Materiel.net PC Gamer Blink (Ryzen 5 5500, RTX 5050)

The PC Gamer Blink is the cheapest assembled gaming tower with an RTX 50 card we found in France, built and tested by Materiel.net in its Nantes workshop and covered for five years. Inside: a six-core AMD Ryzen 5 5500 with AMD's stock cooler, a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5050 WindForce OC with 8 GB, 16 GB of DDR4-3200, a 1 TB Kingston NV3 NVMe SSD and a Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC board with Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth, in a Fox Spirit MG1 case with a glass side. It targets 1080p, where DLSS 4 helps recent games stay smooth.

Know what you pay for. Windows 11 is a trial that needs a licence (Materiel.net also sells the same PC with one included), and the 500 W 80 Plus Bronze power supply leaves little room for a much bigger graphics card. The AM4 platform is at the end of its road, so the next big upgrade will be a new PC rather than a new processor. The B550 board does run the card at full PCIe 4.0 speed.