If that's too rich for your blood the Yeyian Tumi is the best budget gaming PC. It's a $750 RTX 4060 system, with a great overall component list to back that mid-range GPU up. Testing every system at every configuration in the rich tapestry of gaming PCs is impossible.

This is PC Gamer, so the best mini PC needs to be able to do that, and with the discrete RX 7600M XT inside it, the AtomMan G7 PT is absolutely capable of delivering on that front. Its eight-core, 16-thread Zen 4 chip is also equally capable of any productivity goodness, too.

The $1,000 to $2,000 price point is arguably the most important one for PC gaming; this is where the majority of PC gamers will be aiming to spend their budget and for us that's where the best gaming PC really lives. It's a crowded market, but the positive part of that is there are a lot of options to choose from.

5. Best Alienware gaming PC: Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core i7 14700F | Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super | 1TB SSD | 16GB DDR5-5600 | $2,099.99 $1,699.99 at Dell (save $550) It's not often that an Alienware gaming rig will pop up that actually has a hell of a lot of tech inside it for a surprisingly competitive price, but here we are.