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The inflated pricing of RAM and SSDs can make it hard to piece together the value of a bundle like this. The whole bundle is $979, with a saving of $210 on buying the parts individually, not to mention the extra $65 you're saving on the PSU.
Subtract the cost of the CPU, which is holding its regular market price of $439, and you're left paying $540 for 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a power supply. You can think of it as paying $259 for the RAM, rather than the list price of $469 (or the going rate for 32GB of DDR5, which is currently $359). Or you can think of it as paying $69 for a 1TB SSD, rather than the list price of $279. The prices are inflated, but they're not going away anytime soon, making this one of the best ways to build a gaming PC in 2026.
Get a 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of Corsair Vengeance, and a 1TB 9100 Pro SSD for just $979, which also includes a Corsair CX750M power supply.
The 9800X3D is one of the best chips in the world for PC gaming. It even scores ahead of the newer 9850X3D and the new 9950X3D2 in terms of efficiency for gaming, as you can see from our latest testing data below. In terms of performance across our testing suite of 17 games, it only sits behind the 9850X3D for raw performance, while drawing significantly less power.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Otherwise, this bundle includes Corsair's Vengeance 32GB DDR5 6400 RAM, which is pretty snappy and features timings of 36-48-48-104, as well as RGB for that all-important custom PC glow.
The Samsung 9100 Pro is a Gen 5 solid-state drive boasting some of the most impressive speeds on the market, with on-paper read speeds of up to 14,800 MB/s.
Buying this bundle means you'll just have to find a solid AM5 motherboard to piece it all together. While the bundles we often cover contain motherboards, buying one separately is no bad thing, with a real glut in the market driving down prices. Newegg has a range of discounted AM5 boards, including X870 options from $170 .
The free Corsair CX750M power supply included in the build is a little on the older side ( we reviewed it back in 2022 ), but it scored four stars in our review and offers decent performance and reliability for the cost, which in this particular case is naught. The power supply might be worth upgrading, especially if you're pairing the CPU with a serious graphics card, in which case you can reallocate some of the savings from this bundle to that instead.
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