Rocket Lake Desktop with GeForce RTX 3060 Ti for $1,269

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Rocket Lake Desktop with GeForce RTX 3060 Ti for $1,269

This may come as a shock to you, but GPUs are in short supply these days. Now, this may not be news anymore. Who knows how long this situation will last, but in the meantime, deals on gaming PCs with built-in GPUs are popping up from time to time, such as HP's Pavilion Gaming desktop,

which is available in a variety of configuration options.

A variety of configuration options are available, but the one featured here combines an Intel Core i5 11400 processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card for $1,268.99. This is after a $141 discount by applying coupon code "10GAMER2021" at checkout.

The RTX 3060 Ti graces our list of best graphics cards due to its value proposition. It offered performance comparable to the previous generation RTX 2080 Super, and in our tests it delivered by 17% to single digits off the RTX 3070's pace. It is an excellent choice for mid-range gaming.

As for the CPU, the Core i5 11400 is based on Intel's latest generation Rocket Lake architecture. It's a 6-core/12-thread chip with a base clock of 2.6 GHz, a maximum turbo frequency of 4.4 GHz, and 12 MB of L3 cache; a nice complement to the RTX 3060 Ti.

We also loaded this customizable PC with 16GB of DDR4-2933 RAM (up from 8GB in the base model) and a 512GB SSD (up from 256GB). This allows you to get a fuller configuration at a reasonable price at a time when GPUs are incredibly scarce.

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