Even in the depths of the RAMpocalypse, you can still get a nice system upgrade for your old gaming PC, thanks to this $500 Newegg bundle

At a cent shy of $500 at Newegg, you’re basically only paying $100 for a 16 GB set of DDR5-6000 DRAM. Specifically, a Team Group kit that’s normally twice the price.

Let’s start with the main focus of the bundle, the AMD processor. It’s a Ryzen 5 9600X, with six cores, 12 threads, a boost clock of 5.4 GHz, 32 MB of Level 3 cache, and sports a very low 65 W standard power limit. If you went out and bought this separately, you’d be looking at a $200 dollar price tag, so it forms a sizeable chunk of the bundle’s budget.

With only 12 threads to its name, it’s obviously not the best choice for compiling or compression/decompression tasks. But for pure gaming, it’s a great little chip, and it’s really only beaten by processors that are double in price and packing big dollops of 3D V-cache.