this '$500 off' gaming PC deal has a number nobody's pointing out

The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal. Aliteq Nadia Rahman · Deals Editor

The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB's median US price has hit $805 — 88% above its $429 launch MSRP — driven by the ongoing GDDR7/DRAM shortage.

The discounted MSI Codex Z2 bundles that same GPU with a Ryzen 7 8700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD for $1,600, down from a $2,100 list.

Rough component math puts the non-GPU parts (CPU, RAM, storage, PSU, case, board) at around $548 of the sale price — close to retail for those parts alone.

16GB of system RAM is thin for 2026 and is the first thing to budget an upgrade for.

This is one of the rare prebuilt deals where shortage-inflated GPU pricing currently favors buying the whole PC over the card by itself.

At $1,600, this is one of the rare prebuilt deals where the shortage-inflated GPU price actually works in the buyer's favor — you're getting a card that costs $805 alone, plus a full working PC, for…

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