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The first wave of Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards went up for preorder this morning and sold out within the first hour. First to be released were the two highest-end GPUs in the stack: the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. The mid-range RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti cards will be released later in February.

As of Jan. 31, the Alienware Area-51 Gaming PC is available for $4,449.99 at Dell. This prebuilt comes with an RTX 5080, Intel Ultra 9 285K, and 2TB SSD, perfect for 4K gaming.

These new prebuilt PCs are an easier--though substantially more expensive--way to secure one of the new GeForce GPUs.

If you prefer a white chassis, check out the FrostFire Series AI Creator Gaming PC with an RTX 5080. It's also $200 off, and comes with an Intel Core i9 14900KF CPU, 64GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD. There's a gaming keyboard and mouse included, and it also comes with Windows 11 Pro.

It’s easy to get caught up in how expensive PC gaming can be in 2025, throw up your hands, and say to hell with all of it. You don’t need an RTX 5090 to play games on PC in 2025, though. Now, more than ever before,