AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | ASRock B650E Riptide WiFi | G.Skill Flare X5 32GB | $613.98 at Newegg
This combo deal from Newegg will save you as much as $61 dollars if you bought all of the parts separately, at their best current prices. This really is the perfect AMD Ryzen upgrade for a gaming PC.

Let’s say you’ve been looking at the current Black Friday gaming PCs deals but you’ve already got a brilliant graphics card or just can’t quite afford a full new system just yet. Well, how about just getting a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM kit to start with?

For outright gaming, there’s only one CPU I would choose and that’s the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Sure there are better processors for mixed workloads (e.g. gaming and content creation), but almost nothing will touch it for gaming. Certainly not for the amount of power it uses and its price tag.

And no, I don’t mean it’s brilliant because it’s …