If you are hesitant to buy a new budget gaming PC because of talk that Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs are unstable, how about a gaming PC with an affordable yet stable processor?

This Yeyian Tanto is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 7500F chip and an Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card, a combination that balances well for 1080p gaming. This Ryzen processor is essentially a Ryzen 5 7600X with 6 cores and 12 threads. However, the internal GPU is disabled and the power limit is as low as 65W, but at least the boost clock is only 4% lower at 300MHz.

Indeed, the 7500F's base clock is 1 GHz lower than the 7600X's, but it is unlikely to run at that lower clock in games. In other words, when idling on a desktop, the CPU runs very cool and quiet and only consumes power.

There's not much more to say about the RTX 4060, Nvidia's budget Ada Lovelace GPU, which is overpriced at launch and not overloaded with VRAM, but it does more than most people give it credit for. It supports all the features of DLSS 3.5, and it's a great choice for gaming at 1080p, the result is a great little graphics card capable of running the latest games at high 1080p settings.

With the addition of DLSS upscaling and frame generation, it can also support 1440p games.

Cheap gaming PCs cut corners somewhere, and this Yeyian Tanto is no different, with 16GB of DDR5 and a dual-channel kit, but rated at 4,800 MT/s. This is a bit on the slow side, but at least it is not difficult to swap out the RAM for a faster DDR5 kit if you feel the need.

The biggest cost-saving design, however, is the motherboard, the Asus A620A model; the A620 chipset is the most basic of AMD's 600 series, so it does not support Gen5 SSDs, has the fewest number of I/O ports, and uses PBOs to performance cannot be increased.

Finally, the SSDs, while adequate at 1TB, are only available in Gen3 models, which is unfortunate in today's market. I would prefer a slower Gen4 SSD, but at least it's not the HDD that was common in budget gaming PCs not too long ago.

On the plus side, the cooling setup is more than adequate: the Ryzen 5 7500F is cooled by AMD Wraith Stealth and features four ARGB 120mm fans (three in the front and one in the back). None of this is state-of-the-art thermal management, but it is perfectly adequate for the hardware inside the case. That said, this case strikes a good balance between appearance and airflow. [If you're looking to get into PC gaming and don't want to blow your bank balance, this Yeyian Tanto is a great way to get into one of the best hobbies.