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iBuyPower RDY Scale B06 review
If you have to buy a gaming rig right now, the Scale B06 is a decent offering, but you are getting significant compromises and I'd never pay full price.
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I've got to the point where I grimace when I see a listing for a gaming PC. The memory crisis has so severely gutted pricing and availability that I've found my eyes glazing over PCs whenever they're on the screen in front of me.
One glance at our roundup of the best gaming PC deals shows that even getting a rig under $1,000 with a discrete graphics card is a bit of a struggle, and you are making significant compromises to get the price that… low. Okay, yes, it doesn't feel low, but that's the new normal. All praise our new AI overlords.
And iBuyPower routinely features among the most budget rigs. That's because, be it smart compromises, the ability to buy in bulk, or a prayer to some sort of hardware god, its rigs are somewhat reasonable for prebuilds.
The RDY Scale B06 I've had across my desk shoves a budget Intel CPU and budget Nvidia GPU into its surprisingly large case, alongside a pretty small SSD and single-channel memory.
✅ You can wait for a sale: At MSRP, I would look elsewhere, but iBuyPower regularly runs decent sales, and there have been two on this specific rig in the last week. With a few hundred shaved off, it becomes a fairly competitive mainstream build.
❌ You can afford a little more: The RTX 5060 GPU itself is a bit of a letdown, and though it will get solid enough 1080p gaming (and even 1440p at points), there are RTX 5070 machines not that far off this price.
If you have to buy a gaming rig right now, the Scale B06 sits among the pile as a decent offering, but you are getting significant compromises, and I'd never pay full price.
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