Shopping for PC components can be intimidating if you’re not up to date on hardware news. Fortunately, we’ve done the research for you and have put together three tiered builds (cheap, mid-range, and high-end) geared to deliver great gaming experiences.

You can certainly build a gaming PC for less than our budget-oriented rig here, but it’s often a good idea to spend a little more to mitigate serious bottlenecks and to avoid harsh compromises. With that in mind, we spec’d out components that will deliver an excellent 1080p gaming experience for around $700.

Listed prices reflect time of publish.

Click through the gallery to read why we chose our respective components.