$898 will get you a full 1440p gaming PC. One screwdriver required

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Ipason gaming desktop | AMD Ryzen 5 5600G | 16GB DDR4-3200 | 500GB NVMe SSD | $849.99$549 at Newegg (save $300.99)(opens in new tab)You can game on this machine to a certain extent—the integrated Vega GPU on the Ryzen chip will support 720p gaming at lower settings for sure. But we're listing it here as a good base from which to add your own graphics card for a quick, powerful new gaming PC. The AMD CPU is a good six-core, 12-thread job, and the 16GB RAM will run everything you need. The 500GB SSD could be bigger, but that's an easy, cheap upgrade down the line.

ASRock Challenger RX 6700 XT | 12GB GDDR6 | 2,560 shaders | 2,330MHz Boost clock | $359.99$349.99 at Newegg (save $10)(opens in new tab)If you're looking for a mainstream graphics card upgrade right now, the RX 6700 XT is the GPU I'd recommend. It's capable of delivering RTX 3060 Ti levels of gaming performance, and packs AMD's FSR2 tech for its own take on upscaling. Ray tracing isn't the Radeon architecture's forté, but for straight rasterised gaming it's a great, more affordable option.

Buying a new gaming PC today can be a bit of a minefield given the price of new graphics cards and the fact that almost everything is more expensive. But there are still ways to get cheap gaming PC deals(opens in new tab) if you're willing to be a little creative, and exercise those screwdriver muscles.

Honestly, it's not that creative, I'm just recommending pairing a cheap base PC with an affordable graphics card and combining the two to make one excellent, affordable gaming rig. Easy.

Of course that does necessitate getting the side off your new machine and installing a new component yourself. Thankfully, jamming a new GPU into your rig is one of the most straightforward