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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.

Ledger · Aug 27 · 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.

Ledger · Aug 27 · 7 min

Hardware

buying a whole RTX 5090 gaming PC is now cheaper than buying just the graphics card

somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move

Voltage · Aug 22 · 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.

Ledger · Aug 16 · 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.

Voltage · Jul 31 · 11 min

Gaming

can your PC run GTA 6? the honest answer nobody selling you a GPU wants to give

Every site has a GTA 6 'system requirements' page. Here's the uncomfortable truth: Rockstar hasn't published any, and the PC version probably isn't out until 2027. Here's what we actually know.

Hitbox · Jul 31 · 11 min