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Get a prebuilt RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5600X gaming PC for £949Way easier than trying to find a standalone graphics card at RRP
Way easier than trying to find a standalone graphics card at RRP
Whenever I see a potentially good prebuilt gaming PC, I always put the parts into the fantastically useful PCPartPicker website to see how much it would cost me to make the same computer myself. Adding in theRyzen 5 5600X processor, MSI B550 motherboard, 16GB of RAM, 240GB SSD, white CM case and 550W power supply, the site reckons you’d be looking at anoutlay of around £636- and that’s without theRTX 3060graphics card, the single most expensive component. We have £314 left in our “budget” to pay for the GPU, so the question is this: can weactuallybuy an RTX 3060 for that price?
AWD-IT RTX 3060 Ryzen 5600X desktop PC - £949 (was £1200)
In theory, the answer should be yes - the 3060’s RRP begins at around £300 in the UK, so we should be able to build this system for the same price as buying it preassembled. But due to the massive demand for graphics cards right now, RTX 3060 cards are actually selling for hundreds of pounds more, sometimes doubling the RRP. So in that context, paying only £314 to get an RTX 3060 in our system is an unexpected bargain - especially when it’s a well-respected EVGA 3060 XC model, as this one is.
This calculation doesn’t even take into account the cost of Windows 10, which would normally cost between £30 and £120 for a legitimate copy, nor the assembly of the computer and the three year warranty that AWD-IT offer as part of the purchase price. With these factors considered, the £949 asking price becomes very reasonable indeed.
Whichever way you choose to go though, I reckon this£949 Ryzen 5600X and RTX 3060 PCrepresents an excellent value. And while the RTX 3060 falls behind other (equally impossible to find) RTX 30-series cards, like the 3060 Ti and 3070, Katharine’s benchmarks have shown that it still performs well, often providing double the frame-rate of the legendarily-good-at-the-time GTX 1060 or GTX 970 cards. That means this PC ought to provide a super noticeable performance uptick for anyone on that era of hardware.
