Holy hardware, an Asus RTX 3060 gaming PC for $740

The Asus ROG Strix G10 Gaming Desktop on blue. — (Image credit: Future)

Just in time for Black Friday, Asus has shot onto our radar with the ROG Strix G10 and it's really setting a standard for pricing on RTX 3060-powered gaming PCs this year. It hasn't been this cheap before, either, except for a few days a lightning deal.

Right now, the Asus ROG Strix G10 is $740 down from $1,130, which beats out everything we've seen so far on the lead up to Black Friday on November 25.

We set up this crib sheet so you can get a bead on just the kind of price you should expect to pay (or at least a soft cap, depending on the rest of the config.) This machine sits well below the $800 bar we've set for PCs touting Nvidia's RTX 3060 graphics card. And sure, it may not be packing the latest and greatest CPU, but Intel's Core i5 11400F was a stalwart contender on release (only last year), and we count it as still very relevant today.

For this price, we expected at least to be stuck with a spinning platter HDD, but no. Asus has even granted us a PCIe SSD for that price. Alright, its a little on the small side at 512GB, and it's only PCIe 3.0, but at least there's potential to upgrade with another M.2 slot if you need more space. Take a look at our Black Friday SSD deals if that's what you're in need of.

And honestly, you don't need more RAM than what's there. There's no word on the specs page as to the speed of the RAM, but if it ends up being terrible, you've at least got time (and spare dollar) to pick up some more over Black Friday.

A $390 discount really isn't bad for something like this, and I have to say I am a bit of a ROG fangirl so I'll personally vouch for the quality here. Let's just hope Asus takes the same care with its PCs as it does with its laptops.

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Having been obsessed with game mechanics, computers and graphics for three decades, Katie took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni and has been writing about digital games, tabletop games and gaming technology for over five years since. She can be found facilitating board game design workshops and optimising everything in her path.