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Deals

everyone will call this RTX 5080 gaming PC deal 'barely a discount' — building it yourself just got more expensive than buying it

$130 off $2,830 doesn't sound like much. Then I priced the parts myself, and the RAM shortage flipped the entire math.

Aliteq Team · Aug 27, 2026 · 8 min

Deals

walmart's '$501 off' RTX 5070 gaming PC deal is hiding a $450 problem in the spec sheet

$501 off and two free games sounds great until you hit the line that says 16GB of RAM — and fixing that yourself right now costs almost as much as the discount.

Aliteq Team · Aug 27, 2026 · 7 min

Deals

newegg's '$500 off' on this RTX 5090 PC undersells the actual deal by a lot

the discount headline is real, but it's not the interesting part. do the math on what the GPU alone costs right now and this deal gets a lot more interesting.

Aliteq Team · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min

Hardware

is building your own gaming PC still worth it in 2026? the answer changed — and not how you'd think

For a decade, building saved you hundreds. In 2026, with component prices sky-high, prebuilts caught up. Here's the honest math on prebuilt vs building your own gaming PC.

Aliteq Team · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · 11 min

Gaming

Can my PC run GTA 6? Not yet: there is no PC version or spec sheet. Here's the GPU to plan for

GTA 6 comes out on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on Nov 19, 2026. Rockstar has announced no PC version and no PC requirements. What the official pages do tell you, what to check on your own PC today, and the graphics card tier worth planning for if a PC port comes.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · 8 min