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Especially if you’re trying to build a great system on a lower budget.

What’s the catch?

AMD Ryzen CPU

There isn’t one.

The 5600X doesn’t have one, but the 5600G comes with built-in Radeon graphics.

You’re not going to crushing out some 1080p Cyberpunk 2077 at 60 FPS on one of these.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G$259 now $132.40 at Amazon

Older games will rip on this, too.

I’m a big fan of AMD’s APUs.

I reviewed the predecessor to this, theRyzen 5 3400G, some time ago.

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days promotional image

And even this was surprisingly competent in gaming.

Amazon Prime

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D boxed held in front of a blue cloudy sky with Windows Central best award

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D slotted into ASRock X870E Taichi board

MSI RTX 3060 Ventus 2X graphics card and MSI motherboard boxes

ROG G22CH front side.

A composite image showing the Geekom A7 mini PC in both horizontal and vertical positions against a blue and black background.

Screenshots of Blue Prince the game

Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered

Black Lenovo Legion Go S in front of white one.

Dbrand accessoreis for Steam Deck

Screen grab from a new ASUS video teaser for its upcoming gaming handheld PC.

MAINGEAR MG-1

Screenshot from the third �A Minecraft Movie� trailer.

Freja and her crossbow in Overwatch 2

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition The Three Kingdoms DLC art

Renderings of the 50th Anniversary Exclusive Microsoft Surface Laptop.

Titanfall 2

MSI Claw surrounded by Steam Deck, ROG Ally, ROG Ally X, Nintendo Switch, Legion Go S, and Legion Go.