Looking to buy / make a $1000-1250 VR-Ready Gaming Desktop

DJKent

Just wanted to do a bit of research before making a decision. While I may not be a beginner, there are still things I do not know about the current hardware scene. Wanted to get a gaming PC with the following qualitites:

*Within the $1000-1250 range

*Graphics card with at least the capability of an NVIDIA RTX 3050

*>500 GB of SSD storage

*VR support

*Not skimping out on cooling - I heard horror stories from friends about what happens when you skimp out on cooling.

I do not know enough about AMD Ryzen and Intel CPU specs to decide what I want there. I've only heard that AMD CPU's tend to run faster and hotter.

While building a PC from scratch would be nice, I am leaning more towards buying a prebuilt and customizing it later on once the graphics card market improves.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ian

Greetings,

If you want to go the pre-build route I would look at the following: https://www.microcenter.com/product/645592/powerspec-g511-gaming-pc & https://www.microcenter.com/product/643370/powerspec-g167-gaming-pc

Both of these would be in your budget range and meet the specs requested.

TreBouncee

At the moment this Asus GA15 (389247) at 1199$ is one of the best deals I've seen in my 3 years working here.

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7GHz Processor
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6
• 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
• 1TB SSD+1TB HDD
• Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
• 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax+Bluetooth 5.

Fits the budget, High end specs, only con I've noticed and heard from buyers is the cooling.