Black Friday may be past, but it's still a great time to save a pretty penny on PC parts and build a storming rig at a discounted price. If money is no object or you want the best PC without compromise, then we've put together an all-singing, all-dancing PC build that will run any game at 4K or beyond and blitz through any benchmark you can think of.
We've paired the best processor in the world, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D from AMD, with the world's best gaming GPU, the RTX 5090. Yes, that's a lot of money, but we haven't been silly about the rest of our components, tracking down some good deals to score us a 4TB SSD, a great motherboard and cooler, and somehow, 96GB of DDR5 RAM for "just" $559.
$5000-ish gaming PC: Quick list
Money no object: Cyber Monday gaming PC
Save $38.99 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D: was $699 now $660.01 at Amazon Read more Read less ▼ The Ryzen 9 9950X3D can do it all. With 16 cores, 32 threads, and a 96MB helping of L3 thanks to AMD's 3D V-Cache technology, this processor is as proficient for games as it is for productivity.
Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090: $3,399 at Amazon Read more Read less ▼ The GeForce RTX 5090 is the king of gaming graphics cards, and you're not going to find one cheap right now. We picked out Asus's ROG Astral card for its coordinated white finish that matches the rest of our build.
G.Skill Ripjaws M5 Neo RGB Series 96GB: $559 at Newegg Read more Read less ▼ Yes, the RAM costs $559. No, I don't want to talk about it. Get 96GB of DDR5 6000 RAM for $559. This is actually cheaper than a lot of 64GB kits you'll find online right now, so really, can you afford not to buy it?
Save 10% ($40) Corsair HX1500i (2025) 80 Plus Platinum power supply: was $389.99 now $349.99 at Amazon Read more Read less ▼ To power everything in this system, we turn to Corsair's HX1500i (2025) fully modular PSU. This beast of a unit has the capacity to run everything in this system flat-out, all at once, with headroom to spare. Its massive fan and 80 Plus Platinum efficiency ensure that things should stay cool and quiet, too.
With gobs of CPU and GPU power, a clean white theme, RGB LEDs aplenty, a roomy, stylish case, and a rock-solid power supply, we think it's hard to do much better than this build for the deep-pocketed enthusiast. Sure, you can start looking at Threadripper CPUs and RTX Pro 6000 graphics power if you need even more compute on tap, but that's truly territory for those who already know.
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