The reason why is twofold. First, going cheaper than this often means stepping down to an RTX 5060, which is substantially worse than the RTX 5060 Ti. And second, if it doesn't mean stepping down your GPU, it usually instead means opting for DDR4 RAM or a very old CPU.

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