Top gaming pcs compared

About Top gaming pcs compared

Picking a gaming PC means weighing the ticket price against the terms that come with the machine. This ranking covers 29 brands that sell gaming PCs, mini PCs and desktops, and it weighs entry prices, warranty length, returns, the graphics card makers each shop stocks and the countries it ships to. Across these brands, entry prices run €103.43 to €1,928.44 and warranty terms run 1 to 3 years, so longer cover often arrives with a higher starting figure. The main trade off is customisation against reach. The shops that build to order let you choose the card and the memory, while the retailers with the widest delivery footprint usually sell a fixed range and lean on a returns window instead. Support splits the field too, with some answering by phone and chat and others working through email and a help centre. Rank order follows cost and what the offering includes, not any partnership.

How we picked

Every brand in this ranking is scored on three things: cost, weighted 40%, the offer itself, weighted 40%, and trust, weighted 20%. Cost reads where entry prices sit against the rest of the field. The offer score reads what a machine includes, such as the memory ceiling, the graphics card brands on the shelves and whether the shop builds to order. Trust reads warranty length, returns and the support routes a buyer can reach. Facts come from each brand's own shop, policy and support pages, plus the range figures held for this category, so entry prices across the brands ranked here run €103.43 to €1,928.44 and warranty terms run 1 to 3 years. Those terms line up with the ranking set, where the median is 2 years and the longest reaches 3 years. Partners that serve your country are listed first in this ranking, then the rest by score. Any figure a brand leaves out of its own pages stays out of the scoring rather than counting as a weakness.

Our top picks

1. 1. Coolblue Belgium

   Coolblue Belgium is in this ranking as a broad electronics retailer rather than a PC specialist. Its listed product types are headphones, earbuds and speakers, and its operating systems run to Windows, macOS and ChromeOS, so a machine would sit beside sound gear rather than beside a deep set of configurations. The returns window of 30 days is comfortable, the warranty runs 2 years, and support runs on email, phone and help centre with a phone line open. Shipping is listed for BE, NL and DE. Gmktec takes the opposite approach with dedicated mini PCs, build to order and a student discount.

   • Free delivery threshold: €0
   • Return window: 30 days
   • Extended warranty: Yes

   Pros

   • You have 30 days to send an order back, which takes the risk out of a big purchase.
   • Every product carries 2 years of cover, and an extended warranty is available on top of it.
   • Delivery is free on every order, with the threshold at €0, and click and collect is offered for small items.
   • Refurbished is part of computers, phones and audio here, which the JBL range does not cover: its categories run audio, gaming and refurbished.

   Cons

   • Support runs on email, phone and help centre only, so there is no live chat in the list.
   • The noise cancelling earbuds listed run 8 hours on a charge, well under the 40 median across the products compared here.
   • A 30 days return window places Coolblue Belgium at 3 of 80 brands compared, so it is not the longest window in the field.

2. 2. Gmktec

   Gmktec makes this ranking on price and format. Its gaming PC range starts at $169.99, it builds to order, and it offers a student discount, which no other brand in this list has. Mini PCs sit alongside desktops and gaming PCs, with memory reaching 192 GB, and the cards on offer cover NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. The trade offs are the terms: returns run 7 days, the shortest here, the warranty is 1 year, also the shortest, and support runs on email, chat and help centre with no phone line listed. Minisforum, the brand ranked next, gives a longer returns window and a phone number for a similar class of machine.

   • Price from: $169.99
   • Build to order: Yes
   • Warranty: 1 year

   Pros

   • Entry prices start at $169.99, which ranks 11 of 34 brands on starting price.
   • Build to order is offered, so you can pick a configuration instead of a fixed bundle.
   • The range covers mini pc, desktop and gaming pc, so mini PCs, desktops and gaming PCs sit with one seller.
   • RAM goes up to 192 GB across the range, and a student discount is offered.
   • Delivery is $0, so the entry price is close to the price you pay.

   Cons

   • Warranty is 1 year, which ranks 14 of 34 brands and sits under the site median of 1 years.
   • Returns run 7 days, a short window if a mini PC arrives with a fault you need to spot quickly.
   • Support runs on email, chat and help centre only, with no phone line listed for hardware troubleshooting.
   • The range runs on Windows alone, so there is no macOS or Linux option here.

3. S8. SharkGaming: best for SharkGaming

   SharkGaming sells custom and pre-built gaming computers and laptops, along with gaming gear and hardware.

   • Markets: DK

4. P9. PCBox: best for PCBox

   PCBox is a Spanish online computer and electronics shop selling desktop computers, laptops and gaming PCs.

   • Markets: ES

5. A10. Avell: best for Avell

   Avell is a Brazilian maker of high-performance notebooks for professional software and gaming.

   • Markets: BR

What to look for

Entry price band

The middle of this ranking sits at €437.60, the lower quartile at €103.43 and the upper quartile at €964.65. Listed prices run as low as €22.99 and as high as €1,928.44, which is a reminder that the lowest figure on any shop belongs to a laptop, a monitor or an accessory as often as it belongs to a gaming PC. Read the product list before the number.

Warranty length

The median term here is 2 years and the lower quartile sits at 1 years, while the longest cover any brand here offers reaches 3 years. A longer term is the clearest sign that a machine is meant to stay, and it is the first thing to compare before clock speeds.

Built to order or fixed

The share of these brands that build to order is 88.9%, so most let you set the card and the memory yourself. The rest sell a fixed configuration, which ships faster but hands the choice back to the shop, and that is the trade that bites if you want a particular card maker or memory amount.

Card makers on offer

NVIDIA is universal in this category at 100%, with AMD close behind at 91.3% and Intel at 56.5%. Intel is the one to check for if you want integrated graphics, and its presence tells you how much choice the configurator gives you.

Support routes

A help centre is close to universal at 96.3% and phone support follows at 77.8%, with chat at 44.4%. Check which routes a brand keeps open before a machine goes wrong, since a warranty is worth only as much as the way you reach the people who honour it.

What the range holds

Gaming PCs are the core of this category at 89.7%, with desktops at 82.8% and gaming laptops at 65.5%. The listed product types show how much of a shop is actually about machines, which is the check to run when the lowest price on a site belongs to audio gear.

Frequently asked questions

Top gaming pcs compared by country

• Australia
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain
• United Kingdom
• United States

The data behind this ranking

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