You can still build a great $1000 budget gaming PC with Amazon Prime Day parts — 32GB of RAM and RTX 5060 Ti power beats out the Steam Machine and cheap prebuilts

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PC building during the RAMpocalypse and NANDpocalypse is challenging, to be sure, but you can still put together a great and relatively affordable box that will last during Prime Day thanks to abundant deals on core components. Yes, memory and SSDs are pricey, but we can dull some of the pain with deep discounts elsewhere.For a $1000 budget, we've put together a great 1080p gaming PC with a 10-core Core i5-12600KF CPU and an RTX 5060 Ti 8GB graphics card for the best 1080p bang-for-the-buck you can find (and an RX 9060 XT 16GB alternative for $100 more if 8GB is a bridge too far).Yes, the Core i5-12600KF is getting up there in years, but it's the same underlying silicon as newer value-oriented chips like the Core i5-14400F, and it boasts higher clocks and a higher TDP than non-K parts for better multi-threaded performance.

$1,000 Prime Day gaming PC: Quick list

Intel Core i5-12600K 10-Core Processor: $137.99 at AmazonThermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE CPU cooler: $17.89 at AmazonASUS B760M-AYW WIFI D4 II Intel B760 (LGA 1700) mATX motherboard: $89 at NeweggSilicon Power 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3600 kit: $198 at NeweggSilicon Power UD90 1TB PCIe NVMe Gen4x4 M.2: $164.79 at NeweggMSI Ventus GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB: $309 at Newegg with promos(Upgrade) XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT: $419 at WootCooler Master MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX PC Case: $32.99 at AmazonASRock PRO Series PRO-750G 750 W PSU: $54.99 at Newegg