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Black Friday: Budget Gaming PC Builds Face Price Hikes

11/29/2025

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Rising RAM and GPU prices complicate building a budget gaming PC this Black Friday.
Tom's Hardware suggests a build around $950 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT, 32GB DDR4 RAM, a 1TB SSD, and an RX 9060 XT.
The RX 9060 XT remains priced at $349.
iBuyPower offers two prebuilt options, a gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti for $779.99 and another with an RTX 5070 for $999.

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Story summary

Rising RAM and GPU prices complicate building a budget gaming PC this Black Friday.
Tom's Hardware suggests a build around $950 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT, 32GB DDR4 RAM, a 1TB SSD, and an RX 9060 XT.
The RX 9060 XT remains priced at $349.
iBuyPower offers two prebuilt options, a gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti for $779.99 and another with an RTX 5070 for $999.