MWAVE RESPAWN NINJA RAPID GAMING PC
Yes, $1,500 can get you a decent gaming PC.
$1,499 www.mwave.com.au
It’s not easy to buy a genuine gaming desktop for $1,500, well, at least one that’s not as weak as a wet paper bag. Mwave’s Respawn Ninja Rapid gaming PC is a very well spec’d PC for the money. It includes a six core Ryzen 5600X CPU and Radeon RX 6600 graphics card. This means it’s easily capable of playing any game at 1080p and more than a few at 1440p as well. Add a 1TB SSD for your game library and 2x8GB of DDR4-3600 and you’ve got a capable system for work or play.
It’s very well built and packaged, with a full set of accessories and comes with a two-year RTB warranty. If you like RGB lighting, this is a great option, with four 12cm RGB fans all controlled via Asus’ Aura Sync app
As the only gamingoriented system in the roundup, of course it’s easily the most powerful at gaming or tasks that can make use of the GPU, but it can do anything else you throw at it too. There’s nothing stopping you from using this as a workhorse during the day, though the Intel 20-thread i7-12700 CPU of the PCCG system will get the nod over the AMD 12-thread 5600X in anything that can make use of CPU grunt.
As a gaming PC, the Mwave Ninja Rapid is a clear winner though that’s by virtue of its RX 6600 GPU. You can always add a GPU to systems that support them for gaming grunt. But then if you wanted to do that, you probably wouldn’t be buying a prebuilt PC.
Take the Mwave home, plug in your monitor and peripherals, run through the simple Windows setup steps and you’ll have a competent 2022 gaming PC.
"A clear winner though that’s by virtue of its RX 6600 GPU."
Mwave’s $1,500 gaming PC will play all games at 1080p. It looks the part too.