This i7 Alder Lake gaming PC with an RTX 3060 is down to just $1,130

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Lenovo IdeaCentre Gaming 5i Tower | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 | Intel Core i7 12700 | 16GB DDR4 | 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD | $1,449.99$1,129.99 at Lenovo (save $320)(opens in new tab)This is the cheapest we've seen an Alder Lake Core i7 CPU in a machine alongside a decent graphics card. The RTX 3060 dominates 1080p gaming and won't balk at some 1440p action either. Throw in the 16GB of DDR4-3200 and a healthy 1TB SSD and there's a lot of PC here for the money.

This Lenovo IdeaCentre PC doesn't assault the eyes the way most gaming machines do. In fact, you could have this on your desk and a passer-by could be fooled into thinking it doesn't pack the latest hardware from Intel and Nvidia. Stealth gaming, that's what we like to see. Not all the time maybe, but it's good to have the option. Especially when you're saving $320 on this $1,130 RTX 3060 gaming PC(opens in new tab) at the same time.

Below that austere surface, you'll find the impressive combo of Intel Alder Lake CPU and Nvidia RTX 30-series GPU. You'd usually find a Core i5 chip for this sort of cash, but that's not the case here, and in fact, you're looking at an Intel Core i7 12700 CPU, which is a 12-core, 20-thread processor with a maximum turbo on the P-Cores of 4.80GHz, which is seriously speedy. This is a great chip for serious work, but absolutely relishes gaming as well, and will keep the GPU well fed.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060(opens in new tab) is a strong GPU for 1080p gaming and 1440p is doable with some massaging of the settings. As this is an RTX chip it also means you have access to the best ray tracing hardware around at the moment and also support for DLSS 2.0, which itself works wonders at improving frame rates without sacrificing visual fidelity.

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