PC building isn’t dead: you can get the core of a quality gaming rig for $936 with these combo deals
(Image credit: Team Group | AMD | Asus | Cooler Master) As a PC builder it seems like your best bet these days is to start keeping an eye on Newegg's bundle deals if you're looking to put together a new gami...
As a PC builder it seems like your best bet these days is to start keeping an eye on Newegg's bundle deals if you're looking to put together a new gaming rig. Even then, it's not cheap or easy, or even more affordable than just buying a discounted prebuilt gaming PC.
But PC building is one of the best things about this hobby and I'll be damned if any AI-generated memory crisis is going to take that away from me. So I'm regularly playing around with the Newegg combo builder, and right now there's a decent AMD deal that nets you an Asus motherboard, a six-core Zen 4 CPU, and 16 GB DDR6-6000 for $546.98 at Newegg. And you even get a free 240 mm Cooler Master CPU cooler in the mix.
Just add in an RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB card—for just $389 at Walmart still—and you're getting more or less an entire gaming PC for $936. Okay, you still need a PSU, a case, and some storage, but what's an SSD between friends?
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Alternatively, you could just go for a full prebuilt gaming PC, such as this one from iBuyPower that Jacob highlighted last week that is still live and kicking today. It's another RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB machine, but comes with a 1 TB SSD and 32 GB of DDR5-5200 memory.
You could potentially build a system up with the Newegg combo that would get close to that, but if you did want a 1 TB SSD and 32 GB of memory in there then you are going to blast past the $1,400 price tag of the iBuyPower system.
Sadly, this is another nail in PC building from a value perspective, but I still maintain it's the best way to get to know your PC; getting elbow deep into its innards and bringing it to life.
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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.