Another option is to try your luck in a contest, like this one:

*** NEW CONTEST ***

Fill out a quick PC Gaming Show survey for a chance to win a powerful gaming PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/survey/

How are you liking this year's PC Gaming Show? Wait, wait, don't say your answer out loud: we won't be able to hear you. Instead, consider filling out the brief survey linked below. It'll only take a few minutes, and one lucky survey-taker will win a top-of-the-line AMD-powered gaming PC made with parts hand-picked by PC Gamer's hardware team.

(...)

And here's what's in The Rig, the custom PC going to one lucky winner:

• AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 XT
• GIGABYTE X870E Aorus Master motherboard
• 32 GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 RAM
• HAVN HS420 ATX Mid Tower Case

This is the link to the survery, that will last until the 16th of June.

The contest is limited to UK and US resident ONLY.

Good luck!

Oh, and, as I said on Friday, I won't make the news today. There's a ton of articles and I'd need to use the headline + link style, which isn't great.

So, feel free to check DSOGaming (here) or PCGamer (go to archive here to get them all) to find out what happened during the weekend.

You may also want to check the different live streams that PCGamer has done of the conferences:

• Summer Game Fest 2025: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/live/news/summer-game-fest-2025-announcements/
• 2025 Xbox Games Showcase: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/live/news/xbox-games-showcase-2025-everything-announced/
• PC Gaming Show 2025: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/events-conferences/every-game-trailer-and-announcement-in-the-pc-gaming-show-2025/

One of my PC's is exactly that type of budget - it had 1060, than I upgraded it with 3060 few years ago. 3060 is somewhat above that price range, but having 12GB and DLSS keeps it still very usable for some time in the future (just tested over weekend Hell is Us Demo on it, runs more than fine), until RT heavy games of 10th generation hit the market - and even then, at least in first year or two, most games will be cross gen, and 3060 is about the same power as PS5 - so, I'd say, it turned out to be a good buy.

The GPU of my last PC was in that price range... actually, it was slightly below. In my PC from 2010 I put a Radeon HD 5770 into my PC back then, and it cost me about 180€.

My entire PC from 2010 was 1500€, but that included things like:

• Assembly, stress-testing and shipping (~180€)
• Monitor (~185€)
• Printer (90€)
• Blu-Ray burner (175€)

In other words, my actual PC components that would be in a current build with a quad-core CPU (Athlon II X4 635) and upper mid-range GPU (Powercolor Radeon HD 5770), a mid-range Motherboard with WiFi (Asus 880G) and Windows 7 Ultimate cost actually less than 900€. Nowadays GPU of the same range (9070XT) and motherboard (B650)  together would break that.

In fact, I made a calculation with similar equipment as my old PC a couple weeks ago (with a High-end Cardreader instead of Blu-Ray and secondary HDD instead of the printer, though I forgot the stress-test) and got to twice the price:

So yeah, too expensive for me right now, I'll have to stick to my laptop for the time being

GOG.com added some popular mods with "one-click-installation":

AMD announces Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme and Ryzen Z2 A APUs for gaming handhelds

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-announces-ryzen-ai-z2-extreme-and-ryzen-z2-a-apus-for-gaming-handhelds

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds announced, featuring AMD Ryzen Z2 Series

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-xbox-ally-handhelds-announced-featuring-amd-ryzen-z2-series

Microsoft has developed a custom windows version with a different UI than regular widows which is better suited for handhelds. On top of that, the custom version cuts down on background processes compared to regular windows resulting in 2GB less ram usage and 3 times the standby efficiency.

Samsung GDDR7 3GB modules now available for DIY purchase in China, RTX 5090 48GB mods incoming?

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-gddr7-3gb-modules-now-available-for-diy-purchase-in-china-rtx-5090-48gb-mods-incoming

GeForce RTX 5050 to feature Samsung and SK Hynix GDDR6 memory

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5050-to-feature-samsung-and-sk-hynix-gddr6-memory

Alienware introduces Area-51 PC LEGO brick set

https://videocardz.com/newz/alienware-introduces-area-51-pc-lego-brick-set

SDC reveals first OLED gaming monitor with 720Hz mode

https://videocardz.com/newz/sdc-reveals-first-oled-gaming-monitor-with-720hz-mode

MSI Afterburner to receive AMD RX 9000 “RDNA4” support with next beta

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-afterburner-to-receive-amd-rx-9000-rdna4-support-with-next-beta

Intel Raptor Lake Refresh “Core Series 2” Delivers 14% Better Single-Core Performance Than Predecessor While Being More Power-Efficient

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-9-270h-benchmarked-on-passmark/

Intel Confirms Next-Gen Diamond Rapids & Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs Are Releasing Next Year; Team Blue Ready For a Comeback In The Data Center Market

https://wccftech.com/intel-confirms-next-gen-diamond-rapids-clearwater-forest-releasing-next-year/

NVIDIA’s Next-Gen Rubin AI Accelerators To Enter The Market as Soon As September, Just Six Months After Blackwell Ultra

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-next-gen-rubin-ai-accelerators-to-enter-the-market-as-soon-as-septembe/

AMD expands FSR4 game list to 65 titles, 28 new this week

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-expands-fsr4-game-list-to-65-titles-28-new-this-week

Still no word on FSR4 coming to older generations of Radeon cards outside of RDNA 4. Personally I think the way Radeon sells it's multi-generational gpu lineup at the same time with different features is dumb. You have some gpus that have the latest features like RDNA 4 but then you have things like Strix Halo and Z2 handhelds featuring RDNA 3.5 which doesn't have FSR 4 yet being sold at the sametime. Hell, Z2A is actually Zen 2 and RDNA 2 just to make it even more confusing.

We'll see if MSoft also manages to improve the performance of the device with that lighter version of Windows.

Also, and because they've proved that they can alter the way Windows runs depending on the programs and hardware (making games run only on the X3D cores), it would be great if they can bring some of what they're doing for that handheld version of Windows to the regular desktop one, so that there are less stuff running in the background and there are moe CPU cycles for games. 

Looks good. Too bad the requirements to get one will make it something very few people will have.

It's quite clear to me that AMD won't bring FSR4 to older hardware, but they didn't want to say that because they wated to avoid as much negativity around the new products as possible. Now that they no longer care, see the "8GB is still fine" mishap rom Azor, I'm sure they'll bring the news sooner rather than later.

By the way, now that so many new games have been revealed, comes this:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

NVIDIA N1X 20-Core CPU performance leak reveals high-end ambitions

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-n1x-20-core-cpu-performance-leak-reveals-high-end-ambitions

AMD Ryzen Z2 A APU for hanhelds confirmed as “Aeirth Plus”, powered by Zen2 & RDNA2

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-z2-a-apu-for-hanhelds-confirmed-as-aeirth-plus-powered-by-zen2-rdna2

AYANEO Flip 1S DS dual-screen handheld announced: Ryzen AI HX 370 and OLED

https://videocardz.com/newz/ayaneo-flip-1s-ds-dual-screen-handheld-announced-ryzen-ai-hx-370-and-oled

This Power Supply Can Power Four GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs: Super Flower Introduces Leadex 2800W Titanium Power Supply At $793

https://wccftech.com/super-flower-introduces-leadex-2800w-titanium-power-supply/

Apparently nVidia GPU partners are accelerating production and supply of GPU's into the American market before tariffs come into effect... Which MAY actually explain the lack of AMD GPU's charting anywhere... nVidia and it's partners are just stockpiiling and selling everything and dwarfing AMD's higher sell-through rate.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Nvidia-graphics-card-makers-rush-shipments-to-US-to-beat-tariffs