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I've checked gaming PC deals every week for two years and I'm not exaggerating when I say there isn't a single well-priced PC left

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I've checked gaming PC deals every week for two years and I'm not exaggerating when I say there isn't a single well-priced PC left

This week I've been: Testing a new mouse that I am enjoying greatly but cannot yet speak about šŸ¤

Welcome to your daily dose of doomcore, and no, I don't mean that peculiar genre of music. I mean the state of the PC gaming market. Not to be too much of a negative Nelly but things are not looking great out there.

You probably didn't need me to tell you that, but given I've been keeping my eye on the best deals for gaming PCs every week (minus holidays) for the past couple of years, I thought I'd share with you some more specific, cheerfully glum context. You're welcome.

Let's take a nice trip down memory lane to check out a couple of the deals I spotted for gaming PCs around this time last year.

Here we are: In an assortment I highlighted last September, an RTX 5060 Ti rig for just $1,000. Today, the cheapest we see any just-about-decent RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC retailing for, is about $1,200ā€”this AVGPC Max for $1,209 at Newegg, for instance.

But that's not even half of it, because you'll notice the RAM in that $1,200 rig is DDR4, not DDR5. And if it wasn't DDR4, you could almost certainly expect such an RTX 5060 Ti rig to have just a single 16 GB stick of DDR5 in single-channel mode.

How about at the higher end? Well, there's this RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC I also highlighted last September . That was $1,900 for the whole package: RTX 5070 Ti, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, and even a full 2 TB of storage.


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