Building PC Gamer’s The Rig – PC Gaming Show 2025

During the PC Gaming Show 2025, Esports and Gaming Presenter, Frankie Ward, alongside PC Gamer’s Managing Editor of Hardware, Jacob Ridley, constructed a custom PC, dubbed The Rig.

The Rig is a top-of-the-line AMD-powered gaming PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT, plus 32 GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 RAM.

00:00 Intro
01:10 Building your own PC
01:35 Installing the CPU
02:06 Installing the RAM
04:19 Mounting the Motherboard
05:00 Preparing the fans
07:15 Prepping the Power Supply Unit (PSU)
08:13 Cable management
09:02 Installing the fans
11:02 Mounting the GPU
12:13 Booting up the PC

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