Everyone is more than aware of the rise in prices of everything, especially anything using RAM or storage. Just take a look at the cost of the recently released Steam Machine as a prime example of the tragic near-future of home computing for the masses. It's all a bit doom and gloom, and some people may try to choose to wait it out in the hopes that things may get cheaper in a few years, but there's no guarantee that's going to happen. Rather than building your own PC, it's now cheaper to purchase prebuilt gaming rigs, with some companies still offering discounts in the current economy. This Cyberpower GML 99653 gaming PC is just $2744.55, after receiving a $544 discount. Packed inside are some of the most powerful currently available PC hardware components for pure gaming.

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Cyberpower has stacked two deals together, first knocking off $400 off the $3289 total due to a $400 discount on any PC valued over $2500, and then giving you a coupon code GAMER2026 that allows you to take a further 5% ($144.45) off the price. This gives you a $544.45 (17%) total saving.

So what do you get for $2744.55? Well, you get some of the most powerful gaming hardware that's currently available, including one of the best CPUs for gaming - the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and Nvidia's RTX 5080 graphics card with 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM. Also, apart from those standout components, you're getting 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD for storage. All packed in an attractive Montech Curved glass-panel PC case.

The 9800X3D is one of the absolute best CPUs for pure gaming, especially at 1080p, where the large 3D V-cache helps the processor to output incredible frame rates. For multi-threaded performance, something like the Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus would be a far superior option, but if you are only concerned with pure gaming, then the 9800X3D is the CPU for you. See our CPU benchmarks below for an idea of relative performance between processors.

If you take into account the lowest price of a new RTX 5080 GPU ($1,256), 9800X3D ($444), 32GB of DDR5 memory ($394), and 2TB of SSD storage ($239), you're at $2,333 without even adding the case, power supply, cooler, motherboard, fans, and any other extras such as the operating system. Plus, you don't have to build it yourself or worry about the warranties for individual parts. So if you like the look of the Cyberpower GML 99653 gaming PC for $2,744.55, then grab this deal while the offer still stands.

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Sotheby’s is preparing a blockbuster History of Science & Technology sale packed with amazing artifacts and collectors’ items. While there are many items that could justify being singled out, the famous auction house has chosen to spotlight a working sample of the Apple-1 computer serial number 01-0033 (1976) on its YouTube channel. Remember this first 50 hand-built-by-Wozniak batch has a place in history as the first commercial Apple computers ever sold.

In the video above you can see Harry Sadler, the original and current owner of the Apple-1 computer up for auction, preparing, booting and demonstrating this ancient ‘pre-built.’ Sadler underlines that his rare example was bought from the Byte Shop in 1976. While he ended up working in IT, Sadler said that it was mainly a hobbyist machine, for experimenting, tinkering with BASIC, and so on.

Interesting, Sadler took his Apple-1 back to the Byte Shop after a couple of weeks to get a minor repair done. There he met Steve Jobs and inquired about vacancies at Apple Computer. Nothing came of that because of admitted inexperience, but in 2010 Steve Jobs visited and bought the Siri Inc. startup, where Sadler was the 10^th employee. So, Sadler did actually end up working for Apple.

The estimate for this machine is $300,000 - $500,000. It comes with original accessories like a cassette deck and keyboard, vintage monitor. There’s also an original Apple-1 Operation Manual, In-house copy of Apple Basic Manual, Apple-1 Cassette Interface Manual, Microchess manual, and various software on cassettes

I think this is rather high, as one of the rare wooden case models known as the ‘Moore Apple-1’ only achieved $475,000 (w/BP) for its client last year.

Other notable computers in the sale

This Sotheby’s sale has quite a few other notable computers among the tech artifacts listed. For example, there’s the Steve Jobs stage-used NeXT Computer from the ‘NeXT Introduction’ in 1988, and a similar model for European demos. Then there’s a Mark-8 minicomputer from 1974, a MITS Altair 8800 computer from 1974, as well as some complete sealed vintage Mac systems from early on in Apple’s history.

On the more scientific side of things, there’s lots of interesting artifacts associated with, owned, or used by iconic individuals like Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Richard Feynman, and even Albert Einstein.

The History of Science & Technology takes place on July 15, starting at 14:00 EDT live in Sotheby’s saleroom at 945 Madison Avenue in New York.