"It's an all-AMD, liquid-cooled machine built into Asus' ROG GM700 case, and includes the Ryzen 9 9950X3D - the best desktop processor of 2025 - along with AMD's Radeon 9070 XT graphics card (also very good!), 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD, plus a wired keyboard and mouse. Buying each of these components piecemeal would likely send you sailing over the $2,000 mark, with the CPU and GPU accounting for well over half the cost."
"For example, B&H Photo has a model for $1,899 with half the RAM and storage amounts, not to mention a step down to Intel's Ultra 7 265F processor and Nvidia's RTX 5070 GPU. Best Buy's $1,699.99 model offers 32GB DDR5 RAM with 1TB of storage along with AMD's Ryzen 7 8700F and Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti. Costco's model is vastly superior, especially in the processor department."
Costco offers a $1,999.99 member all-AMD liquid-cooled desktop built in an Asus ROG GM700 with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU, Radeon 9070 XT GPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD, and included wired keyboard and mouse. The system is discounted $300 through February 8. Equivalent components purchased separately would likely exceed $2,000, with the CPU and GPU representing the largest cost share. Competing prebuilt options include a $1,899 B&H model with reduced RAM and storage and an Intel Ultra 7 265F with RTX 5070, and a $1,699.99 Best Buy model with Ryzen 7 8700F and RTX 5060 Ti.
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