I've been keeping my eye on gaming PC deals every day for the past two weeks and these are the best sub-$1,000 deals I've found

This gaming PC might not have a graphics card, but with that 5600GT's integrated graphics, you should be able to do some lite 720p gaming just fine, and even perhaps some 1080p. Then, when you're ready to upgrade, all you'll have to do is slap a discrete GPU in somewhere down the line (maybe an RTX 5060 or RX 9060 XT), and you'll have a PC capable of some full-fat 1080p and 1440p gaming. Just bear in mind, you'll have to upgrade your entire platform to get the latest and greatest specs down the line, as this motherboard won't support the latest CPUs or DDR5 RAM.

Key specs: Ryzen 5 5600GT | 16 GB DDR4-3200 | 1 TB SSD

This gaming PC lets you enter the current GPU generation for well under $1,000, and you're getting a pretty nice all-around package for this budget price. Sure, you're only getting DDR4 RAM and 1 TB of storage, but these things are common at the sub-$1,000 price point. DDR4 should serve you fine with this budget build, and storage can be upgraded easily. It's a great way to get started PC gaming with a friendly price tag. Do bear in mind, though, as with the above build, that you'll need to upgrade your platform entirely to get one of the latest CPUs or DDR5 RAM.

Key specs: Core i5 14400F | RTX 5060 | 32 GB DDR4-3200 | 1 TB SSD

This might be an 8 GB version of the RTX 5060 Ti, but for gaming at 1080p and even 1440p in some games, that amount of VRAM should be fine, and you're getting a decent overall build here for $1,000. 32 GB of ast RAM and a reasonable budget Core i5 chip help make this dinky fish tank PC even worthier of its price tag. You might want to add another terabyte of storage in there, though, to really round out this rig.

Key specs: Core i5 14400F | RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 1 TB SSD

It was looking shaky for a moment when the last sub-$1,000 RX 9060 XT 16 GB machine ran out of stock, but swooping in to save the day is SkyTech with its good-looking Crystal system. It's got the desirable 16 GB version of AMD's mid-range GPU, but I'd want to start off with more than 16 GB of RAM in these troubled memory times. Still, you are getting a decent 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 CPU and a 1 TB SSD to fill out the rest of this affordable spec. 16 GB of VRAM really is great, as is that CPU, but do bear in mind the 16 GB RAM caveat: upgrading won't be cheap given the current memory shortage.

Key specs: Ryzen 7 7700 | RX 9060 XT 16 GB | 16 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD