With the AI boom continuing to push prices up, you'll need to take advantage of deals like this one if you're looking for the best spec'd machines for gaming. MSI has slashed the price of this MSI Aegis R2 gaming PC, featuring an RTX 5090, 62GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD, along with an Intel Core i9-14900K, to $4,899. That's a $1,000 discount that makes it just 17% more expensive than buying the GPU on its own, with the cheapest RTX 5090 available on sale for a whopping $4,199 right now.

The MSI Aegis R2 C14NVZ9-1436US is nothing short of a powerhouse. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is clearly the MVP of this build, giving you the power to deliver 4K gaming at the highest possible resolutions, with added functionality like DLSS 4 that unlocks a full arsenal of performance in this Nvidia Blackwell GPU. 4K, ray tracing, and Ultra graphics presets are all easily achievable with this GPU installed.

This top-tier gaming rig from MSI leaves you with all the power you'll need for 4K gaming with ray tracing. It has an RTX 5090, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD storage, and comes equipped with the 24-core Intel Core i9-14900K.

There simply isn't a better consumer graphics card on sale right now, as our GPU benchmarks below will confirm. It ships with 21,760 CUDA cores, which is more than double what is available in the second-best RTX 5080. It also has 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, with a huge 512-bit memory bus. There won't be a game that this GPU can't handle.

The Intel Core i9-14900K you're getting is a little older these days, but it's still a popular choice for pre-builts. It continues to rank highly among our CPU benchmarks, delivering performance that beats plenty of its Intel successors. It has 24 cores, eight of which are the best-for-gaming performance cores, along with a top 6 GHz boost clock speed.

There aren't many compromises to spot elsewhere, either. 64GB of DDR5 RAM is generous in a pre-built these days, given the cost of memory right now. Meanwhile, that 2TB SSD gives you scope for a good set of game installations alongside Windows. This is an all-MSI affair, in a simple case with plenty of case fans to keep the build running cool, even under load.

This is a formidable rig for anyone, whether it's for gaming or productivity. The price alone makes it a sensible choice if you're looking to buy an RTX 5090: why buy just the GPU when you can pay 17% more for an entire machine? The additional cost of RAM, along with the SSD, will easily outstrip what you'd pay here. While we can't change the market, if you're looking for a gaming PC with one of the highest specs available, this MSI Aegis R2 rig for $4,899 is well worth considering, so make sure to grab it before this limited-time discount disappears.

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Ben Stockton is a deals writer at Tom’s Hardware. He's been writing about technology since 2018, with bylines at PCGamesN, How-To Geek, and Tom’s Guide, among others. When he’s not hunting down the best bargains, he’s busy tinkering with his homelab or watching old Star Trek episodes.