Friday, March 05, 2021
So you want to play video games on your PC, huh? Well, you essentially have two basic choices. Build it yourself or buy a gaming PC. Personally, I'm in the build-your-own crowd, but it's not always that easy. For one thing, building your own PC takes a lot of research to know what parts go with what and where and how to buy them. Then you have to build the thing, which takes a whole different level of understanding. And this day and age with all the bots snatching up the latest graphics cards and crypto miners buying them in bulk, a lot of prices have been artificially inflated.
The prevailing notion has always been that building your own PC is cheaper than a prebuilt, but that's just not always the case anymore especially since 2020 wreaked havoc on supply lines. Plus sometimes buying a prebuilt is the best way to get access to the graphics cards you can't find in stock, and the convenience of having someone else do the work can justify a few more bucks on occasion. Whatever your reason for needing a prebuilt gaming PC, we've got your back. These are the best deals available right now.
Best gaming PC deals:
HP Pavilion TG01-1070m gaming desktop | $110 off
This PC comes with an AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB solid state drive. It also has the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which is honestly worth half the price of the PC to begin with. You get a lot of value out of the PC given how much the graphics card is worth. It also has Windows 10 Home for the operating system, 5.1-channel surround sound and USB-C ports.
Dell G5 gaming desktop | 17% off
Includes a 10th-generation Intel Core i5 2.9GHz processor, an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, and 8GB RAM. It's also easily uipgradeable so you can add more RAM or throw in an SSD for faster loading times if you want. Plus, you can upgrade a lot of this (like getting a better graphics card) and still use the code SAVE17 to get the discount.
CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme gaming desktop
The Intel Core i5-10600KF processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card are worth $650 by themselves. Not to mention it's hard enough even finding those graphics cards in stock. The rest of the build includes 16GB RAM, a 500GB solid state drive, a 1TB hard drive, and Windows 10 Home.
CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme gaming desktop | $94 off
Use code SPRING410 to save. The specifications include an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz CPU, a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 10GB graphics card, 16GB RAM, and a 500GB WD Blue SN550 M.2 NVMe solid state drive. The DeepCool Matrexx 55 RGB mid tower case with tempered glass has some excellent cooling options, too. Given how rare the Nvidia 3000 series graphics card are right now, this is a great way to get one.
If you want to build your own PC, go right ahead. Just be aware of some of the difficulties with the process. If you can't be bothered with all the research and connecting of dots and just want something to game on right away, then maybe a prebuilt is more your style. Heck, if you want to play with the latest graphics you almost have to go prebuilt just to avoid how expensive modern cards are getting.
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