I’ve checked gaming PC offers each week for 2 years and I am not exaggerating after I say there is not a single well-priced PC left

Welcome to your every day dose of doomcore, and no, I do not imply that peculiar style of music. I imply the state of the PC gaming market. Not to be an excessive amount of of a unfavorable Nelly however issues will not be wanting nice on the market.

You most likely did not want me to inform you that, however given I’ve been protecting my eye on the most effective offers for gaming PCs each week (minus holidays) for the previous couple of years, I assumed I’d share with you some extra particular, cheerfully glum context. You’re welcome.

Let’s take a pleasant journey down reminiscence lane to take a look at a few the offers I noticed for gaming PCs round this time final yr.

Here we’re: In an assortment I highlighted last September, an RTX 5060 Ti rig for just $1,000. Today, the cheapest we see any just-about-decent RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC retailing for, is about $1,200—this AVGPC Max for $1,209 at Newegg, as an illustration.

But that is not even half of it, since you’ll discover the RAM in that $1,200 rig is DDR4, not DDR5. And if it wasn’t DDR4, you may nearly actually count on such an RTX 5060 Ti rig to have only a single 16 GB stick of DDR5 in single-channel mode.

How about on the increased finish? Well, there’s this RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC I additionally highlighted final September. That was $1,900 for the entire package deal: RTX 5070 Ti, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, and even a full 2 TB of storage. Y’know, again after we may advocate 2 TB of storage as a baseline for mid-range and better rigs, whereas protecting a straight face.

And now? I believe you understand the deal. I truly wrestle to search out RTX 5070 Ti gaming PCs value highlighting anymore—the GPU appears to be extra calmly stocked than others. Currently, I’ve obtained a PC with the identical base specs listed (on sale!) on our offers hub for $2,400 at Newegg. If you are okay choosing an RX 9070 XT as an alternative, you’ll be able to decrease that to $2,099 at Walmart, which does web you a more moderen X3D chip—our favorite, in actual fact—however you are additionally sacrificing 1 TB of storage.

More typically, I can inform you that after taking a look at gaming PC offers week-in, week-out for the previous couple of years, just about each final bastion of hope for cheap costs has now slipped away.

For fairly some time and even till very just lately, RX 9070 XT PCs held on to cheaper price tags whereas Nvidia PCs slipped out of inventory, presumably as a result of pre-shortage shares have been lasting longer as fewer AMD PCs are usually scooped up by PC players than Nvidia ones. But just lately I’ve seen even the most effective offers on these appear to have slipped away. On the uncommon event there may be one for a good sub-$2,000 worth, you are very fortunate if it has greater than 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage.

The decrease finish of the market is especially dire. Before the reminiscence disaster, there was fairly an abundance of RTX 5060 gaming PCs occurring sale for underneath $1,000, generally truly for nicely underneath this. This one I highlighted final October, as an illustration, price simply $749. It appeared to come back with only a single 16 GB stick of DDR5 reminiscence, however nowadays you are taking a look at almost $1,000 for the same thing, and that is for those who’re fortunate (even offers like which might be getting fairly uncommon).

There is not any space of the gaming PC market that is not now feeling the influence of the worldwide reminiscence scarcity. That a lot I’m now sure of. Pre-shortage shares appear to have run totally dry and system builders and producers are having to up their costs to maintain up with ever-increasing reminiscence and storage prices. Not to say climbing GPU prices (which do themselves, in spite of everything, include reminiscence).

The factor is, individuals are nonetheless going to need to purchase gaming PCs. Which signifies that other than essentially the most budget-constrained individuals who can be priced out of the market utterly, potential PC players are sadly going to have to begin adjusting their pricing expectations.

I typically witness the sentiment that gaming PC offers nowadays—say, $1,500 for a good RTX 5070 gaming PC, or $1,200 for a good RTX 5060 Ti one—will not be good ones. And clearly that is true contemplating the historic market. But these are sadly ‘good’ offers given the market at this time. It sucks, however it’s the actuality of the market proper now.

And there does not appear to be a lick of distinction we will make, no less than not whereas the AI growth rages on and continues to hoard computing silicon in its servers. Happy 2026, everybody.