If you’re looking to upgrade your gaming PC to play the latest games in 1080p or 1440p but still want to keep your budget under $1,000, then check out two options from Thermaltake. First up is the Themaltake LCGS View Gaming PC, equipped with an Intel Core i5 CPU and Intel Arc B580 CPU, for just $999.99 with free shipping. The Intel Arc B580 is one of the best budget GPUs we’ve reviewed recently and puts up solid, playable framerates at up to 1440p. It beats out the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 in many games. Also available is the Thermaltake LGSP Quartz i1460 Gaming PC equipped with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU for $1,099.99. This prebuilt is currently on preorder and not ready to ship until next week at the earliest, since the RTX 5060 GPU is officially released on May 19 and reviews are pending.
Thermaltake LGCS View Intel Arc B580 Gaming PC for $999.99
The Thermaltake View i1458H-270 is equipped with an Intel Core i5-14400F processor, Intel Arc B580 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. This PC is completely built using off-the-shelf components so it’s easy to upgrade it in the future. The 14th gen Intel Core i5-14400F processor has a max turbo frequency of 4.7GHz with 10 cores, 16 threads, and a 20MB cache. This is a perfectly capable gaming chip that won’t bottleneck the GPU, and upgrading to a more powerful processor won’t noticeably improve gaming performance. It’s cooled by a 120mm ARGB tower heatsink/fan combo and housed in a Thermaltake View 270 midtower chassis.
The Intel Arc B580 offers excellent gaming prowess for a budget graphics card. This is a great option for both 1080p and 1440p gaming and beats out other popular GPUs at its price point. Intel’s Battlemage GPU might not be as well known as its Nvidia and AMD counterparts, but that shouldn’t make you shy away from what is a very rare value in a segment that’s riddled with price gouging, paper launches, and fake frames.
Intel Arc B580 Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“Across my test suite, the Intel Arc B580 is an incredibly powerful graphics card at 1440p, especially when you consider its $249 price tag. Intel could have easily just matched the performance of other graphics cards on the market, but instead it soundly beats the competition, while cutting the price, giving us a budget card that doesn’t suck for once. And sure, it would be nice if Intel didn’t cut the VRAM from 16GB on the Arc A770 to 12GB on the B580, but it’s not like the performance is suffering from it.”
Preorder the Thermaltake LCGS Quartz RTX 5060 Gaming PC
If you want to stick with Nvidia, Amazon has listed this Thermaltake LGSP Quartz i1460 prebuilt gaming PC equipped with the soon-to-be-released GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card. The RTX 5060 graphics card is set for a May 19 launch and I have yet to see any reviews for it just yet. It’s safe to assume that this card will be at the very least better than the RTX 4060, which should put it on par with or better than the Intel Arc B580 as well. For a $100 price premium over the Intel Arc B580 deal above, it might be worth it for 1440p gaming although at that point you could get an RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) prebuilt for $1,200. In any case, Amazon does not charge your card until your order ships out.
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