Over the past few months, prices have been ticking up on gaming PCs, as I’m sure you’ve also seen. That means that the goalposts have changed when it comes to what’s competitively priced, and that includes even the more budget-friendly options. For instance, this Stormcraft Sirius gaming PC is, nowadays, a solid budget-friendly pick at $1,049.99 at Newegg with its current discount. For an RTX 5060 build with an Intel Core i5-14400F and 16GB of DDR4 RAM, that’s not too bad, especially if you want something strong for FHD gaming, with the bells and whistles of newer Blackwell architecture. Here’s a closer look at its key components, and some things to consider before buying.
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Key features of this Stormcraft Sirius gaming PC
RTX 5060 graphics card
This is a solid graphics card for the price, with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and packed wth exclusive features like DLSS and MFG, 9th-gen NVIDIA encoders, and overall improvements to ray tracing and AI performance. It’s particularly good if you’re playing esports titles in FHD at high frame rates, and with MFG it can be used for QHD gaming at more sensible settings. Overall, it’s a good GPU to go for that will keep costs down and be good for any lighter GPU-accelerated creative workloads, too.
Intel Core i5-14400F processor
This processor pairs well with the RTX 5060’s capabilities and makes sense from a price-to-performance perspective. You’ve got 10 cores and 16 threads here, which give you a little more breathing room for multitasking and creative workloads than your typical Ryzen processor at this price. It also has a relatively large 20MB L3 cache and a 4.6GHz boost clock speed, which is more than enogh for fast-paced, competitive gaming in FHD, with low frame latency. What’s more, opting for a more efficient processor like this means you don’t have to shell out for a powerful AIO, as you would if you opted for something like an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K, for example.
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16GB of DDR4 and a 1TB SSD
Not bad if you’re mainly using this PC for gaming, on the RAM front, and also less expensive than DDR5. 1TB is pretty much standard nowadays in most builds, and personally, I think it’s a good way to go that saves you cash, in exchange for the occasional spring-cleaning session.
Things to consider before buying
Obviously, this build scales back in some areas to stay affordable, and in all honesty, it’s mostly down to future-proofing. Something on the LGA 1851 platform, with DDR5, perhaps a 240mm AIO cooler, and a slightly beefier PSU would suit you better if you were planning on tweaking and upgrading in the near future. That said, if you want to use this PC as-is for a while to come, it’s a good way to go that’s cost-effective…relatively speaking, of course.
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