gaming pc

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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.

Nadia Rahman · 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.

Nadia Rahman · 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

Ravi Malhotra · 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.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 16 · 6 min