It’s not often you see a decent budget gaming PC going for less than $899, let alone $699.99, but that’s the price of this Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 rig right now on Best Buy thanks to a huge $250 drop in price. That modest sum not only buys you a decent GPU, but this Black Friday gaming PC deal also nets you a 1TB SSD and a solid ten-core Intel Core i5 CPU as well.
As we found in our GeForce RTX 4060 review, the entry-level RTX Nvidia GPU found in this iBUYPOWER Scale Gaming Desktop PC is fantastic for 1080p gaming, enabling you to max out the settings in your games and still get decent frame rates, even with ray tracing. This GPU also supports Nvidia DLSS 3 with frame generation, which we’ve found can massively improve frame rates in games that support it.
Indeed, the RTX 4060 averages 102fps in F1 22 with this tech enabled in our tests, up from 65fps without it. It even averages 55fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at the highly-demanding ultra ray tracing preset, again with some help from frame generation.
Meanwhile, the Core i5 14400F CPU is Intel’s update to the Core i5 13400F, one of the best gaming CPU models you can buy right now if you’re on a budget, and it ups the clock speed from the 13400F’s 4.6GHz to 4.7GHz, making it even faster. It also has six of Intel’s all-important P-Cores for gaming, as well as four E-Cores to give it a boost in multi-threaded software, such as video encoding.
We’re also really pleased to see this system coming with a 1TB NVMe SSD, giving you enough capacity to install a few of the latest games at the same time. Even now, many budget PCs only come with a 500GB SSD, which really limits you in these days when the Stalker 2 system requirements demand 160GB of storage space.
If we have one complaint, it’s that you only get 16GB of 5,200MHz memory in this machine, which is a fair way from the speed and capacity available from the best gaming RAM kits. More importantly, the RAM only comes on a single stick, so it won’t run in dual-channel mode to maximize your memory bandwidth. That 16GB of RAM is enough to get you started, though, and it will be fine for gaming. Thankfully, memory is also cheap right now, and easy to upgrade at a later date.
Meanwhile, the Asus B760 D5 motherboard covers all the basics, with a 16x PCIe 4.0 graphics slot, four DDR5 memory slots, a pair of 4x PCIe 4.0 M.2 connectors for future storage upgrades, plus you get integrated Wi-Fi.
If you want to take advantage of this PC deal, then click on this link here. You’ll need to get in quick though, as it expires on November 30.
If you’re looking for a machine with a bit more power, then check out our guide to the best gaming PC, where we take you through all our favorite options at a range of prices.