I can feel it. It's happening. We're finally starting to get really good hardware at prices that don't feel utterly punitive. Which is a first for this generation; what can probably start to be called the outgoing generation now that we have the new AMD Zen 5 chips out and RTX 5000-series graphics cards on the horizon.
Before this, the sub-$1,000 gaming PCs were all RTX 4060 graphics cards on low-rent last-gen Intel chips. Now we have an RTX 4060 Ti with a proper eight-core, 16-thread AMD CPU inside it. The Ryzen 7 7700 was one of the best Zen 4 chips from that generation, being far more efficient than the Ryzen 7 7700X, but still delivering serious gaming performance with it.
But, not only that, we're not getting hobbled with a paltry amount of memory and a weak-heart SSD, which is something we've had to suffer with in the more budget-oriented segment of gaming PCs.
There's a full 32 GB of DDR5 memory here. I mean, it is only 5200 MT/s, so not the absolute fastest out there, but that really is a ton of quick RAM, and you're not going to be in need of an upgrade any time soon. There's also a decent 1 TB SSD to keep your games library, which is arguably the minimum right now.
My only note of mild concern is the 600 W power supply, but that's only really a concern if you were to upgrade to a graphics card that costs about the same price as this entire gaming PC.
