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2026-03-25T13:24:58.789Z
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A friend of mine recently purchased one of these keebs and was so enamoured with it that he had to show it off to me the last time I went around to his house. And quite right too, because this thing, while not really a gaming keyboard is a truly lovely keyboard. And comes with adjustable Hall effect switches which kinda does make it a gaming keyboard.
But it feels great to type on, and is a fantastically well-built keeb.
2026-03-25T12:35:26.756Z
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This is the rig which does somewhat make a mockery of the Newegg bundle below. Sure, if you’ve got existing hardware from a previous build you can make use of with the CPU, mobo, and RAM bundle, then happy days. But if you’re going completely from scratch you are not going to be able to build a full, comparable PC, for under $900.
That’s where the Zotac Mek comes in, sitting at a penny under $900 at Newegg right now.
2026-03-25T12:00:05.235Z
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This Newegg bundle is a great starting point if you’re looking to do a budget DIY build in this time where most of us thought that was going to be impossible. You’re getting our current pick as the best budget CPU, the Ryzen 5 5500 (can’t be beat for the money), as well as a motherboard and 16 GB of DDR4 memory. Yes, it’s resolutley last-gen stuff, but it will absolutely do a job, especially when it’s just $277 at Newegg right now.
The only sticking point for this is that you obviously still have to find all the rest of the components to build out the machine. But if you’ve got a case, hard drive or SSD from a previous system, you could be on to a good thing, here. Though if you’re having to find some storage that is where this build does come unstuck against the pre-bult PC deals out there…
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