Announcing The Tom's Hardware Best PC Builds 2017 Update

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Welcome to another exciting edition of the Tom's Hardware Best PC Builds. The Toms' Editorial Staff and vaunted expert members of our community have teamed up to showcase the absolute best PC builds in each budget category.

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[yeticorn]

Looks to be a typo on the date. February 15th was yesterday and is definitely not a Friday.

 

[why_wolf]

Good luck everyone.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Looks to be a typo on the date. February 15th was yesterday and is definitely not a Friday.

Fixed the typo. Thanks!

 

[ElectrO_90]

This competition needed to wait 1 more month for the release of Ryzen. It's pretty much going to be a huge game changer which makes these systems out of date before it will get published.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

This competition needed to wait 1 more month for the release of Ryzen. It's pretty much going to be a huge game changer which makes these systems out of date before it will get published.

While I think all of us in the enthusiast community are cautiously optimistic for Ryzen, AMD's upcoming architecture is far from a sure thing. If it is successful it will certainly shake up the CPU market, but how that will unfold is very much up in the air. Given that, and the fact that we plan on throwing one of these Best PC Builds contests roughly every quarter this year, it would be a missed opportunity to delay the Best PC Builds for a month, failing to provide resources for builders who aren't waiting for yzen and building now.

 

[why_wolf]

If anything comparing this quarter to next quarter (which will probably feature Ryzen heavy builds) will be a good way to figure out just how much performance for price gain has been made.

 

[peonmyhall]

Once we get the results will any of this even be relevant? AMD has quite a bit of new releases on the horyzen than will really shake these builds up.

 

[Filtch]

Looking forward to seeing the results

 

[shrapnel_indie]

Waiting for results...

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Once we get the results will any of this even be relevant? AMD has quite a bit of new releases on the horyzen than will really shake these builds up.

The results will be even more relevant and serve as a baseline for expectations in comparison to Ryzen builds.

 

[Floyd_4]

yes.... waiting for the results!

 

[IceBleu]

Are the results out yet? or not yet?

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Not yet. Our Editors are busy testing some of the submitted builds. Please hang tight.

 

[IceBleu]

Any news?

 

[The Paladin]

mmhmm we want to know... or did I miss the thread about them.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Any news?

mmhmm we want to know... or did I miss the thread about them.

We actually announced the winners nearly 20 days ago 😀

 

[The Paladin]

Any news?

mmhmm we want to know... or did I miss the thread about them.

We actually announced the winners nearly 20 days ago 😀

Never saw the post... hummm got a link ? or title ?

 

[Jsimenhoff]

We actually announced the winners nearly 20 days ago 😀

Never saw the post... hummm got a link ? or title ?

Here is a linkhttp://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-pc-builds,4390.html#p1 to the list of winners from our latest Best PC Builds.

In case you also missed this, we're hosting an AMA with AMD today. Here is a link to the AMA thread.