Mid-range PC Build | 2024 Q4

If you're looking to build a mid-range PC, with great performance, check out these build recommendations.

AMD Mid-range Build

While the AMD Ryzen 7800X3D would be the ideal CPU for a mid-range build in late 2024, unfortunately demand has caused the price to skyrocket. Once the 9800X3D is available, the 7800X3D should hopefully become cheaper on the second-hand market. Hence, for a midrange build, you will probably want to stick with Ryzen 7 7700X. This CPU has 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 4.5GHz, and a boost clock of 5.4GHz.

On the GPU side of things, if you're sticking with the AMD Radeon line-up, you could shoot for the reasonably priced 7800XT. This is a mid-range GPU that competes with the likes of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER or 4070 Ti SUPER. While it doesn't offer the advanced features of the NVIDIA platform, it does come at a cheaper price point.

Let's take a look at a full set of build specs below, for this AMD-focused mid-range system.

Benefits of this build include:

Mid-range XFX AMD Radeon GPU with excellent price-to-performance ratio
Mid-range AMD CPU with more than enough power for gaming and productivity
Enough high-performance DDR5 RAM for gaming and most productivity work
One of the lowest cost, but most popular and adaptable CPU coolers on the market

Part

Description

Price (USD)

Motherboard

$200

CPU

$270

CPU Cooler

$35

Memory

$90

Graphics

$480

Storage

$118

Case

$80

Power Supply

$90

Monitor

$266

Total 💵

Doesn't include local sales tax

$1,629

AMD / NVIDIA Mid-range Build

For a mid-range build using an AMD processor and an NVIDIA GPU, you'll probably want to stick with something roughly similar to the above AMD mid-range build. The biggest difference in an NVIDIA build will be the price of the GPU. While NVIDIA has advanced features like DLSS, DLAA, DLDSR, CUDA, FrameGen, Ray Tracing, and others, there is definitely a cost for that quality and performance.

AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs work well together, and you get the best quality hardware from each vendor. AMD makes the best CPUs, while NVIDIA manufactures the best GPUs available anywhere.