budget you have to play with, the next most important aspect to consider is the performance. Let’s be honest, this a gaming PC, and you want the absolute best performance for your money. You’ll be glad to know that at $3,000, the performance of this build is pretty outstanding.

From a gaming point of view, the $3k build is going to be able to handle anything you throw at it. Yes, that means gaming at 4k in ultra settings, play any VR game you can think of, and multitasking to your heart’s content. This thing can do it all.

At the heart of this build lies Ryzen’s current flagship CPU. Paired alongside that is the best consumer-grade graphics card, this combination has enough power to run every AAA game title at 4k in ultra settings. Furthermore, streaming, multitasking, and hugely taxing workloads will become a seamless, enjoyable task on this rig.

With this build, you won’t have to worry about game specs for quite some time; it’s the definition of an ultimate gaming PC.

AMD Vs. Intel

Thanks to the huge budget given to us, we had a chance to explore an AMD build and an Intel build, both of which showcased hugely impressive in-game and workload performance. Ultimately, we decided to run with the AMD build as it beat the Intel in a number of different gaming/workload scenarios. On average, the Intel build showcased slightly better in-game performance. However, in desktop and workload tasks, the AMD was by far the superior.

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 tested our AMD builds against their Intel counterparts and found that these CPUs performed better across the board, and for a lower price. This is why we only recommend an AMD version.

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