This year at IGN, we'll be playing big PC games including (but not limited to) Total War: Attila, Saints Row IV: Gat out of Hell, Battlefield Hardline, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, GTA 5, Evolve, Mad Max, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, Batman: Arkham Knight, Star Wars: Battlefront, Street Fighter 5, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Assassin's Creed Victory , and Call of Duty Whatever. We need gaming hardware that can run them all maxed out at high resolutions, with no compromises. We also need mobility: small, light machines that can be moved around our office and hooked up to anything from a 1920x1280 TV to a high-end 4K monitor (or two). And, because we're not made of money, they had to be built to last for at least a few years. So, here's what we did with our $2,000 per-PC budget. (Prices listed are from the date of purchase, 12/14/14. Some have shifted since.)

We expect only two of these to be destroyed by Darth Vader in the attack on the first Death Star.

Case: BitFenix Mini-ITX (in red, of course) - $84.99Motherboard: Asus Z97I-Plus - $149.99Power Supply: Corsair 600W - $81.03CPU: Core i7 4790K - $299.99GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Superclocked - $629.99RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX FURY 1600MHz - $139.99SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 512GB - $342.50HDD: WD Green 2TB - $78Cooling: Zalman CNPS8900 Quiet - $41.24Total: $(You can probably beat this if you do some deal hunting!)Here's the final product:There's nothing quite so satisfying as hitting that power button for the first time and having everything work great on the first shot - we went three for three on these machines. So when you see us gaming on PCs in 2015, this is probably what we'll be using.(I'll do some benchmarking soon!)Would I recommend that you go out and buy the exact same PC for yourself if you're on a budget? Not really.- for example, you certainly don't need a $340 512GB SSD or a $630 GPU to play games at 1080p with the settings maxed out - we went big for long-term future-proofing. My home PC has a $300 GeForce GTX 970, and has no trouble maxing out Dragon Age: Inquisition. Also, you could get a $200 Core i5 CPU instead of a $300 i7 without feeling significant pain, and you don't really need that fancy Zalman cooler if you don't plan on overclocking (it's also kinda tough to fit into this small case). But if you've got $2,000 to blow and value the small form factor, this PC will serve you well.So, what kind of PC would you build with $2,000? Or, share your super-fast budget PC build in the comments. 2015's going to be an amazing year for PC gaming, so the more build options you share with your fellow gamers, the better!

Dan Stapleton is IGN's Reviews Editor. You can follow him on Twitter to hear all about how awesome PC gaming is, plus a healthy dose of random Simpsons references.