Score all the essentials of a great gaming PC for only $983.98 — $155 savings nets 9800X3D, 1TB Samsung 9100 SSD, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, Asus B850 motherboard, and free MSI AIO

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RAM, storage, and graphics card prices are through the roof, with no end in sight. PC builders need to seek out combo deals like this 4-item gem from Newegg that’s only $983.98 (~$155 off) retail, and it includes a free 240mm MSI AIO. The 96MB of L3 cache on the X3D variant helps with gaming (among other things), making it one of the fastest gaming CPUs available. If you apply the ~$155 discount to the RAM, you’re getting it for $85, a price that would be considered reasonable before the AI/RAMpocolypse. For only $983.98, you get one of the fastest gaming processors available, a top-tier 1TB PCIe 5.0 drive, DDR5 RAM, a capable B850 motherboard, and a free 240mm AIO.