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Build guide: the best high-end gaming PC We pick the best components, with the best prices, for your next high-end rig build.       PC BUILD GUIDES The best gaming PC  - Our recommended mid-range build for most gamers. The best budget gaming PC  - Build it on the cheap! The best high-end gaming PC  - You're going all-out with a beastly rig. Not everybody can afford a high-end gaming PC. That’s partly because PC parts generally aren’t cheap, but it can also be the result of differing ideas on what “high-end” actually means. PC Gamer’s high-end PC build guide has aimed for a price tier of $2,000 (£1500) in the past, and that’s what I attempted to stick to here. A $700 or $800 PC is head and shoulders above any console you can buy. Sure, you can go cheaper with a PC, but racing to the bottom isn’t what PC gaming is about. And once you start dipping below $600 it’s hard to see the advantage of the PC anyway. Console makers get their parts in bulk on t