Welcome to another exciting Tom's Hardware Best PC Builds competition!
We're down to the final five. Vote now to decide the winner in each category. Here are the top five Ultimate Water Cooled RGB Builds:
We're down to the final five. Vote now to decide the winner in each category. Here are the top five Ultimate Water Cooled RGB Builds:
- Black Unicorn by GraySilencer
- Aurora Borealis by eman1864
- The Ice Box by Lutfij
- RGB RGB RGB!!! By swps
- In The Dragons' Den by Phaaze88
It's time once again for everyone's favorite PC Building competition. We're asking you to submit your best performing builds across a number of budget categories. We want to share the joy of PC Building with the entire computer hardware community, which is why we're opening up this years competition to our sister site the PC Gamer forums. In this competition we're taking it back to the old school. That's right our rules and format are same as they ever was. In short, you submit the best performing builds at the lowest possible price in a number of categories. We pick the top five builds, you vote on them. The winners and their builds are featured on the Tom's Hardware homepage.
We've extended the submission period until May 4th! May the fourth be with you and may your builds bring order to the galaxy!
At the end of the competition the winners and their builds will be featured on the Tom's Hardware home page. Submit your build and get that clout!
This is the $3000 Ultimate Water Cooled RGB Build
Please submit builds with the best gaming performance for $3000 or less. We will favor builds that are blinged out with RGBs, high quality case fans, and crazy cooling loops.
How does it work?
We're gonna break this competition down into 4 parts:Please submit builds with the best gaming performance for $3000 or less. We will favor builds that are blinged out with RGBs, high quality case fans, and crazy cooling loops.
How does it work?
- Submit your builds
- After a week of submissions, the Tom's Hardware staff will pick their top 5 in each category. We will judge primarily on quality of components, price, and theoretical system performance.
- Users vote on their favorite build of the top 5.
- We feature the winning builds in each category on the Tom's Hardware homepage.
How do I submit a build?
- Head to the PCPartPicker System Builder.
- Build your system!
- When you're all set, smash that BB code button
- Copy the BB code
- Head to this thread, respond hit the BB code toggle in the tool bar
- Paste the BB code and post your thread!
Ground Rules - Read this or you will be disqualified
- Only one build per budget category, per user. Multiple builds from a single user or duplicate accounts will be disqualified.
- Do not go over budget.
- Use only Amazon or Newegg to source parts.
- DO NOT USE Amazon 3rd Party Sellers to source parts.
- Use list prices only: coupons, rebates, bundles or any other limited-time offers will not be accepted.
- Do not include shipping or tax in your final budget.
- Do not include the Operating System, Monitor or VR Headset, Keyboard, Mouse or Gamepad.
- All builds must have a name.
- Do not put your forum handle in the name of your build, and avoid odd capitalizations & symbols.
- We encourage users to use PCPartPicker's System Build for speedy construction.
- Do not post a link to your build, but rather please be sure to export as BBCode for a quick copy/paste to the forums
$500 Min Spec Console Killer
$750 4K Capable Gaming Build
$1000 Streaming and Gaming Build
$1500 VR Ready Gaming Build
$2000 Ultra High Quality Cyberpunk 2077 Build
$3000 Ultimate Water Cooled RGB Build
Good luck and may the best build win!