Looking for a cheap gaming desktop? Prime Day’s got you covered
This perfectly priced Pavilion PC packs a p-p-punch
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Raise your hand if, when you hear the phrase ‘gaming PC’, you picture some $1,000+ monstrosity with a glass side panel, liquid cooling, and a tonne of rainbow LEDs.HPis keen to remind us that PCs don’t have to be that way, with the eminently affordable HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop – more than 20% off thisAmazonPrime Day.
You can check out all the otherPrime Day dealsin our round-up, but if you’re in the market for a budget home gaming PC, look no further. The HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop is just $580 right now, making this one of the best deals on a gaming PC we’ve seen all year.
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Today’s best HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop Prime Day deal
HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop:$730$580 at AmazonSave $150 -A gaming desktop that eschews that rainbow-drenched ‘gamer aesthetic’ for a more refined look, the HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop comes in a wide variety of models, all sitting inside the same compact, opaque chassis with gentle LED lighting along the front edge.
This version of the HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop uses a GTX 1650 graphics card with a 10th-genIntelCore i5 – these parts are a little older, sure, but still perfectly competent for gaming at 1080p resolution, and there’s always the opportunity to upgrade your rig’s individual components later on, which is one great advantage of gaming PCs.
This PC also comes withWindows 11installed as standard, and a whole bunch of physical ports on the front and back, so you can plug in all the drives and peripherals you want. The reserved physical design means that the Pavilion can comfortably occupy a more professional space, too – if you want a PC for your home office that can also play games once the workday is over, this is the one for you.
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Christian is TechRadar’s UK-based Computing Editor. He came to us from Maximum PC magazine, where he fell in love with computer hardware and building PCs. He was a regular fixture amongst our freelance review team before making the jump to TechRadar, and can usually be found drooling over the latest high-end graphics card or gaming laptop before looking at his bank account balance and crying.
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