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Putting together a brand-new gaming PC right now is a tough ask because of the skyrocketing prices of pretty much every piece of hardware. That's why turning to laptops and prebuilts can be a more practical choice, and we've found a great deal on a 1440p-ready system that doesn't cut corners. Asus' ROG GM700 is on sale for $1,199.99 on Newegg, pairing a Ryzen 7 8700F CPU with an RX 9060 XT GPU for solid performance across all workloads.
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The Ryzen 7 8700F is an 8-core, 16-thread processor from AMD's Zen 4 family. It can boost up to 5 GHz, and since it sits on the AM5 socket, you have a decent upgrade path ahead of you, too. Technically, this is a laptop chip repurposed for desktop use — a Ryzen 7 8700G without integrated graphics —, so it's slower than AMD's similar 8-core options, but it's still a perfectly capable CPU in its own right.The RX 9060 XT, on the other hand, needs no introduction. We call it "the best enthusiast value graphics card" in our top GPUs roundup. This is the full-fat 16GB model, so you're getting more VRAM than the competition at this price point. Thanks to its RDNA 4 architecture, features like FSR 4 are available right away, and the GPU performs better than the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, its direct MSRP rival.
