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If you have to buy a gaming rig right now, the Scale B06 is a decent offering, but you are getting significant compromises and I'd never pay full price.
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I've got to the point where I grimace when I see a listing for a gaming PC. The memory crisis has so severely gutted pricing and availability that I've found my eyes glazing over PCs whenever they're on the screen in front of me.
One glance at our roundup of the best gaming PC deals shows that even getting a rig under $1,000 with a discrete graphics card is a bit of a struggle, and you are making significant compromises to get the price that… low. Okay, yes, it doesn't feel low, but that's the new normal. All praise our new AI overlords.
And iBuyPower routinely features among the most budget rigs. That's because, be it smart compromises, the ability to buy in bulk, or a prayer to some sort of hardware god, its rigs are somewhat reasonable for prebuilds.
The RDY Scale B06 I've had across my desk shoves a budget Intel CPU and budget Nvidia GPU into its surprisingly large case, alongside a pretty small SSD and single-channel memory.
✅ You can wait for a sale: At MSRP, I would look elsewhere, but iBuyPower regularly runs decent sales, and there have been two on this specific rig in the last week. With a few hundred shaved off, it becomes a fairly competitive mainstream build.
❌ You can afford a little more: The RTX 5060 GPU itself is a bit of a letdown, and though it will get solid enough 1080p gaming (and even 1440p at points), there are RTX 5070 machines not that far off this price.
If you have to buy a gaming rig right now, the Scale B06 sits among the pile as a decent offering, but you are getting significant compromises, and I'd never pay full price.
CPU
Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
Motherboard
Asus B860M Max Gaming AX WIFI
Memory
Team Group T-Force Delta 16 GB 5200 MHz CL40 (single stick)
Storage
1 TB Team Group T-Force G50
Graphics card
Asus Dual GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB
Cooling
iBuyPower RGB CPU Tower Air Cooler
PSU
600 watt 80 Plus Gold
Front I/O
2 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 2.0 (Type-C), 1 x 3.5 mm microphone and headphone jacks
Rear I/O
4 x USB 2.0, 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps Type-A, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps Type-A, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 20 Gbps Type-C, mic in, line out, line in
Networking
Wi-Fi 6
Dimensions
470 x 492 x 220 mm
Weight
16.3 kg / 36 lbs
Price
$1,479 ($1,379 on sale)
RDY is iBuyPower's preconfigured range, which means they are ready to ship pretty much the moment you hit 'buy'. As such, the RTX 5060 / Intel Core Ultra 5 225F model I've got my hands on is the only version of the B06 you can currently buy.
For its relatively budget-friendly price, it makes some compromises, the biggest of which you will find in its memory and storage.
The memory is DDR5, but with a CAS latency of 40 and overall speed of 5200 MT/s, it's not super fast. There's also only one stick, so you are taking a hit to performance over dual-channel memory of the same capacity. How much depends on the game or workload, but there will be a hit.
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Should you have the funds and the patience, you could technically track down a second module matching this same stick and bump your capacity up to 32 GB, but that's a hard sell, and was even before the memory crisis. Most of the time, you are better off selling a single stick and buying two (at a loss) if you're looking to upgrade, as it can be tough to track down the exact stick you need and even that doesn't guarantee compatibility.
There's just 1 TB of storage in this machine. That is pretty much the minimum I would want in a gaming rig right now, especially when you consider the actual storage available to...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
What do you think about this?
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I've got to the point where I grimace when I see a listing for a gaming PC. The memory crisis has so severely gutted pricing and availability that I've found my eyes glazing over PCs whenever they're on the screen in front of me.
One glance at our roundup of the best gaming PC deals shows that even getting a rig under $1,000 with a discrete graphics card is a bit of a struggle, and you are making significant compromises to get the price that… low. Okay, yes, it doesn't feel low, but that's the new normal. All praise our new AI overlords.
And iBuyPower routinely features among the most budget rigs. That's because, be it smart compromises, the ability to buy in bulk, or a prayer to some sort of hardware god, its rigs are somewhat reasonable for prebuilds.
The RDY Scale B06 I've had across my desk shoves a budget Intel CPU and budget Nvidia GPU into its surprisingly large case, alongside a pretty small SSD and single-channel memory.
✅ You can wait for a sale: At MSRP, I would look elsewhere, but iBuyPower regularly runs decent sales, and there have been two on this specific rig in the last week. With a few hundred shaved off, it becomes a fairly competitive mainstream build.
❌ You can afford a little more: The RTX 5060 GPU itself is a bit of a letdown, and though it will get solid enough 1080p gaming (and even 1440p at points), there are RTX 5070 machines not that far off this price.
If you have to buy a gaming rig right now, the Scale B06 sits among the pile as a decent offering, but you are getting significant compromises, and I'd never pay full price.
CPU
Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
Motherboard
Asus B860M Max Gaming AX WIFI
Memory
Team Group T-Force Delta 16 GB 5200 MHz CL40 (single stick)
Storage
1 TB Team Group T-Force G50
Graphics card
Asus Dual GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB
Cooling
iBuyPower RGB CPU Tower Air Cooler
PSU
600 watt 80 Plus Gold
Front I/O
2 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 2.0 (Type-C), 1 x 3.5 mm microphone and headphone jacks
Rear I/O
4 x USB 2.0, 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps Type-A, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps Type-A, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 20 Gbps Type-C, mic in, line out, line in
Networking
Wi-Fi 6
Dimensions
470 x 492 x 220 mm
Weight
16.3 kg / 36 lbs
Price
$1,479 ($1,379 on sale)
RDY is iBuyPower's preconfigured range, which means they are ready to ship pretty much the moment you hit 'buy'. As such, the RTX 5060 / Intel Core Ultra 5 225F model I've got my hands on is the only version of the B06 you can currently buy.
For its relatively budget-friendly price, it makes some compromises, the biggest of which you will find in its memory and storage.
The memory is DDR5, but with a CAS latency of 40 and overall speed of 5200 MT/s, it's not super fast. There's also only one stick, so you are taking a hit to performance over dual-channel memory of the same capacity. How much depends on the game or workload, but there will be a hit.
The PC Gamer Circuit Breaker newsletter breaks down the latest PC gaming tech, and finds you the best deals on the best products
Should you have the funds and the patience, you could technically track down a second module matching this same stick and bump your capacity up to 32 GB, but that's a hard sell, and was even before the memory crisis. Most of the time, you are better off selling a single stick and buying two (at a loss) if you're looking to upgrade, as it can be tough to track down the exact stick you need and even that doesn't guarantee compatibility.
There's just 1 TB of storage in this machine. That is pretty much the minimum I would want in a gaming rig right now, especially when you consider the actual storage available to...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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