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But if you are looking to get yourself a whole new system to replace your existing gaming PC then there are some great options available already. This $1,300 Dell G16 is a great price for an RTX 4070 gaming laptop, and offers a ton of tech for the money.
Obviously, you get the RTX 4070 GPU itself, offering gaming performance along the same lines as the RTX 3080 from the last generation, but alongside that you have the Core i9 13900HX CPU. That’s a 24-core, 32-thread chip that’s great for multi-threaded creativity performance as well as with enough single-threaded grunt for gaming, too.
One thing to note, however, is that while 16 GB DDR5-4800 is an okay amount of memory for a gaming laptop, it’s notably just a single stick in this build. That will offer half the memory bandwidth of a dual-channel setup, which is a shame. But it’s also worth noting that it’s an easy upgrade, and 32 GB DDR5-4800 in two sticks will cost just $73.
With all those internal gubbins, you also get a lovely 1600p 240 Hz display, too. So yeah, lots of good things, in actually quite a large package.
This is exactly what I mean when I say that it doesn’t need to cost an absolute fortune to create a great gaming setup, and gaming monitors is the perfect case in point. A lot of the talk right now is about the rise of OLED gaming monitors, and sure, they do look stunning, but for a genuinely good one you’re still looking at near $800 at best.
But this 27-inch ASRock is just $157 and offers 2560 x 1440 as the native resolution, with a 165 Hz refresh. For $157. That sort of spec would have been around double that this time last year, which is pretty ludicrous. It’s not some dim wee panel, either, this is a bona fide 550 nits display which will deliver a surprisingly good HDR experience, too.
Well, hi there. Dave here, editor-in-chief on the hardware side of PC Gamer, so let me take you by the hand and lead you through the morass of PC gaming deals over the next few days.
I’m going to be running the rule over all the potential options in a whole host of different categories, and I’ve already picked a few goodies out that I think are great deals right now. So, stay tuned here for my top recommendations.
