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Gaming for $1,000
I really enjoyed your $800 Gaming PC cover feature in the June 2024 issue. While I wasn’t surprised to see that a PC without a GPU wasn’t great for playing games, it did get me thinking about what I might be able to build myself on the budget end of things. I’m about to start my first year of college, and I think I can just about convince my parents to give me the money to build a PC if I can keep it under $1,000! What can I reasonably expect in terms of gaming performance for that money, and what are the key components I should be looking at? –B. Duggan
Thanks for the feedback on last issue’s cover build—while we are 'Maximum PC', we do try to keep things balanced with a few value builds per year. When AMD’s 8600G CPU arrived promising basic gaming
