Starting Power
The cheapest build that still holds 60+ FPS at 1080p with settings turned up. Sized so the GPU, not the CPU, is what you upgrade next.
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Design, simulate, and deploy high-performance hardware configurations without thermal compromises.
The toolkit
Size a power supply, spot a bottleneck, check whether a model fits in VRAM. Every calculator runs in your browser — nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Complete, coherent parts lists by budget.
Size the PSU your components actually need.
Check whether a model fits on your card.
See whether the CPU or the GPU is holding you back.
Estimate tokens per second on your hardware.
Work out what your machine costs to run.
Compare build times across processors.
Technical documentation and protocols to master hardware architecture.
PC Master Studio
The technical comparison between the two memory generations has not changed. The price has, enormously, and that inverts a good deal of the usual advice.
It is the cheapest processor you can build something decent around, and also the one most people buy without reading the single specification that matters.
An April 2026 update rolled the app back to an earlier state: features gone, interface reverted, and nothing a user could do about it.
Performance Ecosystem
From entry-level workflows to AI research stations. Curated by experts to maximize every clock cycle.
The cheapest build that still holds 60+ FPS at 1080p with settings turned up. Sized so the GPU, not the CPU, is what you upgrade next.
View Setup Shop this buildBuilt around core count and memory bandwidth: 4K timelines, Docker stacks and long compiles instead of frame rates.
View Setup Shop this buildThe X3D cache pairing that wins high-refresh benchmarks, with enough GPU behind it to keep 4K above 100 FPS.
View Setup Shop this buildMaximum VRAM and thread count: local LLM inference, 8K renders and simulation workloads that a single-GPU consumer build cannot touch.
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