Building one of the best gaming PCs from scratch can be joyous. When everything goes smoothly and you avoid the dreaded Blue Screen of Death while putting together a homemade rig, you feel like you’ve tapped into The Matrix code. You know what makes building your PC even better? When you wrap cutting-edge components inside an absurdly cool case.
Enter the Hyte Y70 Infinite. Dear. Lord. This thing should be illegal. That’s how good it looks… either that or my taste in tech is grossly gauche. A big and brash mid-tower, this chonky case is as alluring as it is spacious.
Sporting enough room to either horizontally (or more impressively) vertically mount an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU with plenty of space to spare, this is easily the coolest case I’ve owned since I started assembling my own rigs back in ye olden days of 2004.
And I’ve not even gotten to the best part yet. The Hyte Y70 has a full HD touchscreen. Yes, an actual screen on a case. And a good-looking one at that. Whether you use Hyte’s built-in software to create custom backdrops or Steam’s amazing Wallpaper Engine app to spice up the chassis with fully animated desktops, this is the most eye-catching PC case I’ve ever seen.
I’ve had the luxury of constructing a dream rig in 2025, and the resulting “go to sleep thinking about it” build has firmly revolved around the Hyte Y70. As much as I cherish the high-end components inside my PC — like the aforementioned Mega GPU — my inner 14-year-old can’t not go gaga for just how damn cool the exterior of my rig looks.
If you want to put together the ultimate gaming PC that is sure to have fellow pixel-counting dweebs drop their collective jaw in appreciation, I’ve got you covered.
Below, I’ll guide you through the main components of my dream rig, while also providing links to where you can pick them up in enticing deals.
Hyte Y70 PC gaming case
Hot. Damn. Just look at this thing. If you could have offered me as a kid a one-way trip on a DeLorean to 2025 so that he could bask in the glory of the Hyte Y70 Infinite, that little Scottish whippersnapper would have wept the geekiest of tears.
The Hyte Y70 might look gaudy as hell to some folks, but not to my eye. Despite housing a high-res touchscreen that you can set to pretty much any wallpaper you desire, the sheer roominess and quality of this case means it offers as much substance as it does style.
Thanks to its dual-chamber design, you can fit the chonkiest of GPUs in this puppy, install a bunch of case fans and still have ample room to spare. The fact I can also vertically mount my RTX 50090 is massively appreciated. This is comfortably the coolest-looking PC case I’ve ever owned… and it’s in no way close.
Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite ICE motherboard
Who says mobos can’t be sexy? Prior to buying the X870, I always looked at motherboards as the vital (thoroughly no-frills) heart of any PC. It’s only until I really started obsessing over the aesthetics of my Hyte Y70 build that I put real stock in having an attractive board at the centre of my rig.
The all-white version of Gigabyte’s premium board provides plenty of eye-candy, and thankfully it doesn’t sacrifice features in pursuit of its pretty face. This AMD socket AM5 mobo sports 4x dual channel DDR5 DIMM slots, a quartet of M.2 NVMe connections and blisteringly quick Wi-Fi 7 support. With an easy to tweak BIOS that makes overclocking an undaunting doddle, this may well be the best, most beautiful motherboard I’ve bought.
NZXT Kraken 360 RGB
When it comes to stone-cold temps, this awesome CPU cooler has an icier demeanor than Colin Farrell’s Penguin. Oh, and did I mention this is another component of my rig that also rocks a screen? The 1.54-inch display of this liquid cooler is undeniably the main selling point. Whether you just want it to display the current temperature of your processor or a custom, looping video, the NZXT Kraken 360 oozes an elite quality.
It’s also just a damn good CPU cooler. The free NZXT CAM software isn’t only robust, it’s exceptional. Allowing you to not only tinker with this cooler’s display, it also lets you set it to whisper-quiet levels. Before buying this component, I had always been Team Corsair when it comes to coolers. Now? I’ll be NZXT for as long as they’ll take my money.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
If you crave a whole lot of computational bang for your buck, it doesn’t come much better than the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. One of the very best gaming processors on the market, if you install this incredible chip inside your rig, it’s super-unlikely you’re going to be CPU-bound in even the most demanding Steam games.
Intel dominated the gaming processor market for years, yet AMD has stepped up massively of late. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is so good, it broke my almost two-decade commitment of building PCs with Intel chips at their heart.
With 8 cores and 16 threads, a default clock of 4.7GHz and a boost of 5.2GHz, this AMD Zen 5 monster isn’t just a wonderful option for running high-ending games at blistering frame rates, it’s also a good option if you’re a prosumer video editor. I know this is perhaps becoming a tiring theme throughout this piece, but this is the best CPU I’ve ever used.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
The most powerful consumer graphics card on the planet can still be annoyingly hard to find at MSRP many months after its initial release. There’s no way I’m going to recommend you do what I did. Namely, to pay hundreds of dollars above what this card is worth. STILL…
What. A. GPU. Even removing multi-frame generation from the equation — that can produce 4K/240 FPS results — the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is still one heck of a card. 30 percent faster than the RTX 4090, it can tame the best PC games around… even the incredibly demanding Alan Wake 2 with full ray tracing enabled.
By all means, pick up this GPU when the market becomes sensible and Nvidia “allows” you to buy it for less than a bank balance-obliterating $2,000. This is the crown jewel of my PC, and if you can buy it at a non-inflated price (and can obviously afford the current overlord of components), absolutely go for it.
Just don’t be shocked if bacon on legs learn to soar through the clouds before this card gets a significant price cut.
