If there’s something extra enjoyable than constructing a brand new gaming PC, it’s constructing one for a buddy. That’s why the PCWorld crew invited Will Smith, prolific podcaster and sport streamer and a former coworker of Gordon, on the PCWorld YouTube channel. Will wants a brand new gaming PC and Gordon and Adam are very happy to lend their experience to his construct. He’s able to put collectively a brand new super-powered desktop and ship his present gaming machine to secondary streaming duties.

Will’s a real energy consumer. In addition to high-end sport streaming, he does video and audio enhancing, photograph retouches, the works. He’s additionally utilizing a 360Hz 1080p monitor for main gaming plus a secondary 4K show, so he wants frame-pushing energy plus sufficient video reminiscence to run a lot of desktop on the facet. In quick, his PC wants a lot of all the things: processor energy, GPU, reminiscence, quick storage, all working as shortly and effectively as potential.

But there’s one other facet to Will’s enterprise and that’s recording podcasts. So when it’s not pushing pixels and rendering frames, the PC wants to remain fairly quiet. Oh and a case that appears cool with loads of RGB lighting can be good, too. A motherboard with built-in Wi-Fi would assist along with his rare journey schedule.

Will doesn’t have to improve his screens and he has already settled on an expensive RTX 4090 graphics card, actually the newest and biggest. For the CPU, Gordon recommends excessive clocks to hit these large 300+ framerates. The top-of-the-line AMD and Intel processors are apparent picks (Core i9-13900K and Ryzen 9 7950X), with a “dark horse” being the extra inexpensive Ryzen 7 5800X3D. But there’s a draw back with that extra economical possibility — it makes use of DDR4 reminiscence, which limits improve potential.

How would you construct this monster PC? Watch the video, take Will’s wants under consideration and watch for Adam and Gordon to current their builds. We’ll see who comes up with the higher machine in an upcoming video — remember to subscribe to PCWorld’s YouTube channel for the dwell construct video!