This astonishing $850 gaming PC contains well over $1,200 worth of parts, including $400 of 32GB DDR5 alone — get a potent Steam Machine rival thanks to this budget Intel Arc desktop

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The pricing troubles of the Steam Machine make it easy to think that budget gaming PCs are dead, but this incredible ABS gaming desktop I've just found might convince you otherwise. Right now at Walmart, you can grab this ABS Flux II Aqua with Intel Core i5 14400F, Intel Arc B580, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD for just $849. That's a $150 saving on the $999 list price, for a PC with parts worth well over $1,200 in today's market.

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This PC features a Raptor Lake Refresh CPU worth $178, 32GB of Patriot DDR5 priced at $400, a $150 SSD, and a $309 GPU from Intel for unparalleled budget value. Fire those parts into PCPartPicker, and you'll see that, along with a motherboard, the cost is some $1,158 to build this rig yourself. And that's before you've added a CPU cooler, case, power supply, and Windows 11, all of which are included in this build.

Make no mistake, this is not a blistering gaming PC capable of 4K; there's no fancy X3D SKU or RTX 5080 inside. What you do get is a punchy budget CPU with a total of 10 cores, six performance and four efficiency, with 16 threads and boost clocks of up to 4.7 GHz. As you can see from our testing data, the 14400 can sustain 123 fps in our 1080p testing suite.