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Okay: the title of your post poses one question, but the body poses a different question.
No, a $300 gaming PC is not going to be "best" by most measures for playing AAA games. (Exception, a whole HERD of AAA DOS games would fly on any modern machine, but I presume you mean CURRENT games). Someone with a strong tech background and A+ certification or equivalent should be able to build an excellent gaming PC for less than the $1500 to $4600 or more it might cost to BUY one pre-assembled from someplace like DELL, but it is unclear that you are asking about that.
If I understand you correctly and you really want to build your own to get the most game experience for the $ (with a $300 limit), then it becomes important for someone to ask "how much PC build experience do you have?". What parts have you on-hand and what will you need to source?
Whenever I see posts like this I get a little skeptical, and sometimes I like to fire up my Tor Browser and check these links.
My skepticism was not confirmed this time, but the first link (wepc.com) is so chock full of third-party scripts, I really do not recommend clicking that.
Gurubuilds seems kinda OK though.
^ Yes, I had noticed that the catchy title melts away when you actually click the Amazon links and see what each "gaming rig" consists of: yesteryear's AMD CPU with integrated graphics, a smallish SSD, a cheap motherboard, not enough RAM...
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