To help you find the right machine and save you some money, we’ve smoked out the best gaming PC deals available online right now.
If you’re thinking of building a PC but have found that the ongoing chip shortage has left the well of GPU deals dry, don’t sweat it: You don’t need to buy the components piecemeal to get a cost-effective, gaming-worthy machine that can run the latest titles and handle heavy workloads. Available supplies are pretty much all going to brand-name computer manufacturers at the moment, so while building your own desktop tower might be off the table right now (and likely for the next few months at least), you can still score some pretty solid gaming PC deals if you know where to look — and you’ve just found the right place. We’ve combed the entire web to bring you a hand-picked selection of the best cheap gaming PCs out there this week. If your needs are modest and you still want a dedicated graphics card (perhaps for tasks like video editing along with light gaming), this Kepler Systems gaming desktop is a cost-effective and very attractive option. This tower features an Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 graphics card, which, while a very basic GPU with 2GB VRAM, is one of the cheapest discrete GPUs on the market right now. That card works with a Core i5 CPU and 8GB of RAM to deliver sufficient performance for work and for less resource-heavy games like Fornite and Minecraft. For storage, you’ve got a 500GB SSD, which is a nice amount of space for your games and other digital goodies. Its mod-friendly case design allows you to upgrade components in the future, as well. HP may not be as well-known for gaming as brands like Alienware or MSI, but it makes some surprisingly solid PCs and you’ll see its name frequently when shopping around for gaming systems. This Pavilion desktop tower runs on a Ryzen 5 CPU paired with a GTX 1650 Super graphics card, which are very capable specs for a cheap gaming PC in this price bracket. For memory, you’ve got 8GB of RAM (which can be upgraded even further if need be) along with a 256GB solid-state drive for storage. This desktop tower is one of the best pre-built gaming PC deals with a dedicated GPU that you’ll find for around this price at the moment. And, like most of our other picks, it also comes bundled with a mouse and keyboard. Asus always has some nice computers for folks on a budget, and this ROG Strix GL10 gaming PC offers a lot of bang for the buck. While not the beefiest tower on our list (see our last pick for that one), it’s still got a very respectable Ryzen 5 3600X CPU,8GB DDR4 RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU with 6GB VRAM for some added graphical juice.
