Here’s Why Serious Gamers Should Consider Building Their Own Gaming PC
Building your own gaming PC is a labor of love, which gives you full control over every detail. You can really make it your own, whether you want to customize a sleek battle station purely for gaming or set yourself up with a versatile and extremely powerful machine that can also handle your everyday needs, from editing videos to streaming movies.
Since a gaming PC is more than the sum of its parts, you can decide where you really want to focus, whether that means GPUs, RGB bells and whistles, or both. If you’re ready to go hands on with your build, GameStop has all the components you need(Opens in a new window)—and the accessories to finesse your setup, from chairs to monitors.
Ready to start your build? You’ll want a motherboard, a CPU, a GPU, memory and storage, and a case and power supply.
Assembling your gaming PC from scratch is a satisfying DIY project and it begins with the mother of all computer components. Your motherboard is the backbone of your build, as it connects all your components and peripherals together and determines how upgradable your machine is down the line. For a reliable and powerful option that won’t break the bank, the multi-GPU MSI B550-A Pro(Opens in a new window) ($139.99) allows high-end processors to run at full speed with a premium thermal solution that keeps temps nice and cool.
At GameStop, AMD has entered the building, and it’s big news for getting the hottest components into your hands. Of course, you want top speeds from your processor and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X(Opens in a new window) ($399, normally $549) is one of the fastest CPUs on the planet. It blazes ahead with more cores, more threads, and more clocks, and barely breaks a sweat at tasks like 3D rendering, video rendering, and
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